Grants to USA Nonprofits for Programs to Enhance the Health of the LGBTQ+ Community is sponsored by Various Funders. Supports programs addressing physical and behavioral health issues within the LGBTQ+ community.

Funding and grant resources for nonprofits serving the LGBTQ+ community Funding and grant resources for nonprofits serving the LGBTQ+ community Write a Fundraising Plan in 2 simple steps. Ready to craft your fundraising plan? Pride Month is a great time to celebrate and reflect on the work activists and nonprofit organizations are doing to support the LGBTQ+ community.

With that in mind, I wanted to share a list of funding and grant resources available for nonprofits serving that community. Note : If your organization doesn’t work with this population, please check out the many other funder lists I’ve created .

Elton John AIDS Foundation Alliance for Full Acceptance The Vermont Community Foundation Seventh Generation Fund For Indigenous People The New York Women’s Foundation Stonewall Community Foundation Maine Community Foundation Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan MADRE funds community-based women’s organizations to meet urgent needs and achieve their long-term goals.

They focus their partnerships on women-led organizations that prioritize the leadership of young women and girls, Indigenous women, Afro-descendant women, LGBTIQ people, and people with disabilities. MADRE works in communities that war or disaster have rendered difficult to fund and challenging to reach.

Elton John AIDS Foundation As a leader in the global AIDS community, the Elton John AIDS Foundation is committed to overcome the stigma, discrimination, and neglect that keeps the world from ending AIDS. They welcome inquiries from organizations delivering HIV programs that have an immediate and lasting impact on the LGBTQ+ community.

The Urgent Action Fund’s Rapid Response Grants resource the resilience of human rights and gender justice movements by supporting the security and advocacy interventions of activists when a swift response is needed.

Specifically, Rapid Response Grants offer quick, flexible funding to respond to security threats or unexpected advocacy opportunities experienced by women, transgender, or gender non-conforming activists and human rights defenders.

Areas served: Canada, Central Asia, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Russia, The South Caucasus, Turkey, United States, and Western Europe The Visibility Impact Fund seeks to support and empower bi+ specific organizations, programming, and training to impact bi+ visibility and well-being.

They will be interpreting the types of work and programs which fulfill this mission broadly and they will fund organizations that are not focused solely on the bi+ communities. However, grant funding must specifically serve the bi+ community.

Areas served: United States Groundswell Fund (Black Trans Fund) Launched in 2020, the Black Trans Fund (BTF) seeks to change culture by shifting the narrative about Black trans communities towards joy and resilience, and away from violence and despair. The Black Trans Fund is the first national fund in the country dedicated to uplifting, resourcing, and building the capacity of Black trans social justice leaders.

Areas served: United States Mary’s Pence funds grassroots organizations that are led by women and that are centered on issues women face or on gender justice issues, benefitting and primarily led by cis women, trans women, or non-binary people. Organizations must also be community centered, working to enact long-term sustainable change at the community level and focused on social justice actions.

Areas served: United States Third Wave Fund (Mobilize Power Fund) The Mobilize Power Fund is a rapid response fund that resources gender justice organizations to adapt or pivot their work when met with unanticipated, time-sensitive opportunities or threats to their movement-building work and organizing conditions.

​​​​The Mobilize Power Fund prioritizes organizations that are led by young women of color (transgender and cisgender), and trans, queer, gender non conforming and intersex young people of color under 35, led by and for communities directly impacted by the issues they focus on, have an intersectional gender justice lens, and have a total organizational budget under $500k​. Groups do not need 501(c)(3) of fiscal sponsor status to apply.

Areas served: United States Point of Pride provides financial aid and direct support to trans folks in need of health and wellness care. Most of their funding is for individuals and not for organizations. Areas served: United States The Prism Foundation empowers the Asian & Pacific Islander LGBTQ+ community by raising critical funds and mobilizing resources to build a more just and equitable society.

The foundation provides grants for projects and nonprofits that are positively impacting the Asian & Pacific Islander LGBTQ+ communities. Areas served: United States Pride Foundation provides critical funding to the community organizations that are actively addressing the needs of and expanding opportunities for LGBTQ+ people in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington.

They offer grants through three areas of funding: Community Grants Program, Crisis Community Care Fund, and the Oregon Immigrant and Refugee Funders Collaborative. Areas served: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington PFund Foundation builds community and provides resources for LGBTQ+ individuals across the upper Midwest and the First Nations therein.

PRISM (Promoting Rural Interconnections for Sexual Minorities) grants support to rural LGBTQ+ organizations from across PFund’s five-state service area. PRISM grants are a new initiative being piloted by PFund in 2022 and made possible in part due to funding from the Northwest Area Foundation.

Areas served: Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin Alliance for Full Acceptance The Alliance for Full Acceptance Small Grants Program funds programming, organization building, and/or support to nonprofit organizations addressing the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) youth.

They seek to fund organizations working for fundamental social change and demonstrating practical alternatives to social justice for LGBTQ+ youth. Areas served: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia Our Fund Foundation promotes a culture of responsible philanthropy by uniting donors with organizations supporting the LGBT community to make South Florida the most livable community in the country for LGBT people.

Our Fund has redesigned its grant process to focus on three key areas with its discretionary grants: Health & Wellness, Social Justice & Equity, and Arts & Culture. Areas served: Southern Florida Horizons Foundation seeks to support LGBTQ+ donor engagement opportunities of large LGBTQ+-primary organizations. The LGBTQ+ Donor Engagement Program exists to support annual fundraising events.

Horizons will be accepting applications in June 2022 for donor engagement events taking place between July to December 2022. Areas served: San Francisco Bay Area The Vermont Women’s Fund, a component fund of the Vermont Community Foundation, was established in 1994 as an enduring resource for Vermont’s women and girls.

Their definition of women and girls is inclusive of cis and trans women and girls, as well as non-binary people affected by gender oppression. The fund focuses their grantmaking on supporting women and girls on pathways to economic well-being, including career development.

The Vermont Community Foundation (Samara Fund) The Vermont Community Foundation’s Samara Fund supports projects or organizations that serve Vermont’s LGBTQ+ communities or support HIV/AIDS services or prevention for LGBTQ+ Vermonters. Organizations that are not LGBTQ+ or HIV/AIDS focused may apply for support for projects that directly serve Vermont’s LGBTQ+ communities.

Priority is given to projects that collaborate with and center LGBTQ+ voices and communities. Seventh Generation Fund For Indigenous People (Thriving Women) The Thriving Women funding initiative centers and uplifts Indigenous women’s leadership and strategies to reclaim traditional matrilineal lifeways that have sustained and built nations since time immemorial.

The program supports grassroots, Indigenous women-led and women-serving initiatives to prevent and remedy gender oppression, including strategies addressing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and Two Spirit Relatives. Note : There are currently no open calls for applications.

Areas served: Native organizations The New York Women’s Foundation The New York Women’s Foundation provides funds to organizations and programs within the five boroughs of New York City that have community-led solutions to propel all women, girls, and gender non-conforming individuals living at/below the poverty level towards long-term economic security.

The Foundation considers requests from organizations and programs that impact women’s lives in one or more of the following focus areas: Economic Justice, Anti-Violence and Safety, and Health, Sexual Rights and Reproductive Justice.

Areas served: New York City Stonewall Community Foundation Stonewall Community Foundation invests in dynamic organizations, projects, and leaders that elevate LGBTQ people and their cultural contributions, advance their rights, and promote their wellness, safety, and liberation. ​​Join the Stonewall Community Foundation mailing list to get notifications about future grant opportunities.

Areas served: New York City New York Foundation funds community organizing and grassroots advocacy led by and for people who live in New York City. They prioritize emerging organizations that center racial, economic, gender, disability, and climate justice, led by Black, Indigenous, LGBTQIA+ people, women, and people of color.

They fund organizations who use community organizing and grassroots advocacy as primary strategies to address the root causes of oppression Areas served: New York City Maine Community Foundation (Equity Fund) Maine Community Foundation works with donors and other partners to improve the quality of life for all Maine people.

The Equity Fund’s mission is to strengthen lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) organizations in Maine and support community-based initiatives. New Harvest Foundation is the only foundation in Dane County that channels charitable contributions exclusively to organizations working to promote lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights, services, culture, and community development.

Leeway Foundation’s grantmaking programs fund women, trans, and gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers living in Greater Philadelphia who engage in art and social change work.

Areas served: Greater Philadelphia (Bucks, Camden, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties) Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan (HOPE Fund) The Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan’s HOPE Fund (Helping Others through Partnerships and Education) was created to strengthen organizations and projects that support LGBTQ+ individuals and families through targeted grantmaking, projects, and technical assistance.

Areas served: Southeast Michigan Maddie Zeigler M. Ed. , founder of Grantli, an online education platform for the grant development process, has been in the nonprofit world for nearly 30 years first as a program developer and now as a professional grant writer, to date securing well over $80 million dollars in grants on behalf of her clients.

A veteran writer of local, state, federal and foundation grant proposals, Maddie has developed a unique approach for designing viable programs and for writing compelling narratives. She is also a charter member of the American Association of Grant Professionals. A Puerto Rico native, she currently resides in Albuquerque, NM.

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I need help with food and rent please help me Hi Oliver - Grantli has some great resources on how to find grants: https://grantli. com/how-to-search-for-grants/ Thank you for such a great article. I was wondering if there any organizations you could recommend that are more focused on serving smaller national orgs rather than a particular region of the country?

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