Financial Support
Guaranteed income for trans people (GIFT Program)
Lyon-Martin Community Health started the first Guaranteed Income Program for Trans People in collaboration with The Transgender District after advocating for the program’s creation and funding with a coalition of trans leaders called the Trans Advisory Committee for the Office of Trans Initiatives. 55 Trans people receive $1200/month no strings attached. The program has not received increased funding that would allow for expansion to more people (yet).
Bay Area Workers Support (BAWS) Microgrants
BAW’s microgrants are available to current sex workers in the Bay Area who depend on sex work to pay their bills and do not have other forms of support, prioritizing requests from BIPOC, trans/GNC, disabled, and street-based workers.
Trans Lifeline
Trans LifeLine’s Trans Assistance Program provides microgrants to individuals of trans experience in need of monetary support.
Trans Disaster Relief Fund
The Trans Disaster Relief fund is a Houston based fund initially set up as a response to Hurricane Harvey. However, since then, numerous other disasters have continued to ravage communities.
Trans Emergency Fund
The Trans Emergency Fund provides assistance for low-income and homeless transgender people living in Massachusetts, including for housing, healthcare, transportation and personal supplies.
Transformative freedom fund
The Transformative Freedom Fund supports the transgender Coloradans by removing financial barriers to transition related healthcare.
OUR TRANS HOME SF
Our Trans Home SF is a San Francisco City & County funded housing support program that provides rental subsidies and emergency housing services to the Bay Area transgender community. Previously administered by St. James Infirmary (SJI), when SJI closed in December 2023, the program’s ownership was transferred to the Transgender, Gender Variant, Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP).
Point of pride
Point of Pride donates binders, trans feminine shape wear, electrolysis support funds, and grants to access gender affirming surgery
Trans Needle Exchange
The Trans Needle Exchange is a free, mail-based service that provides hormone injection supplies to trans people who cannot afford or access them.
Jim Collins Foundation
The Jim Collins Foundation provides grants to individuals of trans experience in need of monetary support specifically to access gender affirming surgery.
GenderBands
Genderbands, an internationally serving nonprofit that helps pay for transtition-related costs, offers multiple top-surgery grants on an annual basis and free chest binders. Genderbands also has a variety of merchandise for sale that assists in funding future grant opportunities.
Rizi Xavier Timane
Rizi provides grants to individuals of trans experience in need of monetary support specifically to access gender affirming surgery.
trans united with family and friends (tuff)
TUFF provides grants to individuals of trans experience with many aspects of life: housing, healthcare, schooling, whatever the need may be!
trans love fund
The Trans Love Fund provides microgrants to trans individuals throughout the state of South Carolina for medical, legal, and emergency living expenses.
international trans fund
The International Trans Fund provides grants to organizations that are led by and provide services to trans people.
Trans Justice Funding Project
The Trans Justice Funding Project provides grants to trans justice organizations that are led by and provide services to trans people.
The Bryn Kelly Scholarship for Trans Women/Trans Femme Writers
The scholarship supports one Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Workshop participant towards tuition, room & board, and travel costs to and from the workshop.
Emma Deboncoeur Trans Health Scholarship Fund
The scholarship will provide financial assistance for UCSF and UC Berkeley students who share Emma’s commitment to improving the health and well-being of trans and gender non-conforming people, with preference given to students of trans experience, particularly those of color. Each year, the scholarship will support one student on each campus who is working on transgender health and wellness or other transgender-related areas in research or community work.