Artists’ Benevolent Fund

Amount: $2,000
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: To provide immediate assistance following a disaster or catastrophic event in their lives. Pending the capacity of the fund, the panel may consider larger amounts as appropriate to the need of the beneficiary.

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Bob Hawke Landcare Award

Amount: $30,000
Closing Date: 31 December 2024
Purpose: The Bob Hawke Landcare Award is a prestigious national award that publicly recognises an individual, group or organisation that has been involved in championing landcare and inspiring others to take action on their property or in their community.

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Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) Providers Worker Retention Grant Payment

Amount: $3.6 billion to support the 15 per cent wage increase over two years
Closing Date: 30-Sep-2026 
Purpose: Providers can apply to receive grant funding to support a 15 per cent pay increase for eligible ECEC workers over two years from the Australian Government.

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Export Market Development Grants

Amount: $30,000 - $80,000
Closing Date: Undisclosed
Purpose: To bring benefits to Australia by encouraging the creation, development, expansion and diversification of foreign markets for Australian products.

• Tier 1 up to $30,000 per financial year
• Tier 2 up to $50,000 per financial year
• Tier 3 up to $80,000 per financial year
• Representative body up to $50,000 per financial year.

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Financial Wellbeing and Capability Activity - Commonwealth Financial Counselling and Financial Capability

Amount: $154,970
Closing Date: 2 December 2024 
Purpose: The Australian Government is inviting organisations to apply in an open competitive grant process to deliver services under the Families and Communities Program. 

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Financial Wellbeing and Capability Activity - Emergency Relief

Amount: $345 million
Closing Date: December 2024 
Purpose: The Australian Government is inviting organisations to apply for funding under the Financial Wellbeing and Capability Activity – Emergency Relief program, through an open competitive grant process.

This funding supports may include food parcels, clothes or vouchers, such as for supermarket items, utilities or petrol. The program aims to help people manage their immediate crisis, refers people to other relevant services and encourages greater self-reliance. 

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Financial Wellbeing and Capability Activity - Food Relief

Amount: $20.1 million
Closing Date: December 2024 
Purpose: Food Relief is a national financial crisis response program that increases access to a cost-effective supply of food and/or material aid for Emergency Relief providers. This is through:

• Receiving and redistributing donated food and/or material aid (including new or unused stock) 
• Producing, sourcing and transporting food and/or material aid to Emergency Relief providers.

Material aid may include toiletries, personal hygiene products, cleaning products, blankets, clothing, school supplies and essential white goods.

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Financial Wellbeing & Capability Activity Grant -Financial Wellbeing Hubs

Amount: $95.1 million
Closing Date: Undisclosed
Purpose: Financial Wellbeing Hubs will provide integrated, co-located financial wellbeing services, with a strong focus on early intervention and financial capability. Integrated services will include financial counselling and financial capability, Emergency Relief and access to Microfinance products, and will focus on supporting individuals to increase their financial and digital literacy and longer-term financial resilience.

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Housing Australia Future Fund - Crisis and Transitional Accommodation Program

Amount:  $100 million
Closing Date: 13 November 2024
Purpose: To deliver the biggest investment in social housing for crisis and transitional housing options for women and children experiencing family and domestic violence and older women at risk of homelessness in more than a decade. These grants are aimed at establishing new buildings, purchases, or remodels and expansions that increase the stock of crisis and transitional accommodation in Australia.

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Industry Growth Program

Amount:  $50,000 - $5 million
Closing Date: Undisclosed
Purpose: Supporting innovative small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and startups to commercialise their ideas and grow their businesses. There are two matched funding grant opportunities:

• $50,000 - $250,000 to support early-stage commercialisation projects
• $100,000 - $5 million for commercialisation and growth projects.

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Long Tan Bursary

Amount: $12,000
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: The Long Tan Bursary helps eligible children and grandchildren of Vietnam veterans pay for their tertiary education. Each year 37 bursaries are awarded to successful applicants across Australia. Each bursary is worth up to $12,000 over 3 years of continuous full-time study.

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Marking First World War Private Graves Grants Program

Amount: $620 per grave 
Closing Date: 5 November 2024
Purpose: To assist with the purchase of a grave marker for unmarked private graves of veterans of the First World War.  You can seek funding for up to 10 grave markers in each individual application.  

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Maitri Grant Program

Amount: $5 million
Closing Date: 4 November 2024
Purpose: To support projects that will strengthen the Australia-India relationship in new and innovative ways across a number of sectors. The grant program supports projects across the Centre’s four key pillars:  

• Catalyst for business
• Promoting public discourse
• Engaging our Indian diaspora communities to support the bilateral relationship 
• Cultural connections and exchange

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 Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF)

Amount: $3 million 
Closing Date: 5 February 2025
Purpose:  To provide grants of financial assistance to support medical research and medical innovation projects.

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Miscarriage Support

Amount: $5.268 million 
Closing Date: 5 November 2024
Purpose: Miscarriage support grants will fund one or more organisations with demonstrated expertise in providing care and support to women and families impacted by miscarriage with a focus on priority population groups.

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Multicultural Grant

Amount: $100,000
Closing Date: 4 November 2024
Purpose: This program will fund grassroots community organisation’s projects that support activities such as:

• Multicultural celebrations, such as festivals and events
• Multicultural amenities, such as building upgrades, furnishings and equipment
• Intercultural connections, such as intercultural sports programs or art projects.

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On Farm Connectivity Program

Amount: $3,000 - $30,000
Closing Date: TBA
Purpose: To assist primary producers to take advantage of digital agribusiness solutions to boost productivity, improve safety and drive more sustainable farming practices.

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Organisation Support Program (OSP)

Amount: $50,000 - $195,000
Closing Date: 29 November 2024
Purpose: To assist eligible State Sporting Organisation (SSOs) and State Sporting Organisations for People with Disabilities (SSODs) to develop their sporting activities at all levels in NSW.  

The categories and their respective OSP amount available are shown below: 

• Category 1 - $195,000 
• Category 2 - $180,000 
• Category 3 - $120,000 
• Category 4 - $80,000 
• Category 5 - $50,000 

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Preventing Tech-based Abuse of Women Grants Program - Round 2

Amount: $80,000 - $400,000
Closing Date: 16 December 2024
Purpose: To protect Australians from serious online harms. Online harms are actions that take place wholly, or partially, online that can damage an individual’s social, emotional, psychological, financial, or even physical safety. 

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Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science 2025

Amount: $250,000
Closing Date: 17 December 2024
Purpose: Do you know an outstanding scientist, innovator or science teacher? Nominate a scientist or innovator or a science teacher for a prize to shine a light on their achievements and open up new opportunities. 

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Saluting Their Service Commemorative Grant Program

Amount: $10,000 - $150,000
Closing Date: 5 February 2025
Purpose: Ex-service organisations, community groups, councils and schools can apply for funding for projects that preserve Australia's wartime heritage and highlight the service and sacrifice of our Defence personnel. Projects may include:

• Development of a digital honour roll
• Restoration of an honour board
• Purchase of a cabinet to display military memorabilia
• Installation of a flagpole to display Australian National Flags on days of commemoration

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Strengthening Social Cohesion Grants

Amount: $12.25 million 
Closing Date: Undisclosed
Purpose: To support Australian Palestinian, Muslim and other communities affected by the Hamas-Israel conflict. The first round of funding will provide $12.25 million for affected Palestinian, Muslim and other communities, including:  ​

• $7 million for national programs addressing social cohesion impacts felt across communities in Australia;
• $1.25 million to expand and enhance existing social cohesion projects; and
• $4 million for community-led grass roots programs.

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Supporting People with Cancer

Amount: $40,000 - $120,000
Closing Date: Undisclosed
Purpose: To fund projects aimed at reducing the impact of cancer and providing better support for people affected by cancer​

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Urban Precincts & Partnerships Program (uPPP)

Amount: $500,000 - $5 million.
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: To develop a precinct idea through to investment-ready stage in partnership with local stakeholders to benefit regional communities. State and Territory governments, local governments, regional universities, not-for-profit organisations, including indigenous organisations are eligible to apply.

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Anzac Community Grants Program

Amount: $3,000
Closing Date: 11 November 2024
Purpose:  The Anzac Community Grants Program provides small grants for a range of projects that commemorate and educate New South Wales communities about the service and sacrifices of current and former military servicemen and servicewomen.

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Arts Project Funding – Creative Nations

Amount: $40,000 - $100,000
Closing Date: 2 December 2024
Purpose: New arts and cultural funding is now open for First Nations artists and arts and cultural organisations. Creative Nations - First Nations organisations and individual projects

• Small project grants up to $40,000
• Large project grants up to $100,000

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Deadly Deposit Grant

Amount:  $10,000
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: The Deadly Deposit Grant program is 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.

This grant is open to Aboriginal people who are in the process of buying a home. Applications open to social housing tenants. 

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Energy Consumer Australia

Amount:  $15,000
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: To enable residential or small business consumer advocacy by participation in current or forthcoming government, regulatory, or industry decision-making processes, or for small, targeted research projects.

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Home Buyer Booster Grant

Amount:  $2,500
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: To help with some of the expenses associated with buying a property, like legal and administrative costs. This grant can be used for expenses such as:

• Legal fees including the administrative costs of buying a property, and preparing a will
• Property valuations
• Home and contents insurance
• Surveying costs
• Pest and building inspections
• Stamp duty (for non-housing tenants). Aboriginal people living in social housing are exempt from Stamp Duty as per Section 278 of the Duties Act 1997 (NSW).
• Any unspent funds can be used towards other costs associated with buying a home (e.g. moving costs)

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Local Sport Defibrillator Grant Program

Amount: $3,000
Closing Date: 27 November 2024
Purpose: To provide Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) and associated equipment to NSW sport and recreation facilities and clubs.

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Regional Event Fund – Event Development 

Amount: $50,000
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: To support events in regional NSW to grow visitation and increase economic benefits to destinations. The Event Development stream supports the strategic growth of proven events as drivers of tourism.

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Service Reform and Innovation Grant - HIF 

Amount: $15 million
Closing Date: Ongoing
Purpose: The Homelessness Innovation Fund (HIF) will initially target reducing the current demand and costs of temporary accommodation, and proposals for service reform and innovation.

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P&C Transition Grant 2024-25

Amount: $10,000
Closing Date: 30 June 2025
Purpose: To support approved OOSH services that have transitioned to P&C ownership as a result of the recent provider Category Review.

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Surf Club Facility Program - Category 2

Amount: $100,000 - $500,000
Closing Date: 11 November 2024
Purpose: The Surf Club Facility Program aims to assist eligible Surf Life Saving Clubs throughout NSW to create new and upgraded inclusive and accessible facilities. Category 2 - Small-Medium Construction Projects with a total project cost from $100,000 up to $500,000.

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Tertiary Health Study Subsidies

Amount: $12,000 
Closing Date: When all subsidies are awarded
Purpose: Are you a student enrolled in a health care degree? You can now apply for up to $12,000 in subsidies to support you in your studies!

This initiative will create a future pipeline of health workers with up to 850 nursing students, 400 medical students and 150 midwifery students expected to enter the subsidy program each year.

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