Samantha Sorensen and her wife, Tasha, have a lot to celebrate.

After months of hard work, their organization, the Rainbow Pride Foundation, is officially a nonprofit.

"We have a bank account so we can take donations now, so I’m excited," said Samantha.

She's excited because she can help people like her — members of the LGBTQ community with bills that are piling up.

“I had a job where I was being pushed out because I was lesbian and when I lost that job, I lost my health insurance," said Samantha. "I was like this isn’t fair. Something has to be out there to help, and there wasn’t that many options.”

The organization helps cover things like same sex weddings, adoptions, fertility clinics, medical expenses, and transition surgeries.

“We were in poverty," said Tasha. "We lived on James Street in a bedbug-ridden apartment, had a grocery budget of $20 a week, and didn’t really get any help from anyone.”

Samantha and Tasha can now afford basic necessities, like food. They own a home, and they have a few fur babies. They’re looking to add human babies, and adoption is expensive.

“You’re at least spending like $20,000 minimum,” said Samantha on the financial strain of adding a child for a same-sex couple.

While the Sorensens wait to add to their family, they’re cooking up ways to help others through the Rainbow Pride Foundation.

“I wouldn’t want someone to have to go through what we had to go through to get to where we are today,” said Samantha.

It creates a bridge for others to have a better life.