Lgbtq funding in the south

To celebrate Identity festival Month, we’ve assembled this list of resources for Diverse nonprofits.

Many funders specialize in LGBTQ+ issues, and grants can play a key role in capital campaigns — by providing seed funding to kick-start the campaign, offering matching funds to incentivize donors, serving as major or management gifts to place the tone, presenting challenge grants to create a meaning of urgency, and lending credibility and endorsement from high-profile organizations.

Our thanks to all of the organizations cited below.

AFP’s List of Homosexual Funders

AFP has compiled a list of LGBTQ+ foundations and LGBTQ+ friendly funders. We’ve provided some additional information about these organizations below.

LGBTQ+ FOUNDATIONS / FUNDERS

• Arcus Foundation (Global): Advances LGBT rights worldwide and conserves wonderful apes and their habitats, primarily in Africa and Indonesia.
• Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice (Global): Funds lesbian-led LGBTQI racial, economic, and gender justice activism around the world with a focus on the Global South.
• Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (U.S): Raises funds for AIDS
  

  Holding the Line: Defending LGBTI movements in the 2025 Funding Crisis

  GPP’s Recommended Philanthropic Interventions to Support LGBTI Communities in the Global South and East

  Last Updated: 5 March 2025

  After ten years of steady development, resourcing for LGBTI communities and inclusive gender justice movements is in crisis. GPP is rapidly assessing the impact of recent announcements of donor government funding cuts in the context of decreased funding for LGBTI movements expected from the philanthropic sector. These findings are based on 2021-2022 Global Resources Report funding levels, the most recent two-year period documented for comprehensive global LGBTI funding, and additional sources.

  • As of February 2025, GPP estimates that at least $105m in donor government funding to LGBTI movements in the Global South and East is at risk given anticipated cuts to overseas training assistance budgets¹. This represents 27% of the total funding focused on those regions.
  • More than half (55%) of embassy grants by donor governments are at risk given anticipated U.S. and Netherlands funding cuts, threatening a key cause of smaller grants for local LGBTI organizat
    
    

    LGBTQ Grants

    ALLIANCE FOR Complete ACCEPTANCE

    The Alliance for Full Acceptance supports LBGTQ organizations that address the feeling health and wellbeing of LGBTQ youth.

    ALPHAWOOD FOUNDATION

    The Alphawood Foundation is a Chicago-based funder supports activism, archeology education, arts education, arts and culture and LGBTQ causes in the Chicago area and beyond.

    AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

    The Amalgamated Foundation supports justice initiatives for LGTBQ populations through many donor-advised and “combined impact” funds.

    AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE

    This funder makes major grants at the global level for the human rights of the LGBTQ community.

    AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION

    The AMAF’s grantmaking for LGBTQ aims to reduce health disparities and develop quality of animation for LGBTQ patients, build the capacity of health services to address one-of-a-kind LGBTQ health needs and understand the social determinants of health in these communities.

    ANNENBERG FOUNDATION

    The Annenberg Foundation makes grants globally, but primarily in Southern California, to LGBTQ causes in the arts and journalism.

    AQUA FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN

    The Aqua Fund for Women supports L
    
    

    Past Event

    Global LGBTI Funding Summit

    November 9 - November 11, 2024

    11:00 am - 10:00 pm (GMT+02:00)

    About our partners:

    Summit Organizer Partner: 

    ILGA World—the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Gender non-conforming, and Intersex Association—is a global federation comprising over 1,900 organizations from 160 countries and territories. It is dedicated to advocating for the human rights of individuals across the spectrum of sexual orientations, gender identities, gender expressions, and sex characteristics (SOGIESC).

    Strategic Advisors Group: 

    The Strategic Advisors Group provided high-level counsel on strategies and tactics for utilizing the Summit as a pledging territory and/or a forum for creating high-level funding commitments and collaborations.

     

    • Hakima Abbas, Director of Black Feminist Fund
    • Dr. Alvaro Bermejo, Director General of International Planned Parenthood Federation
    • Doug Griffiths, President of Oak Foundation
    • Nicky McIntyre, Principal Executive Officer of Foundation for a Just Society

    • Karen Meddour, Global Head of Fondation Chanel
    • Lilianne Ploumen, Former Dutch Minister for International Development and co-founder of SheDecides
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      The South is Queer and Trans, Our Funding Must Be Too  

      Anti-LGBTQ legislation is creeping its way across the South. From banning drag shows and gender-affirming healthcare to restricting transsexual athletes’ participation on sports teams and pushing homophobic “Don’t Say Gay” laws, extremists are working overtime to create legislation that ensures that LGBTQ people aren’t safe in the region. Contrary to the message of right-wing legislators, these laws have nothing to do with health or public safety. Instead, they are campaigns bent entirely around restrictions on self-determination and the social inclusion of our extremely vulnerable neighbors and loved ones. We must reveal up for queer and trans folks in this moment.

      Overwhelmingly, the stories that get amplified around transgender people center on violence and death. While we won’t be doing that here, we crave to be very clear: lawmakers are creating the conditions that make this level of violence not only possible, but likely. The more difficult we make it for people to access housing, healthcare, education, and jobs, the more difficult we produce it for people to access safety, care, and a future where they can thrive. Queer