Overview
- The Health Department will award grants of up to $92,000 to about 20 nonprofits serving transgender, gender‑nonconforming and nonbinary New Yorkers.
- Applications are open now and due Jan. 5 at 5 p.m., with funds intended for 2026 costs including gender‑affirming care, legal advocacy, housing support and crisis response.
- Officials frame the initiative as a response to federal reductions, with reported cuts to New York City ranging from $36 million to $47 million and some funding later partially restored by court order.
- CitizensNYC is partnering to facilitate disbursement, though the city will determine which organizations receive awards.
- City Hall announced the program in the final days of Mayor Eric Adams’s term, and officials describe it as a first‑of‑its‑kind municipal emergency fund.