Queer LifeSpace Receives 2025 Horizons Foundation Community Issues Grant

We’re happy to announce that Queer LifeSpace (QLS) has been awarded a Community Issues Grant for 2025-2026 by our long-term partner the Horizons Foundation. This generous two-year grant allows us to continue providing affordable access to mental health services for the LGBTQIA+ community in the San Francisco Bay Area.

“Horizons’ flagship grantmaking program, Community Issues, provides support to LGBTQ nonprofit organizations and programs based in our local community: the nine counties of the San Francisco Bay Area. Central to our mission, supporting these organizations’ programs, services, and advocacy help advance a world where all LGBTQ people live freely and fully. View our most recent list of grantees.”

— Horizons Website

Supporting Our Mission

This funding from Horizons Foundation empowers us to sustain and expand our critical services, ensuring that everyone in our community — regardless of income — has access to compassionate, queer-affirming care. In 2023-2024, support from Horizons enabled QLS to provide therapy to hundreds of clients, host group therapy programs, and strengthen our outreach initiatives. With this renewed grant, we look forward to amplifying this impact even further in 2025-2026.

Real Stories of Impact

Grants like this one directly change people’s lives. One of our clients recently shared anonymously:
"I finally feel heard and supported, thanks to the therapy I’ve received at Queer LifeSpace. It’s been life-changing."

This is why the Horizons Foundation grant is so important. It allows us to continue serving individuals like this client, offering them a safe space to heal, grow, and thrive.

What This Grant Supports

With this grant, we’re excited to:

• Expand our youth-focused therapy programs, ensuring LGBTQIA+ adolescents and transitional youth have access to the care they need.

• Provide sliding-scale therapy services so that cost is never a barrier to mental health care.

• Host community group therapy sessions, creating spaces where individuals can connect and heal together.

Gratitude for Horizons Foundation

We deeply appreciate Horizons Foundation for their steadfast commitment to uplifting LGBTQIA+ organizations like ours. As a proud Horizons Grantee Partner, QLS joins an incredible network of nonprofits working to make the Bay Area a stronger, more equitable place for LGBTQIA+ individuals and their families.

Get Involved

Want to support the work we do? Here are a few ways you can help:

• Donate: Your contributions ensure that we can serve even more members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

• Volunteer: Join us in creating a welcoming and supportive environment for all.

• Spread the Word: Share our mission with your networks to help us reach more individuals in need.

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Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to Queer LifeSpace. With your help, we can work to empower and sustain the queer community of California through sliding-scale mental health care and queer-affirming therapist training.