Every institution that was supposed to protect us failed, so we built our own. Here is who runs it, what we believe, how we govern ourselves, and where every dollar goes. All of it verifiable.
Bloom Ministries is a federally recognized 501(c)(3) and a registered religious nonprofit in the State of Oregon. We were founded on October 17, 2025 in Salem, and our EIN is 39-4922713. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent the law allows.
We exist because there is a specific, repeating failure in how help gets delivered to trans and disabled people, and it is not primarily a funding failure. It is a design failure. Services get built by people who have studied the problem rather than survived it, and the result is a system that is technically available and practically unreachable — a phone tree, a waitlist, an eligibility form that asks you to document the worst week of your life in a text box, and a caseworker who has never once had to do any of it.
Trans-led and disabled-led leadership is not a value statement on our part. It is the correction. When the people designing the process are the people who have been through the process, the friction gets removed by instinct rather than by a two-year program evaluation cycle.
You will never be asked about your faith, your practice, or your position on God as a condition of receiving anything from us. Faith in Bloom exists and is real; it is also a door you may walk past without anyone stopping you.
Not in our materials, not in our grant language, not in a room where it might be strategically convenient. This is a standing correction we make publicly, including to people who otherwise support us.
Public spending records are not a marketing feature we can quietly retire when the numbers get complicated. The years where the accounting is awkward are exactly the years the commitment means something.
We do not publish anyone’s story, photograph, or circumstances to raise money. Not with a pseudonym, not with details changed, not with permission obtained during a crisis. The ledger tracks dollars; it does not track people.
Small. Deliberately and currently very small — one founder doing the overwhelming majority of the building, a board providing governance, and a growing volunteer base. We would rather tell you that than imply a staff we do not have. It is also why response times are human-paced rather than instant.
Bloom Ministries is a registered religious nonprofit, and Faith in Bloom is a genuine ministry with daily liturgy in the 1962 Roman Rite tradition, offered in the Independent Catholic tradition and not affiliated with Rome. Most of what Bloom does is not that, and requires nothing of you spiritually.
Because in the first fiscal year of an organization asking marginalized people and their allies for money, every dollar that goes to program instead of payroll is a dollar that makes the ask defensible. This is a stated current practice, not a permanent vow — if it changes, it will be announced publicly with the reasoning, not discovered in a filing.
No, and as a 501(c)(3) we legally cannot be. Bloom does issue advocacy and public education — on trans rights, disability justice, and healthcare access — and does not support or oppose candidates for office. That line is real and we hold it carefully.
Our EIN is 39-4922713 and can be checked against the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search. Oregon registration is verifiable through the state. Our own spending records are at Accountability & Transparency. If something you need is not published, ask us for it at Contact.
Read the receipts before you give. Then decide whether this is the kind of organization you want existing in the world — and whether it should be able to say yes the next time someone asks.
47 people were helped before we asked for a dollar. Monthly giving is what lets us say yes before the money is in hand.