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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.

Social Enterprise Growth Grants

Opening date: 12th August 2024
Closing date: 5th December 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $25,000

Provides grants to eligible established Queensland social enterprises for capability and capacity building that supports the business to scale up or adapt.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

First Nations Business Acceleration Program

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 4th February 2027
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Boosts innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities for mature Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses in Queensland.

Real School Grants Program

Opening date: 15th February 2025
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000

Helps aid school funding to schools and school groups/committees across Australia.

The Youi Student Grant

Opening date: 24th February 2025
Closing date: 24th October 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000

Aims to back students with different skillsets, perspectives and experiences who can add uniqueness to what Youi does.

Youi is keen to support the next generation of minds and give them a place to shine. So they’ve introduced the Youi Student Grant.

Ignite Program

Opening date: 1st March 2025
Closing date: 31st March 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides a whole spectrum of support and guidance to help you grow your business ideas.

From expert advice to funding opportunities, mentorship programs to invaluable networking connections, the innovation landscape is brimming with resources to propel you forward.

Invested in Queensland Program

Opening date: 1st March 2025
Closing date: 31st March 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Through our partnerships with industry, we’re supercharging Queensland’s economic growth and creating a new generation of jobs for Queenslanders.

Queensland Innovation Precincts and Places Fund: Stream 3 — Regional Precincts and Places Infrastructure & Technology Program

Opening date: 1st March 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2027
Funding Amount: Up to $3,000,000

Funds smart infrastructure, technology and upgrades that support future industry focused collaborative projects.

Brisbane Broncos Charities Fund (BBCF)

Opening date: 1st March 2025
Closing date: 31st March 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides encouragement, assistance and financial support for the underprivileged and disadvantaged youth of Queensland.

Nespresso Care for You Fund

Opening date: 4th March 2025
Closing date: 14th November 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $15,000

The Nespresso Care for You Fund is their first community-driven, charity donation initiative to launch here in Australia and New Zealand. Over the next 12 months, the fund will donate a total of AUD $75k to local charities, all of which will be nominated and voted on by you, Nespresso’s community of coffee lovers.

Charity Categories:
– Climate and Nature
– Community Development/Neighbourhood
– Female Empowerment
– Food Action
– Mental Health & Wellbeing
– Sustainable Production and Consumption.

Marketing and Technology Grants

Opening date: 1st April 2025
Closing date: 30th April 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $30,000

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

Australian Communities Foundation Funding Platform

Opening date: 1st April 2025
Closing date: 30th April 2026
Funding Amount: $2,000 - $15,000

Showcases granting opportunities so ACF’s community of givers can be inspired to support initiatives that are aligned with their interests.

Bega Group Sponsorships

Opening date: 1st April 2025
Closing date: 30th April 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Supports organisations with as wide community benefit as possible and in projects that have a lasting benefit.

WFI Insurance Sponsorship

Opening date: 1st May 2025
Closing date: 31st May 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers supports to a range of agricultural, commercial and community partnerships that reflect shared goals and common organisation values.

Rabobank Sponsorships

Opening date: 1st May 2025
Closing date: 31st May 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Aims to support the prosperity of agriculture, farmers and rural communities, and seeks to work with organisations that are committed to the same values.

Rabobank’s single focus is Australian agribusiness.

If you have an opportunity that benefits the food and agribusiness industry, a specific sector, commodity, or region and offers meaningful Ag community engagement, please get in touch.

Double the Goodness Grant

Opening date: 20th May 2025
Closing date: 31st May 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Aims to perpetuate goodness where budgets are constrained which is often right at the coalface, where real, positive impact happens.

Whether you’re a start-up, small business, growing company, corporation, a social enterprise or not for profit, we all need to keep generating more engaged customers and supporters.

NewAccess for Small Business Owners

Opening date: 28th May 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Beyond Blue’s NewAccess for Small Business Owners is a free and confidential mental health coaching program designed to support small business owners and sole traders.

You have the option of 8 sessions, where you’ll work with a dedicated coach with a background in small business. Your coach will work with you to develop practical tools for managing stress, building resilience, and navigating both personal and professional challenges.

Industry Partnership Program QLD

Opening date: 28th May 2025
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Funding amounts vary

This program provides support for projects which support development of industries which will be in demand as the world decarbonises.

Private Sector Pathways Program QLD

Opening date: 29th May 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2027
Funding Amount: Matched funding of up to $50,000

This program provides funding to Queensland small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and scaleups to help them find solutions to corporate challenges.

First Nations Innovation Acceleration Program QLD

Opening date: 29th May 2025
Closing date: 4th February 2027
Funding Amount: Funding and advisory services

This program supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander innovative businesses in Queensland who are established and looking to scale.

Small Business Energy Incentive

Opening date: 29th May 2025
Closing date: 31st July 2026
Funding Amount: A maximum bonus tax deduction of $20,000

This program provides a bonus tax deduction for the cost of eligible assets and improvements that support more efficient use of energy.

Wellness coaches for QLD small businesses

Opening date: 1st June 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Wellness coaches are available for owners and employed family members of small business owners. Coaches can help in finding the right service available and provide references to specialist service providers for support to reduce stress, improve wellbeing and provide flexible business support.

Queensland Smart Farms

Opening date: 1st June 2025
Closing date: 30th April 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

AgTech providers, producers and supply chain businesses may trial technology and accelerate development, testing and adoption through use of available smart farms. Expression of Interest (EOI) opportunities

Start-Up Finance Package

Opening date: 1st June 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $150,000

The Start-up Finance Package provides Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander start-ups with access to loans to help new businesses get off the ground.

Small Business Skills and Training Boost

Opening date: 1st June 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Additional 20% tax deduction

This initiative provides small businesses with a bonus tax deduction to help them train new staff and upskill existing staff.

Small Business Support Pool QLD

Opening date: 1st June 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: $2,000

This program supports small businesses to retain employees supported through the Back to Work Incentive Payments.

Community Sponsorship Program

Opening date: 1st July 2025
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: $500

Supports local sporting clubs throughout Australia.

Deafness Foundation Grants

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

Supports the deaf and hearing impaired community through research, prevention, education, early detection or technology.

The Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism

Opening date: 1st July 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: $10,000

Provides a grant to a journalist to produce significant content in any medium profiling issues in the Pacific region.

International Travel Fund

Opening date: 1st July 2025
Closing date: 11th November 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $20,000

Supports international travel costs associated with Australian artists, creative workers and organisations attending significant market development platforms or key gatherings overseas.

Cheaper Home Batteries Program

Opening date: 1st July 2025
Closing date: 31st December 2030
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides households, community organisations and small businesses with a discount on the upfront cost of installing a small-scale solar battery.

Local Sporting Champions

Opening date: 1st August 2025
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: $500 - $750

Provides financial assistance for coaches, officials and competitors aged 12-18 participating in state, national or international championships.

Direct Giving Program

Opening date: 1st August 2025
Closing date: 31st August 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $2,500

Offers funding for Australians facing acute financial stress; when support is urgently needed and other options have been exhausted.

World Mental Health Day Community Fund

Opening date: 1st August 2025
Closing date: 21st November 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $3,200

Supports communities to start or expand projects that positively impact mental health and well-being.

Focus on Maths Grants

Opening date: 1st August 2025
Closing date: 31st August 2026
Funding Amount: $2,000 - $30,000

Aims to help build equity of access to maths education and improve the maths skills of students across a range of schools in Australia, by building capacity in maths teaching.

Harcourts Foundation Grants

Opening date: 4th August 2025
Closing date: 3rd November 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

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

Contemporary Music Touring Program

Opening date: 8th August 2025
Closing date: 14th October 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $55,000

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

Australian Veterans’ Children Assistance Trust Scholarships

Opening date: 18th August 2025
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $18,000

Helps eligible children and grandchildren of Vietnam veterans pay for their tertiary education.

2025 Rail Heritage Grants Program

Opening date: 25th August 2025
Closing date: 17th October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $20,000

​The one-off grants program is open to not-for-profit, Queensland-based rail heritage operators that have an Australian Business Number (ABN) or Australian Company Number (ACN).

Grants of up to $20,000 will be awarded to rail heritage operators that can demonstrate a clear need for financial support for maintenance and repairs to rollingstock or community rail infrastructure.​

Frank Hall-Bentick Education Fund

Opening date: 1st September 2025
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $2,500

Assists indigenous and non-indigenous people with disability to participate in both formal and informal education programs through small financial grants

Innovate with nbn™ Grants Program

Opening date: 1st September 2025
Closing date: 12th October 2025
Funding Amount: $15,000 - $35,000

Recognises and showcases regional and remote businesses.

Saluting Their Service Commemorative Grants Program – Community Grants

Opening date: 1st September 2025
Closing date: 5th February 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Aims to commemorate the service and sacrifice of Australia’s service personnel who served in wars, conflicts and peace operations, including National Service personnel, and their families.

Grassroots Environmental Grants

Opening date: 1st September 2025
Closing date: 8th October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $30,000

Grants will be provided to eligible recipients to increase and support their capacity to improve the sustainability of our natural assets and/or protect and improve the biodiversity of Queensland’s natural environments.

Wine Tourism and Cellar Door Grant

Opening date: 1st September 2025
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $100,000

The Wine Tourism and Cellar Door Grant program has been introduced to support producers who add value by encouraging visitors to wine regions. Wine producers will be able to access an annual grant reflective of their eligible physical cellar door sales.

Annamila First Nations Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st September 2025
Closing date: 30th September 2026
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $30,000

Supports First Nations led initiatives by gifting and bringing people together.

BDR Community Grants Program

Opening date: 1st September 2025
Closing date: 30th September 2026
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $10,000

Supports initiatives that; help people who suffer from mental illness, help prevent suicide, and raise awareness of both mental health and suicide prevention.

Myer Foundation – Mental Health Grants

Opening date: 1st September 2025
Closing date: 30th September 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Focuses on empowering people with lived experience and community-based organisations to improve mental health outcomes.

International Engagement Fund

Opening date: 2nd September 2025
Closing date: 14th October 2025
Funding Amount: $5000 - $30,000

Supports Australian artists and creative workers to undertake reciprocal exchange projects with confirmed international partners.

Westpac Young Technologists Scholarship

Opening date: 2nd September 2025
Closing date: 13th January 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $20,000

Supports talented and inquisitive high school graduates looking to strengthen their passion and expertise in technology to innovate and create new opportunities and inspire good in the world of STEM.

Gambling Community Benefit Fund

Opening date: 8th September 2025
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $35,000

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

Equity Trustees Community Grants Program

Opening date: 8th September 2025
Closing date: 13th October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $100,000

Supports locally led initiatives that tackle barriers, strengthen community networks, and centre self-determination and social justice.

Responsible Wood Community Grants Program

Opening date: 8th September 2025
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: $2,000 - $15,000

Supports regional and rural Australian communities create and complete local forest based projects that suits both communities and the forests’ needs.

Festivals Australia

Opening date: 9th September 2025
Closing date: 7th October 2025
Funding Amount: $2,500 - $150,000

Provides funding to support individual art projects in regional or remote locations.

AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award

Opening date: 10th September 2025
Closing date: 30th January 2026
Funding Amount: $15,000 - $35,000

Provides a platform to inspire and support Australian women to use and develop their skills to benefit their industries and communities.

Rural Women’s Acceleration Grant

Opening date: 10th September 2025
Closing date: 7th November 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $7,000

Fosters growth and development in women involved in Australia’s rural and emerging industries, businesses, and communities.

Creative Futures Fund

Opening date: 12th September 2025
Closing date: 11th November 2025
Funding Amount: $50,000 to $1,500,000

Invests in the creation and sharing of Australian stories through exceptional creative projects across all artforms that can clearly demonstrate ambition, audience reach and impact.

Community Education Program Grants

Opening date: 15th September 2025
Closing date: 24th October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Funds sustainable education and life skill development programs designed to help and support disadvantaged young Australians under the age of 25.

Colonial Foundation Grants

Opening date: 16th September 2025
Closing date: 16th September 2026
Funding Amount: From $750,000

Drives positive social change in Australia by partnering with organisations that empower Australians to achieve the most out of life and develop a healthy, fair and innovative society.

Leonardo.Ai Imagination Fund

Opening date: 17th September 2025
Closing date: 17th October 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000

Supports projects that push the boundaries of imagination and showcase the power of AI in the creative process.

Arts

The Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism

Opening date: 1st July 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: $10,000

Provides a grant to a journalist to produce significant content in any medium profiling issues in the Pacific region.

International Travel Fund

Opening date: 1st July 2025
Closing date: 11th November 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $20,000

Supports international travel costs associated with Australian artists, creative workers and organisations attending significant market development platforms or key gatherings overseas.

Contemporary Music Touring Program

Opening date: 8th August 2025
Closing date: 14th October 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $55,000

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

International Engagement Fund

Opening date: 2nd September 2025
Closing date: 14th October 2025
Funding Amount: $5000 - $30,000

Supports Australian artists and creative workers to undertake reciprocal exchange projects with confirmed international partners.

Festivals Australia

Opening date: 9th September 2025
Closing date: 7th October 2025
Funding Amount: $2,500 - $150,000

Provides funding to support individual art projects in regional or remote locations.

Business

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.

Social Enterprise Growth Grants

Opening date: 12th August 2024
Closing date: 5th December 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $25,000

Provides grants to eligible established Queensland social enterprises for capability and capacity building that supports the business to scale up or adapt.

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.

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.

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.

Ignite Program

Opening date: 1st March 2025
Closing date: 31st March 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides a whole spectrum of support and guidance to help you grow your business ideas.

From expert advice to funding opportunities, mentorship programs to invaluable networking connections, the innovation landscape is brimming with resources to propel you forward.

Invested in Queensland Program

Opening date: 1st March 2025
Closing date: 31st March 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Through our partnerships with industry, we’re supercharging Queensland’s economic growth and creating a new generation of jobs for Queenslanders.

Queensland Innovation Precincts and Places Fund: Stream 3 — Regional Precincts and Places Infrastructure & Technology Program

Opening date: 1st March 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2027
Funding Amount: Up to $3,000,000

Funds smart infrastructure, technology and upgrades that support future industry focused collaborative projects.

Marketing and Technology Grants

Opening date: 1st April 2025
Closing date: 30th April 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $30,000

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

Australian Communities Foundation Funding Platform

Opening date: 1st April 2025
Closing date: 30th April 2026
Funding Amount: $2,000 - $15,000

Showcases granting opportunities so ACF’s community of givers can be inspired to support initiatives that are aligned with their interests.

Bega Group Sponsorships

Opening date: 1st April 2025
Closing date: 30th April 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Supports organisations with as wide community benefit as possible and in projects that have a lasting benefit.

WFI Insurance Sponsorship

Opening date: 1st May 2025
Closing date: 31st May 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers supports to a range of agricultural, commercial and community partnerships that reflect shared goals and common organisation values.

Rabobank Sponsorships

Opening date: 1st May 2025
Closing date: 31st May 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Aims to support the prosperity of agriculture, farmers and rural communities, and seeks to work with organisations that are committed to the same values.

Rabobank’s single focus is Australian agribusiness.

If you have an opportunity that benefits the food and agribusiness industry, a specific sector, commodity, or region and offers meaningful Ag community engagement, please get in touch.

Double the Goodness Grant

Opening date: 20th May 2025
Closing date: 31st May 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Aims to perpetuate goodness where budgets are constrained which is often right at the coalface, where real, positive impact happens.

Whether you’re a start-up, small business, growing company, corporation, a social enterprise or not for profit, we all need to keep generating more engaged customers and supporters.

NewAccess for Small Business Owners

Opening date: 28th May 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Beyond Blue’s NewAccess for Small Business Owners is a free and confidential mental health coaching program designed to support small business owners and sole traders.

You have the option of 8 sessions, where you’ll work with a dedicated coach with a background in small business. Your coach will work with you to develop practical tools for managing stress, building resilience, and navigating both personal and professional challenges.

Industry Partnership Program QLD

Opening date: 28th May 2025
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Funding amounts vary

This program provides support for projects which support development of industries which will be in demand as the world decarbonises.

Private Sector Pathways Program QLD

Opening date: 29th May 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2027
Funding Amount: Matched funding of up to $50,000

This program provides funding to Queensland small to medium enterprises (SMEs) and scaleups to help them find solutions to corporate challenges.

Small Business Energy Incentive

Opening date: 29th May 2025
Closing date: 31st July 2026
Funding Amount: A maximum bonus tax deduction of $20,000

This program provides a bonus tax deduction for the cost of eligible assets and improvements that support more efficient use of energy.

Wellness coaches for QLD small businesses

Opening date: 1st June 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Wellness coaches are available for owners and employed family members of small business owners. Coaches can help in finding the right service available and provide references to specialist service providers for support to reduce stress, improve wellbeing and provide flexible business support.

Queensland Smart Farms

Opening date: 1st June 2025
Closing date: 30th April 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

AgTech providers, producers and supply chain businesses may trial technology and accelerate development, testing and adoption through use of available smart farms. Expression of Interest (EOI) opportunities

Start-Up Finance Package

Opening date: 1st June 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $150,000

The Start-up Finance Package provides Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander start-ups with access to loans to help new businesses get off the ground.

Small Business Skills and Training Boost

Opening date: 1st June 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Additional 20% tax deduction

This initiative provides small businesses with a bonus tax deduction to help them train new staff and upskill existing staff.

Small Business Support Pool QLD

Opening date: 1st June 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: $2,000

This program supports small businesses to retain employees supported through the Back to Work Incentive Payments.

Innovate with nbn™ Grants Program

Opening date: 1st September 2025
Closing date: 12th October 2025
Funding Amount: $15,000 - $35,000

Recognises and showcases regional and remote businesses.

Wine Tourism and Cellar Door Grant

Opening date: 1st September 2025
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $100,000

The Wine Tourism and Cellar Door Grant program has been introduced to support producers who add value by encouraging visitors to wine regions. Wine producers will be able to access an annual grant reflective of their eligible physical cellar door sales.

AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award

Opening date: 10th September 2025
Closing date: 30th January 2026
Funding Amount: $15,000 - $35,000

Provides a platform to inspire and support Australian women to use and develop their skills to benefit their industries and communities.

Creative Futures Fund

Opening date: 12th September 2025
Closing date: 11th November 2025
Funding Amount: $50,000 to $1,500,000

Invests in the creation and sharing of Australian stories through exceptional creative projects across all artforms that can clearly demonstrate ambition, audience reach and impact.

Colonial Foundation Grants

Opening date: 16th September 2025
Closing date: 16th September 2026
Funding Amount: From $750,000

Drives positive social change in Australia by partnering with organisations that empower Australians to achieve the most out of life and develop a healthy, fair and innovative society.

Leonardo.Ai Imagination Fund

Opening date: 17th September 2025
Closing date: 17th October 2025
Funding Amount: $10,000

Supports projects that push the boundaries of imagination and showcase the power of AI in the creative process.

Community

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.

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.

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.

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.

Queensland Innovation Precincts and Places Fund: Stream 3 — Regional Precincts and Places Infrastructure & Technology Program

Opening date: 1st March 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2027
Funding Amount: Up to $3,000,000

Funds smart infrastructure, technology and upgrades that support future industry focused collaborative projects.

Brisbane Broncos Charities Fund (BBCF)

Opening date: 1st March 2025
Closing date: 31st March 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides encouragement, assistance and financial support for the underprivileged and disadvantaged youth of Queensland.

Nespresso Care for You Fund

Opening date: 4th March 2025
Closing date: 14th November 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $15,000

The Nespresso Care for You Fund is their first community-driven, charity donation initiative to launch here in Australia and New Zealand. Over the next 12 months, the fund will donate a total of AUD $75k to local charities, all of which will be nominated and voted on by you, Nespresso’s community of coffee lovers.

Charity Categories:
– Climate and Nature
– Community Development/Neighbourhood
– Female Empowerment
– Food Action
– Mental Health & Wellbeing
– Sustainable Production and Consumption.

WFI Insurance Sponsorship

Opening date: 1st May 2025
Closing date: 31st May 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Offers supports to a range of agricultural, commercial and community partnerships that reflect shared goals and common organisation values.

Deafness Foundation Grants

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

Supports the deaf and hearing impaired community through research, prevention, education, early detection or technology.

Cheaper Home Batteries Program

Opening date: 1st July 2025
Closing date: 31st December 2030
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides households, community organisations and small businesses with a discount on the upfront cost of installing a small-scale solar battery.

Direct Giving Program

Opening date: 1st August 2025
Closing date: 31st August 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $2,500

Offers funding for Australians facing acute financial stress; when support is urgently needed and other options have been exhausted.

Harcourts Foundation Grants

Opening date: 4th August 2025
Closing date: 3rd November 2025
Funding Amount: Unspecified

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

2025 Rail Heritage Grants Program

Opening date: 25th August 2025
Closing date: 17th October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $20,000

​The one-off grants program is open to not-for-profit, Queensland-based rail heritage operators that have an Australian Business Number (ABN) or Australian Company Number (ACN).

Grants of up to $20,000 will be awarded to rail heritage operators that can demonstrate a clear need for financial support for maintenance and repairs to rollingstock or community rail infrastructure.​

Saluting Their Service Commemorative Grants Program – Community Grants

Opening date: 1st September 2025
Closing date: 5th February 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Aims to commemorate the service and sacrifice of Australia’s service personnel who served in wars, conflicts and peace operations, including National Service personnel, and their families.

International Engagement Fund

Opening date: 2nd September 2025
Closing date: 14th October 2025
Funding Amount: $5000 - $30,000

Supports Australian artists and creative workers to undertake reciprocal exchange projects with confirmed international partners.

Gambling Community Benefit Fund

Opening date: 8th September 2025
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $35,000

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

Equity Trustees Community Grants Program

Opening date: 8th September 2025
Closing date: 13th October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $100,000

Supports locally led initiatives that tackle barriers, strengthen community networks, and centre self-determination and social justice.

Responsible Wood Community Grants Program

Opening date: 8th September 2025
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: $2,000 - $15,000

Supports regional and rural Australian communities create and complete local forest based projects that suits both communities and the forests’ needs.

Festivals Australia

Opening date: 9th September 2025
Closing date: 7th October 2025
Funding Amount: $2,500 - $150,000

Provides funding to support individual art projects in regional or remote locations.

Creative Futures Fund

Opening date: 12th September 2025
Closing date: 11th November 2025
Funding Amount: $50,000 to $1,500,000

Invests in the creation and sharing of Australian stories through exceptional creative projects across all artforms that can clearly demonstrate ambition, audience reach and impact.

Community Education Program Grants

Opening date: 15th September 2025
Closing date: 24th October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Funds sustainable education and life skill development programs designed to help and support disadvantaged young Australians under the age of 25.

Colonial Foundation Grants

Opening date: 16th September 2025
Closing date: 16th September 2026
Funding Amount: From $750,000

Drives positive social change in Australia by partnering with organisations that empower Australians to achieve the most out of life and develop a healthy, fair and innovative society.

Education

Real School Grants Program

Opening date: 15th February 2025
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000

Helps aid school funding to schools and school groups/committees across Australia.

The Youi Student Grant

Opening date: 24th February 2025
Closing date: 24th October 2025
Funding Amount: $5,000

Aims to back students with different skillsets, perspectives and experiences who can add uniqueness to what Youi does.

Youi is keen to support the next generation of minds and give them a place to shine. So they’ve introduced the Youi Student Grant.

Focus on Maths Grants

Opening date: 1st August 2025
Closing date: 31st August 2026
Funding Amount: $2,000 - $30,000

Aims to help build equity of access to maths education and improve the maths skills of students across a range of schools in Australia, by building capacity in maths teaching.

Australian Veterans’ Children Assistance Trust Scholarships

Opening date: 18th August 2025
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $18,000

Helps eligible children and grandchildren of Vietnam veterans pay for their tertiary education.

Frank Hall-Bentick Education Fund

Opening date: 1st September 2025
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $2,500

Assists indigenous and non-indigenous people with disability to participate in both formal and informal education programs through small financial grants

Westpac Young Technologists Scholarship

Opening date: 2nd September 2025
Closing date: 13th January 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $20,000

Supports talented and inquisitive high school graduates looking to strengthen their passion and expertise in technology to innovate and create new opportunities and inspire good in the world of STEM.

Rural Women’s Acceleration Grant

Opening date: 10th September 2025
Closing date: 7th November 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $7,000

Fosters growth and development in women involved in Australia’s rural and emerging industries, businesses, and communities.

Community Education Program Grants

Opening date: 15th September 2025
Closing date: 24th October 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Funds sustainable education and life skill development programs designed to help and support disadvantaged young Australians under the age of 25.

Health

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.

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.

NewAccess for Small Business Owners

Opening date: 28th May 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Beyond Blue’s NewAccess for Small Business Owners is a free and confidential mental health coaching program designed to support small business owners and sole traders.

You have the option of 8 sessions, where you’ll work with a dedicated coach with a background in small business. Your coach will work with you to develop practical tools for managing stress, building resilience, and navigating both personal and professional challenges.

Deafness Foundation Grants

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

Supports the deaf and hearing impaired community through research, prevention, education, early detection or technology.

World Mental Health Day Community Fund

Opening date: 1st August 2025
Closing date: 21st November 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $3,200

Supports communities to start or expand projects that positively impact mental health and well-being.

BDR Community Grants Program

Opening date: 1st September 2025
Closing date: 30th September 2026
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $10,000

Supports initiatives that; help people who suffer from mental illness, help prevent suicide, and raise awareness of both mental health and suicide prevention.

Myer Foundation – Mental Health Grants

Opening date: 1st September 2025
Closing date: 30th September 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Focuses on empowering people with lived experience and community-based organisations to improve mental health outcomes.

Indigenous

Social Enterprise Development Initiative (SEDI) Grants

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

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.

First Nations Business Acceleration Program

Opening date: 1st February 2025
Closing date: 4th February 2027
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Boosts innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities for mature Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander businesses in Queensland.

First Nations Innovation Acceleration Program QLD

Opening date: 29th May 2025
Closing date: 4th February 2027
Funding Amount: Funding and advisory services

This program supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander innovative businesses in Queensland who are established and looking to scale.

Start-Up Finance Package

Opening date: 1st June 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $150,000

The Start-up Finance Package provides Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander start-ups with access to loans to help new businesses get off the ground.

Frank Hall-Bentick Education Fund

Opening date: 1st September 2025
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $2,500

Assists indigenous and non-indigenous people with disability to participate in both formal and informal education programs through small financial grants

Annamila First Nations Foundation Grants

Opening date: 1st September 2025
Closing date: 30th September 2026
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $30,000

Supports First Nations led initiatives by gifting and bringing people together.

Infrastructure

There are no upcoming events.

Sports

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.

Community Sponsorship Program

Opening date: 1st July 2025
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: $500

Supports local sporting clubs throughout Australia.

Local Sporting Champions

Opening date: 1st August 2025
Closing date: 31st October 2025
Funding Amount: $500 - $750

Provides financial assistance for coaches, officials and competitors aged 12-18 participating in state, national or international championships.

Transport and Roads

There are no upcoming events.

Water

There are no upcoming events.

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.

Rural Women’s Acceleration Grant

Opening date: 10th September 2025
Closing date: 7th November 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $7,000

Fosters growth and development in women involved in Australia’s rural and emerging industries, businesses, and communities.