Fund for Trans Generations
OVERVIEW: The Fund for Trans Generations focuses its grantmaking on organizations that support the rights of transgender, gender non-conforming and nonbinary people.
IP TAKE: The Fund for Trans Generations is run by Borealis Philanthropy. Recent grantmaking has prioritized LGBTQ communities of color. Areas of specific interest have include health and mental health. The fund makes about $2 million in grants a year to organizations across the U.S. but does not appear to run an open application system.
PROFILE: The Fund for Trans Generations (FTG) is a grantmaking initiative of Borealis Philanthropy, a Minnesota-based “social justice philanthropic intermediary working to resource grassroots movements for tranformative change.” FTG is backed by a diverse group of funders including the NoVo and Arcus foundations, as well as Mackenzie Scott. This fund’s specific goal is to “ support a future where transgender, gender non-conforming, and nonbinary people live with freedom, safety, and self-determination.”
Since 2020, FTG has focused on supporting its grantees with rapid response grants “to meet the pressing needs of trans communities of color.” Recent areas of interest include health, mental health and bereavement support efforts. Grantees include Nebraska’s Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network, Inc. and San Francisco’s Transgender, Gender Variant, Intersex Justice Project.
FTG made about $2.2 million in grants in a recent year, $762 of which consisted of rapid response grants. The fund’s web page does not offer information about grant applications at this time, but general inquiries may be submitted to Borealis Philanthropy via the organization’s contact page.
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