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Gambling Community Benefit Fund (Round 122)

The Gambling Community Benefit Fund (GCBF) is Queensland’s largest one-off community grants program and distributes approximately $60 million each year to not-for-profit community groups.

CLOSING 30 NOVEMBER 2024

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All Grants

SwimStart

Opening date: 7th November 2023
Closing date: 30th May 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $150

Supports learn to swim activities for eligible 0 to 4 year olds.

Virgin Australia Sponsorship

Opening date: 15th May 2024
Closing date: 15th May 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Invests in partnerships with organisations who align with Virgin Australia’s purpose, values, policies and who make a significant contribution to their community.

Social Enterprise Development Initiative (SEDI) Grants

Opening date: 3rd June 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $120,000

Sanitarium Community Care Program

Opening date: 26th July 2024
Closing date: 26th July 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers mostly in-kind support (products) for community programs, projects or activities.

Female Founders Co-Investment Fund

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2027
Funding Amount: $50,000 - $200,000

Supports innovative women-led startups preparing for early-stage capital raise.

Australian Sports Foundation Fundraising

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 2nd August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers a fundraising platform for all sports at all levels to help fund their sporting needs.

Arcare Grants Program

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Encourages and supports innovations that give all Australians the opportunity to age well, envisioning a community where older people are valued, supported, and thriving.

Fundraise Yourself

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides a way for you to fundraise online for a project within your school that improves educational outcomes for students.

Inger Rice Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $7,000

Aims to promote the health, well-being and development of young children.

Self-Employment Assistance Program (Somerset Region)

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Helps people start, develop and grow a small or micro-business through 12 months of free mentoring, workshops, accredited training and financial support.

Innovate Grant

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th August 2025
Funding Amount: $1,800

Provides grants to artists and photographers to act as sparks of financial support that ignite your creative development.

Canva’s Nonprofit Program

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Seeks to empower nonprofits to achieve their goals with free access to Canva’s premium features.

Our Country Our Future

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides a wide range of assistance to Indigenous Australians including to acquire land and water-related rights, and to manage Indigenous-held land and Indigenous waters.

Manufacturing Energy Efficiency Grant Program

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

The grant of up to $50, 000 is for Queensland-based manufacturers to improve energy efficiency measures and technology, reduce energy usage, costs and emissions.

The Pollination Project Seed Funding

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: $1,000

Exists to uplift grassroots changemakers whose work helps build a kinder, more compassionate world.

Grassroots Cricket Fund

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Funds Queensland community cricket club programs that will grow junior participation.

Emerging Athlete Pathways

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $1,600

Supports eligible young athletes, coaches and officials aged 10-18 years to progress on a development pathway by providing financial assistance to help alleviate the costs associated with attending state, national and international events.

Accelerating Female Founders Program – Founders

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Finds business development programs for Queensland-based female founders or leaders of innovative businesses to take their innovation driven enterprises to the next level, create connections and access opportunities.

Tourism Business Digital Adaption Program

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 20th December 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $2,500

Provides QLD tourism businesses with a rebate and free support to help them improve their digital capabilities.

CAGES Foundation – Community Grants

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Supports Aboriginal controlled organisations responding to an immediate need, focused on children aged under five.

Courier-Mail Children’s Fund

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Exists to change the lives of Queensland children in need.

Consideration is only given for children throughout Queensland. Supporting a range of charitable organisations, the Fund has provided financial assistance for:
– Mobility and learning aids
– Educational equipment and assistance
– Recreational and respite programs
– New technologies
– Medical equipment.

Community Supported Small Grants Program

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides funds to assist individuals experiencing financial disadvantage.

Social workers, case managers or allied health professionals employed by supporting charitable organisations (holding DGR item 1 status) may submit an application on behalf of an individual in need. This program operates in Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT and Victoria.

Escaping Violence Payment Program

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000

Offers financial assistance to help those escaping domestic violence to move forward and set up a home free of violence.

Self-Employment Assistance (Ipswich, Lockyer Valley, Scenic Rim and Somerset)

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Self-Employment Assistance provides a range of services for current and aspiring business owners, ranging from flexible individual Business Advice Sessions to a structured 12-month package of Small Business Coaching.

Reddit Community Funds

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Provides financial support for community projects and events that help make Reddit a better community for everyone.

What kind of projects or events are eligible for funding?
– Projects that encourage participation and involvement between your community’s members, and as an extension, Reddit as a whole
– Projects that are affiliated with or intend to explicitly promote another company, website, or outside project, will not be funded.

Redkite Grants

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides financial assistance for children, aged 18 and under, who either have cancer or have been treated for cancer.

Coles Community Support

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Supports many community and charity organisations across Australia through partnerships, fundraising, food donations and disaster relief.

Westfund Community Grants Program

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $3,000

Supports community organisations that inspire the principles of health and wellbeing, family and community and fit for life.

Roots & Shoots Mini Grants

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: $200

Offers a rewarding, seed-funding initiative to promote respect and compassion for all living things in Australia.

Purves Environmental Fund

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Supports proposals that meet the Fund’s current focus areas: degradation of key biodiversity habitat, unsustainable management of natural resources, and pollution.

Community Reward Program

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers a sustainable fundraising platform for your local sporting club.

My Giving Circle Grants

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Helps charities and not-for-profit organisations access grants, grow their supporter base, raise their profile and generate donations.

Matana Foundation for Young People Grants

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $10,000

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.

Westfield Local Heroes

Opening date: 15th October 2024
Closing date: 13th March 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 to $20,000

Shines the spotlight on individuals in Australia and New Zealand who make a positive impact to their local community or environment.

Mazda Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 31st March 2025
Funding Amount: Undisclosed

Aims to fund two priority areas: supporting primary producers facing hardship and programs that address literacy and numeracy issues amongst primary school aged children.

Amgen Australia Donations

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Makes donations to the healthcare and non-healthcare community to further educational, scientific, or other charitable purposes.

Intercultural Understanding Partnership (ICUP) Grants

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Provides funding for Australian schools to address intercultural and/or interfaith challenges, enhancing student learning and wellbeing.

Marketing and Technology Grants

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $30,000

Offers nonprofit organisations funds to procure technology to help maximise their impact.

The Frankie Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $1,000

Helps support kids continue or start therapy if their NDIS plan budget has run out or a therapy or service is not covered by their current NDIS plan.

Bakers Delight Sponsorships

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers sponsorship to community groups, charities, teams and individuals for all kinds of events.

Talk Money Financial Literacy in Action Awards

Opening date: 15th November 2024
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: $2,500

Recognises and rewards teachers who inspire their students to be confident in managing money.

News Media Relief Program

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st March 2025
Funding Amount: $13,000

The News Media Relief Program is helping the sustainability of Australian news publishers by providing a proportion of salary costs for journalists producing core news content that is distributed digitally.

Bendigo Bank Sponsorships, Grants and Scholarships

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Each Bendigo Bank branch supports their local community through sponsorships, grants and scholarships.

National Zakat Foundation Funding

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Assists individuals that fall into the categories of the poor, needy and indebted who are resident in Australia.

Roger Rasheed Sports Foundation Support

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Aims to improve the lives of children in disadvantaged areas by providing access to first-class sports facilities, coaching, equipment, and opportunities to participate in sports.

The program helps foster health, resilience, and community connections through sport.

Remarkable Programs

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers a range of opportunities to help drive the future of Disability Tech.

ANZMHA Mental Health Study Grant

Opening date: 3rd December 2024
Closing date: 26th February 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000

Provides funding for students enrolling in a course that leads to a mental health qualification (Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma or Masters).

Strengthening Rural Communities — Small & Vital

Opening date: 6th December 2024
Closing date: 27th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Gives small remote, rural and regional communities across Australia the opportunity to access funds for a broad range of initiatives that directly and clearly benefit local communities.

Strengthening Rural Communities – Prepare & Recover

Opening date: 6th December 2024
Closing date: 27th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $25,000

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.

Cultural Fund – Create Grants

Opening date: 16th December 2024
Closing date: 25th March 2025
Funding Amount: $20,000

Offers grants to Australian creative writers and visual artists to create new work.

Gambling Community Benefit Fund

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $100,000

Allocates funding to not-for-profit community groups to help them provide services, leisure activities and opportunities for Queensland communities.

Contemporary Music Touring Program

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 4th March 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $55,000

Supports national touring activity undertaken by Australian musicians performing original contemporary music.

O’Shaughnessy Fellowships & Grants

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $100,000

Offers a one-year program that unites the world’s most bold and undiscovered researchers, builders and creatives to find, build and spread new ideas.

Wilkes Climate Launch Prize

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: $250,000

Highlights top global ideas for combating climate change.

Arts Projects – Individuals & Groups

Opening date: 6th January 2025
Closing date: 4th March 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $50,000

Funds a range of activities that deliver benefits to the arts sector and wider public, including national and international audiences and communities.

Organisations Fund 2026-2029F

Opening date: 13th January 2025
Closing date: 10th March 2025
Funding Amount: $400,000 over 4 years

The Organisations Fund 2026-2029 is a four-year funding program that supports small-to-medium Queensland-based arts and cultural organisations to be stronger businesses and deliver vibrant arts and cultural experiences across the state.

LGBTQIA Small Grants Program

Opening date: 20th January 2025
Closing date: 14th April 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $1,000

Invests in projects that benefit either LGBTQIA+ individuals or community or strengthen LGBTQIA+ organisational capacity.

Backing the Future Grants QLD

Opening date: 20th January 2025
Closing date: 17th March 2025
Funding Amount: $50,000

Provides funding to individuals or groups of individuals whose work supports rural and regional young people aged 15-24.

National Regional Arts Fellowships

Opening date: 20th January 2025
Closing date: 23rd February 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $20,000

Aims to benefit regional and remote arts practitioners, arts workers, audiences and communities.

Waratah Education Public Ancillary Fund

Opening date: 20th January 2025
Closing date: 20th March 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $20,000

Supports underprivileged or disadvantaged families, children, teenagers and young adults so that they have access to educational instruction and to support and fund activities to help break the cycle of poverty and disadvantage.

Cultural Fund – Grants For Organisations

Opening date: 31st January 2025
Closing date: 14th April 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $30,000

Aims to support key industry stakeholders to offer sustained and realistic support to Australian writers, publishers, and visual artists.

Community Grant Program

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000

Provides grants for community projects and programs that benefit women in Australia.

This grant is aimed at helping grassroots groups who may not be eligible for government assistance, or too small to attract the attention of larger organisations.

SPARK Biz Grants – Women in Business

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $10,000

Helps women in business grow their profit and impact.

My Mummy Grants

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 to $10,000

Offers coaching grants to deserving mums in business.

ETREA Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 31st March 2025
Funding Amount: $2,000 - $10,000

Offers financial support, builds collaborative relationships and networks with like-minded organisations committed to supporting and teaching those in need the tools and skills to rebuild their lives and achieve personal fulfilment.

Local Para Champions

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 30th April 2025
Funding Amount: $750 - $1,000

Provides financial assistance for coaches, officials and competitors aged 12-24 participating in state, national or international championships for athletes with a disability.

GrainCorp Community Fund – Grants

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $20,000

Provides financial support to organisations and projects that contribute to the development and promotion of communities within a GrainCorp operational region.

There are two types of activities that are funded:
– Community-related programs & activities (Maximum funding limit: $5,000)
– Community infrastructure projects (Maximum funding limit: $20,000).

Capricorn Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: $50,000 - $90,000

Funds great initiatives or programmes in two funding areas: Nurturing Nature and Overcoming Disadvantage.

Djurwa Partnerships and Sponsorships

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Commits to fostering positive relationships with Indigenous peoples and contributing to their well-being and empowerment.

GoodWillGrow Charity Partnerships

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Connects small to medium-sized non-profits with passionate SME sponsors, creating a sustainable cycle of support and impact while delivering tangible ROI for businesses.

GIVIT

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Helps eligible organisations obtain the essential items and services they need to support people in need around Australia.

Equity & Inclusion Crowdfunding Events

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 13th March 2025
Funding Amount: $20,000 - $30,000

Supports non-profit organisations that specifically work to address issues of social inequality, engineering better or innovative solutions to social problems across Australia.

Catalysing Impact Initiative

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 3rd March 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $400,000

Aims to accelerate the growth and impact of Australian purpose-driven businesses and impact enterprises focused on climate resilience and inclusion.

Building Digital Skills Grant

Opening date: 3rd February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: $3,000 - $20,500

Helps organisations deliver free Be Connected digital literacy programs to older Australians in their community.

Active Australia Innovation Challenge

Opening date: 3rd February 2025
Closing date: 3rd March 2025
Funding Amount: UP to $30,000

Provides grants for new, innovative projects that get more people moving in schools, universities or local community groups.

Essential Grants

Opening date: 3rd February 2025
Closing date: 31st March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $15,000

Provides financial support to community groups across Essential Energy’s network area, contributing to positive outcomes for regional communities.

The program supports community-based initiatives that align with the following categories:
– Environment. Examples include initiatives that support a circular economy and waste reduction, habitat restoration or community gardens
– Energy Transition. Examples include funding contributions for solar panels or electrifying community buildings
– Education. Examples include the investment in STEM education in schools and community organisations
– Resilience. Examples include the provision of resources that support communities affected by disaster events.

Young Digital Mentor Capacity Builder Grant

Opening date: 3rd February 2025
Closing date: 7th March 2025
Funding Amount: $52,500

Provides funding to train young digital mentors to help more people get online.

Maria Vasas Foundation Grants

Opening date: 3rd February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Funds eligible organisations that support individuals (who face financial, social or cultural barriers) enhance their education and career development opportunities, and arts and education organisations whose programs demonstrate personal and professional development opportunities.

Honda Hero Loan Vehicle

Opening date: 3rd February 2025
Closing date: 11th July 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides vehicles to eligible charities or approved bodies for a 12-month period.

Harcourts Foundation Grants

Opening date: 4th February 2025
Closing date: 3rd May 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides support for a specific event, project, item, or initiative that helps, grows, and enriches our communities.

At Home Care Grants

Opening date: 5th February 2025
Closing date: 19th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Aims to keep young people at home with their families, and prevent new admissions to inappropriate housing.

Youngcare’s At Home Care Grants (AHCG) provide funding for equipment, home modifications and essential support/respite 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 care needs and assist them to remain living in their own home with loved ones.

Corporate Travel Grant

Opening date: 5th February 2025
Closing date: 17th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $30,000

Offers the chance to win 1 of 5 Corporate Travel Grants for your business.

Flight Centre Business Travel is thrilled to announce the return of the annual Corporate Travel Grant, opening doors for Aussie businesses with the chance to claim a share in over $40,000 of travel grant prizes.

Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) Grants

Opening date: 6th February 2025
Closing date: 20th March 2025
Funding Amount: $100,000 - $3,000,000

Provides industry-led collaborations with short term (up to three years) matched funding to develop important new technologies, products and services.

Supporting Stronger Communities Grant Program

Opening date: 10th February 2025
Closing date: 13th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Enables Neighbourhood and Community Houses and Centres to promote equality and inclusion their local communities.

2025 Queensland Youth Week Community Event Grants

Opening date: 13th February 2025
Closing date: 23rd February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000

Are you a young Queenslander with a passion for making a difference in your community?

We’re offering grants of up to $5,000 (inclusive of GST) to young people aged 12–25 to host exciting and impactful events during Queensland Youth Week 2025 (6–12 April).

Stronger Communities Programme

Opening date: 14th February 2025
Closing date: 28th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $20,000

The Stronger Communities Programme (SCP) provides grants of between $2,500 and $20,000 to community organisations and local governments for infrastructure projects that deliver social benefits for local communities.

Telstra’s Connected Communities Grant Program

Opening date: 20th February 2025
Closing date: 20th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Supports community-led efforts that embrace new technology and improve digital literacy or digital capability.

Telstra’s Connected Communities Grant Program will boost support for communities across remote, rural and regional Australia to enhance liveability with digital solutions that harness the power of connection.

Arts

Innovate Grant

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th August 2025
Funding Amount: $1,800

Provides grants to artists and photographers to act as sparks of financial support that ignite your creative development.

Cultural Fund – Create Grants

Opening date: 16th December 2024
Closing date: 25th March 2025
Funding Amount: $20,000

Offers grants to Australian creative writers and visual artists to create new work.

Contemporary Music Touring Program

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 4th March 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $55,000

Supports national touring activity undertaken by Australian musicians performing original contemporary music.

Arts Projects – Individuals & Groups

Opening date: 6th January 2025
Closing date: 4th March 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $50,000

Funds a range of activities that deliver benefits to the arts sector and wider public, including national and international audiences and communities.

Organisations Fund 2026-2029F

Opening date: 13th January 2025
Closing date: 10th March 2025
Funding Amount: $400,000 over 4 years

The Organisations Fund 2026-2029 is a four-year funding program that supports small-to-medium Queensland-based arts and cultural organisations to be stronger businesses and deliver vibrant arts and cultural experiences across the state.

National Regional Arts Fellowships

Opening date: 20th January 2025
Closing date: 23rd February 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $20,000

Aims to benefit regional and remote arts practitioners, arts workers, audiences and communities.

Cultural Fund – Grants For Organisations

Opening date: 31st January 2025
Closing date: 14th April 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $30,000

Aims to support key industry stakeholders to offer sustained and realistic support to Australian writers, publishers, and visual artists.

Business

Virgin Australia Sponsorship

Opening date: 15th May 2024
Closing date: 15th May 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Invests in partnerships with organisations who align with Virgin Australia’s purpose, values, policies and who make a significant contribution to their community.

Social Enterprise Development Initiative (SEDI) Grants

Opening date: 3rd June 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $120,000

Female Founders Co-Investment Fund

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2027
Funding Amount: $50,000 - $200,000

Supports innovative women-led startups preparing for early-stage capital raise.

Self-Employment Assistance Program (Somerset Region)

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Helps people start, develop and grow a small or micro-business through 12 months of free mentoring, workshops, accredited training and financial support.

Canva’s Nonprofit Program

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Seeks to empower nonprofits to achieve their goals with free access to Canva’s premium features.

Manufacturing Energy Efficiency Grant Program

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

The grant of up to $50, 000 is for Queensland-based manufacturers to improve energy efficiency measures and technology, reduce energy usage, costs and emissions.

Accelerating Female Founders Program – Founders

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Finds business development programs for Queensland-based female founders or leaders of innovative businesses to take their innovation driven enterprises to the next level, create connections and access opportunities.

Tourism Business Digital Adaption Program

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 20th December 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $2,500

Provides QLD tourism businesses with a rebate and free support to help them improve their digital capabilities.

Self-Employment Assistance (Ipswich, Lockyer Valley, Scenic Rim and Somerset)

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Self-Employment Assistance provides a range of services for current and aspiring business owners, ranging from flexible individual Business Advice Sessions to a structured 12-month package of Small Business Coaching.

Marketing and Technology Grants

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $30,000

Offers nonprofit organisations funds to procure technology to help maximise their impact.

News Media Relief Program

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st March 2025
Funding Amount: $13,000

The News Media Relief Program is helping the sustainability of Australian news publishers by providing a proportion of salary costs for journalists producing core news content that is distributed digitally.

Remarkable Programs

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers a range of opportunities to help drive the future of Disability Tech.

O’Shaughnessy Fellowships & Grants

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $100,000

Offers a one-year program that unites the world’s most bold and undiscovered researchers, builders and creatives to find, build and spread new ideas.

SPARK Biz Grants – Women in Business

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $10,000

Helps women in business grow their profit and impact.

GoodWillGrow Charity Partnerships

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Connects small to medium-sized non-profits with passionate SME sponsors, creating a sustainable cycle of support and impact while delivering tangible ROI for businesses.

Equity & Inclusion Crowdfunding Events

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 13th March 2025
Funding Amount: $20,000 - $30,000

Supports non-profit organisations that specifically work to address issues of social inequality, engineering better or innovative solutions to social problems across Australia.

Catalysing Impact Initiative

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 3rd March 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $400,000

Aims to accelerate the growth and impact of Australian purpose-driven businesses and impact enterprises focused on climate resilience and inclusion.

Building Digital Skills Grant

Opening date: 3rd February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: $3,000 - $20,500

Helps organisations deliver free Be Connected digital literacy programs to older Australians in their community.

Corporate Travel Grant

Opening date: 5th February 2025
Closing date: 17th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $30,000

Offers the chance to win 1 of 5 Corporate Travel Grants for your business.

Flight Centre Business Travel is thrilled to announce the return of the annual Corporate Travel Grant, opening doors for Aussie businesses with the chance to claim a share in over $40,000 of travel grant prizes.

Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) Grants

Opening date: 6th February 2025
Closing date: 20th March 2025
Funding Amount: $100,000 - $3,000,000

Provides industry-led collaborations with short term (up to three years) matched funding to develop important new technologies, products and services.

Community

Virgin Australia Sponsorship

Opening date: 15th May 2024
Closing date: 15th May 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Invests in partnerships with organisations who align with Virgin Australia’s purpose, values, policies and who make a significant contribution to their community.

Sanitarium Community Care Program

Opening date: 26th July 2024
Closing date: 26th July 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers mostly in-kind support (products) for community programs, projects or activities.

Arcare Grants Program

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Encourages and supports innovations that give all Australians the opportunity to age well, envisioning a community where older people are valued, supported, and thriving.

Canva’s Nonprofit Program

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Seeks to empower nonprofits to achieve their goals with free access to Canva’s premium features.

The Pollination Project Seed Funding

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: $1,000

Exists to uplift grassroots changemakers whose work helps build a kinder, more compassionate world.

Courier-Mail Children’s Fund

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Exists to change the lives of Queensland children in need.

Consideration is only given for children throughout Queensland. Supporting a range of charitable organisations, the Fund has provided financial assistance for:
– Mobility and learning aids
– Educational equipment and assistance
– Recreational and respite programs
– New technologies
– Medical equipment.

Community Supported Small Grants Program

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides funds to assist individuals experiencing financial disadvantage.

Social workers, case managers or allied health professionals employed by supporting charitable organisations (holding DGR item 1 status) may submit an application on behalf of an individual in need. This program operates in Queensland, New South Wales, the ACT and Victoria.

Reddit Community Funds

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Provides financial support for community projects and events that help make Reddit a better community for everyone.

What kind of projects or events are eligible for funding?
– Projects that encourage participation and involvement between your community’s members, and as an extension, Reddit as a whole
– Projects that are affiliated with or intend to explicitly promote another company, website, or outside project, will not be funded.

Coles Community Support

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Supports many community and charity organisations across Australia through partnerships, fundraising, food donations and disaster relief.

Westfund Community Grants Program

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $3,000

Supports community organisations that inspire the principles of health and wellbeing, family and community and fit for life.

Roots & Shoots Mini Grants

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: $200

Offers a rewarding, seed-funding initiative to promote respect and compassion for all living things in Australia.

My Giving Circle Grants

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Helps charities and not-for-profit organisations access grants, grow their supporter base, raise their profile and generate donations.

Matana Foundation for Young People Grants

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $10,000

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.

Westfield Local Heroes

Opening date: 15th October 2024
Closing date: 13th March 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 to $20,000

Shines the spotlight on individuals in Australia and New Zealand who make a positive impact to their local community or environment.

Mazda Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 31st March 2025
Funding Amount: Undisclosed

Aims to fund two priority areas: supporting primary producers facing hardship and programs that address literacy and numeracy issues amongst primary school aged children.

Bakers Delight Sponsorships

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers sponsorship to community groups, charities, teams and individuals for all kinds of events.

Bendigo Bank Sponsorships, Grants and Scholarships

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Each Bendigo Bank branch supports their local community through sponsorships, grants and scholarships.

National Zakat Foundation Funding

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Assists individuals that fall into the categories of the poor, needy and indebted who are resident in Australia.

Strengthening Rural Communities — Small & Vital

Opening date: 6th December 2024
Closing date: 27th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Gives small remote, rural and regional communities across Australia the opportunity to access funds for a broad range of initiatives that directly and clearly benefit local communities.

Strengthening Rural Communities – Prepare & Recover

Opening date: 6th December 2024
Closing date: 27th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $25,000

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.

Gambling Community Benefit Fund

Opening date: 1st January 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $100,000

Allocates funding to not-for-profit community groups to help them provide services, leisure activities and opportunities for Queensland communities.

Organisations Fund 2026-2029F

Opening date: 13th January 2025
Closing date: 10th March 2025
Funding Amount: $400,000 over 4 years

The Organisations Fund 2026-2029 is a four-year funding program that supports small-to-medium Queensland-based arts and cultural organisations to be stronger businesses and deliver vibrant arts and cultural experiences across the state.

LGBTQIA Small Grants Program

Opening date: 20th January 2025
Closing date: 14th April 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $1,000

Invests in projects that benefit either LGBTQIA+ individuals or community or strengthen LGBTQIA+ organisational capacity.

Backing the Future Grants QLD

Opening date: 20th January 2025
Closing date: 17th March 2025
Funding Amount: $50,000

Provides funding to individuals or groups of individuals whose work supports rural and regional young people aged 15-24.

Waratah Education Public Ancillary Fund

Opening date: 20th January 2025
Closing date: 20th March 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $20,000

Supports underprivileged or disadvantaged families, children, teenagers and young adults so that they have access to educational instruction and to support and fund activities to help break the cycle of poverty and disadvantage.

ETREA Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 31st March 2025
Funding Amount: $2,000 - $10,000

Offers financial support, builds collaborative relationships and networks with like-minded organisations committed to supporting and teaching those in need the tools and skills to rebuild their lives and achieve personal fulfilment.

GrainCorp Community Fund – Grants

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $20,000

Provides financial support to organisations and projects that contribute to the development and promotion of communities within a GrainCorp operational region.

There are two types of activities that are funded:
– Community-related programs & activities (Maximum funding limit: $5,000)
– Community infrastructure projects (Maximum funding limit: $20,000).

Capricorn Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: $50,000 - $90,000

Funds great initiatives or programmes in two funding areas: Nurturing Nature and Overcoming Disadvantage.

GoodWillGrow Charity Partnerships

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Connects small to medium-sized non-profits with passionate SME sponsors, creating a sustainable cycle of support and impact while delivering tangible ROI for businesses.

GIVIT

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Helps eligible organisations obtain the essential items and services they need to support people in need around Australia.

Equity & Inclusion Crowdfunding Events

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 13th March 2025
Funding Amount: $20,000 - $30,000

Supports non-profit organisations that specifically work to address issues of social inequality, engineering better or innovative solutions to social problems across Australia.

Building Digital Skills Grant

Opening date: 3rd February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: $3,000 - $20,500

Helps organisations deliver free Be Connected digital literacy programs to older Australians in their community.

Active Australia Innovation Challenge

Opening date: 3rd February 2025
Closing date: 3rd March 2025
Funding Amount: UP to $30,000

Provides grants for new, innovative projects that get more people moving in schools, universities or local community groups.

Essential Grants

Opening date: 3rd February 2025
Closing date: 31st March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $15,000

Provides financial support to community groups across Essential Energy’s network area, contributing to positive outcomes for regional communities.

The program supports community-based initiatives that align with the following categories:
– Environment. Examples include initiatives that support a circular economy and waste reduction, habitat restoration or community gardens
– Energy Transition. Examples include funding contributions for solar panels or electrifying community buildings
– Education. Examples include the investment in STEM education in schools and community organisations
– Resilience. Examples include the provision of resources that support communities affected by disaster events.

Young Digital Mentor Capacity Builder Grant

Opening date: 3rd February 2025
Closing date: 7th March 2025
Funding Amount: $52,500

Provides funding to train young digital mentors to help more people get online.

Maria Vasas Foundation Grants

Opening date: 3rd February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Funds eligible organisations that support individuals (who face financial, social or cultural barriers) enhance their education and career development opportunities, and arts and education organisations whose programs demonstrate personal and professional development opportunities.

Honda Hero Loan Vehicle

Opening date: 3rd February 2025
Closing date: 11th July 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides vehicles to eligible charities or approved bodies for a 12-month period.

Harcourts Foundation Grants

Opening date: 4th February 2025
Closing date: 3rd May 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides support for a specific event, project, item, or initiative that helps, grows, and enriches our communities.

At Home Care Grants

Opening date: 5th February 2025
Closing date: 19th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Aims to keep young people at home with their families, and prevent new admissions to inappropriate housing.

Youngcare’s At Home Care Grants (AHCG) provide funding for equipment, home modifications and essential support/respite 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 care needs and assist them to remain living in their own home with loved ones.

Supporting Stronger Communities Grant Program

Opening date: 10th February 2025
Closing date: 13th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Enables Neighbourhood and Community Houses and Centres to promote equality and inclusion their local communities.

2025 Queensland Youth Week Community Event Grants

Opening date: 13th February 2025
Closing date: 23rd February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000

Are you a young Queenslander with a passion for making a difference in your community?

We’re offering grants of up to $5,000 (inclusive of GST) to young people aged 12–25 to host exciting and impactful events during Queensland Youth Week 2025 (6–12 April).

Stronger Communities Programme

Opening date: 14th February 2025
Closing date: 28th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $20,000

The Stronger Communities Programme (SCP) provides grants of between $2,500 and $20,000 to community organisations and local governments for infrastructure projects that deliver social benefits for local communities.

Telstra’s Connected Communities Grant Program

Opening date: 20th February 2025
Closing date: 20th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Supports community-led efforts that embrace new technology and improve digital literacy or digital capability.

Telstra’s Connected Communities Grant Program will boost support for communities across remote, rural and regional Australia to enhance liveability with digital solutions that harness the power of connection.

Education

Fundraise Yourself

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides a way for you to fundraise online for a project within your school that improves educational outcomes for students.

Mazda Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 31st March 2025
Funding Amount: Undisclosed

Aims to fund two priority areas: supporting primary producers facing hardship and programs that address literacy and numeracy issues amongst primary school aged children.

Talk Money Financial Literacy in Action Awards

Opening date: 15th November 2024
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: $2,500

Recognises and rewards teachers who inspire their students to be confident in managing money.

ANZMHA Mental Health Study Grant

Opening date: 3rd December 2024
Closing date: 26th February 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000

Provides funding for students enrolling in a course that leads to a mental health qualification (Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma or Masters).

ETREA Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 31st March 2025
Funding Amount: $2,000 - $10,000

Offers financial support, builds collaborative relationships and networks with like-minded organisations committed to supporting and teaching those in need the tools and skills to rebuild their lives and achieve personal fulfilment.

Maria Vasas Foundation Grants

Opening date: 3rd February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Funds eligible organisations that support individuals (who face financial, social or cultural barriers) enhance their education and career development opportunities, and arts and education organisations whose programs demonstrate personal and professional development opportunities.

Cooperative Research Centres Projects (CRC-P) Grants

Opening date: 6th February 2025
Closing date: 20th March 2025
Funding Amount: $100,000 - $3,000,000

Provides industry-led collaborations with short term (up to three years) matched funding to develop important new technologies, products and services.

Health

Arcare Grants Program

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Encourages and supports innovations that give all Australians the opportunity to age well, envisioning a community where older people are valued, supported, and thriving.

Courier-Mail Children’s Fund

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Exists to change the lives of Queensland children in need.

Consideration is only given for children throughout Queensland. Supporting a range of charitable organisations, the Fund has provided financial assistance for:
– Mobility and learning aids
– Educational equipment and assistance
– Recreational and respite programs
– New technologies
– Medical equipment.

Redkite Grants

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides financial assistance for children, aged 18 and under, who either have cancer or have been treated for cancer.

Westfund Community Grants Program

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $3,000

Supports community organisations that inspire the principles of health and wellbeing, family and community and fit for life.

Amgen Australia Donations

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Makes donations to the healthcare and non-healthcare community to further educational, scientific, or other charitable purposes.

The Frankie Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st November 2024
Closing date: 30th November 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $1,000

Helps support kids continue or start therapy if their NDIS plan budget has run out or a therapy or service is not covered by their current NDIS plan.

Remarkable Programs

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers a range of opportunities to help drive the future of Disability Tech.

ANZMHA Mental Health Study Grant

Opening date: 3rd December 2024
Closing date: 26th February 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000

Provides funding for students enrolling in a course that leads to a mental health qualification (Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma or Masters).

At Home Care Grants

Opening date: 5th February 2025
Closing date: 19th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Aims to keep young people at home with their families, and prevent new admissions to inappropriate housing.

Youngcare’s At Home Care Grants (AHCG) provide funding for equipment, home modifications and essential support/respite 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 care needs and assist them to remain living in their own home with loved ones.

Indigenous

Social Enterprise Development Initiative (SEDI) Grants

Opening date: 3rd June 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $120,000

Our Country Our Future

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides a wide range of assistance to Indigenous Australians including to acquire land and water-related rights, and to manage Indigenous-held land and Indigenous waters.

CAGES Foundation – Community Grants

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Supports Aboriginal controlled organisations responding to an immediate need, focused on children aged under five.

Djurwa Partnerships and Sponsorships

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Commits to fostering positive relationships with Indigenous peoples and contributing to their well-being and empowerment.

Infrastructure

Stronger Communities Programme

Opening date: 14th February 2025
Closing date: 28th March 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $20,000

The Stronger Communities Programme (SCP) provides grants of between $2,500 and $20,000 to community organisations and local governments for infrastructure projects that deliver social benefits for local communities.

Sports

SwimStart

Opening date: 7th November 2023
Closing date: 30th May 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $150

Supports learn to swim activities for eligible 0 to 4 year olds.

Australian Sports Foundation Fundraising

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 2nd August 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers a fundraising platform for all sports at all levels to help fund their sporting needs.

Grassroots Cricket Fund

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Funds Queensland community cricket club programs that will grow junior participation.

Emerging Athlete Pathways

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 31st August 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $1,600

Supports eligible young athletes, coaches and officials aged 10-18 years to progress on a development pathway by providing financial assistance to help alleviate the costs associated with attending state, national and international events.

Community Reward Program

Opening date: 1st October 2024
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers a sustainable fundraising platform for your local sporting club.

Roger Rasheed Sports Foundation Support

Opening date: 1st December 2024
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Aims to improve the lives of children in disadvantaged areas by providing access to first-class sports facilities, coaching, equipment, and opportunities to participate in sports.

The program helps foster health, resilience, and community connections through sport.

Local Para Champions

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 30th April 2025
Funding Amount: $750 - $1,000

Provides financial assistance for coaches, officials and competitors aged 12-24 participating in state, national or international championships for athletes with a disability.

Active Australia Innovation Challenge

Opening date: 3rd February 2025
Closing date: 3rd March 2025
Funding Amount: UP to $30,000

Provides grants for new, innovative projects that get more people moving in schools, universities or local community groups.

Transport and Roads

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Water

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Women

Female Founders Co-Investment Fund

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2027
Funding Amount: $50,000 - $200,000

Supports innovative women-led startups preparing for early-stage capital raise.

Accelerating Female Founders Program – Founders

Opening date: 1st August 2024
Closing date: 30th June 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Finds business development programs for Queensland-based female founders or leaders of innovative businesses to take their innovation driven enterprises to the next level, create connections and access opportunities.

Escaping Violence Payment Program

Opening date: 1st September 2024
Closing date: 30th September 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000

Offers financial assistance to help those escaping domestic violence to move forward and set up a home free of violence.

Community Grant Program

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000

Provides grants for community projects and programs that benefit women in Australia.

This grant is aimed at helping grassroots groups who may not be eligible for government assistance, or too small to attract the attention of larger organisations.

SPARK Biz Grants – Women in Business

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 28th February 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $10,000

Helps women in business grow their profit and impact.

My Mummy Grants

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 to $10,000

Offers coaching grants to deserving mums in business.