“It does not deliver most of the services. It decides which organisations can afford to.”— PrideShow Editorial Board
ThaiHealth is an autonomous state agency established in 2001, funded by a dedicated levy and mandated to finance civil-society health promotion. A significant share of Thailand's LGBTQ+ health and mental-health programming runs on its grants.
That makes it structurally different from every other organisation in this table. ThaiHealth largely does not deliver services directly; it decides which organisations can afford to. Its funding decisions shape which communities get sustained programming and which get project-length attention.
First at a perfect 100 points, the highest score in this edition across any segment. The responsibility that comes with that position is distributional: as the field's principal funder, its choices determine whether smaller key-population organisations survive between grant cycles.