LGBTQ Community Fund Grants (Focus: Housing, Health, and Mental Health)

LGBTQ Community Fund Grants (Focus: Housing, Health, and Mental Health) is sponsored by The Chicago Community Trust. The LGBTQ Community Fund, an affinity fund of The Chicago Community Trust, provides grants to nonprofit organizations serving the Chicago region's LGBTQ community. Based on needs assessments, housing, health, and mental health are key focus areas.

In 2010, civic leaders joined in a commitment to addressing a broad range of needs within the LGBTQ community, through strategic support to nonprofit organizations that serve it.

Through an operating grant from The Elizabeth Morse Charitable Trust and funding support from The Chicago Community Trust, the LGBTQ Community Fund serves as a tool to educate the region about LGBTQ issues and promote effective philanthropy to achieve strategic change. **To learn more about our grants recipients and donors, click here.

** * Partnerships & Initiatives ### LGBTQ Community Fund Awards $619,000 in its 2025 Grantmaking Cycle The LGBTQ Community Fund, an initiative of The Chicago Community Trust, unites donors to support nonprofit organizations that serve the Chicago region’s LGBTQ… * Partnerships & Initiatives ### LGBTQ Community Fund Grants $420,000 to Support Youth, Seniors and the Arts in 2024 The LGBTQ Community Fund, an affinity fund of The Chicago Community Trust, unites donors to support Chicago’s LGBTQ community.

Since its founding in 2010,… * Partnerships & Initiatives ### LGBTQ Community Fund Grants Support Housing, Health, and Mental Health in 2023 The LGBTQ Community Fund, an affinity fund of The Chicago Community Trust, unites donors to support Chicago’s LGBTQ community. Since its founding in 2010,… **Community**: We are part of, and invested in, an inclusive community; we act and collaborate with empathy and social responsibility.

**Justice**: We respect and celebrate human diversity and difference; we work to dismantle homophobia, racism and transphobia to address historical and systemic marginalization. **Connection**: We seek to connect the Chicago region’s LGBTQ population and its organizations to ideas, research, and one other. **Courage**: We champion leadership, innovation, and creativity; we act on principle and challenge the status quo.

**Pragmatism**: We support research to understand our community and its needs; we support real-world solutions and measurable results. To advance the Chicago region’s LGBTQ Community through research, connection, and focused grantmaking. The LGBTQ Community Fund envisions the Chicago region’s LGBTQ Community thriving in a safe, equitable, and supportive environment.

## A Better & Safer Place for All The fund works toward the vision of a region where Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer residents live responsibly in harmony with all communities, enjoying the same freedoms and quality of life, and with the same opportunity to make the region a better and safer place for all to live.

The LGBTQ Community Fund is also an endowed fund, which also dedicates its endowment income to providing strategic grant support for nonprofit agencies. With this permanent resource, the most pressing needs of Chicago’s LGBTQ community can be met in perpetuity—no matter what challenges emerge in years ahead.

The Trust is a community foundation that is dedicated to ensuring opportunity and prosperity are within reach for everyone in our region. As a charitable community, we know that many of our communities have been historically under-resourced, including by philanthropy. The LGBTQ Community Fund is a group of donors who seek opportunities to address those historic gaps, which will help strengthen the entire Chicago region.

When our neighbors do better, we all do better.