More than half a million dollars has been awarded in the community foundation’s first three years DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com Texas Pride Impact Funds opened its latest grant cycle to organizations providing services to the LGBTQ community in Texas this month Since 2018, the fund has distributed 70 grants totaling $570,000 to about 50 organizations, according to TPIF spokesperson Ron Guillard.
The awards are annual, although last year, teaming with Equality Texas, the community foundation raised money to distribute crisis funds to smaller community organizations around the state that were most severely impacted by the pandemic shut down.