Meet PFA’s ATSSSI Advisory Committee Co-Chairs
In line with our “nothing about us without us” approach, Pride Foundation Australia is working closely with an ATSSSI advisory committee to develop and manage granting to support ATSSSI projects. The committee is made up of LGBTQIA+ ATSSSI people located all over Australia, co-chaired by Jennie Toonen and Damien Ralphs. Ms Jennie Toonen Ms […]
Language Justice Network receives $20k Large Grant from PFA
In July 2025, Pride Foundation Australia advertised our second annual large grant round of the year of $20,000 dedicated to funding projects that improve support for LGBTQIA+ Forcibly Displaced People (LFDP) seeking asylum in Australia. We are pleased to announce this large grant has been awarded to Language Justice Network for the ‘Language Justice Network […]
PFA launches 100k grant round for Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander & South Sea Islander People
Pride Foundation Australia (PFA) is proud to launch our first large grant round in our key funding area for Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and South Sea Islander people with a total funding pool of $100,000. Grants awarded in this area will be between $5,000 to $20,000, for projects aiming to support sexuality, sex and gender […]
Magenta awarded $20k in grant partnership with Pride Foundation Australia and Rainbow Giving Australia
Once again, Pride Foundation Australia (PFA) and Rainbow Giving Australia (RGA) came together at the end of 2025 to provide a partnered grant of $20,000 in RGA’s Ignite Pride grant initiative; medium-sized grants between $5k-$20k for local or place-based projects focused on specific groups or populations, with the aim to support a particular project within […]
15 projects awarded with Small Grant funding to benefit LGBTQIA+ regional and rural communities
Pride Foundation Australia are pleased to announce the recipients of our Small Grant 2025 Round 3. Our third round of Small Grants funding in 2025 aimed to prioritise projects focused on regional and rural Australian communities. A total of 51 applications were received for this round, and 15 applicants have been awarded a grant to a […]
PFA Sponsor Pride Film Fest and Attend TasPride Pride March and Picnic
Pride Foundation Australia is a sponsor of the recent TasPride Pride Film Fest, a 90 minute program of LGBTIQ+ short films curated by Queer Screen and produced by Side Quest. Side Quest is an unincorporated grass roots production team based in lutruwita/ Tasmania. Pride Film Fest was toured across 6 locations in Tasmania, with financial support from […]
$115k awarded across 7 grants to rural and regional Australian health services
Last year, Pride Foundation Australia ran one of our largest grant rounds to date, advertising a funding pool of $100,000 towards projects that are building and supporting LGBTQIA+ inclusive rural and regional health services and their partnerships to organisations with significant expertise in LGBTQIA+ health and inclusion. With so many impressive submissions, the committee decided […]
PFA Awards Monash University $25k Grant to Research LGBTQIA+ Mental Health in the Workplace
Pride Foundation Australia has awarded a $25,000 grant to Monash University’s Monash Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health (MonCOEH) towards the research project ‘Pride at Work: Understanding the mental health challenges facing LGBTQIA+ workers and identifying priorities for building inclusive workplace‘. This project will involve the design, completion, and analysis of a survey of 250-500 […]
Reflections on the Queer Displacements conference 2025
Earlier this month, Board Chair Ruth McNair AM represented Pride Foundation Australia (PFA) at the 2025 Queer Displacements conference. This was the third Queer Displacements conference, coordinated by the Forcibly Displaced People Network, held in Melbourne. This followed the first in Canberra in 2019 and second in Sydney during World Pride in 2023. This is […]
Congratulations to PFA’s Small Grant Recipients for 2025 Round 2
Pride Foundation Australia are pleased to announce the recipients of our Small Grant 2025 Round 2. A total of 10 applicants have been awarded a grant to a total of $10,000 in funding. Please join us in celebrating the following recipients and their worthy projects: Cat Hoang: All Gender Games 2025 Round Taylah Cooper: LOVERDYKE […]
PFA Sponsors 20 Scholarships to Better Together Conference 2025 for Forcibly Displaced People
For a second year, Pride Foundation Australia is sponsoring the attendance of 20 forcibly displaced people to The Equality Project’s annual Better Together Conference. The Better Together Conference explores the issues faced by LGBTQIA+ Australians from all angles, with delegates from all corners of Australia’s varied rainbow communities coming together to hold conversations, collaborate, build […]
Inclusive Rainbow Voices receives second $20,000 grant to continue National LGBTIQA+ Disability Network
Launched in 2023, Inclusive Rainbow Voices (IRV) represents and advocates for the human rights of all LGBTIQA+ people with disability. In 2024, Inclusive Rainbow Voices was granted with a PFA Large Grant of $20,000 to form a National LGBTIQA+ Disability Network, the members of which includes Australia’s leading researchers, advocates, and policymakers focused on LGBTIQA+ […]
