5 Funds for Trans and Gender Expansive People
With a rapid increase in anti-LGBTQI+ bills plaguing our community, funding is a crucial component needed for the survival of Black queer, trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people. Learn more about 5 funds available to support trans and gender expansive people below.
Last Updated: September 15, 2026
Originally published: January 6, 2024
Kiara St. James Community Empowerment Fund
The New York Transgender Advocacy Group is accepting applications for the Kiara St. James Community Empowerment Fund to support transgender, gender nonconforming, and nonbinary people who currently live in New York State (or the NY Tri-State area: NJ & Conneticut) who otherwise may not be able to afford gender-affirming care, education, wellness needs, and other essentials. The fund will provide $1000 awards for college scholarships, $1,000 awards for gender-affirming care support, and $500 general support stipends.
Deadline: September 18, 2026
Trans Safety Emergency Fund
Trans Safety Emergency Fund is accepting applications for needs directly linked to emergency situations from trans, non-binary, genderqueer, agender, gender nonconforming or any other non-cis identity. Emergency situations could include, but aren’t limited to, basic living costs (food, household items, clothing, public transport, etc), monthly bills (electricity, gas, internet, rent/mortgage, water, etc), crucial medical bills (hormones, medical recovery, health casualties, therapy, etc), or safety (self-defense courses, relocation to safer environments). Please note: this is an international fund open to folks of non-cis identity across the world.
Deadline: Reopens monthly on the 1st and closes on the 3rd
Cage Free Repair Microgrant
Cage Free Repair is accepting applications for their solidarity fund providing microgrants of $100 to currently incarcerated or recently released trans women. This money can be used to obtain basic items from the prison commissary, support family visitation, and to help in reentry with things like housing assistance. Note: you do not have to be incarcerated with a drug related charge to qualify for assistance.
Deadline: Rolling
LGBTQ Foundation of Kansas Mutual Aid
The LGBTQ Foundation of Kansascreated a mutual aid fund for people affected by SB244, a law defining gender as sex as assigned at birth, invalidating the state identification (driver’s licenses, birth certificates, etc.) of those who previously changed the gender marker on these documents, and criminalizing multi-gender, multi-occupancy private spaces.
Eligibility for mutual aid assistance can include the following needs: cost of Kansas ID replacement fees, cost of alternative Federal IDs such as passports, travel expenses related to Kansas ID replacement, travel expenses related to Federal ID procurement, and out-of-state relocation expenses.
Deadline: Rolling
The North Texas TRANSportation Network
The North Texas TRANSportation Network provides travel and relocation grants to North Texas families seeking out-of-state health care for trans and gender-expansive youth.
Deadline: Rolling
Black Trans Travel Fund *bonus fund
Black Trans Travel Fund helps cover monetary expenses for Black transgender women in need of money for ground transportation, so they can access their self-determined safest transportation options (where they feel least likely to experience verbal harassment or physical harm).
Deadline: Rolling
Additional Resources
Point of Pride’s Free Binders and Femme Shapewear
Point of Pride accepts applications for free binders and femme shapewear throughout the year.
Deadline: Rolling
SONG Member-to-Member Grocery Solidarity Network
SONG launched a Member-to-Member Grocery Solidarity Network to meet the immediate grocery needs of Southern queer and trans people and those who love us while strengthening the local relationships and networks of care we need to organize. The network will pair people requesting support for groceries with those offering support to get groceries to community members. Using the list the requester provided in the intake form, the offerer will purchase groceries and deliver them. At this time, the network is open to folks who live in the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Deadline: Rolling
Looking for more funding opportunities and gender affirming resources? Visit our Q2 resource roundup and economic relief resource list for more funding support and other resources for Black queer, trans, and nonbinary people.
