2027 grant round now open
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2027 grant round now open · Apply now ·
Creating an empowered, sustainable, and united rainbow sector
Highlights
RGA Grants 2027
Rainbow Giving Australia’s grants program helps fund and strengthen LGBTQIA+ initiatives creating meaningful impact across Australia.
Ignite Pride Grants: Supporting local projects and grassroots initiatives that strengthen LGBTQIA+ communities across Australia.
Queer Futures Fund: Supporting LGBTQIA+SB young people to lead community, arts, and cultural projects for other young people.
Amplify Pride Grants: Supporting established organisations tackling systemic challenges facing LGBTQIA+ communities through long-term change.
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GiveOUT Day
Lock it in your diary: Thursday, October 16.
GiveOUT Day is Australia’s national day of giving for LGBTQIA+ communities and initiatives. It brings together the LGBTQIA+ community sector, donors, workplaces, and supporters from across the country,.
With matched funding, fundraising tools, training, prizes, and a ready-to-go platform, GiveOUT Day 2026 will make it easier than ever for the LGBTQIA+ community sector to fundraise together and amplify collective impact.
Last year, GiveOUT Day raised $635,000 for 134 organisations. 2026 will be even bigger!
Sweat with Pride
You fought discrimination with perspiration!
A huge thank you to everyone who moved their way for 21 mins a day in June. By teaming up or going solo, you raised more than $220,000 for Australia's rainbow communities.
Walking, wheeling, dancing, stretching, cleaning the house like it’s cardio… if it got you moving, it counted! A huge thanks to those who also brought Sweat with Pride to your workplace, or hosted your own event.
Money raised through Sweat with Pride supports Rainbow Giving Australia and ACON, who power life-changing services that strengthen rainbow communities across Australia.
Finished for 2026
About RGA
Supporting community-led solutions
Rainbow Giving Australia supports community-led solutions by mobilising funding, growing skills, and expanding the knowledge base about the funding needs across the LGBTQIA+ sector.
We believe that the LGBTQIA+ community sector is uniquely placed to improve outcomes for LGBTQIA+ people and communities. However, the sector faces key constraints of limited funding, constrained organisational capacity, and gaps in funder understanding.
By reducing these constraints, the sector will be better resourced, more sustainable and better supported. Their work, in turn, will better enable LGBTQIA+ people and communities in Australia to thrive.
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Everything Rainbow Giving Australia does is grounded in community-informed strategy, shaped by the people, organisations, and movements driving change across the LGBTQIA+ sector.
Four strategic pillars and 16 strategic goals guide our work.
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Rainbow Giving Australia operates through two connected charitable entities: Rainbow Giving Australia Ltd. (ABN 37 613 812 203) and the Rainbow Giving Australia Community Charity Trust (ABN 20 825 145 112).
Both are registered with the ACNC, with the Trust endorsed as a DGR-1 entity to support tax-deductible giving and long-term LGBTQIA+ philanthropy in Australia.
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Rainbow Giving Australia helps strengthen the long-term sustainability, visibility, and resilience of Australia’s LGBTQIA+ community sector through fundraising, grants, partnerships, research, and sector-building initiatives designed to create lasting impact.
Just as importantly, RGA is committed to understanding and measuring that impact
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Rainbow Giving Australia is powered by a small national team supported by volunteers, advisors, ambassadors, board directors, philanthropic partners, and community collaborators across Australia.
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Rainbow Giving Australia is the result of a merger between GiveOUT Day and the Aurora Foundation—two powerhouses of the LGBTQIA+ sector that joined forces to amplify their impact.
Help support a stronger, more sustainable future for LGBTQIA+ communities across Australia.
Your tax-deductible donation (or regular giving) helps Rainbow Giving Australia fund community-led initiatives, build organisational capacity, and strengthen the broader ecosystem supporting LGBTQIA+ people.
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Our partners
Rainbow Giving Australia would be possible without the incredible support and generosity of our partners.
“Snow Foundation is excited to support Rainbow Giving Australia and the next phase of the Amplify and Ignite Pride grants, at the heart of our purpose is creating opportunities for a more caring and inclusive community.
By partnering with Rainbow Giving Australia, we aim to strengthen advocacy, amplify voices, and provide resources that empower LGBTQIA+ organisations and communities.”
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