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When you make a meaningful gift to the Sisters, you’re not just donating to one queer nun order—you’re empowering a group of small, scrappy, underfunded grassroots projects and leaders on the front lines of queer and trans joy.
Your gift becomes gender-affirming care for youth, rural Pride celebrations, safety and survival programs, Black and Brown trans arts, drag king stages, and more sanctified mischief where it’s needed most. Every dollar we “give it away” as a micro-grant multiplies, seeding new leaders, new spaces, and new rituals of resistance.
Your generosity keeps the grants flowing to transform our queer and trans communities.
Fall 2025 Grant Applications are now Closed!
Applications open October 19, 2025
Applications close November 16, 2025, at 11:59PM.
Grants will be presented at Sisters’ Krampus event, Saturday, December 6, 2025!
About the Sisters' Grants Fund
Please read the grant information carefully before applying. If you need additional information please contact Mistress of Grants at grantsmistress@thesisters.org. This address is to be used ONLY for grant questions and applications: DO NOT add to your mailing list and please do not send any additional materials -- no brochures, solicitation letters, or other documents -- or we will call for a pox on your email server. (We can actually do that).
The Sisters tend to support under-funded, small organizations and projects providing direct services to under-served communities. The majority of these organizations and projects receive little, if any, government or mainstream funding and may be in the early stages of development.
We are especially attracted to progressive grassroots projects that promote wellness, joy, tolerance, and diversity within our communities. We have a vision that encompasses diverse communities and groups that have a common interest in human rights, people of every gender, gender identity, race, class, age, and sexual orientation.
We favor projects that serve the Bay Area or particularly embattled communities in other locales around the country and the world. (IMPORTANT: Please note, while we accept applications from organizations outside the United States, we require the involvement of a U.S.-based fiscal sponsor to function as recipient of any grant funds awarded.)
We are especially thrilled to fund special projects (over general operations), to support innovators, and to provide seed money that will have a ripple effect. We welcome applications whether or not you have 501-c3 status or a fiscal sponsor.
Our grants are typically $250 to $1,000. We rarely fund groups with budgets over $500,000. Given the many applications we received, we are unlikely to fund an organization in two consecutive grant cycles.
We do not fund individual travel, research, living, medical or educational expenses or startup costs for businesses.
All grants recipients will be required to submit a brief final report with at least one photo documenting your work; these will enable us to promote your work on our community partners page.
2025 Saturnalia Grant Recipients
This Saturnalia Grants cycle, we supported 22 organizations doing various good things for our community, presented Saturday night at the Krampus Pageant.
We are helping to create and distribute hygiene and care packs for the homeless, for natives and indigenous folx and for our disabled and special needs community.
We are helping to provide food, shelter and warm clothing.
We are funding several projects to create and preserve Queer Art, Fashion and Performance.
We are funding groups that support healing and belonging.
We are funding safer sex and harm reduction.
And we are funding organizations that go above and beyond in commitment to the community.
Here are the 2025 SPI Saturnalia Grant recipients:
Raymond Victor Designs
To help fund “Pay It Fashion Forward” Reno, NV which benefits NNHOPES (providing free healthcare to 1000’s of people) and OUR Center, Reno (the local LGBTQ+ outreach that also sponsors our annual Pride Parade in Reno.)
LoveCuts, A POPup Barbershop
“the barbers that cut hair for Tenderloin Tessie Holiday Dinners, TRANS March and more... We provide a POPup Barbershop experience to onsite care events, etc. Grant will fund new clippers, mirrors, and other hygiene supplies.
The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP)
(Milwaukee, WI) DIY operation that collects, preserves, and digitizes current & historical queer zines, making them accessible to researchers, the community, and the world. Grant will help them purchase new filing cabinets.
Simply The Basics
“provides basic hygiene needs so that people can focus on greater goals.” “grant will fund menstrual hygiene support for trans and nonbinary individuals, ensuring access to appropriate products in safe, affirming spaces which are often overlooked in traditional hygiene distribution.”
kin•dom community
“host fully affirming summer camps for LGBTQIA+ teenagers in Texas, Illinois, and Nevada as well as a year-round virtual afterschool queer support group.” “Funding for mental health provider (LPC) services for our kin•dom club afterschool virtual GSA support group.” www.kindomcommunity.org
Rolando Sáenz
part of the “QUEER Art Featured” art collective
Art supplies, art classes including space rental, creating safe spaces for artists.
Voces Trans Latinex
Our work focuses on providing direct, free, and culturally competent services to the entire LGBTQ+ community, with a special focus on our immigrant sisters and brothers, who often face multiple barriers in accessing basic services.
SF Eagle Players
“a community theatre group based in San Francisco's SOMA district” “The funds will support SF Eagle Players first fully produced season of theater at the historic SF Eagle. Specifically funds will be used for the show Satyricon, by Stuart Bousel.”
Two Spirit Inipi
“We provide inclusive, culturally rooted Two Spirit sweat lodge ceremony, removing barriers to healing by offering access, safety, and belonging for Indigenous LGBTQIA+ relatives and community” “We will purchase new blankets, a cord of wood, provide a land use donation, and support gas assistance for relatives in need to access ceremony.”
Loved Twice
“spreads warmth, joy, and sustainability by providing a year worth of gently used baby clothes to newborns in need—keeping tiny humans cozy and tons of clothing out of landfills”
“Funds will provide 100 boxes of baby clothes for San Francisco infants in crisis—boy, girl, and gender-neutral—meeting urgent requests from social workers at San Francisco Benioff Hospital.” www.lovedtwice.org
Sin Sity Sisters
“We work to raise money for our Sisters AIDS Drug Assistance Program (SADAP); fight for queer rights and visibility; do safer sex outreach…”to fund OPERATION SAFE SIN Project for installing condom dispensers in Las Vegas bars and clubs. provide the dispensers, the condoms, and educational materials on safe sex, PREP, and SADAP information.”
The Ana
“We are a literary & arts magazine founded and run by queer folks of color. We publish issues that celebrate the nuances, complexity, and joy of being human.” “support will fund the publication of our fifth anniversary anthology, featuring special articles celebrating the beauty of our queer and of color communities in LA and the Bay Area.”
Rogers & Rosewater Soup Kitchen
(fiscally sponsored by Safer DIY Spaces) “We are a mobile soup kitchen that brings meals, fresh water, pet food and supplies directly to unhoused communities all over Oakland twice a week” “funds to pay for outreach supplies.”
MiniMobile
“We’re now creating an insulated, weatherproof, lockable, towable “hardshell wheeled tent” to shelter our unhoused neighbors.” “Purchase bulk materials & build a MiniMobile prototype!”
Turtle Island Women Warriors
“(TIWW) initiative, Bringing Our Relatives Home, is a Native women-led outreach and healing project that serves unhoused and missing Native and non-Native individuals throughout Downtown Phoenix, Central Phoenix, Maryvale, Alhambra, and Laveen in Arizona” “funding will directly support the purchase and distribution of hygiene kits, nutrition packs, and weather relief supplies, items that save lives during Arizona’s extreme heat and cold seasons. It will also help TIWW strengthen outreach capacity by providing transportation, volunteer coordination, and basic operational support so our team can reach more areas and follow up with individuals needing continued care.”
San Francisco Fog Rugby Football Club
(fiscally sponsored by Dancers' Group) is “the West Coast’s first gay/inclusive rugby club. On the pitch, volunteering in the community, as SF regional-international ambassadors, we champion athleticism, mental-wellness, communal camaraderie.” Funds will go to field rentals. https://www.fogrugby.com/
Two-Spirit Talking Circle
(Humboldt County, CA) “Our organization provides weekly talking circles via Zoom for the Humboldt County community. Youth and elders are connected through cultural classes which nurtures our two-spirited community.” Funds for supplies, travel, and stipends for Elders.
ROYALES Drag Show
“an all-BIPOC Drag King show and collective. Funds to support 3 year anniversary celebration at El Rio and our Accessibility Fund” https://www.royalesdragshow.com
All Saints Episcopal Church - Queer ministry
“Creating a safe and affirming place for LGBT people to worship in community” “Used to provide safe transportation, mentorship, and meals for trans youth to attend Oakland LGBTQ+ Center meetings and an affirming church service, fostering belonging, faith, and supportive adult connections.”
Fremont High School, Oakland, California
Special Education Department - “funds used to create a Senior High School Care package for the students with an IEP (Special Needs) for the graduating class of 2026”
Feed the People Garden Project (Queers in the Garden)
“a trans created and operated garden whose mission is to build community, create space for self and community care, and provide fresh produce.” To fund Garden Leaders and community activities.
Harm Reduction Outreach Collective
(fiscally sponsored by: Points of Distribution) “a peer-led harm reduction collective that provides harm reduction supplies and home-cooked meals in the Tenderloin twice a week.” “We will use the funds to have a "holiday outreach" with a special meal and stockings full of goodies and cold-weather gear.”