Stonewall Community Foundation

We strengthen the LGBTQ+ movement by making smart, values-driven investments in dynamic organizations, projects, and leaders. And as a public foundation, we do so in close partnership with donors and the very people working on the front lines of progress. We fund over 200 nonprofits a year, in more than 30 issue areas. We also house five scholarship programs, including the largest in the country created to support LGBTQ+ refugees and asylum seekers. Our grantmaking is complemented by intensive capacity building and training programs that equip leaders and the organizations you care about with the tools they need to be effective change agents. These include free consulting, coaching opportunities, and monthly workshops. In all we do, our priority is making sure community dollars make the greatest difference where they are needed most. We believe philanthropy, while an expression of love and care, is also power wielded. As such, we strive to model equitable leadership and be accountable, transparent, and trustworthy in our work practices and the advancement of our mission. This includes making philanthropy accessible to everyone and giving people space to live beyond the binary of being only a benefactor or a beneficiary. We believe in centering people who experience the greatest vulnerability in our communities and prioritizing issues causing the most harm in the lives of LGBTQ+ people. With that, we are explicitly committed to: lifting up all communities of color and transgender, gender non-conforming, and non-binary people; working to end racism and anti-Blackness; and supporting organizations that serve undocumented immigrants and people involved in survival economies.