Horizons Foundation

Beyond grantmaking, Horizons invests in LGBTQ organizations by organizing Give OUT Day, the only national day of giving for the LGBTQ community.

Give OUT Day builds the capacity of hundreds of LGBTQ nonprofits – from racial justice work to immigration protections to affirming the rights of trans youth – across all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico, helping them raise millions of dollars to fund their critical work.

Give OUT Day 2021 is the only national day of giving for the LGBTQ community. The campaign runs throughout all of Pride Month and culminates on June 30.

A world where all LGBTQ people live freely and fully requires generosity of time, resources, and spirit, which has been at the core of our community since the very beginning. To strengthen this culture today, Horizons provides philanthropic advising for LGBTQ donors. From four decades of experience and relationships with our community’s changemakers, Horizons is an expert on LGBTQ issues in the San Francisco Bay Area and the premier resource to help inform charitable giving in our community.

Horizons' grants support organizations across the country and globe. Our over 150 donor-advised funds make grants to wide-ranging nonprofits across the U.S., and our Global Faith and Equality Fund works to stem the exportation of religious-based homophobia from the United States to Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.

Horizons strengthens LGBTQ giving as one of the only donor-advised fund providers that is of, by, and for LGBTQ people.

To further support donors, we are home to the Professional Advisors Circle, a network of financial planners, attorneys, tax preparers, insurance agents, and real estate agents who serve the LGBTQ community. The Professional Advisors Circle holds networking events and organizes LGBTQ Financial Planning Day, where LGBTQ people receive pro bono advice to increase their financial well-being and capacity to give.

The future we envision — where all LGBTQ people live freely and fully — is only possible if we have a strategy for the long term. That’s why we promote legacy giving. Recognizing that bequests hold the highest philanthropic potential for our community, Horizons identified over $100 million in future legacy gifts through our groundbreaking Now and Forever Campaign, and we continue to identify these gifts today.

Many of these gifts support our LGBTQ Community Endowment Fund, a source of permanent resources for our community. We will be there to meet our community's needs that we can't begin to imagine today — for generations, forever.

The power of legacy giving goes far beyond our own foundation. Based on national data on the transfer of wealth, we estimate that $270 billion will be dispersed from the estates of LGBTQ people in the next decade alone. That’s why we have led the work of the National Task Force on LGBTQ Planned Giving, which creates resources for other LGBTQ organizations to realize the potential of legacy giving across the country.