Fund for Queer Causes

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Power the full spectrum of DMV LGBTQ+ nonprofits in one easy place.
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Arlington Community Foundation is recognized for financial transparency and nonprofit excellence

The Fund for Queer Causes is a 100% queer-advised fund that makes it simple for you to strengthen LGBTQ+ organizations across the DMV region through people-powered and nonprofit-empowering unrestricted grants. Previous grants have already helped fuel trans-affirming services, supportive spaces for LGBTQ+ youth, and affirming, affordable communal living for LGBTQ+ elders…all through tax deductible gifts to this one fund. The fund is housed at Arlington Community Foundation, a trusted local nonprofit with over 30 years of experience helping people like you give back where it matters most.

Help Fund the Next LGBTQ+ Grant
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10% of the People.
Less Than 0.2% of the Funding.

LGBTQ+ people make up nearly 10% of the U.S. population. But the nonprofits serving them receive less than 0.2% of all U.S. charitable giving.

We started the Fund for Queer Causes because we’ve felt that gap, both as members of the queer community and as nonprofit professionals. We know firsthand that this gap in giving is about so much more than just funding. It’s a crisis of visibility, equity, and access.

We also know that even when people want to give, it can be hard to know where to start.

That’s why we created a way to give that’s literally easy as 1-2-3:

1. Donate securely online, or with cash, stock, or through a donor-advised fund.
2. Our all-queer Fund committee identifies where funding can do the most good.
3. The Fund mobilizes unrestricted grants to verified local LGBTQ+ nonprofits.

And the best part? That 1-2-3 cycle doesn’t end. The Fund is built to grow over time, so every gift helps create lasting, year-round support for local LGBTQ+ nonprofits.

Every gift helps power the life-affirming, community-building work these organizations do every day, and gets us that much closer to closing that gap.

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Photos [Top to bottom]: Fund committee members at Arlington Pride 2025; a community feedback board at Pride in the Plaza 2025 (Silver Spring, MD) that will help inform future grants from the Fund.