Community Issues Grants
General 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.
- Indicative award
- up to $20k (total award)Individual awards range up to $20,000 (raised from a $15,000 maximum the prior year); the 2024 cycle distributed more than $750,000 across 44 grantees. No minimum published.
- Timing
- Annual cycleNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Annual cycle. No deadline dates are published on the program page; the foundation directs applicants to contact grants@horizonsfoundation.org.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- LGBTQ nonprofit organizations and programs based in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area; the flagship program targets small and mid-sized groups with annual budgets of $1 million or less.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- lgbtq community organizations · general operating support · bay area
- Apply at
- https://www.horizonsfoundation.org/funding-programs/community-issues/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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