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Our 2026 Grantees
Flying Over Walls Prisoner Solidarity Project
Based in SF Bay Area, Benefiting currently and formerly incarcerated people across California.
Grant Category: Advocacy
The Flying Over Walls Prisoner Solidarity Project advocates for and provides direct support, correspondence, and reentry assistance to incarcerated and formerly incarcerated trans and queer people in California. Flying Over Walls functions as a bridge between inside and outside communities, strengthening connection, care, and collective survival across prison walls by maintaining ongoing correspondence with incarcerated trans people, creating channels that counter enforced isolation, and ensuring their voices remain connected to community networks and advocacy channels. Working in partnership with trans-led advocacy organizations, incarcerated people’s voices are able to be represented in state-level policy conversations, so that related advocacy efforts are informed by those directly impacted by incarceration. By maintaining ongoing relationships with incarcerated community members, this project reduces isolation, builds trust, and provides a way to respond to incarcerated people’s urgent needs. Flying Over Walls also provides small-scale reentry support for individuals returning home and interrupts structural barriers trans people face upon release, including access to identification, housing, and affirming resources.
Real Men of Hawai'i: Fever Dream
Honolulu, HI, benefitting people across O'ahu, HI
Grant Category: Creativity
The Real Men of Hawai’i (RMOH) is an erotic showcase of Māhūkāne, trans-masc stars in Hawai’i with the mission of creating places where trans masc performers can be celebrated and fully embrace their creativity and gender identity. RMOH consistently provides affirming spaces for Māhūkāne, trans-men, trans-masculine, nonbinary, and Two Spirit performers to express creativity and sensuality often unseen by the world at large. All of the efforts and rehearsals leading up to the performance provide consistent safe spaces for performers to explore their gender expression amongst others who have similar lived experience. The preparation for the performance is part of the work, the joy, and the healing for trans-masculine community. Events such as Fever Dream provide an opportunity for wider communities to gather in joy and to celebrate the varied forms of trans-masculine experience and creative expression.
The Barzakh Arts & Resilience Residency
Baltimore, MD, Benefiting the broader Mid-Atlantic Black Muslim trans community
Grant Category: Creativity
In Islamic theology, “Barzakh” represents a liminal or in between state, which serves as a powerful metaphor for the transmasculine experience existing beautifully between traditional binary expectations. The Barzakh Arts & Resilience Residency is a structured 4-week program designed specifically for 5 Black transmasculine Muslim artists and culture shifters in Baltimore, MD. This residency features peer-led skill-sharing, curated studio time and a culminating gallery event that celebrates the specific intersection of Blackness, Islam, and Transness in Baltimore’s art scene. This project provides direct stipends to trans artists to honor their labor, creates a Sanctuary environment where faith and gender identity are integrated through creative workshops, provides intentional space for Black trans Muslims to define their own stories, and contributes to the global archive of trans Islamic art.
Learn more about this project at their website.
Queer Wellbeing Workshop Series
Juneau, AK, Benefiting people in Juneau, AK
Grant Category: Joy
The Queer Wellbeing Workshop series is a peer-led space that creates intentional, affirming spaces that celebrate and support transgender, non-binary, and intersex adults through community-driven care. Each workshop centers joy, creativity, and connection as vital forms of wellness, offering participants opportunities to reconnect with their bodies, express themselves freely, and build meaningful relationships in environments where their identities are affirmed. Each workshop in the series focuses on joy-based, strengths-centered activities such as movement, the arts, and baking, offering low-barrier opportunities for self-expression, stress relief, and mutual support. Prioritizing facilitators with lived experience, these workshops invest directly in trans and non-binary leadership, intentionally redistributing resources to those most impacted while strengthening peer support networks. This project is deeply rooted in cultivating joy as both a wellness practice and a radical act of celebration, and affirms that joy is not only healing, but powerful: a way to resist isolation, build resilience, and honor trans existence as something to be celebrated.
Black Outside In Nature Campout
Oakland, CA, benefiting people across the Bay Area
Grant Category: Resilience
The Black Trans Masc Collective (BTMC), a grassroots Oakland, CA based group focused on building resilience and intentional community among Black trans masc people, is hosting Black Outside in Nature, a fall 2026 campout for Black trans masc people. Grounded in the belief that healing and empowerment grow in spaces where people feel seen, affirmed, and connected, Black Outside in Nature creates a supportive and culturally affirming outdoor experience that strengthens participants’ connection to self and deepens their relationship to the land. Participants learn practical outdoor skills such as tent setup, shelter building, fire making, and traditional meat processing and engage in reflective and creative activities like plant identification hikes, journaling, and nature-based art. Through this blend of skill-building, reflection, and community care, participants leave with new knowledge, stronger relationships, and a deeper sense of belonging with themselves and the land. In hosting this campout BTMC is partnering with Sankofa Roots, a Bay Area land-based learning and healing organization.
Trans Week of Awareness: Indigenous Voices
Salt Lake City, UT, benefiting people across Utah.
2026 Priority Area: Uplifting Two-Spirit People & Communities
The Nuanua Collective, an Indigenous trans-led organization that creates culturally grounded spaces for connection, advocacy, education, and healing, will be hosting Trans Awareness Week: Indigenous Voices, a week-long series of educational, cultural, and community-centered events uplifting the leadership, resilience, and experiences of MVPFAFF+, Two-Spirit (2S), and Indigenous trans communities and their families. Featuring educational panels, kava gatherings, karaoke nights, Indigenous drag performances, shared meals, and a cultural gathering with powwow, kava ceremony, music, and dance – creating space for connection, reflection, and joy while fostering cross-cultural solidarity. Trans Awareness Week: Indigenous Voices strengthens community cohesion, uplifts Indigenous trans leadership, fosters cultural reclamation, and ensures Two-Spirit and Indigenous voices are visible, celebrated, and supported – advancing a more inclusive and affirming environment for Indigenous trans communities in Utah and beyond. This project is hosted in collaboration with Project Rainbow, the Utah Trans Coalition, local Two-Spirit organizations, and the Urban Indian Center.
Our 2025 Grantees
Intersex Community Health Coalition
Based in Seattle, WA, benefiting people across the US
Grant Category: Advocacy
The ICHC is an emerging organization comprised of intersex activists and other allied professionals united in the goal of creating a world that is not only welcoming but also celebrates and uplifts intersex people. As an intersex led group, our project goals include developing educational materials and consulting services to ensure accurate representation in health and advocacy spaces. We seek justice, reparations, and radical reform to secure open futures for intersex persons and those born with variation in their sex characteristics (VSCs). We recognize that centering community voice and autonomy in research, health, and advocacy is vital to ending intersex oppression across systems.
July 2026 Update: The Intersex Community Health Coalition has established technical infrastructure, including registering a domain and setting up a secure online workspace with Proton. They’re also working with an intersex designer to develop their brand identity. By the end of summer 2026, they will have logos, fonts, and colors that convey the mission and purpose of advancing intersex health. The work continues with research partners and projects, and they are gearing up to publicly launch the organization in the fall of 2026. The Intersex Community Health Coalition can be reached at contact@intersexhealth.com.
Stay tuned for website/social media information.
Visual Narratives Project
Based in California
Grant Category: Creativity
This project focuses on highlighting and empowering undocumented trans Latina Women through visual narratives that reflect their everyday lives, strengths and aspirations. We create safe and empowering spaces to reclaim stories, highlight struggles, and spotlights achievements within an adverse social and political context. These visual narratives are not only a means to highlight our lives, but are also a form of collective healing, where we show that undocumented Trans Latina Women’s stories and contributions are valuable.
T4T Prom
Based in Tampa Bay, FL, Benefitting people across Florida
Grant Category: Joy
T4T Prom is an initiative by members of trans mutual aid groups on the West Coast and Central Florida. We believe that collective joy is the cornerstone to our experience as trans people in the south and historically, many of us have not been able to show up to prom at all, let alone as our authentic selves. This event seeks to give our communities a night to rewrite their experiences surrounded by their peers, fed, protected, and boldly loved. We envision a prom filled with t boys in tropical-print dad shirts, dolls in camo crop-tops and all manner of queer rabble filling the hall with singing and laughter at the top of their lungs!
July 2026 Update: The T4T Prom was held in March 2026 and supported by a powerful team of community organizations that contributed their time and energy to bring together the cultures of trans dance and joy and ballroom. The Prom hosted over 200 trans folks at the event, while simultaneously raising funds to contribute to local grants that pay for surgeries for trans community members. Tampa hosted its first annual Trans Pride in 2026 and plans to return for a second time next year.
Boise Trans Collective
Based in Boise, ID, benefiting people in the Treasure Valley, ID area
Grant Category: Resilience
The Boise Trans Collective strives to support our local trans community every day. We host events and live shows, provide financial assistance, & help connect people to additional resources. When our trans siblings know they can come to us when they lose their insurance, or grow out of their only binder, we hope it takes a small weight off of their backs. We do the work we do so they can wake up another day and keep surviving, and maybe, hopefully someday, thriving.
July 2026 Update: In December 2025, the Boise Trans Collective (BTC) coordinated a local Trans Santa program that paired gift-giving allies with anonymous trans and non-binary individuals who needed a little extra cheer for their holidays. Together with BTC, the gift-givers gave over 27 gift packages, ranging from gift cards, clothes, video games, and pet supplies. Recently, they’ve streamlined their process for requesting aid, and have distributed over $4k in aid since January 2026. They also recently moved their support group to a new location in order to accommodate its growing size. They’ve opened up a standing grant for gender-affirming clothing where individuals can request the purchase of new binders, tucking underwear, and more. BTC has also partnered with a local queer-owned secondhand clothing store to provide clothes at no costs to applicants in need.
Stonewall Inn
Based in Pittsburgh, PA, benefiting people in Allegheny County
Grant Category: Resilience
The Stonewall Inn is a low-barrier, peer-led space offering emergency shelter, crisis intervention, food, hygiene supplies, and gender-affirming support based in Pittsburgh, PA. At the Stonewall Inn, our mission is to create a welcoming and affirming environment that offers essential services, advocacy, and support. We aim to address the unique challenges faced by transgender individuals, particularly those who are marginalized and underserved. Through comprehensive care, outreach programs, and community-building activities, we strive to empower our constituents and foster a more inclusive society. The Stonewall Inn is scheduled to open in 2026.
July 2026 Update: Sisters PGH successfully opened the Stonewall Inn Pittsburgh in March 2026. Since opening, they have welcomed dozens of transgender and nonbinary community members who have been able to access meals and snacks, hygiene supplies, clothing, gender-affirming resources, housing support, case management, referrals to behavioral health services, internet access, computers, and assistance with employment and benefits navigation. Sisters PGH has also provided access to showers and laundry services as well as a private Radical Rest Room where community members can nap, recharge, and exist without judgment. They also kicked off Pride 2026 by hosting a community drag show featuring local performers and with their peer support groups kicking off soon, they hope that the Stonewall Inn continues to serve not only as a resource center, but also as a place where community can gather, create, celebrate, and thrive.
La Vida De La Puta Es Bella
Based in San Francisco and Los Angeles, benefitting people across state of CA
2025 Priority Area: Uplifting Trans Elders
La Vida de la Puta es Bella is a storytelling film project created and produced by and for TPOC sex workers impacted by HIV. We want to highlight the wisdom and contributions by trans elders in our community through a series of story portraits that spread a message of resilience, joy and share the rich history that holds us up today. Beyond weaving intersectionalities of gender, race, HIV status, immigration, disability, and aging, this film project is also about bringing together the sex worker community to deeply consider ways we can care for and tend to older generations who have birthed and carried us.
July 2026 Update: DecrimSexWorkCA’s mural project was aired on CBS-KPIX kicking off Pride 2026 in San Francisco, and honors the history and community resilience of trans elder sex workers. It was collectively created by a coalition of 12 QTPOC organizations and SW leaders. At the mural unveiling, they captured more stories from trans elder sex workers, supported interpretation for mini interviews with trans latina sex workers, and engaged trans historian Miss Andrea Horne. The film La Vida de la Puta es Bella has won the film award from the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and will be screened at the AIDS 2026 Global Village.
Our 2023 Grantees
In 2023, $15,000 was awarded to the following six grantees through the Teaching Transgender Toolkit‘s Investing in Community microgrants. The Uplifting Trans Fund carries forward the mission of the 2023 grants.
AYNI HERB FARM
2024 Update: Ayni Herb Farm is entering its second year growing an abundance of medicinal and culinary herbs in the Hudson Valley. Some exciting updates include our growing team and more community gatherings on the land. This year khadija khansia is joining the Ayni team as a co-leader, focusing on medicine making and gatherings such as new moon circles and seasonal grief circles for our community. With a bigger team, Ayni is also growing its footprint, growing more herbs for our medicinal herb CSA, now being offered in four locations from NYC to the course region. The expansion is also allowing Ayni to meet mutual aid needs in the community, supplying seedlings, dried herbs and herbal medicine for various mutual aid projects in the region. Learn more at their website, or on social media as @AyniHerbFarm
TRANS CLOSET OF THE HUDSON VALLEY
2024 Update: In 2023 we continued our work providing clothing and accessories to the Hudson Valley trans community at no cost. We hosted events for Trans Day of Visibility and Trans Day of Remembrance and hosted monthly drop in hours for Trans people to “shop” the closet and volunteers to help sort inventory and fill requests that we mail or deliver to people with limited mobility or transportation. These funds also helped us roll out our Care Package program, where we create care packages for trans folks who are preparing to undergo gender-affirming surgery. Learn more at their website, or on social media as @transclosethv.
TRANS PRISONER POWER
2024 Update: Our original proposal for a Trans Prisoner Power art exchange program has blossomed into a flourishing effort to connect outside artists with our incarcerated contributors through weekly programming at our physical space. Having just celebrated our 1-year anniversary at the storefront, we’ve been honored to routinely host a fierce and vibrant local community that gathers in appreciation of the imprisoned artists whose work fills the walls, shelves and cabinets to bursting. Learn more or follow them on social at @a.b.o.comix
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QUEER & TRANS PLEASURE ACADEMY
2024 Update: Since receiving the micro-grant, I’ve been able to begin research for the queer and trans pleasure anatomical guides and diagrams! The grant meant that I was able to take time out of my busy schedule to find and purchase books and articles, as well as consult experts on emerging research. I’ve been able to draft sections, sketch diagrams, and begin planning to find contributors. As of April 2024, internal diagrams are well on their way to being finished, and external diagrams are just getting started. Follow Eli on social media @eli.scriver.
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Every grant cycle, we receive over 200 applications for amazing projects that celebrate and support community, and we are always inspired by the people leading these efforts. And, we are inspired by our donors too, because we are only able to fund projects like these through donations. If you have the means to donate, your contribution will go directly towards funding our next grant cycle so that we can fund more projects like these at a time when it is needed more than ever. Thank you for any amount you can contribute – every donation truly makes a difference!