Gender Reveal Grant & Mutual Aid Programs

We are currently evaluating applications for our 2025 grant program. Grant recipients will be contacted by Dec. 31, 2025. All other applicants will likely not be contacted, due to an exceptionally high volume of applications this year.

This grant is funded entirely by donations and the Gender Reveal patreon. If you would like to sponsor an additional grant, please send a donation with "GR grant" in the memo line. Thank you!!!

Past Grant Recipients

Spring 2025

For Trans Day of Having a Nice Snack, we distributed $4268 in microgrants to fund 30 snack & mutual aid events across the United States and beyond.

Fall 2024 ($10,100)

• Adonis Gutierrez (Under the Umbrella RGV)

• ari jauregui (Cabritas Resistiendo)

• Devin Myers (Basketdolls)

• House of Kilig

• Joy Mariama Smith

• Ndie Fernand Nathan (RITAC & Top Santé Cameroun)

• Really Really Free Market / Stop the Sweeps Corvallis

• Shaé Smith (chosen kin)

Runners-up

• Area Scatter Africa / FemmeHive

• Arely Westley

• Okere Kenneth Confidence (Kentrick Centre)

• Sam @ SEQHER

• Trans Joy Revolution

Spring 2024

For Trans Day of Having a Nice Snack, we distributed $13,100 for snacks and $21,700 in general mutual aid. We focused specifically on trans people living in the 26 U.S. states that were most severely impacted by anti-trans legislation.

We also provided $9,000 in donation-matching funds for the Cecilia Gentili Legacy Fund.

Fall 2023 ($12,100)

• Cece Suazo

• Jamie Grace Alexander (Trans Rights Advocacy Coalition)

• Kaon City Medics

• Kukay Bautista Zinampan (Pothos Collective)

• Queer Shia Collective

• Summeiya Khamissa (Queer Muslim Network)

• Trans Queer Youth NOLA

• Wolfpack Counseling

• Yaffa AS (Meraj Publishing)

Runners-up

• Adunni Tiwatope (QueerCity)

• darien hunter golston (Grounds 4 Gratitude)

• Jeng Au (Trans Sauna)

• Kale Banks (Baltimore Queer Soccer)

• Maima Khan & Firdous Chowdri

• Oly Queer/Trans Free Bike Clinic

• Ross Ross (LOUD: New Orleans Queer Youth Theater)

Spring 2023

For Trans Day of Having a Nice Snack, we distributed $12,700 for snacks and $25,100 in general mutual aid. We focused specifically on trans people living in the 26 U.S. states that had recently passed (or were actively passing) anti-trans legislation.

Fall 2022 ($8,600)

• Amina Maher (AWA Productions)

• Bex Nitti (Queerchata)

• Black QTs Camp

• Chella Coleman

• Démian Xiomara Meza Pacheco

• DJ Rock (Trans Fitness Bitch)

• Fernánde Galindo (Tulsa Intersectional Care Network)

• Firdous Omar Chowdri

• Lana Diamond

• Olaide Kayode Timileyin (QueerCity)

• Tatyana Woodard (Ark of Safety)

• Thomars Shamuyarira (The Fruit Basket)

• Tom Kólá (Trans Nigerian Support)

• Sall Lam Toro (Tee Thot Godx)

• Sunday Avanti

• Wriply Bennet (Thorn Self Defense)

• Full Circle Ink (runner-up)

• K. Hawj (runner-up)

• Saturn (runner-up)
  

Spring 2022 ($6,400)

• Akello Sladen

• Dez Peterson

• Gé Castro Cruz

• Gemm Tiago Nuen (QueerGemm)

• Jas Smith (Denver Black Queer Collective)

• Jennifer Love Williams (Jen Love Project)

• JJ Draper (Butterfly Collective)

• Miss Iman Hill

• Noel Puello

• Summery Yehya Khamissa (Queer Muslim Network)

• Tj Squire (Healing the Black Body)

• Angel Carrasco (runner-up)

• Lisa Mitchell (runner-up)

• Na’Asia Williams (runner-up)

We also distributed $20,600 to trans people of color through our spring mutual aid drive.

Fall 2021 ($8,000)

• Asia Smith (Black Empowerment Team)

• Nala Toussaint (the ROAD Project)

• Fayola Fair (Reading 4 Black Lives Project)

• Frontline Meals

• Graciela Cain (Duval Folx)

• Jaguar Mary X

• Joanna Cifredo (Ep 28)

• Kaydx (Dagbasi Productions)

• Kole Peplinskie (Rustling Pine)

• Louis J. Mitchell (Transfaith)

• nibiiwakamigkwe (Onyota'a:ka, Anishinaabe, Michif)

• Redwood Collective (heard here)

• Reflect Collective 

• Regina Rodriguez / Irregular Girl (That Shit’s Trans)

• saylem celeste

• Yaya Vallis 

We also distributed $14,300 to trans people of color through our fall mutual aid drive.

Spring 2021 ($8,500)

• Bakpak Durden (Paper Street Press)

• Billie Alexandria (Earth Sol)

• Carolyn Collado (Recovery for the Revolution)

• Edee Allynnah Blackfeather Davis (via A.B.O. Comix)

• Janette Richardson (via A.B.O. Comix)

• Karla Bautista (Trans Queer Pueblo)

• Lady Shug

• Lais Milburn

• LaTisha Rico (Episodes 10 & 99)

• Lupe Sotelo (Stems From Them)

• Malaya Lakas

• Moréna Wells (In Honor of Our Roots)

• Rafael PlentyWolf

• Salimatu Amabebe (Episode 83)

• stellium literary magazine

• Summer Kool Breeze (via A.B.O. Comix)

• Tay Lawrence (S.O.N.G.)

We also created the Trans Day of Snack mutual aid project, which distributed $10,650 for snacks and $18,280 for basic necessities.

Fall 2020 ($4,000)

• Assata Collective

• Baki Baki Baki

• Gabrielle Griffith

• grey rain/LA LGBTQ Center youth residents

• Kayla Shaggy

• Kosmo Parker

• M. Carmen Lane

• Red Rojas

• Tamika Spellman

• Uhuru Moor

We also put together a mutual aid drive for Indigenous People’s Day and distributed $14,500 in aid.

Spring 2020

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and its disproportionate financial effects on trans populations, we replaced our spring grant with a $106,000 mutual aid program for trans folks around the world.

Fall 2019 ($2,250)

• Trans Women of Color Collective (link)

• Scum Trust (link)

• Farhat Rahman (Episode 68)

• Elijah Forbes (Episode 66)

• Zackery Alexzander Stephens

• Connor Banayad

• Chase Go Tolentino

Spring 2019 ($1,200)

• Elle Halo (Episode 58)

• Sam Long (Episode 54)

• Kai Minosh Pyle (Episode 53)

• Nwaobiala (Episode 51)

• Coalition Against Trans Antagonism (link)

• Melissa Kelley Colibrí

Fall 2018 ($600)

• Rae White (Episode 36A)

• Diego Girgado (Episode 36B)

• Mo Tester (Episode 36C)