For 21 years, many LGBTQ nonprofits have depended on the generosity of the San Francisco-based Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund.
The fund's grants have enabled these organizations to provide services and kept their doors open. Unfortunately, as we learned last week, executives that oversee the Haas Jr.
fund announced that they would be "winding down" its LGBT equality fund over the next two years, with the final grants coming in 2023.
The Haas Jr. fund has distributed $105 million in grants through its LGBT equality fund, so yes, it is a significant chunk of change that will be missing from the budgets of cash-strapped queer nonprofits.