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Texas Pride Impact Funds announces 2022 Community Grants Program

With grant awards ranging up to $10,000, Texas Pride Impact Funds state-wide Community Grants leverage the philanthropic investments and partnerships to support LGBTQ+ supportive organizations addressing a critical needs, finding solutions to communities’ most pressing challenges, fostering creativity, power building, and promoting resilience for a more just and inclusive Texas.

Donor Name: Texas Pride Impact Funds

State: Texas

County: All Counties

Type of Grant: Grant

Deadline: 06/17/2022

Size of the Grant: $10,000

Details:

Focus Communities and Populations

In their effort to drive support and build capacity in LGBTQ+ communities that have been historically disadvantaged, TPIF has identified Focus Communities and Populations to guide its work and establish funding priorities.

  • While they will continue to fund a full range of organizations, projects, and leaders, (particularly through their donor-advised funds) they will prioritize funding within their general and special grant cycles for their Focus Communities and Populations.
  • They embrace organizations and projects that address the current and direct needs of communities while also seeking to correct the systemic injustices that unfairly burden people living within these identities and at their intersections.

Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression While using the acronym of LGBTQ+ serve the full spectrum of sexual orientations and gender identities and expressions. These include but are not limited to:

  • Lesbian
  • Gay
  • Bisexual
  • Queer
  • Asexual, Aromantic
  • Questioning
  • Transgender, Two-Spirit, Transexual, Non-Binary, Gender Non-Conforming, Agender
  • Intersex

TPIF places a focus on supporting the safety, rights, health, and well-being of Texas’ people of transgender experience.

Geography  While TPIF funds groups that work statewide and in local communities, for the next five years it will seek to build capacity in these geographic areas:

  • Rural underserved areas
  • Border communities
  • Towns and small cities
  • Under-resourced areas and neighborhoods within urban centers

Race and Ethnicity  TPIF focuses on building the capacity of organizations, projects, and leaders serving communities of color including:

  • Black and/or African American
  • Native and Indigenous Peoples
  • Hispanic/Latino(a)/Latinx
  • Asian, Asian American, Pacific Islander, Desi, and Arab (APIDA)

Age  TPIF recognizes the difficulties of being LGBTQ+ at each end of the age spectrum and maintains a focus on essential services and social supports for:

  • Senior and elderly people
  • Youth particularly those who are unhoused
  • Young adults 18 – 25

Displaced People  TPIF recognizes the complications of the living of displaced people and will concentrate on:

  • Immigrants
  • Homeless Youth
  • Undocumented Persons
  • Refugees
  • Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Persons

People living with and at higher risk for HIV/AIDS  TPIF maintains a focus on organizations and projects that serve PLWHA and communities at higher risk of HIV/AIDS.

People living with Disabilities  TPIF maintains a focus on organizations and projects that serve people with disabilities.

Eligibility Criteria

Its grantmaking to non-profit organizations and organizations with fiscal sponsorship is intentionally broad for initiatives providing direct support to LGBTQ+ persons and communities in Texas. Community Grants award funds for general operating support; applications are not required to identify projects or submit project plans.

For more information, visit 2022 Community Grants.

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