San Francisco, CA

GLBT NATIONAL HELP CENTER INC

EIN 13-3850982

Justice, Rights & Public Safety LGBTQ+ Community & Advocacy LGBTQ+ communities

Mission

To provide free, confidential peer support, information, and resource referrals focused on sexual orientation and gender identity through national hotlines, online chat programs, and publicly accessible resource databases.

IRS-recognized 501(c)(3) public charity Contributions are tax-deductible

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About GLBT NATIONAL HELP CENTER INC

GLBT National Help Center (doing business as LGBT National Help Center) is a San Francisco–based 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1996 that operates national peer-support hotlines, moderated online chatrooms, and publicly accessible LGBTQ+ resource databases. Its services are staffed by volunteers who identify as LGBTQIA+ and are offered free and confidentially to people of all ages and locations.

The organization runs multiple specialty helplines (including youth and senior lines), one-to-one online peer chat, the LGBT Near Me resource database (with a large national directory of community resources), and LGBT PridePath, a tool to compare local LGBTQ+ legal protections. GLBT National Help Center maintains regular public communications (blog posts and events) and files annual Form 990 tax returns as an active nonprofit organization.

Notable achievements

Longstanding national helplines and chat programs

Since 1996 the organization has operated multiple national hotlines and moderated online peer-support chatrooms (youth, coming-out, senior and general hotlines), providing free, confidential peer support and referrals to callers and chat participants nationwide.

Large national resource directories

Developed and maintains LGBTQ Near Me, a searchable national directory of community resources and supports, and related web resources that aggregate tens of thousands of local and national listings to help people find affirming services.

New digital tools and community fundraising

In recent years the center added LGBT PridePath, a web tool that helps users compare local LGBTQ+ legal protections and find safer locations, and continued regular community fundraising and benefit events to support hotline operations.

At a glance

Total assets: $385K
Annual revenue: $440K
Tax status: 501(c)(3)Public charity
EIN: 13-3850982
Location: San Francisco, CA
Website: lgbthotline.org
On Mahalo since: April 2026

Financial figures from the IRS Business Master File, the IRS’s registry of tax-exempt organizations.

Recognition

Active, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) public charity with annual Form 990 filings on public record (EIN 13-3850982).

Widely listed and referenced by national resource directories and public health/advocacy resource lists as a longstanding LGBTQ+ peer-support and helpline provider.

Filed a federal trademark application for the mark “LGBT NATIONAL HELP CENTER” on April 9, 2024 (record shows the application later listed as abandoned on March 19, 2025).

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