November 20th is Trans Day of Remembrance & Resilience. It’s a day to honor the legacies of our trans and nonbinary people who were taken from the world due to violence, discrimination, and hate. As we remember and honor their lives by saying their names with love and respect, it is a reminder that we shall […]

Happy Trans Awareness Week! Were you aware that… – For every $100 awarded by U.S. foundations, only .04 cents supports transgender communities. – In 2016, a survey of 455 trans justice groups across the globe found that only half of these groups had any paid staff at all–meaning that the rest are doing life-saving work […]

A HUGE shout out to 2020 TJFP Grantmaking Fellow and long time TJFP grantee, Kayla Gore of My Sistah’s House! “Kayla Gore’s initial idea was to build some single residential units in the garden of My Sistah’s House, which provides emergency housing for trans and gender nonconforming (TGNC) people in Memphis, and which predominantly serves […]

Beloved Community, Family, and Friends,  It would be impossible for us as grantmakers to ignore what’s happening in the United States right now. There is no way to overstate how vital Black trans lives have been to the Trans Justice Funding Project, to the grassroots trans organizers we serve, to the trans justice movement as […]

We’re thrilled to introduce our sixth and final Community Grantmaking Fellow, Emmett Schelling! Emmett is a South Korean trans immigrant by way of foreign adoption who leads the largest statewide trans led advocacy org in Texas. While his primary focus of work is on trans issues, his passion and understanding that individuals at their wholest […]

We’re over the moon about the fifth of our six 2020 TJFP grantmaking fellows, Nicole Fernandes! Nicole Fernandes is a South Asian Trans Woman new to the world of philanthropy. She comes from a more direct service and grassroots background, having worked at the LGBT Center of New York, and participating as a fellow at […]

We’re honored to have nathaniel gonzalez join the TJFP 2020 grantmaking panel! nathaniel is a facilitator & organizational development consultant whose work focuses on supporting local and national progressive non-profits in growing their work. Rooted in healing justice practices, nathaniel, specializes in facilitating intersectional: process consultation, strategic planning, leadership development, organizational culture change, program development, […]

TJFP is so excited to introduce our third of six Community Grantmaking Fellows, Kayla Rena Gore! Kayla Rena Gore works to help to coordinate homeless services, conduct direct outreach and advocate for the rights of TLGBQ people, especially  transgender women as the Co-Founder and Executive Director of My Sistah’s House. She studied Sociology at Southwest. […]

TJFP is so excited to introduce the second of our six Community Grantmaking Fellows, Christopher Cuevas! Christopher Cuevas is the Executive Director of QLatinx and provides vision, energy, and leadership in the fulfillment of the mission and vision of the organization, working to advance the visibility of and empower LGBTQ+ Latinx communities and create spaces that […]

TJFP is so excited to introduce the first of our six Community Grantmaking Fellows, Isyss Honnen! Isyss Agaiotupu Honnen is an unapologetic fa’afafine and trans woman from Amerika Samoa. She is a fa’afafineist, descendant of celestial navigators, cat mama, and lover of all things Pasifika. Isyss works as the Director of TRANSform Washington, a program […]

Dear friends, family, and community, TJFP is holding you, our community, and family in our minds and hearts during this particularly challenging moment. These are indeed scary times, as the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the world to a screeching halt.  The world looks very different today than it did even a week ago. For many […]

“The word legacy keeps coming into my head. We’re a cohort within this legacy of trans people who have made these funding decisions; everybody who applies to TJFP is entering into this legacy; and TJFP is leaving a legacy of how to do this work. There’s a need for doing funding in ways that center […]