2025 Saturnalia Grant Recipients
About the Sisters' Grants Fund
The Sisters tend to support under-funded, small organizations and projects providing direct services to under-served communities. The majority of these organizations and projects receive little, if any, government or mainstream funding and may be in the early stages of development.
We are especially attracted to progressive grassroots projects that promote wellness, joy, tolerance, and diversity within our communities. We have a vision that encompasses diverse communities and groups that have a common interest in human rights, people of every gender, gender identity, race, class, age, and sexual orientation.
All grants recipients will be required to submit a brief final report with at least one photo documenting your work; these will enable us to promote your work on our community partners page.
For questions about Grants, email grantsmistress@thesisters.org.
Raymond Victor Designs
To help fund “Pay It Fashion Forward” Reno, NV which benefits NNHOPES (providing free healthcare to 1000’s of people) and OUR Center, Reno (the local LGBTQ+ outreach that also sponsors our annual Pride Parade in Reno.)
https://www.facebook.com/NNHOPES
https://www.facebook.com/OurCenterReno
LoveCuts, A POPup Barbershop
“The barbers that cut hair for Tenderloin Tessie Holiday Dinners, TRANS March and more... We provide a POPup Barbershop experience to onsite care events, etc. Grant will fund new clippers, mirrors, and other hygiene supplies.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2390554307733704/
The Queer Zine Archive Project (QZAP)
(Milwaukee, WI) DIY operation that collects, preserves, and digitizes current & historical queer zines, making them accessible to researchers, the community, and the world. Grant will help them purchase new filing cabinets.
Simply The Basics
“provides basic hygiene needs so that people can focus on greater goals.” “grant will fund menstrual hygiene support for trans and nonbinary individuals, ensuring access to appropriate products in safe, affirming spaces which are often overlooked in traditional hygiene distribution.”
https://www.simplythebasics.org/
kin•dom community
“host fully affirming summer camps for LGBTQIA+ teenagers in Texas, Illinois, and Nevada as well as a year-round virtual afterschool queer support group.” “Funding for mental health provider (LPC) services for our kin•dom club afterschool virtual GSA support group.”
https://www.facebook.com/kindomcommunity
https://kindomcommunity.org/
Rolando Sáenz
Part of the “QUEER Art Featured” art collective; Art supplies, art classes including space rental, creating safe spaces for artists.
Voces Trans Latinex
Our work focuses on providing direct, free, and culturally competent services to the entire LGBTQ+ community, with a special focus on our immigrant sisters and brothers, who often face multiple barriers in accessing basic services.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php/?id=61571209763739
https://www.instagram.com/vocestranslatinx
SF Eagle Players
“a community theatre group based in San Francisco's SOMA district” “The funds will support SF Eagle Players first fully produced season of theater at the historic SF Eagle. Specifically funds will be used for the show Satyricon, by Stuart Bousel.”
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1085974955317866
Two Spirit Inipi
“We provide inclusive, culturally rooted Two Spirit sweat lodge ceremony, removing barriers to healing by offering access, safety, and belonging for Indigenous LGBTQIA+ relatives and community” “We will purchase new blankets, a cord of wood, provide a land use donation, and support gas assistance for relatives in need to access ceremony.”
Loved Twice
“spreads warmth, joy, and sustainability by providing a year worth of gently used baby clothes to newborns in need—keeping tiny humans cozy and tons of clothing out of landfills”
“Funds will provide 100 boxes of baby clothes for San Francisco infants in crisis—boy, girl, and gender-neutral—meeting urgent requests from social workers at San Francisco Benioff Hospital.”
https://www.facebook.com/LovedTwice/
https://lovedtwice.org/
Sin Sity Sisters
“We work to raise money for our Sisters AIDS Drug Assistance Program (SADAP); fight for queer rights and visibility; do safer sex outreach…”to fund OPERATION SAFE SIN Project for installing condom dispensers in Las Vegas bars and clubs. provide the dispensers, the condoms, and educational materials on safe sex, PREP, and SADAP information.”
https://www.sinsitysisters.org/
The Ana
“We are a literary & arts magazine founded and run by queer folks of color. We publish issues that celebrate the nuances, complexity, and joy of being human.” “support will fund the publication of our fifth anniversary anthology, featuring special articles celebrating the beauty of our queer and of color communities in LA and the Bay Area.”
Rogers & Rosewater Soup Kitchen
(fiscally sponsored by Safer DIY Spaces) “We are a mobile soup kitchen that brings meals, fresh water, pet food and supplies directly to unhoused communities all over Oakland twice a week” “funds to pay for outreach supplies.”
https://www.rogersandrosewater.org/
MiniMobile
“We’re now creating an insulated, weatherproof, lockable, towable “hardshell wheeled tent” to shelter our unhoused neighbors.” “Purchase bulk materials & build a MiniMobile prototype!”
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDwJyBfN5Xq4cEabQihBX3XhLulc69MHCEqxYXe7g1cizThg/viewform
Turtle Island Women Warriors
“(TIWW) initiative, Bringing Our Relatives Home, is a Native women-led outreach and healing project that serves unhoused and missing Native and non-Native individuals throughout Downtown Phoenix, Central Phoenix, Maryvale, Alhambra, and Laveen in Arizona” “funding will directly support the purchase and distribution of hygiene kits, nutrition packs, and weather relief supplies, items that save lives during Arizona’s extreme heat and cold seasons. It will also help TIWW strengthen outreach capacity by providing transportation, volunteer coordination, and basic operational support so our team can reach more areas and follow up with individuals needing continued care.”
https://www.turtleislandww.com/
San Francisco Fog Rugby Football Club
(fiscally sponsored by Dancers' Group) is “the West Coast’s first gay/inclusive rugby club. On the pitch, volunteering in the community, as SF regional-international ambassadors, we champion athleticism, mental-wellness, communal camaraderie.” Funds will go to field rentals.
https://www.instagram.com/fogrugby/
https://fogrugby.com/
Two-Spirit Talking Circle
(Humboldt County, CA) “Our organization provides weekly talking circles via Zoom for the Humboldt County community. Youth and elders are connected through cultural classes which nurtures our two-spirited community.” Funds for supplies, travel, and stipends for Elders.
ROYALES Drag Show
“an all-BIPOC Drag King show and collective. Funds to support 3 year anniversary celebration at El Rio and our Accessibility Fund”
https://www.royalesdragshow.com/
https://www.instagram.com/royalesdragshow
All Saints Episcopal Church - Queer ministry
“Creating a safe and affirming place for LGBT people to worship in community” “Used to provide safe transportation, mentorship, and meals for trans youth to attend Oakland LGBTQ+ Center meetings and an affirming church service, fostering belonging, faith, and supportive adult connections.”
Fremont High School, Oakland, California
Special Education Department - “funds used to create a Senior High School Care package for the students with an IEP (Special Needs) for the graduating class of 2026”
Feed the People Garden Project (Queers in the Garden)
“a trans created and operated garden whose mission is to build community, create space for self and community care, and provide fresh produce.” To fund Garden Leaders and community activities.
https://www.facebook.com/FeedthePeopleGardenProject
https://www.instagram.com/feedthepeoplegardenproject
Harm Reduction Outreach Collective
(fiscally sponsored by: Points of Distribution) “a peer-led harm reduction collective that provides harm reduction supplies and home-cooked meals in the Tenderloin twice a week.” “We will use the funds to have a "holiday outreach" with a special meal and stockings full of goodies and cold-weather gear.”
https://www.instagram.com/hroc.sf/
https://hrocsf.bigcartel.com/
https://givebutter.com/helphroc
https://brokeassstuart.com/p/the-anarchists-reshaping-harm-reduction-outreach-in-the-tl