Unlike institutional giving, family philanthropy is flexible, personal, and less constrained by compliance requirements — qualities that make it well-suited to reaching communities left behind by structured funding streams. To understand this shift more concretely, we spoke with seven women and queer philanthropists about how they centre women, girls, and gender minorities in their giving — and what they are still working through. Building on what’s workingAcross these conversations, we learnt women and queer philanthropists tend to favour long-term, relationship-driven engagement over transactional grant cycles. India’s women and queer family philanthropists are already showing what that can look like by adopting more inclusive grantmaking approaches. This article draws on ‘An Evidence-Based Approach to Adopting the GEDI Lens among Women and Queer Represented Family Philanthropy in India and South Asia,” a report by Dasra.