Sector Grants

Aged Care Capital Assistance Program

The Aged Care Capital Assistance Program provides aged care infrastructure grants aimed at maintaining or increasing access to quality aged care services in thin market settings for people:

  • from First Nations communities
  • living in regional, rural, and remote areas
  • who are homeless, or at risk of becoming homeless
  • with other complex and diverse needs, including dementia.

This grant opportunity will provide grant funding for infrastructure projects across four funding streams which are primarily focused on maintaining or improving access to quality aged care services in small rural towns, remote and very remote communities and will also support specific groups of older Australians, including people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and First Nations communities.

Locations: National

Opens: 13 November 2023

Closes: 12 January 2023

Grant Type: Aged Care

Max. Grant:  Refer to guidelines. Stream 4 (First Nations) $800,000 minor projects / $150,000 equipment.

Co-contribution: Unspecified

Eligibility: Must be an Australian Government approved aged care provider and meet additional eligibility criteria – refer to guidelines.

Agency: Department of Health and Aged Care

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Queensland Gives - Regional Grant Making (QLD Only)

The QCF regional grants program aims to support eligible charitable organisations providing services in the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Toowoomba and Darling Downs region and Northern Queensland.

Charities and causes supported may fit within, but are not limited to community wellbeing, health, arts and culture, animal welfare, children and youth, education, environment, medical research, indigenous and religion. Please check individual regional grant guidelines for grant criteria.

Locations: QLD

Closes: 15 December 2023

Grant Type: Health

Max. Grant: $30,000

Co-contribution: Unspecified

Eligibility: Charitable Organisations (QLD Only)

Agency: Queensland Gives

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Infrastructure Grants: Community Infrastructure (NSW Only)

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

Locations: NSW

Opens: 27 November 2023

Closes: 18 December 2023

Grant Type: Infrastructure

Max. Grant: $250,000

Co-contribution: Encouraged

Eligibility: Not-for-profit organisations that will be responsible for operating and/or maintaining the infrastructure. (NSW Only)

Agency: Office of Responsible Gambling

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Territory Aboriginal Investment Corporation (NTAIC) Grants Program (NT Only)

The purpose of the NTAIC Grants Program is to promote self-determination and economic self-sufficiency of Aboriginal people living in the NT and to promote their social and cultural wellbeing. The NTAIC Grants Program aims to ensure:

  • Funding is provided to Aboriginal people in the NT.
  • NTAIC Grants maximise strategic opportunities and drive economic, social and cultural outcomes.

There are two streams – General Grants and Innovation Grants.

Locations: NT

Opens: Always open

Closes: See agency website for funding round timings

Grant Type: Various

Max. Grant: General Grants – $500,000 per year (up to $1.5 million over three years).

Innovation Grants – $10 million

Co-contribution: Not specified

Eligibility: Indigenous Organisations in the NT.

Agency: NTAIC

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IMPACT Philanthropy Application Program

Allows philanthropists and Not-for-Profits (NFPs) to connect, and allows NFPs to demonstrate how they improve outcomes for the communities in which they operate. Perpetual distributes around $120 million annually from the charitable trusts and endowments they manage. Many of these trusts and endowments are created with specific directions around the charities that will benefit. However, where trusts and endowments have a more flexible approach to grant making, Perpetual undertakes a rigorous application program that matches clients’ wishes with suitable organisations.

Locations: National

Opens: 26 October 2023

Closes: 8 December 2023

Grant Type: Philanthropic

Max. Grant: $120,000

Co-contribution: Not specified

Eligibility: Be a registered charity on the ACNC register and/or Australian Taxation Office Deductible Gift Recipient

Agency: Perpetual (Private Sector)

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Queensland Community Foundation - General Fund (QLD Only)

Assists QLD charities to develop their structures, systems, people and skills in order to deliver improved outcomes for the community. QCF’s grant making from the General Fund focuses on organisational capacity building assisting charities develop their structures, systems, people and skills in order to deliver improved outcomes. Typically, capacity building focuses on education and training, recruiting, maintaining or recognising volunteers, information technology support systems, and planning and governance which may include strategic plans, constitution reviews or board appraisals.

Locations: QLD

Opens: Currently Open

Closes: 15 December 2023

Grant Type: Capacity Building

Max. Grant: $30,000

Co-contribution: Not specified

Eligibility: QLD only. Must have Deductible Gift Recipient Item 1 (DGR1) status.

Agency: Queensland Community Foundation

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Sexually Transmissible Infections and Blood Borne Viruses Services Grant (ACT Only)

This Grant Opportunity will provide $2.885 million in funding annually over seven years (from 1 May 2024) to eligible Non-Government Organisations, for services, projects or programs that aim to reduce and prevent the transmission and minimise the impacts of STIs and BBVs in the broader Canberra community. Funding is available across six streams:

– Clinical services, Prevention and harm reduction, Support and advocacy, Health promotion and education, Community development and engagement, Workforce training & development and clinical practice support.

Locations: ACT

Opens: 7 November 2023

Closes: 19 December 2023

Grant Type: Health

Max. Grant: Unspecified

Co-contribution: Unspecified

Eligibility: Various, must be incorporated. ACT Only

Agency: ACT Health Directorate

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Youpla Group Funeral Benefits Program

The program addresses the urgent need to allow families with deceased loved ones who were insured under a Youpla Group funeral expenses policy to mourn and conduct Sorry Business with the dignity that had been intended. The program will pay a grant in place of a funeral benefit that would otherwise have been paid in response to the death of a person covered by a Youpla Group policy, where the policy was active on or after 1 April 2020, prior to the Youpla Group’s collapse.

Locations: NSW

Opens: 7 September 2023

Closes: 30 June 2024 (extended)

Grant Type: Funeral Expenses Targeted

Max. Grant: $20,000

Co-contribution: Not specified

Eligibility:

To be eligible you must be the expected recipient of a funeral benefit of a Youpla Group policy, where the policy:

  • was active on or after 1 April 2020 and
  • insures the life of another person (the nominee) and that other person has died.

Agency: The Treasury Department

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Rural Procedural Grants Program (National)

This program aims to support procedural GPs who work in rural and remote areas to:

  • improve or extend current skill levels
  • ensure they have the skills to provide high-quality services
  • comply with the professional development requirements of their GP college.

This helps ensure people in rural and remote areas have access to highly skilled health professionals. Helps cover the cost of professional development for procedural general practitioners (GPs) who work in rural and remote areas. The RPGP provides grants of up to $32,000 to rural GPs and locums who provide procedural services. This helps with the cost of attending continuing professional development activities, to maintain or increase their procedural and emergency medicine skills (including emergency mental health).

Locations: National

Opens: Always open

Closes: N/A

Grant Type: Health

Max. Grant: $32,000

Co-contribution: Not specified

Eligibility: Must be a GP working in a MMM 3-7 region. Please see section 6 of the Guidelines.

Agency: Department of Health and Aged Care

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Disaster Recovery Quick Response Grants (National)

Assists any Indigenous corporation whose property has been directly affected by a declared natural disaster, such as a flood, bushfire, or cyclone.

The funding can be used for immediate clean up your property, work to make your property safe and purchase plant and equipment to assist with recovery efforts.

Please note: the funding does not cover repair and replacement of items that are covered under existing insurance policies unless there is a clear and urgent health and safety risk to humans and livestock or any work that has already occurred.

Locations: National

Opens: Always open

Closes: N/A

Grant Type: Health

Max. Grant: $20,000

Co-contribution: Unspecified

Eligibility: Indigenous corporations (incorporated) may be eligible for assistance through the program if:

  • Their property is within a State or Territory declared natural disaster area.
  • They require immediate assistance to make their property safe to access.

Agency: Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation

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Innovative Models of Care – Funding Community Supported Rural Primary Care Trials

This program aims to enable the implementation of new innovative primary care service delivery models, and determine whether these models improve the attractiveness of rural practice and lead to better delivery of health services to communities in rural and remote Australia. The objectives of the grant opportunity are:

– To work with small connected rural and remote communities to develop a new model of care to provide primary healthcare in areas of market failure or workforce need

– To test new ways of delivering primary healthcare services across small connected rural and remote communities in areas of market failure or workforce need

– To test the key elements of effectiveness and sustainability of these models of care and determine their applicability in similar rural and remote communities nationally.

Locations: National

Opens: 8 November 2023

Closes: 15 December 2023

Grant Type: Health

Max. Grant: $1.6 million over 5 years.

Co-contribution: Unspecified

Eligibility: Various including ATSI Corporations and Not-For-Profits. MMM 3-7 regions.

Agency: Department of Health and Aged Care

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Community Wellbeing Grants

Seeks to fund initiatives delivered by organisations supporting people with disabilities, or otherwise marginalised individuals primarily with the objective to secure employment pathways. The Foundation seeks to identify and support those organisations which have well thought out projects that seek to help vulnerable members of the community to overcome the challenging circumstances in which they find themselves.

Locations: National

Opens: 19 February 2024

Closes: 7 June 2024

Grant Type: Disabilities/Employment

Max. Grant: $100,000

Co-contribution: Required

Eligibility: Not-for-profits

Agency: Ian Potter Foundation

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Collective Healing Grants 2023 - 2024

The aims of the Stolen Generations Collective Healing Grants are:

  • Stolen Generations survivors are supported to develop and lead their own solutions to the profound trauma they, their families and community have experienced;
  • To provide healing responses that are culturally based, strengths focused, trauma aware and healing informed;
  • Stolen Generations survivors are assisted to connect with culture and strengthen their cultural identity and pride;
  • To build on current knowledge about the types of projects/responses that contribute to healing Stolen Generations survivors and their descendants; and
  • To support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander controlled organisations who are delivering services to, and for, Stolen Generations survivors and their descendants focused on collective healing.

Locations: National

Closes: 19 December 2023

Grant Type: Healing

Max. Grant: $40,000

Co-contribution: Unspecified

Eligibility: Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations

Agency: The Healing Foundation

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Fair Work Commission (FWC) Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP) Base Funding

The objective of the program is to provide funding for CHSP service providers for the actual cost of increasing wages and associated on-costs from 1 July 2023 to meet minimum award wage requirements. The intended outcome of the program is CHSP service providers pass on to eligible aged care workers the award wage increases of up to 15 per cent from 1 July 2023.

Locations: National

Opens: Currently Open

Closes: 30 November 2023

Grant Type: Aged Care

Max. Grant: Varied – Refer Grant Guidelines

Co-contribution: Not specified

Eligibility: Various, including ATSI Corporation and must be An existing Commonwealth Home Support service provider

Agency: Department of Health and Aged Care

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Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants - Community Infrastructure (NSW Only)

Provides funding to support community infrastructure such as a multipurpose community hub or a service for an eligible community group. The objective of the Clubgrants Category 3 Infrastructure Grants program is to fund the costs of construction, alteration, renovation, completion and fit-out of buildings and community infrastructure to deliver outcomes for disadvantaged NSW communities including regional, remote and drought-affected areas, culturally and linguistically diverse, disability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and disaster-affected communities.

Locations: NSW

Opens: 27 November 2023

Closes: 18 December 2023

Grant Type: Infrastructure

Max. Grant: $250,000

Co-contribution: Encouraged

Eligibility: NSW Only. Not-for-profit organisations that will be responsible for operating and/or maintaining the infrastructure

Agency: NSW Office of Responsible Gambling

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Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS): Support for Community Sector Organisations (National)

NIAA has been allocated $190 million over four years (2022-23 to 2025-26), to support Community Sector Organisations (CSOs) already receiving an Indigenous Advancement Strategy (IAS) grant for an eligible activity. The purpose of this funding is to support these organisations at need of funding supplementation due to additional staff wages pressures and high inflations rates.

Locations: National

Opens: 12 May 2023

Closes: 30 June 2026

Grant Type: CSO Support

Max. Grant: Unspecified

Co-contribution: Variable – see section 3.1 of Guidelines

Eligibility: Complex – see sections 2 and 4 of the guidelines. The additional funding is only to be provided to CSOs which were already receiving an IAS grant when the measure was announced, and which may be managing financial sustainability issues as a result of the Fair Work Commission’s minimum wage decision and/or higher inflation outcomes.

Agency: National Indigenous Australians Agency

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Justice Reinvestment in Central Australia Program – Round 1 (NT Only)

The intended outcomes of this grant opportunity are:

  • Community-led crime prevention in Central Australia to reduce contact with the criminal justice system and incarceration rates of First Nations adults and young people, in line with Closing the Gap Targets 10 and 11.
  • Contributing to strengthened community supports, treatments and diversionary measures for drug and alcohol use and addiction in Central Australia.

Contributing to building a strong and sustainable First Nations community-controlled sector delivering high quality services to meet the needs of First Nations people in Central Australia.

Locations: NT

Opens:

12 October 2023 for assessment cycle 2

Closes:

5 January 2023 for assessment cycle 2

Grant Type: Community/Justice

Max. Grant: $4.75 million over four years.

Co-contribution: Not specified

Eligibility: Community-led initiative must be based in the Central Australia area in the Northern Territory, as described by the Northern Territory government.

Agency: Attorney-General’s Department

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Community Benefit Fund - Vehicle Gifts (NT only)

Enables eligible organisations in the Northern Territory to purchase surplus ex-government vehicles. This program aims to improve the capacity of not-for-profit organisations to provide services, leisure activities and opportunities to Northern Territorians.

Locations: NT

Opens: 1 July 2023

Closes: 31 August 2023

Grant Type: Community Support

Max. Grant: Not specified

Co-contribution: Not specified

Eligibility: Northern Territory Only. Must be a NT based non-profit community organisation.

Agency: NT Department of Industry, Tourism and Trade

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Noongar Charitable Trust (WA Only)

Aims to support projects run by Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations which offer a direct and noticeable benefit to the Noongar community.

Locations: WA

Opens: N/A

Closes: 20 January 2024

Grant Type: Community

Max. Grant: $100,000

Co-contribution: Not specified

Eligibility: Grants will be made to incorporated, Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations that are based and delivered within Noongar Community

Agency: Noongar Charitable Trust

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Strengthening Rural Communities – Rebuilding Rural Communities Round 19

This program 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.

The objectives of the program are to:

  • Enhance the process of recovery of remote, rural and regional communities from the COVID-19 pandemic;
  • Reduce social isolation and foster stronger, more resilient remote, rural and regional communities; and/or

Sustain local remote, rural and regional organisations and their work.

Locations: National

Opens: 8 September 2023

Closes: 4 December 2023

Grant Type: Community

Max. Grant: $50,000

Co-contribution: Unspecified

Eligibility: Not-for-profit organisation with either an Incorporation Certificate and/or an ABN – project must benefit communities in remote, rural or regional Australia.

Agency: The Foundation for Rural Regional Renewal

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