Stonewall became a trans lobbying group in 2015. At the start of the year it was campaigned against homophobia for LGB people, by the end of the year it had become an LGBT organisation.
In January 2015 Stonewall said it was an LGB charity in its annual report. Over the course of the year, it became an LGBT group, as it said in annual report published the following year.

…https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/02412299/filing-history?page=3
There's no mention of the $100,000 grant that Stonewall received from the Arcus Foundation, on condition it began campaigning for trans issues.

https://gendercriticalwoman.wordpress.com/2021/04/22/arcus-foundation-grants/
It's interesting that the grant is for two years.

When Stonewall announced it would become trans inclusive in Feb 2015, the head of campaigns said it would be an 18 month project.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/feb/16/stonewall-start-campaigning-trans-equality
It would be very bad if Arcus had actually granted the money earlier, when Stonewall was still explicitly an LGB Charity.
On an unrelated note, Stonewall's auditor resigned six months earlier in July 2014.
Stonewall's 2015 report is clear about how radical the change was:
New purpose, new brand, new website, new business model, new slogan.
It consulted 700 trans people. That's a huge sample, considering they could only find 40 people for a bi consultation. How was it selected?
You'd think Foxboy would care about this, given his claims to campaign against corruption and for transparency.

Instead, he's accusing the LGB Alliance of being a "shadowy trans hate group"
Foxboy pretends to be a bastion of transparency and decency but he's just not.

The Good Law Project, unlike the LGB Alliance is not a charity. Its accounts aren't audited.

Foxboy set up a trans advisory board last year & worked on litigation with Stonewall etc
But anyway, the most interesting thing about the Arcus grant is how small it is. No where near enough to cover or justify Stonewall's change in direction, even if you include the $43,000 Arcus gave Stonewall in 2014 or the $75,000 in 2016 for overseas campaigns.
Arcus aren't just giving money to Stonewall, by the way. They say they gave $95,000 to the UK Foreign Office in 2016. They also say they gave $575,000 to US government departments
From Stonewall's 2019 accounts (most recent):
According to the Arcus Foundation's website, it awarded $326m grants between 2006 and 2020. $262m of that was in America.

Most of the grants weren't for LGBT / trans issues, but at least $120m were.

The foundation also gives an enormous amount of money to Big Chimp.
Back at Stonewall, in the 2019 report they mention a £37,000 grant from Arcus in 2018. This is odd, because Arcus mentions no grants for Stonewall after 2016.
The Diversity Scheme is still growing though.
Globally, the Arcus Foundation has granted at least $1.6m to projects involving films.
Jan Gooding was Stonewall's chair throughout Stonewall's transition, among other things.

https://www.mrs.org.uk/article/mrs/jan-gooding-to-become-president-of-mrs
Stonewall's 2019 equality dinner was sponsored by Aviva, shortly after Gooding stopped working there.
It was also hosted by then BBC LGBT correspondent Ben Hunte...
On February 12 2021, Stonewall failed to get @BluskyeAllison's legal case against them thrown out.
The BBC didn't just ignore the story - its correspondent appeared in a video for Stonewall on the same day.
https://twitter.com/bluskyeallison/status/1360321646024941571?lang=en
The number and reach of Stonewall's tentacles is extraordinary.
In a zoom chat last year, SNP MP John Nicolson called LGB Alliance a hate group, hinting broadcasters should shun them.
Ofcom CEO agreed and said she was taking advice from stonewall.
Ofcom later backtracked...
The relationship between Crispin Blunt, the LGBT APPG and Stonewall isn't at all clear.
Neither Matt Hancock nor Keir Starmer have commented on the Tavistock ruling, or GenderGP etc etc etc, as far as I know. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1P3mfkYFfvnvy0PAGqd8liwiNfxnLyz38/view
Hundreds if not thousands of police forces, government departments, media organisations, charities, universities, companies and more pay Stonewall through its diversity champions scheme, generating millions of pounds of revenue every year.
https://www.stonewall.org.uk/diversity-champions-members
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