Thousands of LGBT people. Hundreds of LGBT organizations. One LGBT foundation.
Thousands of LGBT people. Hundreds of LGBT organizations. One LGBT foundation.
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Horizons Foundation serves the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community by making grants, strengthening LGBT organizations and leadership, and increasing philanthropic giving.
NOTE: If you have been asked to apply for an individual grant from Horizons Foundation, please click here for important information.
HIV/AIDS Community Grants Return to San Francisco AIDS Foundation in 2010
For more than a decade, Horizons Foundation has proudly partnered with the San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) to administer the HIV/AIDS Community Grants, which are supported through the proceeds of the San Francisco AIDS Walk. As SFAF looked at their programs aimed at ending the pandemic, they realized they'd have the capacity to bring this grantmaking program back in-house starting in 2010.
It has been our honor to be entrusted with the HIV/AIDS Community Grants since 1999, and we are thrilled that SFAF will continue to provide much-needed resources to the organizations and programs dedicated to the radical reduction of HIV and its impact in the Bay Area.
If you have any questions about the application process, please contact Cal Callahan at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation at 415.487.3065 or ccallahan [at] sfaf [dot] org.
View the 2010 guidelines and RFP...
Proposals are due to SFAF by March 5, 2010 (postmarked or delivered)
NOTE: You MUST send your proposal to the San Francisco AIDS Foundation to be considered for a grant.
Have Fun While Moving the LGBT Community FOREward
Horizons Foundation is proud to announce LGBT Golf Fore Good, our first-ever golf tournament!
Whether you're one step away from the pro tour or can't quite remember the difference between a birdie and a bogey, please join us for a day of fun and fundraising for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Monarch Bay Golf Club
San Leandro
Thanks to our early bird(ie) sponsor: NCLR
Download the registration form: PDF
The New QGiving Guide is Here! Find Your Favorite LGBT Nonprofits and Make Donations
Time and again, the LGBT community has proven that we're capable of achieving things that at first glance seemed impossible. We've created the opportunity to live openly. We've developed organizations to meet our community's needs. We've won legal victories in courtrooms and legislatures. We've built something over the past few decades that the world has never seen before.
Many of these achievements wouldn't have been possible without the dedication of people at LGBT nonprofits working day in and day out to move the LGBT community forward - and their work wouldn't have been possible without the generous donations of people like you.
That's why Horizons Foundation has updated our QGiving Guide: to help you learn more about the LGBT organizations doing important work in the Bay Area - and to encourage you to give. The guide is available for free as a downloadable PDF. (If you'd like a printed copy, please contact us at 415.398.2333.)
Your gifts, large or small, to whatever organizations or causes you're passionate about, make a difference. Thank you for your generosity, for helping build a strong, enduring, and compassionate LGBT community - for all of us.
Download the QGiving Guide...
Updated Information for Stock Donations
If you would like to donate stock to Horizons Foundation, please note that some of the information for making stock transfers has changed recently. For details, please see the Give Stock page.
You can also download the instructions/form for transfers into donor-advised funds [PDF] or non-DAF transfers [PDF].
Horizons' 2008 Annual Report
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Horizons recently published our 2008 annual report [PDF], which includes an overview of our programs, key grants, our audited financials, and our dedicated Leadership and Legacy Circle members. It also asks the question at the heart of philanthropy: Why do you give? Each of us has a set of priorities and strategies as unique as a fingerprint.
This year, in an effort to conserve resources - both financial and environmental - we moved to a condensed format for printing the report. The full list of 2008 grants [PDF] and 2008 supporters [PDF] are also available.
Horizons is extraordinarily grateful for the positive response our past annual reports have received, and we hope you find this year's report just as useful and engaging. We welcome your feedback! (If you would like a printed copy of the report, please give us a call at 415.398.2333.)
Download the 2008 annual report
Download the complete list of 2008 grants
Download the complete list of 2008 supporters
Download the complete 2008 audited financial report
Bobby Griffith Memorial Scholarship Fund
The Bobby Griffith Memorial Scholarship Fund, a long-time scholarship for LGBTQ youth, has found a new home at Horizons Foundation.
Bobby Griffith was a gay youth from Walnut Creek who committed suicide in 1983 after his family would not accept his sexual orientation. After his death, his mother Mary and the rest of Bobby's family came to better understand and accept what happened. Through her involvement with PFLAG, Mary has continued to advocate for LGBTQ youth.
The family's story was told in the 1995 book Prayers for Bobby: A Mother's Coming to Terms with the Suicide of Her Gay Son and more recently in a TV special that was nominated for two 2009 Emmy® Awards (for Outstanding Made for TV Movie and for Sigourney Weaver, who plays Mary).
Donate to the scholarship fund...
Learn more about the scholarship...
Horizons Increases Annual Community Issues Grants at Challenging Time for LGBT Nonprofits
Every year, Horizons is proud to announce our Community Issues grants, the cornerstone of our grantmaking program since the foundation's inception nearly 30 years ago. The 32 organizations selected this year - working across the spectrum of needs, issues, geography, and populations in the Bay Area LGBT community - together received $202,448 in grants. We're particularly proud to say that this represents a 20% increase over last year, at a time when many LGBT nonprofits are facing significant challenges.
Read the full list of 2009 Community Issues grantees...
Read the press release...
Horizons Foundation Receives $500,000 Grant from Community Leadership Project to Invest in LGBT Communities of Color
Horizons Foundation has been awarded a grant from the Community Leadership Project that will bring $500,000 over the next three years to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people of color organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area - one of the largest grants ever to focus on this population. The funding will provide major support for Horizons' POCIBLE (People of Color Initiative to Build Leadership and Effectiveness) program, which made its first grants earlier this year.
The Community Leadership Project is a creation of three of the Bay Area's largest private foundations - the David and Lucile Packard, James Irvine, and William and Flora Hewlett Foundations - and is aimed at strengthening nonprofit organizations that are led by or serve people of color in California. Horizons is one of only six regranting partners selected for the Project, which was launched in April 2009 to serve the San Francisco Bay Area, the Central Coast, and the San Joaquin Valley.
"It is to the enormous credit of the Packard, Irvine, and Hewlett Foundations that they've recognized the complexity of community and identity experienced by LGBT people of color and embraced an inclusive vision of diversity," said Doughty. "In making this grant to Horizons Foundation, the Community Leadership Project is playing a vital role in helping multiply-marginalized communities build bridges across some of the widest gaps between the promise of equality and its fulfillment." Read more...
Look for Horizons on Twitter and Facebook
Horizons Foundation now Twitters! Keep up with the latest Horizons news and events, information about our grants, tips for LGBT donors, articles for professional advisors, data on LGBT giving, and more. Each "tweet" is limited to 140 characters, making it a quick and easy way to stay informed.
You can also spread the word about Horizons and our work via Facebook. With one click, you can let your network of friends know how important it is for each of us to give to LGBT nonprofits. Together, we'll make giving an integral part of the LGBT community.
Follow Horizons on Twitter: www.twitter.com/horizonsfdn
Become a fan of Horizons Foundation on Facebook
RESEARCH FROM HORZIONS: Groundbreaking Study Examines Charitable Giving in the LGBT Community
By all indications, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people are at least as generous as other Americans. So why are less than 5% of them giving to support LGBT causes? More importantly, how can LGBT nonprofits capture more LGBT dollars? These are the central questions raised by new research just released by Horizons Foundation.
The first multi-part study of its kind, Building a New Tradition of LGBT Philanthropy offers a snapshot of current giving to LGBT organizations, and points to ways to expand the pool of individual donors whose untapped potential can power both the immediate and long-term success of the LGBT movement. The research is based on giving data from 39 LGBT and HIV organizations in the Bay Area, an extensive online donor survey, and a series of focus groups with LGBT donors. More...
Read the full research report...
Read the Executive Summary of the report...
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A brief video about Horizons' history serving the LGBT community