Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
LGBTQ+ populations, affirming services, and sexual and gender minority health.
37 opportunities · 9 traditional · 28 nontraditional
Traditional (9)
- FY 2026 Youth Homelessness NOFO (YHDP and YHSI Grants)Federal grantU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and DevelopmentFunds new Youth Homelessness Demonstration Program communities and Youth Homelessness System Improvement grants. Selected communities must assess youth needs, build a coordinated community plan, and may test new approaches.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Aug
- SRCD SOGIE Caucus Dissertation Funding AwardDissertation awardSociety for Research in Child DevelopmentA dissertation funding award from SRCD's Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression Caucus for doctoral research on the development, health, and well-being of SOGIE populations, communities, and families. Recipients present their work at SOGIE caucus meetings and acknowledge the award in resulting publications. Directly relevant to social work doctoral students studying LGBTQ+ youth and families.$1k · Annual cycle · Dec
- Wayne F. Placek GrantsFoundation grantAmerican Psychological FoundationTwo grants of up to $15,000 each per year for research increasing public understanding of sexual orientation, including heterosexual attitudes toward LGBTQIA+ people, family and workplace issues, underrepresented LGBTQIA+ populations, and issues affecting Black LGBTQIA+ communities.up to $15k · Annual cycle
- Wayne F. Placek GrantFoundation grantAmerican Psychological FoundationFunds research that increases public understanding of sexual orientation and reduces stress experienced by LGBTQIA+ people, including family, workplace, and Black LGBTQIA+ community topics. Two grants per year.$15k · Annual cycle
- Pride Foundation Community Grants and Community Care FundFoundation grantPride FoundationTwo streams of funding for LGBTQ+ organizations in the Northwest: multi-year Community Grants and the responsive Community Care Fund, which reviews requests on a rolling set of due dates.$10k–$70k · Several times a year
- Community Issues GrantsFoundation grantHorizons FoundationGeneral operating support for grassroots LGBTQ organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area across youth, advocacy and civil rights, arts and culture, community building and leadership, and health and human services.up to $20k · Annual cycle
- Gill Foundation GrantsFoundation grantGill FoundationGrantmaking in two priority areas: Equal Treatment, a national LGBTQ equality portfolio, and A Prosperous Colorado, a state-focused portfolio. Proposals are accepted by invitation only.Amount not published · By invitation
- Mama Cash grant funds (Resilience, Solidarity, Spark, Revolution, Radical Love)Foundation grantMama CashMulti-year and annual grants to feminist, women's, girls', trans and intersex rights groups that are self-led by the communities they serve. Separate funds with distinct sizes and application windows.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Apr, Aug
- Rubenstein Library Research Travel Grants (incl. Mary Lily, Franklin Center, Human Rights Archive, History of Medicine)FellowshipDavid M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University LibrariesTravel grants of up to $1,500 for in-person research in Duke's designated collections, including women's history (Sallie Bingham Center), African American history (Franklin Center), the Human Rights Archive, LGBTQ+ history and history of medicine.up to $2k · Annual cycle · Feb
Nontraditional (28)
- International and US grantmakingParticipatory grantmakingAstraea Lesbian Foundation for JusticeOne of the longest-running LGBTQI funders, resourcing movement-led groups worldwide including their own documentation and research work.$5k–$75k · Periodic calls
- Reproductive justice grantmakingParticipatory grantmakingGroundswell FundFunds reproductive justice organising led by women of colour, transgender and gender-expansive people, including the community-based research those organisations use to make their case.$10k–$150k · By invitation
- Grantmaking for gender justice by and for young peopleParticipatory grantmakingThird Wave FundActivist-led funding for gender justice organising by young people of colour, including rapid-response money that moves in weeks rather than the eighteen months a federal grant takes.$5k–$50k · Rolling / open
- Mobilize Power FundRapid-response fundThird Wave FundRapid-response grants for gender justice groups responding to an unanticipated, time-sensitive threat or opportunity within the last six months, including direct action, healing justice, mutual aid and emergency needs.$10k–$20k · Several times a year · Jun, Jul, Sep, Oct
- LGBTIQ+ Emergency Support Fund (Small Grants for Community-Led Rapid Response and Advocacy in Asia-Pacific)Rapid-response fundAPCOMSmall, fast grants for LGBTIQ+ community-led groups across Asia and the Pacific responding to human rights violations, shrinking civic space and other urgent threats. Documentation and monitoring of violations are explicitly eligible.up to $5k · Periodic calls · Jun
- Incident Emergency FundRapid-response fundDigital Defenders PartnershipRolling emergency fund for human rights defenders, journalists and activists under digital attack — replacing seized or damaged equipment, hardening systems, and covering psychological impacts so documentation work can continue.up to $5k · Rolling / open
- Opportunity GrantRapid-response fundUrgent Action Fund for Feminist ActivismFast small grants for activist groups facing an unanticipated, time-sensitive opening, covering advocacy and work to raise awareness, influence policy and shift public discourse. Decisions come within 15 business days.up to $8k · Rolling / open
- ISDAO Regional Call for Grant ProposalsParticipatory grantmakingInitiative Sankofa d'Afrique de l'Ouest (ISDAO)An activist-led West African fund whose volunteer Activists Grant Making Panel decides all grants. Three tiers of flexible support for LGBTQI-led groups, including advocacy, capacity building and knowledge work.$5k–$90k · Periodic calls · Sep, Oct
- Sex Worker Giving CircleParticipatory grantmakingThird Wave FundGrantmaking fellows with current or past sex trade experience make all funding recommendations and decisions. Awards unrestricted general operating support, explicitly including research alongside advocacy and direct services.$35k per year · Annual cycle · Mar, Apr
- Security Grant (rapid response)Rapid-response fundUrgent Action Fund for Feminist ActivismRapid grants for feminist activists and groups facing unanticipated, time-urgent safety and security risks. Receipt confirmed within 24 hours and decisions made within 15 business days.up to $8k · Rolling / open
- Rapid Response Grants and Enabling Defenders GrantsRapid-response fundUrgent Action Fund Asia & Pacific (UAF A&P)Grants of up to USD 5,000 to women and non-binary human rights defenders and their movements across Asia and the Pacific, accepted in any language, any day of the year, with a response in 72 hours.up to $5k · Rolling / open
- Sex Worker Giving CircleParticipatory grantmakingThird Wave FundA participatory giving circle in which sex worker community members serve as fellows and make the grant decisions themselves, resourcing sex worker-led organizing and community building.$15k–$25k · Periodic calls
- Rapid Response Technical Assistance Program (Sector Transformation Initiative)Training & capacityAIDS UnitedTiered technical assistance for HIV service organizations navigating funding contraction, from open-access courses through hours of one-to-one TA up to intensive support paired with a micro-grant.$15k · Rolling / open
- Leading From The South — Asia window (Women's Fund Asia)Participatory grantmakingWomen's Fund AsiaThe Asia window of Leading From The South, a Global-South-led consortium fund in which Southern women's funds — not Northern intermediaries — make the grant decisions. Women's Fund Asia awards multi-year grants in three tiers to organisations and networks led by women, girls, trans and intersex people working on gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights, climate justice and economic justice. The tiers reach from community-level frontline work through national advocacy to regional agenda-setting, and the multi-year form is long enough to carry evaluation and evidence-builAmount not published · Periodic calls
- Community Interest FundsParticipatory grantmakingOmaha Community FoundationFive resident-led funds — Omaha Neighborhood Grants, African American Unity Fund, Futuro Latino Fund, LGBTQIA2S+ Equality Fund, and Refugee Community Grant Fund — where committees of people from the served communities set the process and make the funding decisions.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb, Mar
- FemFund Poland — MiniGrants, Multi-year and Intervention GrantsParticipatory grantmakingFundusz Feministyczny (FemFund)A Polish feminist fund built on participatory grantmaking in its strict sense: the fund states that the people who take part in a call decide who the money goes to. Three streams run — MiniGrants for informal groups, collectives and NGOs, multi-year grants for sustained work, and intervention grants for urgent needs. Money is deliberately routed to villages and small towns as well as cities, which makes it a route for locally-grounded participatory research and community documentation that a mainstream Polish research council would not reach.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Fondo Integral and Fondo ActivistaParticipatory grantmakingFondo AlquimiaFondo Alquimia is Chile's feminist fund, working for the human rights and social justice of women, children, trans persons and sexual and gender diversities. It runs two funding lines. Fondo Integral gives direct contributions to organisations' work plans, covering operational and activist costs, and pairs money with horizontal partnership, visibility support and workshops on feminist financial administration and communications. Fondo Activista provides contingent, rapid-disbursement support for public actions, rights-violation and crisis situations, and movement commemorations. The fund reporAmount not published · Annual cycle · Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May, Jun
- Urgent Action Fund Asia & Pacific — Rapid Response GrantsRapid-response fundUrgent Action Fund Asia & PacificA feminist rapid-response fund for women and non-binary activists and organisations under threat across Asia and the Pacific. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis rather than against deadlines, and the fund also runs strategic support for defender communities alongside the emergency window. For research-adjacent work the relevant uses are security, relocation, urgent documentation of violations and protecting the people and records a longer evidence project depends on — the kind of cost no conventional research grant will move fast enough to cover.Amount not published · Rolling / open
- Mama Cash grantmaking (Solidarity Fund and Spark Fund)Participatory grantmakingMama CashFlexible, long-term core support for self-led feminist groups — people who speak and act for themselves from lived experience of stigma, violence, exploitation and exclusion — including accompaniment beyond the grant.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- General Operating Fund and LGBTQ FundParticipatory grantmakingAppalachian Community FundOpen funds for community organizing in Central Appalachia from a fund governed by a regional board of community leaders and residents of the four states it grants in, with grantees and allies guiding the process.Amount not published · Annual cycle
- FRIDA Young Feminist Fund — Call for ApplicationsParticipatory grantmakingFRIDA | The Young Feminist FundA fund run by young feminists where the applicants themselves are the panel: every group that applies votes for the top proposals in its regional voting group, and non-voting groups are disqualified.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- Disability Inclusion FundParticipatory grantmakingBorealis PhilanthropyA pooled fund for disability justice work — policy advocacy, community organising, art and narrative change — with collaborative grants, joy grants and capacity-building support alongside project money.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- General Grants (Namaqualand Daisy, Inyosi, Hungwe, Mosu)Foundation grantThe Other FoundationA Southern African LGBTI community foundation with four grant streams, including one that funds individual activists, artists and researchers directly rather than through an institution.Amount not published · Periodic calls
- International Trans Fund Grants (SEED and THRIVE)Participatory grantmakingInternational Trans FundA global participatory fund governed by trans activists that resources trans-led groups doing movement-building work anywhere in the world, through one open grantmaking cycle each year.Amount not published · Annual cycle · Oct, Nov, Dec
- International Trans Fund GrantsParticipatory grantmakingInternational Trans FundGrants to trans-led groups, decided through a trans-led grantmaking panel. The published list of supported activities explicitly includes community-based research, media projects and resource development.Amount not published · Annual cycle
- Trans Justice Funding Project GrantsParticipatory grantmakingTrans Justice Funding ProjectUnrestricted general-support grants to grassroots trans justice groups, awarded by a panel of six trans justice activists who read every application. No reporting or site visits required.Amount not published · Several times a year · Jan, Feb
- COMPASS Initiative FundingTraining & capacityGilead Sciences (COMPASS Initiative)Corporate social-impact funding for community organizations addressing HIV in the Southern United States, supporting organizational structure, wellness, and stigma-reduction capacity.Amount not published · Varies by programme
- Equality FundParticipatory grantmakingThe Boston Foundation (Equality Fund)Fund guided by a community advisory committee that advances equitable treatment of LGBTQ+ people and families through research, forums, partnerships and grants of $10,000 to $25,000 to LGBTQ+-serving and LGBTQ+-led nonprofits working on legal rights, social isolation, safe schools, health care access, housing and economic stability.$10k–$25k · Annual cycle
Other clusters
- Adolescent and Youth Development
- Aging Services and Gerontology
- American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Global Indigenous Populations (Indigenous Cluster)
- Asian and Asian-Pacific Islander Focused-Research
- Black and African Diaspora Focused-Research
- Child Welfare
- Communities and Neighborhoods
- Crime and Criminal Justice
- Disability
- Gender
- Gender-Based Violence
- Health
- History
- Inequality, Poverty, and Social Welfare Policy
- International Social Work and Global Issues
- Immigrants and Refugees
- LatinX Focused-Research
- Mental Health
- Military Service Members, Veterans and Their Families
- Organizations and Management
- Race and Ethnicity
- Research Design and Measurement
- Research on Social Work Education
- School Social Work
- Social Work Practice
- Substance Misuse and Addictive Behaviors
- Sustainable Development, Environmental and Climate Justice
- Work and Work-Life Policies and Programs