Since 2006, MAP’s Standard Annual Reporting (SAR) effort has provided a comprehensive overview of the LGBTQ movement’s financial health and operations based on data provided by national LGBTQ advocacy organizations (expanding to include the intersex community in 2019). SAR is an easy-to-use, practical reference tool for the movement and its institutional donors. For LGBTQI nonprofits, it provides comparative information and ideas to fine-tune their financial and operating performance. For donors, it can be an important resource in broadening understanding of various organizations’ effectiveness, efficiency, and program priorities.
In 2010, MAP began publishing the National LGBTQI Movement Report, a publicly available document that provides an overview of key information about the movement’s revenue and expenses, fundraising and fundraising efficiency, other indicators of financial health, and programs, staffs and boards. [Note: The National LGBTQI Movement Report is the only publicly available information from SAR; all other SAR data and reports are confidential.]
MAP also publishes the Comparative Analysis by Organization Type, a confidential supplement to the National LGBTQI Movement Report that takes a deeper look at the participating organizations. The report provides a broad overview of the differences across the four categories of organizations (Advocacy, Issue, Legal, and Research & Public Education) and provides a composite profile for each category that provides both aggregate category data and high-level individual organizational data.
In addition to the overview report, MAP collects standardized financial and operational information and produces individual reports for each participating organization. These individual reports (which can be accessed below via the Complete Set of Standard Organizational Reports or Individual Reports for Each Participating Organization) include a standard organizational profile, financial and operating data, and a look at key programmatic goals.
Finally, from 2006 to 2009, MAP also provided an analysis of major LGBTQ funders (see Complete Set of Funder Reports below). As of 2010, MAP stopped collecting this data, as very similar data collection and analysis is being undertaken by Funders for LGBTQ Issues.
