Community Funding Opportunities and Award Programs - March 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

Uplift: Digital Skills Program
Closes: 1st of April 2025 - 3:00 pm
Value: Up to $50,000
Run By: Creative Australia

Uplift provides grants of up to $50,000 to support professional development, training and mentoring to build digital capability for First Nations artists and creative workers.

This opportunity is open to First Nations led organisations and businesses to deliver activities within local communities. Funding can support a range of digital development opportunities identified as priority areas for building capacity.

Areas of focus include, but not limited to, business in the digital economy, use of digital platforms such as video, sound, game engines, virtual and augmented reality, as well as digital marketing and audience engagement.

 

Regional Event Fund - Incubator Event Stream - 2025-26
Closes: 6th of April 2025
Value: Up to $20,000
Run By: Destination NSW

This fund supports the establishment of new events in their first or second year of operation with seed funding of up to $20,000 (excluding GST) to support activities that are likely to establish an event as a driver of visitation.

The Incubator Event stream is part of the Regional Event Fund, which is aimed at identifying and supporting events in regional NSW that have the potential to act as a ‘cornerstone’ or flagship tourism event for their area by attracting overnight visitation and delivering long term benefits to the region. Other streams available under this fund are the Flagship Event stream and Event Development stream.

 

Heywire Youth Innovation Grants - 2025
Closes: 30th of April 2025
Value: Up to $10,000
Run By: Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal

FRRR and donor partners collaborate with ABC Heywire to help communities take action on the ideas generated by young Australians who attend the annual Heywire Regional Youth Summit.

Grants of up to $10,000 are available for communities across Australia to adopt, adapt and act on the ideas generated at the Heywire Summit.

Award Programs

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.

Excellence Awards - 2025
Closes: 8th of April 2025
Value: Up to $7,500
Run By: HESTA
Recognising exceptional achievements in a range of settings across aged care, allied health, community services and disability services.

Schools Plus Teaching Awards
Closes: 8th of April 2025
Value: Up to $20,000 (Combined Value Teaching Fellowship)
Run By: Schools Plus
Celebrating great teachers who are making a transformative impact on children and young people across Australia.

Australian Crime and Violence Prevention Awards - 2025
Closes: 17th of April 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.

Australian Training Awards - 2025
Closes: 31st of May 2025
Run By: Australian Government

Ethnic Business Awards
Closes: Unknown
Run By: Ethnic Business Awards Foundation
Recognising the outstanding accomplishments of Migrant and Indigenous entrepreneurs.

Closing in March

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.

NAB Foundation Community Grants - 2025
Closes: 31st of March 2025
Value: Up to $25,000
Run By: NAB
Provides funding for local projects that help communities withstand and recover from natural disasters.

Steve Waugh Foundation - Children and Young Adults with a Rare Disease - 2025 - Round 1
Closes: 31st of March 2025
Run By: Steve Waugh Foundation
Supports children and young adults aged 0-25 years who have a rare disease.

The Co-Group Grants - 2025
Closes: 31st of March 2025
Value: Up to $50,000
Run By: The Co-Group
Supporting Australian charities working at the frontline to relieve poverty and enhance the lives of people with disability and older Australians who are in need.

Closing in April

First Nations Arts: d/Deaf and/or Disabilities Project Fund
Closes: 1st of April 2025 - 3:00 pm
Value: $5,000 to $10,000
Run By: Creative Australia
Supports Australian First Nations individuals, groups and organisations with projects and professional development opportunities across all art forms, nationally and internationally.

Uplift: Digital Skills Program
Closes: 1st of April 2025 - 3:00 pm
Value: Up to $50,000
Run By: Creative Australia
Supporting professional development, training and mentoring to build digital capability for First Nations artists and creative workers. 

Small Grants Program - 2025
Closes: 1st of April 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: Up to $5,000
Run By: Highways and Byways
Supports projects by community-led organisations that address disadvantage and exclusion within towns and communities, especially in rural and regional Australia

QBE Foundation Local Grants - 2025
Closes: 3rd of April 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: Up to $50,000
Run By: Australia Pacific QBE Foundation
Providing meaningful support for community initiatives addressing specific areas of need.

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.

Universal Charitable Fund Small Grants - 2025
Closes: 4th of April 2025 - 11:59 pm
Value: $500 to $3,000
Run By: Universal Charitable Fund
Grants for small and medium sized Australian charities making a big difference in the lives of people in need both in Australia and overseas.

Regional Event Fund - Incubator Event Stream - 2025-26
Closes: 6th of April 2025
Value: Up to $20,000
Run By: Destination NSW
Offers seed funding to events in Regional NSW to support their first or second year of activity. 

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.

Regional Event Fund - Flagship Event - 2025-2026
Closes: 6th of April 2025 - 11:59 pm
Value: Up to $30,000
Run By: Destination NSW
Provides marketing support to events in regional NSW to grow visitation and increase economic benefits to destinations.

ANZ Community Foundation - 2025
Closes: 8th of April 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: Up to $30,000
Run By: ANZ
Support projects run by charitable organisations which offer a direct and tangible benefit to local communities.

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.

Strengthening Youth Resilience
Closes: 11th of April 2025
Value: Up to $200,000
Run By: NSW Government Department of Premier and Cabinet
Community grants for projects helping youth build resilience to hateful and extremist influences, providing youth-centred mentoring activities, mentor training, and providing referral pathways to appropriate government and community support services.

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.

Disaster Ready Fund - Round Three (2025-26)
Closes: 16th 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.

CEWH Environmental Activities
Closes: 16th of April 2025 - 9:00 pm
Run By: Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Funding for environmental activities that help to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of environmental water delivery in the Murray-Darling Basin.

Pride Foundation Australia Large Grants - Round 1 - 2025
Closes: 17th of April 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: Up to $20,000
Run By: Pride Foundation Australia
Supporting sexuality, sex and gender-diverse (LGBTQIA+) refugees and people seeking asylum in Australia.

NAIDOC Grants Program - 2025
Closes: 21st of April 2025 - 4:00 pm
Value: $500 to $5,000
Run By: Aboriginal Affairs NSW
Support for events and activities in NSW marking NAIDOC week.

Support at Home Thin Markets (rural, remote and specialised) 2025-26
Closes: 23rd of April 2025 - 2:00 pm
Run By: Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
1 year of one-off funding in 2025-26, to HCP and STRC providers operating in identified thin markets (rural, remote or specialised).

Community Giving Fund
Closes: 24th of April 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: $1,000 to $20,000
Run By: Aurizon
Cash grants for charitable initiatives and projects aimed to improve the health and wellbeing, community safety, the environment and education in local communities where Aurizon operates and its employees reside.

Science in Schools Grants
Closes: 26th of April 2025 - 11:59 pm
Value: Up to $500
Run By: Australian Science Teachers Association
Support teachers and schools deliver engaging STEM events and activities that align with the National Science Week vision.

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.

Building Excellence in Support and Training (BEST) Program 2025–26
Closes: 28th of April 2025 - 9:00 pm
Run By: Department of Veterans Affairs
Support and resources to ESOs for compensation and/or wellbeing advocacy assisting the veteran and defence communities.

100 Women Grants - 2025
Closes: 30th of April 2025
Value: Up to $50,000
Run By: 100 Women
Supports organisations that advance the safety, health, education and economic freedom of women and girls.

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. 

Cultural Access - Priority Area Projects for Individuals and Organisations - Round 2 - 24/25
Closes: 30th of April 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: $10,000 to $100,000
Run By: Create NSW
Supports individuals and organisations that are led by and/or support specific communities to develop and deliver a diverse range of arts and cultural experiences for artists, arts workers, communities, and audiences.

Heywire Youth Innovation Grants - 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.

Next Steps - Professional Development - Round 2 - 24/25
Closes: 30th of April 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: $2,000 to $10,000
Run By: Create NSW
Professional development funding for individual artists, arts and cultural workers to enable participation in skills development opportunities, workshops, courses and creative sector conferences and networking events.

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.

Per Capita Grant for Community Language Schools - 2025
Closes: 30th of April 2025
Run By: NSW Government Department of Education
Help cover community language school operating costs such as teaching materials, staff wages and new equipment.

Closing in May

Para Athlete Barriers Fund
Closes: 5th of May 2025 - 2:00 pm
Value: Up to $4,000
Run By: Australian Sports Commission
Provides financial support to current Australian high-performance athletes competing in Para sport to assist them overcome barriers to their performance or progression.

Community Heritage Grants - 2025
Closes: 8th of May 2025 (3 June 2025 for repeat recipients & training projects)
Value: Up to $20,000
Run By: National Library of Australia
Supports community organisations to look after Australian cultural heritage collections.

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

Qantas Regional Grants - 2025
Closes: 10th of May 2025
Value: Combination of cash, in-kind flights and marketing support
Run By: Qantas
Supports Australian-based communities and projects that are looking to benefit our country's regional areas.

Community Giving Project - 2025
Closes: 15th of May 2025 - 5:00 pm
Value: Up to $20,000
Run By: Elders
Supporting initiatives that provide sustainable, tangible and long-term benefits with positive outcomes for Australian rural, regional and remote communities.

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

Collier Charitable Fund Grants
Opens: 7th of April 2025
Closes: 31st of May 2025
Run By: Collier Charitable Fund
Funding to improve the lives of Australians by assisting those in need.

Closing in June

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.

Strengthening Rural Communities - Small & Vital - Round 25
Opens: 28th of March 2025
Closes: 24th of June 2025
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 25
Opens: 28th of March 2025
Closes: 24th of June 2025
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.

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.

Steve Waugh Foundation - Children and Young Adults with a Rare Disease - 2025 - Round 2
Opens: 1st of June 2025
Closes: 30th of June 2025
Run By: Steve Waugh Foundation
Supports children and young adults aged 0-25 years who have a rare disease.

Closing Later

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.

AbbVie Grants and Donations - 2025 - Round 2
Closes: 25th of July 2025
Run By: AbbVie
Financial support for projects that promote excellence in patient care, support disease awareness and provide education to healthcare professionals, as well as supporting charities and their fundraising activities in the community.

Community Foundation Grants Program - 2025 - Round 2
Opens: 1st of July 2025
Closes: 31st of July 2025
Value: Up to $20,000
Run By: GrainCorp Community Foundation (GCF)
Providing financial support to organisations and projects that contribute to the development and promotion of communities

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.

Sisters of Charity Foundation Community Grants Program - 2025
Opens: 1st of July 2025
Closes: 31st of July 2025
Value: Up to $15,000
Run By: Sisters of Charity Foundation
Supports organisations that use clever ways to fight poverty, loneliness, suffering and oppression, but struggle to find funding.

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.

Steve Waugh Foundation - Children and Young Adults with a Rare Disease - 2025 - Round 3
Opens: 1st of September 2025
Closes: 30th of September 2025
Run By: Steve Waugh Foundation
Supports children and young adults aged 0-25 years who have a rare disease.

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

AbbVie Grants and Donations - 2025 - Round 3
Closes: 10th of October 2025
Run By: AbbVie
Financial support for projects that promote excellence in patient care, support disease awareness and provide education to healthcare professionals, as well as supporting charities and their fundraising activities in the community.

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.

Real School Grants Program - 2025
Closes: 31st of October 2025
Value: Up to $5,000
Run By: Real Insurance
Funding to improve the quality of school resources and communities.

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.

Rural Health Workforce Incentive Scheme
Closes: 30th of June 2026
Value: Up to $20,000
Run By: NSW Ministry of Health
Incentive package for health workers relocating and commencing work in new positions at rural and remote locations.

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.

Kids Under Cover Scholarship - 2025
Closes: Unknown
Run By: Kids Under Cover
Giving young people support they need to stay in school.

Inger Rice Foundation Grant
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Up to $7,000
Run By: Inger Rice Foundation
Funding for Australian charities and not-for-profit organisations whose programs support the development of relationships between parents or carers and their children from birth to primary school age, as well as prenatal programs.

Opportunity Knocks Subsidy
Closes: Ongoing
Value: Up to $500
Run By: Tennis Australia
Provides subsidised coaching by a qualified tennis coach, support with club membership fees or competition fees, for young people aged 5 to 17 facing financial hardship.

Reece Foundation Grant
Closes: Ongoing
Value: $5,000 to $30,000
Run By: Reece Foundation
Supporting locally led initiatives that help communities in Australia and overseas with access to clean water, sanitation or food security through irrigation.