The Texas Pride Community Foundation (formerly Texas Pride Impact Funds) is proud to open the 2025 Community Grants.
Donor Name: Texas Pride Community Foundation
State: Texas
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 07/24/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
This annual grant cycle continues commitment to strengthening LGBTQ+ communities across Texas—especially in rural areas, small towns, and through the leadership of BIPOC and trans-led grassroots organizations.
Community Grants: Focus Communities and Populations
- In effort to drive support and build capacity in LGBTQ+ communities that have been historically disadvantaged, TPCF 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 donor advised funds) they will prioritize funding within general and special grant cycles for 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+ serves 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
- TPCF places a focus on supporting the safety, rights, health, and well-being of Texas’ people of transgender experience.
- Geography: While TPCF 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: TPCF 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: TPCF 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: TPCF recognizes the complications to living of displaced people and will concentrate on:
- People living with and at higher risk for HIV/AIDS: TPCF maintains a focus on organizations and projects that serve PLWHA and communities at higher risk to HIV/AIDS
- People living with Disabilities: TPCF maintains a focus on organizations and projects that serve people with disabilities.
Eligibility Criteria
- Their 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
What they Don’t Fund
- Applications from individuals
- National organizations or their local affiliates, except for programs developed at the local level to meet local needs in Texas
- Initiatives outside the State of Texas
- Endowment funds
- Annual campaigns, capital campaigns, donor recognition events, event sponsorships
- Applications from government agencies
- Organizations that do not support transformational change and inclusivity of all LGBTQ+ individuals as well as racial equity in Texas
- More than one application per organization per year
- Academic research
- Organizations that are not 501(c)3 or do not have a Fiscal Sponsor.
For more information, visit TPCF.
