2025 Community Grants Cycle Still Open!

Dear Ron,

May 23, 2025

The application for Texas Pride Community Foundation’s 2025 Community Grants program remains open through Thursday, July 24. This cycle marks our first under our new name and celebrates a decade of impact. We continue to fund bold, grassroots LGBTQ+ leadership across Texas, with a focus on BIPOC-, trans-, and rural-led efforts.

This year, we’ve launched a new grants portal designed to improve transparency, access, and efficiency. Please note that all applicants will need to create a new profile before applying. If you’re building LGBTQ power in under-resourced communities, we encourage you to apply.

For full details and to watch our recorded informational session, click here.

We are currently seeking volunteer readers to help review and score applications from LGBTQ+ organizations across Texas. Whether you’ve participated before or are new to this opportunity, your voice can help shape more equitable funding decisions.

Review Details:

Timeline: Early August 2025

Time Commitment: Approximately 3–5 hours over a two-week period

Format: Virtual, using a clear scoring rubric

Who We’re Looking For: Individuals with lived experience in the LGBTQ+ community and those who bring diverse perspectives

If you’re interested in supporting this process, you can sign up here.

Thank you for your continued commitment to advancing LGBTQ+ equity in Texas. We’re grateful to do this work with you.

2025 Community Impact Luncheon Breaks Records & Fuels Community Investment

Our 3rd Annual Impact Luncheon, held in Fort Worth, welcomed nearly 250 community members and supporters—our highest turnout yet—and marked another record-breaking fundraising effort for Texas Pride Community Foundation.

Thanks to the generosity of new and sustaining donors, major gifts secured at the event will directly support our current and upcoming Community Grants cycles. In 2024, your contributions helped us award 45 grants across Texas—fueling grassroots LGBTQ-led work and deepening local impact statewide.

We are immensely grateful to everyone who joined us in Fort Worth and helped make this milestone possible. Stay tuned—our next Impact Luncheon is headed to a new city, and we can’t wait to share what’s next.

Thank you for standing with us. Together, our momentum is powering a more vibrant, equitable future for LGBTQ Texans.

Closing Out Pride Month,

Carrying On The Momentum

As Pride Month draws to a close, we’re reminded that Pride in Texas is more than a moment—it’s a movement rooted in community.

At Texas Pride Community Foundation, we believe Pride is about presence. It’s about making sure LGBTQ+ Texans—in every town and every zip code—have access to the resources, care, and affirmation they deserve.

This year’s Pride in Action 2025 digital campaign spotlighted a vital truth: when community centers are resourced, they become more than gathering spaces—they become lifelines. Across the state, local leaders are rising to meet growing needs with urgency, creativity, and resilience. And thanks to you, they’re not doing it alone.

Your support is helping build a statewide ecosystem of connection—one that reaches rural regions and urban cores alike. From mental health services and youth programming to safe spaces and crisis response, the work you fuel is saving lives and shaping futures.

As we mark our 10th anniversary, your generosity continues to seed long-term power in the hands of those closest to the work. Because of you, Pride in Texas is thriving—loudly, unapologetically, and together.

Thank you for investing in the people and places that carry Pride forward—every day of the year.