Dear Pride Family,
This winter season, as we reflect on the year behind us and set our sights on next year’s goals, we are thrilled to announce the approved grantees for this year’s San Diego Pride Community Grants program!
As a community-based organization committed to fostering pride, equality, and respect for LGBTQIA+ communities locally, nationally, and globally, we are proud to root our work in a culture of abundance. It is thanks to the incredible outpouring of support, time, and resources from our community during our flagship celebrations (buy your tickets for the raddest fundraiser in town, San Diego Pride 2025, now!), year-round programs, and fundraising efforts, we are able to make this impact. Your support of San Diego Pride allows us to meaningfully partner, collaborate, and empower a diverse array of LGBTQIA+-serving programs. Together, we work toward a shared vision of a world free from prejudice and bias—one that uplifts, sustains, and celebrates the broad spectrum of our LGBTQIA+, queer and trans communities by advancing intersectional movements, reflected by our Pillars of Justice.
We are especially grateful for the dedicated group of community members, representative of the priority demographics for this program, who lent their time, perspective, and expertise to review over 100 grant applications – our most competitive grants cycle to date!
This year, we are proud to award more than $100,000 to impactful LGBTQIA+-serving organizations, including:
Organizations from our Local community
ataaxum Pomkwaan
Colectivo Viva Vivo Binacional
Lambda Archives of San Diego
LGBTQ+ Rescue Alliance
Rainbow Spaces
San Diego Black Pride
San Diego Met High School Foundation (GSA)
Southern California Immigration Project
The Tracie Jada O’Brien Transgender Student Scholarship Fund
The Queer Sol Collective, Inc.
Transgenero2000
TransFamily Support Services
TRANSFRONTERAS ORG
VIDA (Shine Charity, Inc.)
Organizations from across the United States
Mirror Memoirs
Sam & Devorah Foundation for Trans Youth
Somos Familia
SLC Pride – Inclusion Center for Community and Justice
SlowBirth Foundation, Inc.
Quest House Community Healing
Organizations across the globe
Casa Arcoiris LGBTQ+ Shelter
Children Of the Sun Foundation Uganda Limited
Pink Triangle Uganda
Visual Echoes for Human Rights Advocacy (VEHRA)
In the spirit of abundance, we invite you to learn more about these impactful organizations and consider joining us in support of their work. We know that our local, national, and international LGBTQIA+ movement is strongest when we are collaborative, mutually supportive, and organized. adrienne maree brown, in Emergent Strategy, reminds us “Organizing takes humility and selflessness and patience and rhythm while our ultimate goal of liberation will take many expert components … Our work is intersectional and multifaceted. Nature teaches us that our work has to be nuanced and steadfast. And more than anything, that we need each other—at our highest natural glory—in order to get free.”
It is with immense pride and gratitude that San Diego Pride stands as the most philanthropic Pride organization in the world, with more than $2.5 million granted since 1998. Thank you for being a part of that legacy this year, and in years to come.
With gratitude,
Lo Horst
they/she
Philanthropy Manager
San Diego Pride raises funds primarily through festival ticket and beverage sales, and through sponsorships, and exhibitor fees. These funds support San Diego Pride’s community philanthropy which has distributed more than $2.5 million in advancement of its mission to foster pride, equality, and respect for all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities locally, nationally, and globally.
