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 4, 2026
Originally published: January 6, 2024
Iowa Mutual Aid Fund
Iowa Mutual Aid Fund provides grants for Trans, Nonbinary, and Gender Diverse Iowans seeking gender-affirming care in the state of Iowa. Requests for aid can include hormone replacement therapy prescriptions, gender-affirming surgeries (top and bottom surgeries, FFS, etc.), therapy co-pays/fees to cover care to pursue gender-affirming care, doctor co-pays/fees to access gender-affirming care, name and gender marker change fees, gender-affirming laser hair removal and electrolysis, voice training services, transition-related clothing, make-up, and wigs, and travel out of state for gender-affirming care. Applicants must be a resident of Iowa to apply.
Deadline: September 6, 2026 at 11:55PM CT
Trans Futures Micro Grant
The Center for Trans Futures will be accepting applications for their Trans Futures Micro Grant to provide a $100 microgrant to help trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming adults (ages 25+) in the Richmond area meet their basic needs (food, meds, bills, etc). These grants are intended to support immediate everyday needs identified by recipients themselves. This may include food, transportation, medications, utilities, housing expenses, phone bills, gender-affirming care costs, or other urgent needs related to survival and stability.
Deadline: September 13, 2026
Gender-Affirming Surgery Grant (Idaho)
Boise Trans Collective is accepting applications from trans folks living in Idaho for their Gender-Affirming Surgery Grant. Two applicants will be awarded a grant of $2,500, paid directly to their medical provider.
Deadline: September 13, 2026
Emergency Grant (Kentucky)
Kentucky Health Justice Network’s Trans Health Advocacy Program is accepting applications for their Emergency Grant to support trans Kentuckians seeking support for urgent needs associated with housing, food, transportation, or other emergent situations. They will also accept requests for grocery/food assistance, bus passes, utilities/bills for those with notices of imminent shut-off, rent, and other emergency situations on a case-by-case basis.
Deadline: September 14, 2026 at 11:59PM EST
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 *bonus fund
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 *bonus fund
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 *bonus fund
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.
