Community Funding Opportunities and Award Programs - February 2025

Welcome to our Community Funding Opportunities and Awards Program Newsletter where you will find details of grant and funding programs that are available for the Northern Inland Region for community based projects and social enterprises.

Due to the number of grants that are available, we send two funding opportunities newsletters a month; one for Business and Infrastructure and another for Community Projects and Award Programs. These newsletters are a free service that we provide, and can you can add the Business and Infrastructure Grants newsletter to your subscriptions by filling your details into the subscription form in the footer of our website: www.rdani.org.au

We wish you all the best with the Funding Opportunities below and if you are looking for a grant between newsletters, have a look at the grants area of our website which is updated weekly: www.rdani.org.au/our-region/grants-and-funding-opportunities.php

If you need some facts and figures for your applications, a range of data for our region is also available on our website here: www.rdani.org.au/our-region/regional-data.php

Please note the below information is intended as a guide only. Closing dates and other details should be verified using the links provided as they are subject to change by the providers without notice.

Featured Grants

Indigenous Apprenticeships Program
Closes: 2nd of March 2025 (Ongoing Program)
Run By: Services Australia

Since its inception, the Indigenous Apprenticeships Program (IAP) has given over 2100 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people opportunities to start a career in the Australian Public Service (APS).

It's a great way for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people to make a difference in the lives of Australians, and is open to a diverse range of people, including people leaving school, finishing study or looking for a new career.

Participants gain valuable skills and experience throughout the program, working alongside dedicated people and teams.

This program consists of:

• Full-time work and study: Gain valuable experience while working and studying towards a formal qualification. 
• Variety of roles: Work in different positions depending on your placement agency. 
• Training and development: Access structured training to help you build your skills. 
• Support throughout: Benefit from support provided by your Indigenous mentor, buddy, and study resources to ensure your success. 

Applications for 2025 are now open, and close on Sunday 2nd of March 2025.

 

At Home Care Grants - 2025 - Round 1
Closes: 19th of March 2025
Value: Up to $10,000
Run By: Youngcare

Youngcare’s At Home Care Grants (AHCG) provide funding for equipment, home modifications and essential support that is unable to be funded through other means (eg. NDIS). This funding is to both enhance the quality of life for young people with high physical care needs and assist them to remain living in their own home with loved ones.

The grants provide one-off funding of up to $10,000 to help those aged 16-65 with high physical care needs who are living at home, and are at risk of entering inappropriate housing.

 

Building Early Learning Places Program
Closes: 30th of March 2025
Value: Variable from a total Program budget of $20 million
Run By: NSW Government Department of Education

The Building Early Learning Places Program aims to help not-for-profit providers in the early childhood education and care sector create more spaces for children aged 0 to 6 for communities with the greatest immediate need.

The program’s overarching objectives are to:

• Support the accessibility and affordability of ECEC, by assisting not-for-profit community preschools and long day care centres to deliver additional ECEC places through capital works.
• Increase the number of ECEC places through these capital works projects, leading to accessible, inclusive, and culturally safe environments that attract enrolments from children with disability, children with additional needs, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and culturally and linguistically diverse children.
• Generate insights, evidence and lessons learned to guide future capital initiatives that may be delivered by the Fund Board in the years to come.

 

Tertiary Access Payment
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Up to $5,000
Run By: Services Australia

The Tertiary Access Payment (TAP) is a one off payment of up to $5,000 to help eligible students from a regional or remote area who have completed year 12 or equivalent and are moving away from home to study at a tertiary education provider.

If you finished school in 2024 and meet the eligibility rules, you can claim TAP at any time between 1 January and 31 December 2025. If it’s been more than 12 months since you finished school, then you can’t claim right now as they are updating their system to handle these claims, but they expect this to be available by mid to late June 2025.

Award Programs

The Les Murray Award
Closes: 28th of February 2025
Value: Up to $10,000
Run By: Australia for UNHCR
Recognises and celebrates the contribution of refugees who are shining a light on the situation of forcibly displaced people.

2025 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
Closes: 2nd of March 2025
Value: Up to $100,000
Run By: Telstra
Celebrating the validity and cultural diversity of contemporary Indigenous artistic expression in all its forms.

The National Trust Heritage Awards
Closes: 5th of March 2025
Run By: Heritage NSW
Celebration of outstanding practice in the field of heritage, recognising excellence in the conservation, protection, and interpretation of Aboriginal, built, natural and cultural heritage over the past year.

NSW Training Awards - 2025 - Individual Awards
Closes: 14th of March 2025 - 5:00 pm
Run By: NSW Government Department of Education
Recognising outstanding achievement in the vocational education and training (VET) sector in NSW.

The Prime Minister's Prizes for Science – Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Knowledge Systems Prize
Closes: 18th of March 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: Up to $250,000
Run By: Australian Government Department of Industry, Science and Resources
Honouring Indigenous-led projects that benefit Australian Indigenous peoples, communities or place through the practice and preservation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge systems.

General Jeffery Soil Health Award - 2025
Closes: 31st of March 2025
Value: Up to $20,000
Run By: Landcare
Recognises the work of people who care for soil health and who are educating or inspiring others.

iAwards - 2025
Closes: 4th of April 2025 - 5:00 pm
Run By: Australian Information Industry Association
Recognising innovators across Australia, including individuals, groups, governments, private organisations, and students.

Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards - 2025
Closes: 2nd of May 2025 - 5:00 pm
Run By: Australian Institute of Criminology
Recognising programs that reduce crime and violence that may address specific groups such as rural and remote communities, women, children, youth, family, migrant, ethnic or Indigenous communities, or specific problems such as alcohol-related violence.

NSW Training Awards - 2025 - Organisation Awards
Closes: 2nd of May 2025 - 5:00 pm
Run By: NSW Government Department of Education
Recognising outstanding achievement in the vocational education and training (VET) sector in NSW.

Closing in February

Care Leavers, Stolen Generations and First Nations Forgotten Australians Aged Care Awareness and Education Campaign
Closes: 24th of February 2025 - 2:00 pm
Value: Up to $250,000
Run By: Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
Funding to develop and deliver awareness and education campaigns about Care Leavers, Stolen Generations survivors and First Nations Forgotten Australians to aged care providers.

Support At Home and new Aged Care Act Transition Support 2024-2025
Closes: 25th of February 2025 - 2:00 pm
Value: Up to $10,000
Run By: Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
One-off funding for HCP and CHSP providers towards the cost of IT system upgrades to meet the obligations under SaH, the CHSP and the Aged Care Act 2024.

Native Title Anthropologist Grant Program 2025-2028
Closes: 25th of February 2025 - 9:00 pm
Run By: Attorney-General's Department
Increase native title anthropology capacity by supporting anthropologists planning to work or already working in the native title system.

Community Health Grants - 2025 - Round 1
Closes: 28th of February 2025
Run By: James Frizelle Charitable Foundation
A range of grants that supports projects to help those who have fallen on hard times and can no longer speak for themselves.

Disadvantaged Grants - 2025 - Round 1
Closes: 28th of February 2025
Run By: James Frizelle Charitable Foundation
A range of grants that supports projects to help those who have fallen on hard times and can no longer speak for themselves.

Domestic Violence Grants - 2025 - Round 1
Closes: 28th of February 2025
Run By: James Frizelle Charitable Foundation
A range of grants that supports projects to help those who have fallen on hard times and can no longer speak for themselves.

Homelessness Grants - 2025 - Round 1
Closes: 28th of February 2025
Run By: James Frizelle Charitable Foundation
A range of grants that supports projects to help those who have fallen on hard times and can no longer speak for themselves.

Housing and Accommodation - 2025 - Round 1
Closes: 28th of February 2025
Run By: James Frizelle Charitable Foundation
A range of grants that supports projects to help those who have fallen on hard times and can no longer speak for themselves.

James N Kirby Foundation Small Grants - 2025
Closes: 28th of February 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: Up to $15,000
Run By: James N Kirby Foundation
Provides grants that impact not only towards the future educational and technical development of young Australians, but also on the health and welfare of many Australians in need as well as The Arts and The Environment.

Mental Health Grants - 2025 - Round 1
Closes: 28th of February 2025
Run By: James Frizelle Charitable Foundation
A range of grants that supports projects to help those who have fallen on hard times and can no longer speak for themselves.

Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) First Nations – Delivery Grant Opportunity - Round 2
Closes: 28th of February 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: $350,000 to $3 Million
Run By: Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
Funding English LLND skills training to First Nations people across Australia.

Closing March

Create Grants for Individuals
Closes: 3rd of March 2025 - 1:00 pm
Value: Up to $20,000
Run By: Copyright Agency
Support individuals working in the broader Australian publishing industry with opportunities for career development.

Content - Round 1 - 2025/26
Closes: 4th of March 2025 - 2:00 pm
Run By: Community Broadcasting Foundation
Supporting the increase and diversity of voices heard in Australian media by supporting the creation of compelling content.

Development & Operations Grants - Round 1 - 2025/26
Closes: 4th of March 2025 - 2:00 pm
Run By: Community Broadcasting Foundation
Supporting a resilient, thriving community media sector that reflects, amplifies and enriches the ever-evolving communities of Australia.

Specialist Radio Program - Round 1 - 2025/26
Closes: 4th of March 2025 - 2:00 pm
Run By: Community Broadcasting Foundation
Encouraging stations to carry specialist radio programming.

Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups - 2025
Closes: 4th of March 2025 - 3:00 pm
Value: $10,000 to $50,000
Run By: Creative Australia
Funding a range of activities that deliver benefits to the arts sector and wider public.

Arts Projects for Organisations - 2025
Closes: 4th of March 2025 - 3:00 pm
Value: $20,000 to $100,000
Run By: Creative Australia
Deliver benefits to the arts sector and wider public, including national and international audiences and communities.

Playing Australia Project Investment
Closes: 4th of March 2025 - 3:00 pm
Run By: Creative Australia
Supporting performing arts tours to reach regional and remote communities across Australia.

Community Financial Assistance Grants - Round 2
Closes: 4th of March 2025
Value: Up to $5,000 per application
Run By: Narrabri Shire Council
Funding to assist the Narrabri community’s development, provide funding for capacity-building events, projects, programs, and activities that benefit the people and the Shire.

Inclusion and Accessibility Fund: Australia's Disability Strategy (ADS) – Community Attitudes
Closes: 6th of March 2025 - 9:00 pm
Value: $50,000 to $300,000
Run By: Australian Government Department of Social Services
Funding projects proposed by Disability Representative Organisations (DROs) and Disabled People’s Organisations (DPOs) that focus on reducing harm towards, and increasing inclusion of, people with disability.

National Shed Development Programme - Round 29
Closes: 7th of March 2025 (Cat 1-4 close 21st of February 2025)
Value: Up to $12,250
Run By: Australian Men's Shed Association
Supporting Men’s Sheds and organisations supporting a Men’s Shed to better respond to the needs of the members and their local community.

Sporting Schools - 2025 - Term 2
Closes: 7th of March 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: $1,000 to $4,150
Run By: Australian Sports Commission
Supports the delivery of sport-based programs to help students build the confidence and capability to be active for life.

Aboriginal Languages Growth Program 2025
Closes: 9th of March 2025
Value: $30,000 to $90,000
Run By: Aboriginal Languages Trust
Supporting eligible Organisations, groups and sole traders to undertake practical and meaningful Language projects which involve the deep transmission of Aboriginal Languages and have a broader Community impact.

Aboriginal Languages Revival Program 2025
Closes: 9th of March 2025
Value: $1,000 to $30,000
Run By: Aboriginal Languages Trust
Funding to eligible Aboriginal Community organisations, groups and individuals, to support them to commence or build on smaller scale Languages projects/activities.

Contemporary Music Development Grants - First Nations Industry Development
Closes: 10th of March 2025 - 2:00 pm
Value: Up to $150,000
Run By: Create NSW
Funding for First Nations NSW led music businesses and organisations with a track record of delivering significant outcomes for First Nations contemporary music in NSW.

Volunteer Grants - 2024–25 Round
Opens: 26th of February 2025
Closes: 12th of March 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: $1,000 to $5,000
Run By: Australian Government Department of Social Services
Funding to assist eligible not-for-profit community organisations that rely on volunteers.

Youth Development Scholarships
Closes: 14th of March 2025
Value: Up to $1,000
Run By: NSW Government Communities and Justice
Scholarships to help students enrolled in education or training in 2025 with school expenses and secondary support services.

Creative Industries - Connectivity
Closes: 17th of March 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: $30,000 to $50,000
Run By: Create NSW
Funding for new collaborative opportunities between the arts and cultural sector and the creative industries.

Regional Arts Touring - Round 2 - 24/25
Closes: 17th of March 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: $5,000 to $120,000
Run By: Create NSW
Funding for individual artists, arts and cultural workers, and organisations who are touring arts and cultural work across regional NSW.

Festivals Australia Round 20
Closes: 18th of March 2025 - 11:30 pm
Run By: Australian Government Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts
Funding to support individual art projects in regional or remote locations.

At Home Care Grants - 2025 - Round 1
Closes: 19th of March 2025
Value: Up to $10,000
Run By: Youngcare
Funding for equipment, home modifications and essential support that is unable to be funded through other means to assist youth to live in their own home with loved ones.

The Waratah Education Public Ancillary Fund
Closes: 20th of March 2025
Value: $10,000 to $20,000
Run By: Waratah Education Foundation
Funding for organisations providing front line support to disadvantaged youth in Australia.

Aboriginal Affairs NSW 2024-2025 Cultural Grants Program
Closes: 21st of March 2025 - 4:00 pm
Value: $500 to $20,000
Run By: Aboriginal Affairs NSW
Support Aboriginal community organisations and groups across NSW to celebrate Aboriginal culture and hold cultural events and activities.

Strengthening Rural Communities - Small & Vital - Round 24
Closes: 27th of March 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: Up to $10,000
Run By: Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal
Funding small remote, rural and regional communities across Australia for a broad range of initiatives that directly and clearly benefit local communities.

Strengthening Rural Communities – Prepare & Recover - Round 24
Closes: 27th of March 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: Up to $25,000
Run By: Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal
Supports communities in remote, rural and regional communities across Australia to implement initiatives that prevent and prepare for future climate related impacts, or recover from existing disasters in the medium to long-term timeframe.

Natural Disaster Grants - 2025 - Round 1
Closes: 28th of March 2025
Run By: James Frizelle Charitable Foundation
A range of grants that supports projects to help those who have fallen on hard times and can no longer speak for themselves.

Stronger Communities Programme Round 9
Closes: 28th of March 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: $2,500 to $20,000
Run By: Australian Government Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts
Funding for community projects to strengthen and benefit local communities.

Building Early Learning Places Program
Closes: 30th of March 2025
Value: Variable from a total Program budget of $20 million
Run By: NSW Government Department of Education
Help not-for-profit providers in the early childhood education and care sector create more spaces for children aged 0 to 6 for communities with the greatest immediate need.

Essential Grants
Closes: 31st of March 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: Up to $15,000
Run By: Essential Energy
Supporting community groups contributing to positive outcomes for regional communities. 

ETREA Foundation Grants - 2025 - Round 1
Closes: 31st of March 2025
Value: $2,000 to $10,000
Run By: ETREA Foundation
Supporting and teaching those in need the tools and skills to rebuild their lives and achieve personal fulfilment.

Closing April

Disaster Ready Fund - Round Three (2025-26)
Closes: 2nd of April 2025 - 5:00 pm
Run By: National Emergency Management Agency
Increase the understanding, resilience, and/or preparedness of governments, community service organisations and communities to future natural disasters.

Social Justice Small Grants 2025
Closes: 4th of April 2025
Value: $1,000 to $10,000
Run By: Mercy Foundation
Funding to assist communities and organisations to build capacity that will help create structural change and bring about greater social justice in Australia.

Small Grants - 2025 - Round 1
Closes: 6th of April 2025
Value: Up to $2,000
Run By: Museums and Galleries NSW
Funding for short-term, collection-based requirements of community museums and Aboriginal cultural spaces.

Screenrights Cultural Fund
Closes: 9th of April 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: Up to $50,000
Run By: Screenrights
Supporting people with exciting and innovative new initiatives that foster the creation and appreciation of screen content in Australia and New Zealand.

Cultural Fund Grants for Organisations - Round 1 - 2025
Closes: 14th of April 2025 - 1:00 pm
Value: $10,000 to $30,000 per project
Run By: Copyright Agency
Funding to create and deliver exceptional opportunities for Australian writers, journalists, editors, publishers, English and literacy teachers, and visual artists, and especially for those from First Nations and diverse backgrounds.

Pride Foundation Australia Small Grants - Round 1 - 2025
Closes: 14th of April 2025 - 11:59 pm
Value: Up to $1,000
Run By: Pride Foundation Australia
Fund projects that directly or indirectly assist, involve and benefit LGBTQIA+ people and promote positive social outcomes and mental health in the community.

Apprentice Plumber Grants - 2025
Closes: 27th of April 2025 - 11:59 pm
Value: Up to $3,000 combined value
Run By: Rheem
Recognising plumbing apprentices who embody qualities that make an exceptional plumber.

Contemporary Music Festival Viability Fund
Closes: 30th of April 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: Up to $500,000
Run By: Create NSW
Grow and support the live music ecosystem in NSW through investment in the operations of established music festivals. 

Heywire Youth Innovation Grants - 2025
Opens: 3rd of March 2025
Closes: 30th of April 2025
Value: Up to $10,000
Run By: Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal
Helps communities take action on ideas generated by young Australians on issues that matter to remote, rural and regional youth at the annual Heywire Youth Summit.

Local Para Champions - 2024-25 - Round 4
Closes: 30th of April 2025
Value: $750 to $1,000
Run By: Australian Sports Commission
Financial assistance for coaches, officials and competitors aged 12-24 participating in state, national or international championships for athletes with a disability.

Local Sporting Champions - 2024-25 - Round 4
Closes: 30th of April 2025
Value: $500 to $750
Run By: Australian Sports Commission
Provides financial assistance for coaches, officials and competitors aged 12-18 participating in state, national or international championships.

NSW Sponsorships - 2025 - Round 2
Opens: 1st of April 2025
Closes: 30th of April 2025
Value: Up to $50,000
Run By: Whitehaven Coal
Supporting a range of charities and community organisations.

Closing Later

Community Native Fish Stocking Grants Program - 2025/26
Closes: 9th of May 2025 (cod/perch), 28th of March 2025 (bass)
Run By: NSW Department of Primary Industries
Providing two dollars in funds for every one dollar in funds raised by the community to stock native fish in public waters to benefit anglers

Community Wellbeing - Round 2 - 2025
Opens: 1st of April 2025
Closes: 15th of May 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: $100,000 to unspecified maximum over multiple years
Run By: The Ian Potter Foundation
Seeks to improve circumstances for disadvantaged members of the community, supporting people with disabilities, or otherwise marginalised individuals primarily with the objective to secure employment pathways.

Sporting Schools - 2025 - Term 3
Opens: 12th of May 2025 - 8:00 am
Closes: 30th of May 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: $1,000 to $4,150
Run By: Australian Sports Commission
Supports the delivery of sport-based programs to help students build the confidence and capability to be active for life.

Visual Arts General Grant Program 2025 - Round 2
Closes: 30th of May 2025
Value: Undisclosed
Run By: Gordon Darling Foundation
Supporting Australia-wide activities of importance in the visual arts

Cultural Flows Planning for Cultural Economies
Closes: 17th of June 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: Up to $300,000
Run By: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Funding for Murray-Darling Basin First Nations to conduct cultural flows planning, develop sustainable business models and governance structures required to securely hold water.

P&C Transition Grant 24-25
Closes: 30th of June 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: Up to $10,000
Run By: NSW Government Department of Education
Support approved OOSH services that have transitioned to P&C ownership as a result of the recent Provider Category Review

State Heritage Emergency Works
Closes: 30th of June 2025
Value: Up to $10,000
Run By: Heritage NSW
Supports the protection or repairs to gazetted Aboriginal Places, items listed on the State Heritage Register, or items with a current Interim Heritage Order that have been damaged by unexpected events.

The Honda Foundation - 2025
Closes: 11th of July 2025
Value: Undisclosed
Run By: The Honda Foundation
The Honda Foundation acts as a charitable trust, providing financial assistance to charities and organisations doing amazing work across a range of social and environmental issues.

Pride Foundation Australia Small Grants - Round 2 - 2025
Opens: 5th of May 2025 - 9:00 am
Closes: 14th of July 2025 - 11:59 pm
Value: Up to $1,000
Run By: Pride Foundation Australia
Fund projects that directly or indirectly assist, involve and benefit LGBTQIA+ people and promote positive social outcomes and mental health in the community.

Telstra Footy Country Grants 2025
Closes: 24th of July 2025
Value: Up to $20,000
Run By: Telstra
Financially assist initiatives that can support Community Clubs affiliated to the AFL to strengthen the base and secure the future.

Community Support Program - 2025
Opens: 1st of July 2025
Closes: 31st of July 2025
Run By: Regional Australia Bank
Providing essential support to community groups each year

NSW Sponsorships - 2025 - Round 3
Opens: 1st of July 2025
Closes: 31st of July 2025
Value: Up to $50,000
Run By: Whitehaven Coal
Supporting a range of charities and community organisations.

Cancer Patient Care Program
Closes: 1st of August 2025 - 2:00 pm
Value: $400,000 to $1 Million
Run By: Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
Ensuring that all Australian’s living with cancer have access to high-quality and culturally safe support throughout their cancer experience.

Sporting Schools - 2025 - Term 4
Opens: 4th of August 2025 - 8:00 am
Closes: 22nd of August 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: $1,000 to $4,150
Run By: Australian Sports Commission
Supports the delivery of sport-based programs to help students build the confidence and capability to be active for life.

Project Development Grants - 2025
Opens: 14th of July 2025
Closes: 7th of September 2025
Value: $2,500 to $7,500
Run By: Museums and Galleries NSW
Supports community museums and Aboriginal cultural spaces to carry out strategic and innovative projects with mid to long term outcomes.

Small Grants - 2025 - Round 2
Opens: 14th of July 2025
Closes: 7th of September 2025
Value: Up to $2,000
Run By: Museums and Galleries NSW
Funding for short-term, collection-based requirements of community museums and Aboriginal cultural spaces.

Cultural Fund Grants for Organisations - Round 2 - 2025
Opens: 4th of August 2025
Closes: 15th of September 2025 - 1:00 pm
Value: $10,000 to $30,000 per project
Run By: Copyright Agency
Funding to create and deliver exceptional opportunities for Australian writers, journalists, editors, publishers, English and literacy teachers, and visual artists, and especially for those from First Nations and diverse backgrounds.

ETREA Foundation Grants - 2025 - Round 2
Opens: 15th of July 2025
Closes: 30th of September 2025
Value: $2,000 to $10,000
Run By: ETREA Foundation
Supporting and teaching those in need the tools and skills to rebuild their lives and achieve personal fulfilment.

Visual Arts General Grant Program 2025 - Round 3
Closes: 30th of September 2025
Value: Undisclosed
Run By: Gordon Darling Foundation
Supporting Australia-wide activities of importance in the visual arts

Future Animal Carer’s Grant - 2025
Closes: 31st of October 2025
Value: Up to $5,000
Run By: RSPCA Pet Insurance
Providing support to people who are interested in getting into roles which are related to Veterinary Medicine, Animal Care and Animal Sciences

NSW Sponsorships - 2025 - Round 4
Opens: 1st of October 2025
Closes: 31st of October 2025
Value: Up to $50,000
Run By: Whitehaven Coal
Supporting a range of charities and community organisations.

Leg Up Grants - 2025
Closes: 2nd of November 2025
Value: Up to $500
Run By: Museums and Galleries NSW
Funding various skill development projects including hosting or attending workshops, conferences or seminars in NSW, in addition to networking activities.

Skills Development Grants - 2025
Closes: 2nd of November 2025 (or until funds are exhausted)
Value: Up to $4,000
Run By: Museums and Galleries NSW
Funding for volunteer museums, museum networks, and Aboriginal cultural spaces for regional or state focused skill development training and networking events involving more than one organisation.

Pride Foundation Australia Small Grants - Round 3 - 2025
Opens: 4th of August 2025 - 9:00 am
Closes: 17th of November 2025 - 11:59 pm
Value: Up to $1,000
Run By: Pride Foundation Australia
Fund projects that directly or indirectly assist, involve and benefit LGBTQIA+ people and promote positive social outcomes and mental health in the community.

Community Initiated Grants
Closes: 30th of December 2025 - 11:30 pm
Value: Unspecified
Run By: National Indigenous Australians Agency
Provides and avenue 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.

Participation Grants
Closes: 31st of December 2025 - 6:00 pm
Value: Up to $15,000
Run By: Energy Consumers Australia
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.

Resolution payments under the Youpla Support Program
Closes: 30th of June 2026 - 11:30 pm
Run By: National Indigenous Australians Agency
Resolution Payment for people impacted by the collapse of the funeral insurance provider, the Youpla Group

Food Rescue Rebates
Ongoing Until Closes: 30th of June 2027 or until funding is expended
Value: Up to $2,000 per rebate
Run By: NSW Environment Protection Authority
Working to reduce good quality food suitable for human consumption from being disposed to landfill.

Ongoing

Australian Communities Foundation
Closes: Various dates
Value: Dependant on grant
Run By: Australian Communities Foundation
Supports a range of charitable organisations and projects each year. Grants are made domestically and internationally through Australian registered charitable organisations for specific projects, or for purposes that support the ongoing activities of those organisations.

CAGES Foundation Grants
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Undisclosed
Run By: CAGES Foundation
Provides funding with the intention of empowering community and creating an environment where every child has the opportunity to reach their potential.

ClubGRANTS
Closes: Various
Value: Dependant on grant applied for
Run By: Club Grants
Clubs across NSW provide support to tens of thousands of local community organisations, sporting groups, and charities that make a difference in their local area.

Community Broadcasting Foundation - Quick Response Grants
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Undisclosed
Run By: Community Broadcasting Foundation
These grants will help community broadcasters access funding for eligible projects when their regular grant rounds are closed.

Community Child Care Fund Special Circumstances Grant
Closes: Unspecified
Value: Unspecified
Run By: Australian Government Department of Education
Supports continuity of child care, in particular in disadvantaged or vulnerable communities, where service viability is affected by an unforeseen event or circumstance outside the control of the service.

Google Ad Grants
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Up to $10,000 per month
Run By: Google
Empowers nonprofit organisations, through $10,000 per month in in-kind AdWords™ advertising, to promote their missions and initiatives on Google search result pages.

IGA Community Chest
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Unspecified
Run By: IGA
Every day across the country IGA Community Chest raises funds to support local communities, charities and other worthwhile causes. It could be in response to a major event like floods or bush fires or something as simple as new soccer balls for the local under 8’s.

Matana Foundation Grants
Closes: Ongoing
Value: No specified minimum or maximum, most grants are between $1,000 and $10,000
Run By: Matana Foundation
Focuses on improving the welfare and wellbeing of young people from severely disadvantaged or marginalised backgrounds, or whose concerns and issues are not readily funded from other sources.

National Cultural Heritage Account
Closes: Ongoing on a case-by-case basis
Value: Up to $500,000 is available each year
Run By: Australian Government Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts
Helps Australian public cultural organisations buy significant objects that they could not otherwise afford.

Quick Response Grants
Value: Up to $1,500
Run By: Regional Arts NSW
Offers funding for regional artists, arts organisations and communities to respond to unique arts opportunities that present themselves at very short notice.

Small Environmental Grant Scheme
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Up to $10,000
Run By: Wettenhall Environment Trust
Providing support for people undertaking projects that will make a positive difference to the natural living environment, in land, sea or air, rural or urban.

Regional Event Fund - Event Development Stream
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Up to $50,000
Run By: Destination NSW
Supports events that have previously received triennial funding through the Flagship Event stream to increase overnight visitation to the event.

Capacity Building for Native Title Corporations
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Up to $750,000 on average
Run By: National Indigenous Australians Agency
Assists native title holding corporations to generate economic benefits through the effective and sustainable management of their land.

Coopers Foundation - General Giving
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Up to $30,000
Run By: Coopers Foundation
Aims to improve and protect the quality of life of Australians by providing support to charitable organisations.

Seniors Energy Rebate
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Up to $200
Run By: Service NSW
A once-a-year payment for self-funded retirees to help cover the cost of their electricity.

Tertiary Access Payment
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Up to $5,000
Run By: Services Australia
A one off payment to help eligible students with the cost of moving to study.

First Home Owner (New Homes) Grant
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Up to $10,000
Run By: NSW Government Department of Revenue
A one-off payment is available when you buy or build a new home as your first home.

Indigenous Apprenticeships Program
Closes: Ongoing
Run By: Services Australia
A pathway for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to start their career in the Australian Public Service.

Start Strong for Community Preschools
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Based on enrolments
Run By: NSW Government Department of Education
Funding to deliver affordable quality preschool education for 3 to 5 year old children enroled in eligible community and mobile preschools

Responsible Grambling Fund - Prevention, Innovation and Technology Grants - 2023
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Up to $200,000
Run By: NSW Office of Responsible Gambling
Funding to support innovative projects that prevent and reduce gambling harm in communities across NSW.

Workforce Incentives Program (WIP) - Doctor Stream
Closes: Ongoing
Value: $3,600 to $60,000 per year
Run By: Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
Promotes careers in rural medicine by giving doctors financial incentives to practise in regional, rural and remote communities.

International Child Abduction Respondents Scheme
Closes: Ongoing
Run By: Attorney-General's Department
Provide funding to an individual who is responding to a 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction application seeking the return of a child under the Family Law (Child Abduction Convention) Regulations 1986 (the Regulations) in an Australian court.

Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) First Nations – Scoping Grant
Closes: Ongoing
Value: $15,000 to $30,000
Run By: Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
Small grants to help eligible organisations to develop a Delivery Grant application

Tax Help Program
Ongoing: Closes: From July to October each year
Run By: Australian Taxation Office
ATO accredited volunteers can help people lodge their tax returns online.

Sheargold Foundation Grants
Closes: Ongoing
Run By: Sheargold Foundation
Support to charitable organisations with clear objectives, a fervent aspiration to create an impact, and a close resonance with their own mission and values

We Move Grant
Closes: Ongoing
Run By: Variety
Supports families in purchasing life-changing equipment to increase physical development, independence, and social inclusion.

Deafness Foundation Grants
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Up to $3,000
Run By: Deafness Foundation
Recognise the challenges experienced by students who are deaf or hard of hearing in their effort to access and complete education and training.

Environmental Grant Program
Closes: Ongoing
Run By: Narrabri Shire Council
Facilitate projects that enhance the environment, protect the environment, or provide a sustainable environmental solution.

AHO Tenancy Plus Grant
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Up to $20,000
Run By: Aboriginal Housing Office
A financial grant that rewards eligible long-term AHO tenants with a higher rate of co-contribution towards their house deposit.

Deadly Deposit Grant
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Up to $10,000
Run By: Aboriginal Housing Office
A financial grant that can match people's savings towards their deposit, up to $10,000. Deposit savings may be made up of money in the bank, cash, and other sources including inheritance.

Home Buyer Booster Grant
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Up to $2,500
Run By: Aboriginal Housing Office
To help with some of the expenses associated with buying a property, like legal and administrative costs.

Legal assistance for people engaging with the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide
Closes: Ongoing
Run By: Attorney-General's Department
National legal advice service and legal financial assistance as part of the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide 2.

Digital Marketing Grant
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Up to $30,000
Run By: Little Phil Foundation
Assisting Australian charities with grants to aid with the transition to digital giving and increase supporter engagement.

Historic Acquisition, Conservation and Interpretation
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Up to $50,000
Run By: The Copland Foundation
Funding projects throughout Australia for the study, management, conservation, acquisition, and interpretation of collections of historic items and architecture.