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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.
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.

Photos [Top to bottom]: Fund committee members at Capital Pride 2026; the community feedback board that helps inform future grants from the Fund.
Your Giving at Work.
Since then, whether through tabling at Pride events, social media, or e-mail, the majority of our grants have been guided by members of the local LGBTQ+ community and allies answering the question: “What does the queer community need right now?”
That collective feedback shaped our second grant, which went to Safe Space NOVA, supporting affirming programs for LGBTQ+ youth across the region. You can hear more from their team in the second video.
From there, we have awarded community-guided grants to Trans Maryland, a trans-led community power building organization, Mary’s House for Older Adults, an affirming, affordable, and communal home for LGBTQ+ elders, Q+ Collective, a team of queer consultants helping queer leaders and organizations, Pride Proms in Maryland and Virginia, DC Black Pride, Trans Pride, and the DC LGBTQ+ Community Center.
These grants are a reflection of the people-powered heart of this fund. Keep telling us what matters. We’re listening. And with your continued support, we’ll keep turning that listening into action.


The Fund for Queer Causes is powered by people like you: community members who believe that LGBTQ+ nonprofits deserve lasting, reliable support.
Every donation strengthens the fund’s impact not just today, but for the long run. Backed by a 100% queer grant committee and three decades of trusted stewardship through Arlington Community Foundation, you can have confidence knowing your donation goes where it’s needed most. Help us grow this fund into the future our community deserves.
