OVERVIEW: The Fund for Trans Generations focuses its grantmaking on organizations that support the rights of transgender, gender non-conforming and nonbinary people.
IP TAKE: The Fund for Trans Generations is run by Borealis Philanthropy. This fund recently articulated new priorities to support trans and gender nonconforming organizing and leadership, as well as human services in the areas of housing, economic opportunity, health and more. In past cycles, the fund has focused on trans-led organizations, but its grantmaking is currently paused. Sign up for Borealis’s newsletter to keep up with new opportunities.
PROFILE: The Fund for Trans Generations (FTG) is a grantmaking initiative of Borealis Philanthropy, a Minnesota-based “social justice philanthropic intermediary working to resource grassroots movements for tranformative change.” FTG is backed by a diverse group of funders including the NoVo and Arcus foundations, as well as Mackenzie Scott. This fund supports “trans-serving organizations working to advance community safety, supportive community housing, and access to health care and mental health” toward an overarching goal of “a world in which all people can live with self determination, safety, and joy.”
Grants for LGBTQ Causes
The Fund for Trans Generation’s interests including organizing and direct services for trans and gender nonconforming communities.
- The fund is interested in supporting efforts that challenge “systemic violence” and support for leadership development, grassroots organizing and “collective movement infrastructure.”
- Trans Generations also prioritizes “healing justice,” which includes causes related to community development, health care access, housing, education and economic equity and opportunity.
- Past grantees include Nebraska’s Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network, Inc. and San Francisco’s Transgender, Gender Variant, Intersex Justice Project.
Important Grant Details:
FTG grant amounts max out at $10,000 per organization; however, $3,000 to $5,000 is the average size.
The fund has awarded about $10 million in grants since 2016 to trans-led organizations.
FTG makes use of a participatory grantmaking process that includes an advisory committee of five trans and nonbinary leaders who help direct the fund’s decision-making.
- The fund indicates that it is not currently running any active grantmakiing programs. It is unclear if it will resume grantmaking in the future.
- Grant seekers should sign up for Borealis’s newsletter to keep up with new opportunities.
- Submit questions to Borealis Philanthropy via the organization’s contact page.
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