Announcing our 2026 Grant Partners: $610,000 to 16 incredible organisations
We're proud to share that $610,000 is going to 16 incredible LGBTQIA+ organisations across Australia.
From trans-led advocacy to First Nations community connection to intersex peer support — these community-led organisations are doing the vital work that keeps rainbow folk safe, connected, and thriving.
This milestone is made possible by a significant commitment from Snow Foundation, with support from Pride Foundation Australia, alongside generous contributions from Spencer Maurice, Brian M. Davis Charitable Foundation, Jeremy Tang (Humanitix), Jonathan Marchbank, and our community donors.
We're excited to introduce you to each one of them below. 💛
Amplify Pride partners
Our Amplify Pride program provides grants up to $60,000 for organisations taking a systemic approach to strengthening LGBTQIA+ communities. This year, we're funding eight organisations with $455,000 in total.
Beyond Bricks & Bars — $45,000
Beyond Bricks and Bars will continue employing a dedicated trans and gender-diverse Prison Outreach Worker, providing trauma-responsive, gender-affirming support to trans and gender-diverse people inside prisons across Victoria. At a time of rising remand rates and escalating safety risks, this role delivers life-saving advocacy, reduces isolation, and supports mental and physical wellbeing for people in custody, while acting as an independent witness to systemic harm. Evidence shows this support improves mental health, reduces self-harm and suicidality, and strengthens pathways back into community.
Forcibly Displaced People Network (FDPN) — $60,000
FDPN will support its Executive Director role, strengthening Australia's only LGBTIQA+ refugee-led national peak body. This role provides strategic leadership across advocacy, policy reform, and sector coordination, ensuring the lived experience of LGBTIQA+ refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants shapes decisions at all levels of government. Through leading the Roadmap for Action on LGBTIQA+ Asylum and Migration Justice and the Inclusive Pathways Model, FDPN is driving systemic change, including progress toward the first dedicated visa pathway for LGBTIQA+ displaced people.
Inclusive Rainbow Voices — $60,000
Inclusive Rainbow Voices will support its CEO role, strengthening Australia's only national advocacy organisation led by and for LGBTIQA+ people with disability. This role provides essential leadership to manage partnerships, deliver high-quality systemic advocacy, and meet growing demand from government and non-profit organisations. By securing core leadership capacity, the funding helps IRV consolidate its impact, build long-term sustainability, and ensure LGBTIQA+ people with disability are consistently represented, heard, and respected in decision-making spaces across Australia.
Inner City Legal Centre — $60,000
Inner City Legal Centre will build national momentum for equitable LGBTQIA+ legal services across Australia. Building on its Blueprint for Equality report, ICLC will establish a national network of LGBTQIA+ legal service providers and community legal centres, strengthening collaboration and coordinated advocacy. The funding will also support national advocacy to engage governments and parliamentarians, laying the groundwork for sustained investment so LGBTQIA+ people can access culturally safe legal support wherever they live.
InterAction for Health and Human Rights (IHHR) — $60,000
InterAction for Health and Human Rights will strengthen national intersex advocacy, peer support, and regional outreach. The funding will support the fourth Darlington advocacy and policy retreat, bringing intersex community leaders together to build skills, reduce burnout, and align national advocacy efforts. It will also strengthen peer support by convening state and territory representatives and expand InterLink's regional outreach, improving referral pathways and access to psychosocial support for intersex people across Australia.
Pride Cup — $60,000
Pride Cup will expand its national work creating safer, more inclusive sporting communities. Building on its reach across more than 100 clubs nationwide, the funding will support Pride Cup's 2026 strategy, combining inclusion education and Pride Games with a new Spotlight focus on advocacy and storytelling. This includes new research and communications to counter rising anti-trans narratives in women's sport, helping reduce homophobia and transphobia and ensure community sport remains a place of belonging for LGBTQIA+ people, particularly in regional areas.
Rainbow Families Australia — $50,000
Rainbow Families Australia will strengthen the long-term sustainability of Australia's peak organisation supporting LGBTQ+ parents, carers, and their children. The funding supports the continued employment of a Fundraising and Partnerships Coordinator, focused on securing new and multi-year funding and embedding sustainable fundraising systems. This will ensure Rainbow Families can continue delivering vital programs such as Family Pride events, parenting and antenatal support, youth and resilience initiatives, and inclusion training, helping LGBTQ+ families across Australia stay connected, supported, and visible.
Trans Justice Project — $60,000
Trans Justice Project will strengthen the skills and leadership of Australia's trans-led movement for justice and equality. The funding supports a national training program, including local workshops delivered through the Trans Justice Network and an in-person training summit in 2026. By investing in shared skills, organising tools, and leadership development, this work builds a stronger, more connected movement, supporting trans communities to respond collectively, sustainably, and with confidence at a time when trans rights are under increasing pressure.
Ignite Pride partners
Our Ignite Pride program supports grassroots, place-based, or population-focused initiatives with grants up to $20,000. This year, we're funding eight organisations with $155,000 in total.
Gender Expansive Faith — $18,500
Gender Expansive Faith will create free, evidence-based resources supporting trans and queer young people in Christian schools, families, and faith communities. Developed with Equal Voices and Christians for Trans Justice, the project will provide practical guidance for young people, counsellors, parents, and churches to reduce harm and strengthen wellbeing. By addressing a clear gap in faith-based support, this work improves safety and belonging for young people who cannot easily leave faith-affiliated settings.
Kimberley Blak Pride Limited — $20,000
Kimberley Blak Pride Limited will strengthen its foundations as a community-led organisation supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sistagirls, Brothaboys, and LGBTIQA+ mob in the Kimberley. The funding will support governance training, charity registration, core systems, and the launch of a public website, building the capacity needed to sustain culturally safe events, leadership pathways, and advocacy in a remote region with limited access to support.
Language Justice Network — $20,000
Language Justice Network will build the foundations of its Certification Capacity Building Program, creating sustainable pathways for bilingual LGBTQIA+ forcibly displaced people to become accredited interpreters and translators. The funding will support co-designed program infrastructure, including training frameworks, supervision models, and lived-experience leadership, addressing the critical shortage of culturally competent language services and strengthening long-term access to safe, affirming interpreting across health, legal, and social systems.
Magenta — $20,000
Magenta will expand its peer-led education and advocacy program focused on inclusion for trans and gender-diverse sex workers in Western Australia. The funding will support professional development workshops for health, counselling, and community service providers, strengthening their ability to deliver gender-affirming, trauma-informed, and sex worker–inclusive care. This work reduces discrimination, improves referral pathways, and helps ensure trans and gender-diverse sex workers can access safe, respectful, and affirming support when they need it most.
New City Church — $20,000
New City Church will expand safe, affirming support for LGBTIQA+ people of faith who have experienced exclusion or harm in religious spaces. The funding will support staffing to strengthen social support groups, deliver pastoral care for members unable to travel due to illness or disability, and build networks and resources to help other faith communities become more inclusive in trauma-informed ways. This work reduces isolation, supports healing, and helps shift faith spaces toward dignity, safety, and belonging for queer people of faith.
Outloud Inc (Multicultural Peers Project) — $20,000
Outloud Inc's Multicultural Peers Project will sustain culturally safe mental health and community support for queer and trans young people from Middle Eastern, North African, South Asian, and Muslim communities in NSW. The funding will support the Multicultural Peers Project Coordinator role, which is essential to delivering group programs, community events, and crisis-responsive support. This work reduces isolation, strengthens wellbeing, and ensures queer and trans young people from multicultural and faith-based backgrounds can access support that respects their identities, culture, and lived experience.
Rainbow Mob — $16,500
Rainbow Mob will pilot a 12-month, culturally safe peer support circle for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sistagirls, Brothaboys, and LGBTIQA+ young people in the ACT. The circle will provide a regular, self-determined space for queer and trans mob to connect, receive peer support, and build mentorship in ways that are grounded in culture and community. By bringing young people and Elders together, this pilot will reduce isolation, strengthen wellbeing and belonging, and lay the groundwork for future expansion into a national, First Nations–led support model.
Sydney Queer Muslims — $20,000
Sydney Queer Muslims will deliver culturally safe support and resources for LGBTQIA+ Muslims. The project includes employment skills workshops and the creation of Australia's first Transgender Funeral Rites and Rights toolkit, developed with trans Muslims and faith leaders to ensure dignity, safety, and inclusion in faith and community settings. Alongside support groups and social events, this work strengthens connection, pride, and belonging for LGBTQIA+ Muslims.
💛 Every one of these organisations is doing vital, life-changing work. We can't wait to share more about their impact in the months ahead.
