Queer Nonprofits in Bay Area
- kit644
- Jun 17
- 3 min read
This Pride Month, we’re spotlighting just a few of the incredible nonprofits doing vital work for LGBTQ+ communities across the Bay Area. These organizations provide everything from legal aid to housing assistance, youth mentorship, health services, artistic expression, and joyful celebration.
Whether you’re looking to donate, volunteer, or just learn more, we hope this list helps you connect with the powerful work happening right here in the Bay.
And if you’re a nonprofit looking to support and engage the LGBTQ+ community, read “How To Make Your Nonprofit Fundraising LGBTQIA+ Inclusive: Guest Blog by Matthew Easterwood”.
🌉 Queer Nonprofits in San Francisco
Provides legal referrals, mental health counseling, youth & senior programs, employment services, and cultural events.
Curates and ships LGBTQ+ books to individuals and organizations in areas facing book bans—completely free.
Lavender Phoenix (formerly API Equality – Northern California)
Builds transgender, non-binary, and queer API power through leadership development and cultural programming.
Preserves LGBTQ+ archives and operates the first stand‑alone LGBTQ history museum in the U.S.
World’s first openly gay chorus, offering music performances, activism, and community events.
Advances LGBTQ+ family equity through support, advocacy, events, and educational resources.
Builds community and inspire positive social change through education enhancement, career trainings, health promotion, and leadership development with LGBTQ youth, their families, and allies of all races, classes, genders, and abilities.
Creates and presents trans and queer performing arts with a social justice lens.
Hosts the world’s largest LGBTQ+ film festival and supports queer filmmakers.
🌉 Queer Nonprofits in East Bay
Offers health services (trans wellness, HIV/STI testing), peer support, housing & food assistance, plus cultural programming.
Provides HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and housing assistance throughout Alameda County.
East Bay drag and queer performance festivals offering grants, workshops, and community events.
National advocacy based in Oakland, working for trans rights via legal aid and policy reform.
Supports and trains school‑based GSAs to fight homophobia and transphobia, headquartered in Oakland.
Promotes LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion through training and corporate partnerships.
Nonprofit uplifting incarcerated queer artists via comics anthologies and pen‑pal creativity.
80+ member ensemble spreading inclusion through choral performances and local outreach.
Organizers of downtown Oakland’s annual Pride celebration and year-round queer programming.
Peer support, counseling, HIV testing, and youth programming at one of the U.S.’s oldest LGBTQ+ centers.
Provides immigration and asylum legal help for LGBTQ+ individuals in the Bay Area.
LGBTQ+ Nonprofits in North Bay
Provides youth camps, therapy groups, drop‑in hours, and social support for the LGBTQIA+ community in Sonoma County.
Supports LGBTQIA+ parents and children via local events, advocacy, and educational outreach.
Offers free counseling, social programming, and school outreach for youth and seniors in the North Bay.
Welcomes and supports at-risk LGBTQI+ people to start new lives in Sonoma County.
Offers counseling, peer support, HIV education, youth & senior programs, and transitional housing.
🌉 Queer Nonprofits on the Peninsula
Opened in 2017 in San Mateo, this center offers clinical therapy, peer support groups, events, community education/training, and case management for all ages.
Serves LGBTQ youth, families, and adults on the San Mateo coast through safe-space programming, awareness campaigns, and community event collaborations.
A social—and fitness—community for LGBTQ+ runners and walkers in Palo Alto, Mountain View, and the South Bay. Hosts events like the Moonlight Run & Walk and Queer Film Festival screenings.
Billy DeFrank LGBTQ+ Community Center (San Jose)Provides weekly support groups, HIV testing, arts & culture events, cyber-library access, and community advocacy.
The LGBTQ Youth Space (San Jose)Offers peer mentoring, arts workshops, leadership development, counseling in English/Spanish/ASL, and volunteer opportunities for ages 13-25.
Silicon Valley PrideOrganizes San Jose’s annual Pride Parade & Festival and supports year-round LGBTQ+ events and initiatives.
Regional/Multi‑County Queer Nonprofits
Advances equality through its mission of support, education, and advocacy.
Provides funding, training, and volunteer coordination for local queer/trans grassroots campaigns.
Offers support and advocacy for survivors of LGBTQ-related violence, including crisis intervention.
Works with schools and families to support trans and gender-expansive youth across the Bay Area.
A community foundation funding LGBTQ nonprofits and donor-advised giving.
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