Chappell Roan launches ‘The Midwest Princess Project’ to support trans youth & LGBTQ+ communities: Details explored

Chappell Roan has officially announced the launch of the Midwest Princess Project, her new organization that aims to support trans youth & LGBTQ+ communities.

The pop icon took to Instagram to announce the project on Thursday, confirming that the project was named after her breakthrough debut album, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess. She revealed it had already raised $400,000 in donations through her 2025 “Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things” tour.

“I am so excited to announce The Midwest Princess Project,” Roan shared in a statement. “These funds will be donated to incredible organizations making a positive impact for trans youth in their communities.”

Here's everything we know about Chappell Roan's newest non-profit venture:

In her announcement on Instagram, Chappell Roan said,

"The Midwest Princess Project already raised over $400,000 at my Visions of Damsels & Other Dangerous Things Pop-Up Shows, and those funds will be donated to incredible organizations making a positive impact for trans youth in their communities. Outside of transaction fees to host the donation page and limited costs for my team to effectively manage the project, we have committed to donating every dollar possible to the organizations that need it most."

The Rolling Stone magazine has reported that her tour hosted several representatives from various organizations that will work with the nonprofit. This includes Ali Forney Center and the LGBT Center in New York, the Trans Wellness Center and TransLatin@ Coalition in Los Angeles, and the GLO Center and the Center Project in Missouri.

“These local organizations support the LGBTQ+ community and provide specific programming and resources for trans youth,” a statement on the official website for the organization reads.

The LGBT Center in New York also took to Instagram to mark the occasion:

“We are so honored to receive this wonderful gift from such an incredible member of our community."

Billboard has reported that Chappell Roan's newest venture marks a step forward in advocacy for the rights of queer and trans people, which she has been doing for nearly her whole career. Just last year, she revealed at the Gov Ball that she declined an invitation to perform at the Pride Month festivities at the White House. She said at the time:

“We want liberty, freedom and justice for all … That means freedom in trans rights.”

Back in 2023, Chappell Roan wrote an essay addressed to the LGBTQ+ community for Billboard.

“To the community that saved me,” she wrote at the time. “‘Thank God I’m gay’ is a sentence I thought I’d never say, but it’s true. Thank God I love women. Thank God you taught me to accept myself, inspired me to dress loud and dance the way I have dreamt of since I was nine.”

Chappell Roan echoed the sentiments earlier this month, when she told the sold-out crowd at the Brookside at the Rose Bowl,

“I wasn’t gonna do a U.S. tour until the very last minute. I decided to do one, and I’m so glad I did. Last year, I was really questioning, ‘Why am I doing this to myself? I’m so sad. I feel so left out in public. I feel so awkward all the time.’ And I always felt like, ‘Why am I putting myself through this? If this feels so, if this is taking so much away from me, what is this for?’ And then I started doing shows again, and it all made sense that it was to literally bring queer people joy and tell them that it’s OK.”

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