Community Issues
Funding Amount
Not stated
Deadline
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Grant Type
Foundation
Deadline history & next window
- Cycle
- Annual
- Tracked since
- April 2026
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Eligible organizations
- Grassroots LGBTQ nonprofits
Required status
- 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status
Other requirements
- Organizations serving underserved segments of the LGBTQ community
Overview
Community Issues Grant Program
Horizons Foundation's flagship funding program that provides grants to grassroots LGBTQ nonprofits across the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.
Geographic Scope: Nine-county San Francisco Bay Area (CA)
Funding Focus Areas:
- Advocacy and civil rights
- Arts and culture
- Community building and leadership
- Health and human services
- Support for marginalized queer communities
- LGBTQ immigrant support
- Cultural programming and events
- Youth services
- Elder services
- Racial and ethnic LGBTQ communities
Eligible Organizations:
- Grassroots LGBTQ nonprofits
- Organizations serving underserved segments of the LGBTQ community
- 501(c)(3) organizations
Award Structure:
- Grants awarded for one- or two-year durations
- Primarily unrestricted operating support
- 2024 awards: Over $715,000 to 50 grantees
- 2023 awards: Over $549,000 to 42 grantees
- Includes multiyear awards
Funding Source: Largely funded by Horizons' LGBTQ Community Endowment Fund
Application Process: Community review panel guides grantmaking; trust-based philanthropy approach
Organization Information:
Horizons Foundation, 155 Sansome Street, Suite 650, San Francisco, CA 94104
What Horizons Foundation actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2025
- Grants in 2025
- 217
- Total given
- $7.65M
- Median grant
- $20K
- Range
- $5,250–$416K
- By dollars: California 64%, New York 17%, District of Columbia 4%. Top recipient cities: San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Oakland, CA.
- 68% of grants with a stated purpose were for general or operating support.
- 31% of recipients were new grantees, not repeat recipients.
Example grants
National Center for LGBTQ Rights · San Francisco, CA
Unrestricted
$416K
Sage · New York, NY
Unrestricted
$262K
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California · San Francisco, CA
Unrestricted
$221K
Uhai Eashri USA Inc · Brooklyn, NY
Gfef
$200K
Outright Action International · New York, NY
Unrestricted
$179K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- LGBTQ
- Grassroots
- Nonprofits
- Unrestricted nonprofits
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