Community Grants and Funding Opportunities

Through its Environment program, the Foundation is committed to investing in efforts to better manage our natural resources and preserve threatened biodiversity and ecosystems in the face of challenges such as land degradation, limited water resources, invasive species, and climate change.

The Foundation is interested in applications that are strategically important, nationally significant, and highly collaborative. This funding area considers large grants ($100,000+ and multi-year) for environmental conservation work taking place within Australia and across multiple areas including land, freshwater, marine, and coastal.

The Foundation will prioritise projects:

• that are forward-looking, adaptive and prioritise landscape and ecosystem resilience in the face of climate change.
• that work at a landscape/ecosystem scale, with a focus on connectivity to ensure ecosystem functionality.
• that focus on places of High Biodiversity Value, rare or threatened ecosystems, or those with high concentrations of threatened species.
• that engage strongly with communities and/or utilise citizen science to maximise community participation, voice and agency.
• that ensure First Nations engagement is best practice, and Indigenous knowledge is sought and incorporated as appropriate.
• have a strong, scientific evidence base and partnerships with appropriate experts.
• that can be scaled and replicated or adapted for broad application.
• that can leverage further resources, influence policy improvements, or assist governments to meet Australia’s international climate or nature obligations.

The Australian Government is inviting organisations through an open competitive process to apply to deliver services under the Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship Program over 12 months from 2025–2026.

The Critical Support for Multicultural Communities - Independent Multicultural Media – transformation and sustainability grant opportunity provides total funding of $10.0 million (GST exclusive) with funding allocated based on organisation size. The maximum funding amount for consortia will be based on the total combined number of employees within the consortium.

The objectives of the grant opportunity are to:

• build capacity to help strengthen and increase resilience of Australia’s independent multicultural media outlets
• support activities and projects that increase the sustainability of Australia’s independent multicultural media outlets to continue delivering media content
• assist with the delivery of media content that facilitates constructive collaboration, builds trust and strengthens social cohesion, while increasing tolerance and understanding between individuals and groups in Australia.

The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are for Australian independent multicultural media outlets to:

• increase capacity to operate and deliver multicultural media to their communities
• transition to sustainable new media and business practices to enhance survival and longevity
• create new and improved independent multicultural media offerings across Australia, including digital and online.

To be eligible, you must have an:

• Australian Business Number (ABN)
• account with an Australian financial institution

and be one of the following entity types:

• Company
• Cooperative
• Incorporated Association
• Sole Trader
• Statutory Entity.

If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust , the Trustee must be one of the eligible entity types as listed above.

The Royal Agricultural Society Foundation (RASF) is offering opportunities for community-minded people to be awarded  funding for community projects in their local area.

Previously funding has gone to projects including air-conditioning in the local hall to portable yard panels for the showground or a pop-up gazebo, satisfying community needs and benefiting many.

The RASF invites ideas that deliver strong community benefits and result in enhanced economic and social outcomes for your community. Projects that involve collaboration between people in your town and deliver sustained and broad community benefits will be highly regarded. Applicants will be passionate about rural and regional NSW and have a good understanding of any issues affecting their community.

Infrastructure for local showgrounds and Show Societies are eligible. The improvements must demonstrate that they go beyond benefiting just the local Show Society in running the local Show. They must enable broader use by other community groups to run on-going projects or programs.

While the criteria for this program are broad, the RASF does not fund wages, consultant’s fees, one-off events, operational and administration costs, travel or accommodation

This grant opportunity is part of the DonateLife national program to encourage Australians to talk about organ and tissue donation, register on the Australian Organ Donor Register (AODR), and tell their families they want to be a donor. 

The following Grant opportunities are available:

    1.  For DonateLife Week 2026 events or activities.

    2.  For national marketing or public relations strategies.  

The grant opportunity has been designed in accordance to the Commonwealth Grants Rules and Guidelines (CGRGs).

The objective of the Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants program is to fund the costs of construction, alteration, renovation, completion and fit-out of buildings and community infrastructure to deliver outcomes for disadvantaged NSW communities including regional, remote and drought-affected areas, culturally and linguistically diverse, disability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and disaster-affected communities. 

This grant is one of four Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants administered by the Office of Responsible Gambling.

You can apply for funding under this stream if your project supports infrastructure such as:

• Cultural maintenance (e.g. Aboriginal keeping place, language centres)
• Film (e.g. cinema, production studios)
• Performing arts (e.g. theatre, performing arts centre, rehearsal and studios)
• Music (e.g. conservatorium, concert hall)
• Historical, nature or science collections (e.g. museum, war memorial, botanic gardens)
• Visual arts and craft (e.g. exhibition or gallery space)
• Literature and writing (e.g. library, writer’s centre)
• Community (e.g. multipurpose hall) 

Who can apply

• Not-for-profit organisations that will be responsible for operating and/or maintaining the infrastructure.
• Schools - applicants must consider if and how the infrastructure project is accessible to the public outside school hours.
• Local councils - applicants are required to cash-match the funding amount requested.

The objective of the Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants program is to fund the costs of construction, alteration, renovation, completion and fit-out of buildings and community infrastructure to deliver outcomes for disadvantaged NSW communities including regional, remote and drought-affected areas, culturally and linguistically diverse, disability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and disaster-affected communities.

This grant is one of four Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants administered by the Office of Responsible Gambling.

You can apply for funding under this stream if your project supports infrastructure such as:

• Capital equipment
• Evacuation centre
• Management centre
• Training centre
• Intervention style disaster readiness
• Multi-purpose community facility
• Drought related infrastructure.

Who can apply

• Not-for-profit organisations that will be responsible for operating and/or maintaining the infrastructure.
• Schools - applicants must consider if and how the infrastructure project is accessible to the public outside school hours.
• Local councils - applicants are required to cash-match the funding amount requested.

The objective of the Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants program is to fund the costs of construction, alteration, renovation, completion and fit-out of buildings and community infrastructure to deliver outcomes for disadvantaged NSW communities including regional, remote and drought-affected areas, culturally and linguistically diverse, disability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and disaster-affected communities. 

This grant is one of four Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants administered by the Office of Responsible Gambling.

You can apply for funding under this stream if your project supports infrastructure such as:

• Indoor organised sports centre (e.g. indoor cricket, basketball)
• Leisure centre (e.g. martial arts dojo, gymnastics centre)
• Outdoor organised sports facility (e.g. football field, netball courts)
• Recreation space (e.g. playground, skate-park)
• Large-scale purpose-built facility (e.g. stadium, velodrome, motorsports facility)
• Water sports (e.g swimming pool).

Who can apply

• Not-for-profit organisations that will be responsible for operating and/or maintaining the infrastructure.
• Schools - applicants must consider if and how the infrastructure project is accessible to the public outside school hours.
• Local councils - applicants are required to cash-match the funding amount requested.

The objective of the Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants program is to fund the costs of construction, alteration, renovation, completion and fit-out of buildings and community infrastructure to deliver outcomes for disadvantaged NSW communities including regional, remote and drought-affected areas, culturally and linguistically diverse, disability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and disaster-affected communities. 

This grant is one of four Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants administered by the Office of Responsible Gambling.

You can apply for funding under this stream if your project supports infrastructure such as:

• Multipurpose community service or hub
• Service for a CALD community
• Service for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community
• Service for homeless people
• Service for older people
• Service for people experiencing domestic violence
• Service for people with disability
• Service for young people
• Service for women.

Who can apply

• Not-for-profit organisations that will be responsible for operating and/or maintaining the infrastructure.
• Schools - applicants must consider if and how the infrastructure project is accessible to the public outside school hours.
• Local councils - applicants are required to cash-match the funding amount requested.

The Australian Government is inviting First Nations businesses, organisations or consortia (with a First Nations lead) via a restricted (by eligibility) process, as outlined in sections 4.1 and 10.4 of the Grant Opportunity Guidelines, to apply to deliver services under the Future Drought Fund’s First Nations Initiatives program.

The Strengthening Drought Resilience on Country Program grant opportunity supports the Australian Government’s commitment to building drought and climate resilience in partnership with First Nations peoples. It will run from 2025–26 to 2027–28, with $12 million (GST exclusive) available to support up to six First Nations businesses and organisations, as Delivery Partners.

As a devolved grant program, Delivery Partners will, with communities, undertake a co-design process to identify place-based, community-led projects (such as, local priority activities within the grant project) that build drought and climate resilience. Delivery Partners will manage grants and support the rollout of these activities. These initiatives aim to strengthen connection to Country and build resilience to dry times and climate impacts.  While Delivery Partners won’t directly run the place-based, community-led projects, they will play a vital role in enabling and supporting the communities in their successful delivery.

Up to $1 million in administrative funding will be available to Delivery Partners, to manage the grant, plus up to $1 million in project funding to be distributed to selected sub-grantees (that they have identified) to deliver the co-designed place-based, community-led projects.

To be eligible as a Delivery Partner, you must be one of the following entity types:

• Company
• Cooperative
• Corporate Commonwealth Entity
• Corporate State or Territory Entity
• Incorporated Association
• Indigenous Corporation
• Local Government
• Non-corporate Commonwealth Statutory Authority
• Non-corporate State or Territory Entity
• Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority
• Statutory Entity.

If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust, the Trustee must be an eligible entity type as listed above.

You must also have an account with an Australian financial institution that is set up for the purpose of grant funding.

This grant opportunity will provide funding to organisations involved in, or supporting, language education to develop initiatives that will help more students, regardless of their background, become fluent in Asian languages through to years 11 and 12.

The objectives of the grant opportunity are to:

• support Australian secondary students (Years 7 to 12) to build fluency in an Asian language
• enhance Asian cultural and language literacy to take advantage of economic opportunities in Australia’s region
• enable the participation of young Australians in a broader range of jobs in an economy closely integrated into a global market of diverse trading partners.

The intended outcomes of the grant opportunity are to:

• increase the number of Australian students learning an Asian language through community language school education
• increase the number of Australian students maintaining their Asian language learning during secondary schooling years (years 7 to 12) to build fluency in the Asian language
• build the capability and capacity of community language schools by strengthening their operational structures, so they can support Australian students study an Asian language through to year 12.

Eligible Asian languages and priority Asian languages for this grant opportunity are outlined in Appendix A of the Grant Opportunity Guidelines.

Projects must benefit the wider community language school community or sector.

The Community Languages Schools Grants Program - Extension Round forms part of Program 2.5 Multicultural and Citizenship, within Outcome 2 of the Department of Home Affairs Portfolio Budget Statement. A total of $2.42 million (GST exclusive) is available for the grant opportunity, which will run over 4 years from 2025–26 to 2028–29. It will help contribute to the Australian Government’s strengths-based approach to building on Australia’s multicultural success.

• Outcome 2: Support a united and prosperous Australia through effective coordination and delivery of immigration and citizenship policy and programs underpinned by robust integrity and assurance.
• Program 2.5: Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship: To support a prosperous and inclusive society through the promotion, delivery and effective management of the Australian multicultural and citizenship programs.

This grant opportunity is an extension of the previous Community Language Schools Grants Program which commenced in 2023–24. It is open to community language schools (CLS) which have not received funding under the previous program. CLS funded through the previous program are not eligible for this grant opportunity.

The objectives of the grant opportunity are to:

• strengthen the social inclusion and prosperity of Australia’s successful multicultural society by supporting more young Australians to acquire a second language
• connect young Australians to the languages of their parents, grandparents and broader communities
• enable the participation of young Australians in a broader range of jobs in an economy closely integrated into a global market of diverse trading partners.

The grant opportunity consists of 3 tiers and a supplementary payment option eligible CLS can apply for. The maximum grant amount is expected to be $34,342 (GST exclusive), depending on the number of successful applicants, and approved funding tiers and supplementary payments.

Eligibility:

To be eligible you must be a CLS operating in Australia.

You must be one of the following legal entity types to apply for the program:

• Company
• Cooperative
• Incorporated Association
• Indigenous Corporation
• Statutory Entity.

If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust, the Trustee must have an eligible entity type as listed above.

The Australian Government recognises the current bottlenecks in the psychology training pipeline and the impacts this has on workforce availability and service delivery. Strategies are needed to reduce attrition between the number of students commencing undergraduate psychology studies and those going on to practice. The grant program will support provisional psychologists to practice by increasing the availability of internships.

This grant opportunity was announced as part of the Australian Government’s election commitment to provide funding for an additional 1,500 one-year internships for provisional psychologists in the ‘5+1 training pathway’ – a pathway to general registration which involves a five-year sequence of accredited study (e.g. Master of Professional Psychology) followed by a one-year internship. This pathway is hindered by a lack of supervised internships available and the cost of these internships to interns, supervisors, and practices. Funding will be available in 2026-27 and is anticipated to support approximately 500 internships each year until 2028-29.

To be eligible you must be one of the following entity types:

• Indigenous Corporation (registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006)
• Company 
• Corporate Commonwealth Entity
• Non-Corporate Commonwealth Statutory Authority 
• Corporate State or Territory Entity 
• Non-corporate State or Territory Entity 
• Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority
• Local Government
• Cooperative
• Incorporated Association
• Sole Trader 
• Statutory Entity 
• Partnership
• Person, or
• Unincorporated Association.

If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust, the Trustee must have an eligible entity type as listed above.

Applications from consortia are acceptable, providing there is a lead organisation that is solely accountable to the Commonwealth for the delivery of grant activities and is an eligible entity as per the list above. Only the lead organisation can submit the application form and enter into a grant agreement with the Commonwealth. Eligible organisations can form a consortium with ineligible organisations, with the exception of those organisations deemed ineligible because they are included on the National Redress Scheme’s website on the list of ‘Institutions that have not joined or signified their intent to join the Scheme’.

The aim of this scheme is to support PCFA’s mission and strengthen the activities of Prostate Cancer Support Groups in their local areas.

The funding can be used for one or all three specific purposes:

1. Community events that create prostate cancer awareness, promote the presence of your support group in the community, or involve fundraising,
2. Awareness-building activities that inform and educate the community about Prostate Cancer e.g. utilising our Life Force Presentation,
3. Essential marketing items banners, business cards, branded tablecloths that help promote your group and affiliation with PCFA.

Under the Indigenous Advancement Strategy, the National Indigenous Australians Agency considers grant proposals that address a need for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Proposals should be developed with the target community or group who will be impacted by the activity.

This funding approach can be used to present a proposal to the Agency where a need has been identified in the community and there are no other current funding avenues available. You must discuss your proposal with the Agency. The Agency may then invite you to submit an application.

Applicants can apply for funding for activities for up to 12 months or over multiple years. There is no maximum grant amount available to applicants. The Agency will consider value with relevant money and availability of funds to meet priorities in offering a grant amount.

Participation Grants (previously known as CEO Grants) provide up to $15,000 to enable residential or small business consumer advocacy by participation in current or forthcoming government, regulatory, or industry decision-making processes, or for small, targeted research projects.

They will support and accommodate advocates engagement and decision making in:

• government;
• regulatory and policy reviews; and
• the energy sector as a whole.

Examples of activities that may be funded include:

• engaging a consultant to provide technical or specialist expertise for a submission;
• undertaking research;
• undertaking workshops; and
• funding for reasonable travel costs (flights, accommodation, transfers) to engage in government, regulatory and industry forums relating to that process, and where video conferencing is not provided.

The Gordon Darling Foundation is a perpetual public charitable trust, established in 1991 to "support Australia-wide, activities of importance in the Visual Arts."

The Foundation can only provide funding to Public Institutions in Australia. Applicant organisations must have Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status. Individuals wishing to apply for funding for projects must partner with a Public Institution which then takes on responsibility for the project.

Funding may be provided for:

• catalogues and publications:
  • that are scholarly, with well-researched new information.
  • that provide a permanent record of an exhibition, collection, or work of an artist or movement.
• professional education initiatives, including individual professional development.
• collection management initiatives, including database development, digitisation and conservation.
• research projects leading to the recognition and publication of material of significance.
• internationally known speakers for symposia.

This grant opportunity provides flexible funding to support service delivery for Support at Home providers operating in thin markets. Specifically, those Support at Home providers that are currently delivering:

a) services to older people in rural and remote areas of Australia, classified as Modified Monash (MM) areas 3 to 7; and/or

b) specialist services to older people in the cohorts included in the Specialisation Verification for Aged Care Framework. 

The intended objective is to:

• provide flexible funding to meet appropriate business expenses, to enable providers in thin markets with high costs to set reasonable prices for Support at Home services. 

The intended outcomes are:

• to support older people in thin markets to access Support at Home services at a reasonable price within their quarterly budget 
• to support older people in thin markets to access high quality Support at Home services, consistent with the Statement of Rights and Statement of Principles in the Aged Care Act 2024, regardless of location, background or life experiences, and
• for providers, to improve the financial viability of delivering high quality Support at Home services in thin markets to support service availability.

For the purposes of this grant program, a thin market is a market where there is a gap between the aged care needs of older people and services available. This can occur in specific locations or for specific services or cohorts of people.  

Eligibility:

This program is for aged care providers that deliver Support at Home services.

You must meet at least one of the following criteria:

a) Geographic eligibility

As a provider, you deliver Support at Home services to older people in Modified Monash (MM) areas 3, 4, 5, 6 or 7 at the time of application.

If you are applying based on geographic location, you do not need Specialisation Verification for people who live in rural, remote or very remote areas. Your location will be used to determine eligibility.

b) Specialised service delivery eligibility

You provide specialised Support at Home services to older people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, in any geographic location, at the time of application. You can demonstrate this by meeting at least one of the following criteria:

i) Participant Composition

At least 25% of your organisation’s total Support at Home participants are Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.

If you are applying based on participant composition, you do not need Specialisation Verification in delivering services to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities.

ii) Specialisation Verification

You operate service outlets with a Specialisation Verification for aged care services. For this grant opportunity, this includes:

o A current approved Specialisation Verification at the date of grant application; and/or

o A new application for Specialisation Verification that has been submitted, prior to or as at the date of your grant application and is pending an outcome decision.  

Refer to section 4 of the published Grant Opportunity Guidelines for full eligibility criteria details for this grant opportunity. 

The Community Safety Investment Fund will provide opportunities for community organisations to design and deliver locally focused, community led solutions to prevent or respond to youth offending, strengthen families and improve community safety.

Programs and initiatives will contribute to the achievement of objectives:

• Deliver holistic responses that address the underlying needs and risks that contribute to young people’s involvement with the justice system and improve their outcomes.
• Deliver culturally responsive initiatives that build long-term resilience and protective factors, increase connection to culture and improving social and emotional wellbeing for young people and families.
• Deliver programs and initiatives that empower young people and their families to achieve change in the young person's behaviour and safety.
• Support young people and families to re-engage with education, training, or employment.
• Increase community safety through tailored initiatives for high-risk youth.
• Whole of community initiatives that engage young people in pro-social activities
• Particular interest in grant applications that align with and help achieve the NSW Government’s Closing the Gap priorities, including: Target 11: to reduce the overrepresentation of Aboriginal young people in the criminal justice system, so that by 2031, the rate of Aboriginal young people (10-17 years) in detention is reduced by 30 per cent.

Who can apply

All applicants are required to meet the following eligibility criteria:

• be able to enter into a grant funding agreement with Department of Communities and Justice
• have an Australian bank account
• have an Australian Business Number (ABN)
• have appropriate insurance; this must include but is not limited to a minimum of $10 million Public Liability Insurance
• address the NSW National Redress Scheme sanctions (included in this template)
• be a registered Australian business, or a not-for-profit Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation (ACCO), or other incorporated organisation;

Incorporated organisation registered and approved as a not-for-profit body by NSW Fair Trading will be considered eligible, if they are:

• incorporated organisations that are registered and approved as not-for-profit bodies by NSW Fair Trading.
• Not-for profit companies limited by guarantee, registered in NSW (must have ACNC registration and/or DGR status)
• Indigenous Corporations (must be registered with the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations)
• NSW Local Aboriginal Land Councils
• religious organisations operating in NSW
• NSW non-government organisations established under their own Act of Parliament.
• a not-for-profit non-Aboriginal organisation partnering with a lead ACCO or Aboriginal business.

Types of projects funded under this grant

Initiatives that:

• address the underlying risks and needs that contribute to young people’s involvement with the justice system
• empower young people and their families to achieve change in the young person's behaviour and safety
• are culturally responsive and build long-term resilience and protective factors, increase connection to culture and improving social and emotional wellbeing for young people and families
• support young people and families to re-engage with education, training, or employment and pro-social activities
• increase community safety through tailored initiatives for high-risk youth.

The purpose of this grant opportunity is to provide funding to eligible conference organisers to assist people with disability to participate in nationally focused, disability-related, conferences held in Australia. Funding may also support eligible conference organisers to provide accessibility measures that will maximise the inclusion and participation of people with disability at their conference. The grant opportunity aims to support organisations, especially those run by and for people with disability and/or their families, which have limited resources to implement accessibility measures at their conference.

The NDCI is a long-standing annual competitive grant round which supports disability conference organisers to maximise the inclusion of people with disability at their conferences.

The objectives of the program are:

• to support the vision of Australia’s Disability Strategy 2021-2031 (ADS) for an inclusive Australian society that ensures people with disability can fulfil their potential, as equal members of the community
• to support organisations, especially those run by and for people with disability and/or their families, which have limited resources/finances to implement accessibility measures for their conference.

The Indigenous Centre of Vocational Excellence (ICOVE) is an initiative of the Commonwealth Government to develop a First Nations-led VET model that supports better skills, employment and economic outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, as committed to under the National Skills Agreement and National Agreement on Closing the Gap.

The ICOVE will be a national, evidence-informed best practice VET hub and will also function as an alternative to a First Nations skills peak.

The ICOVE will be built on 4 pillars aligned with the 4 Closing the Gap Priority Reforms:

• innovation
• capacity building
• policy and advocacy
• research and data.

The ICOVE will be led by an ACC or FNO RTO (or consortia) to foster a community governance model based on the principles of self-determination.

To be eligible, you must be one of the following entity types:

• Company
• Cooperative
• Incorporated Association
• Indigenous Corporation.

If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust , the Trustee must be one of the eligible entity type as listed above.