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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Advantage Community Grants Program

Opening date: 8th April 2025
Closing date: 29th December 2026
Funding Amount: $1,500

Aims to support you and your involvement in community groups, sporting organisations and other charitable causes close to your heart.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Strengthening Drought Resilience on Country Program

Opening date: 12th August 2025
Closing date: 16th December 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $1,000,000

The Australian Government has committed $12 million to an inaugural grant program under the Future Drought Fund that supports place-based, First Nations-led initiatives.

The Strengthening Drought Resilience on Country Grant Program will deliver this investment through community-driven projects that build resilience to dry times and climate impacts.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Research Grants on Education: Small

Opening date: 17th September 2025
Closing date: 15th December 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived.

The program supports budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. Applications are accepted three times per year.

Petstock Foundation Grant Program

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

Aims to make a long-term difference and positive change in the lives of pets and humans.

The Foundation supports organisations that align with their vision and purpose:
– Vision: To create a community where all animals are respected, loved and treated as part of the family resulting in a happier, healthier life for all
– Purpose: Committed to making a long-term difference and positive change in the lives of pets and families within the community through education and raising awareness.

AVISTA STEM Challenge

Opening date: 1st October 2025
Closing date: 31st October 2026
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $4,000

Offers a national STEM competition for Years 7–10 to solve real-world defence industry problems.

Engage your students in an immersive, real-world STEM challenge designed to spark curiosity and build future-ready skills.

Working in teams of 3–5, students will tackle a critical problem inspired by challenges the Australian Defence Industry often faces. They’ll learn through a curriculum-aligned, 8-step STEM engineering design process to explore cutting-edge technologies, think creatively, and develop practical solutions as they while build key skills in collaboration, problem-solving, systems thinking, and communication.

National Device Bank Support

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

Provides devices to community organisations, charities and schools, who distribute them to those most in need.

Mibilla Foundation – General Grant Fund

Opening date: 1st October 2025
Closing date: 15th December 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Provides funding support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, businesses, and community organisations to deliver community-driven initiatives that foster growth, innovation, and meaningful social, cultural, and economic impact.

Myer Foundation – Inclusion & Equality Grants

Opening date: 21st October 2025
Closing date: 21st October 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

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

Play Like A Girl Scholarships

Opening date: 22nd October 2025
Closing date: 31st October 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides fully funded leadership scholarships for women and girls in sport.

Play Like a Girl Australia, in partnership with Intuitive Finance, is offering six fully funded scholarships for women and girls aged 15 to 65 to join our flagship Empowered to Lead program: a six-week personal and professional leadership experience designed to help participants grow in confidence, influence, and purpose.

tekFoundation Support

Opening date: 29th October 2025
Closing date: 29th October 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Connects charities across Australia with tech professionals that want to make an impact.

National Disability Conference Initiative

Opening date: 30th October 2025
Closing date: 15th January 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Provides grants to conference organisers to assist people with disability participate in nationally-focused, disability-related, conferences held in Australia.

Local Sporting Champions

Opening date: 1st November 2025
Closing date: 31st January 2026
Funding Amount: $500 - $750

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

Australian Wildlife Society Awards

Opening date: 1st November 2025
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $5,000

Acknowledges and rewards individuals or conservation groups that work tirelessly to save Australia’s native wildlife and precious habitats, and encourages them to continue their excellent work on behalf of the community.

Narrative Content Production Program

Opening date: 1st November 2025
Closing date: 19th February 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Supports content makers to produce narrative projects for online/direct-to-audience, television and theatrical feature film platforms.

ALWF Community Grants

Opening date: 1st November 2025
Closing date: 29th November 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $1,000

Makes small grants available to help enable the community to take positive action in the area of health and wellbeing.

Reece Foundation Grant

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

Supports locally led initiatives that help communities in Australia and overseas with access to clean water, sanitation or food security through irrigation.

The Wheelchair Accessible Taxi Grant Scheme

Opening date: 1st November 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $55,000

The Wheelchair Accessible Taxi Grant Scheme provides assistance of up to $55,000, with a 50 per cent co-contribution from applicants, to offset the cost of purchasing and modifying a new wheelchair accessible taxi.

Pace Farm Community Grants Program

Opening date: 1st November 2025
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000

Provides funding to support organisations across Australia to bring about positive, lasting change to their communities.

The grants of up to $5,000 are available to empower organisations to deliver real, tangible benefits to their communities, building facilities and services to improve the lives of local people across the country.

Motherland Village Scholarship Program

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

Offers a six week online connection program for rural mums with children.

Motherland Village is open to rural and remote mums who are craving connection. Scholarship recipients have a connection to the land or agriculture, whether directly through their home location, career, or family, or indirectly through their spouses. They do accept isolated mums not necessarily connected to agriculture or a farm on a case by case basis in extenuating circumstances.

HATCH: Taronga Accelerator Program

Opening date: 3rd November 2025
Closing date: 26th January 2026
Funding Amount: $2,000 - $50,000

Helps not-for-profit, social enterprise founders or start ups with ventures that will drive positive change for wildlife, biodiversity and the environment.

Women’s Career Grants

Opening date: 3rd November 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $4,999

The Women’s Career Grant supports women in Queensland who are ready to re-enter the workforce after a break.

Secure communities partnership grants

Opening date: 12th November 2025
Closing date: 30th January 2026
Funding Amount: UP to $400,000

The $40 million Secure Communities Partnership Program offers funding to support safety measures to deter crime against small and family businesses and create safer and more vibrant business areas.

The program aims to protect small and family businesses from crime and economic losses, through the installation of vital safety and security infrastructure. This will create safer public commercial precincts and business strips and improve the operating environment for small and family businesses across Queensland.

Commonwealth Teaching Scholarships

Opening date: 17th November 2025
Closing date: 12th January 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $40,000

Provides funding to new undergraduate and postgraduate teaching students in exchange for teaching in government schools or government-run early learning settings following their degree.

Veteran Wellbeing Grants (VWG) Program

Opening date: 20th November 2025
Closing date: 5th February 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $200,000

Provides funding for eligible organisations to deliver community-based projects and activities for the veteran community.

Moving Home Grants

Opening date: 20th November 2025
Closing date: 20th November 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000

Provides essential funding to assist people in moving from inappropriate housing, such as aged care, rehabilitation or hospital, into somewhere more appropriate.

Gordon Darling Foundation Grants

Opening date: 21st November 2025
Closing date: 9th January 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides funding for a range of visual arts projects Australia-wide.

Seedlab Australia Program

Opening date: 21st November 2025
Closing date: 16th January 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Aims to guide businesses through the process of starting, scaling and growing towards national supply.

Emerging Artist Grants

Opening date: 25th November 2025
Closing date: 20th January 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $15,000

Assists talented emerging and early-career artists to take up professional development opportunities, usually overseas.

Cultural Tourism Fund

Opening date: 26th November 2025
Closing date: 23rd February 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $170,000

Supports Queensland’s festivals and events to attract new audiences, increase visitation and drive regional growth.

Women in STEM and Entrepreneurship Program

Opening date: 26th November 2025
Closing date: 18th February 2026
Funding Amount: $1,000,000 - $2,000,000

Supports investment in gender equity initiatives that aim for lasting systemic change by eliminating barriers for women’s participation in STEM education and careers, and entrepreneurship.

Business Growth Fund Program

Opening date: 27th November 2025
Closing date: 30th January 2026
Funding Amount: $50,000 - $75,000

The Business Growth Fund (BGF) is a grant program targeting high-growth businesses who can accelerate growth, drive Queensland’s economy and employ more Queenslanders.

The program provides direct financial support for small and family businesses to purchase specialised equipment to grow, increase productivity and efficiency, increase market share or develop and expand export opportunities.

Communities Innovation Fund: Responses to Social Isolation and Loneliness

Opening date: 1st December 2025
Closing date: 30th January 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $200,000

Provides a competitive grants program to support flexible person-centred and place-based responses to social isolation and loneliness in Queensland communities.

The grant program provides up to $200,000 per year to community organisations for innovative projects that create meaningful connections for Queenslanders experiencing social isolation and loneliness.

Strengthening Rural Communities — Small & Vital

Opening date: 5th December 2025
Closing date: 24th March 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

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.

There are two tiers of Small & Vital funding available:

Small grants up to $10,000 are available for a broad range of grassroots, community-led initiatives that directly and clearly benefit local communities that strengthen local people, places and climate solutions, with a preference for smaller communities (populations under 15,000). The timeframe to deliver these projects is up to 12 months.

Art Music Fund

Opening date: 6th December 2025
Closing date: 16th February 2026
Funding Amount: $7,500

Supports new work that is innovative, displays professional compositional craft and represents a benchmark of excellence in its field.

Active Transport Grants Program

Opening date: 8th December 2025
Closing date: 27th February 2026
Funding Amount: Funding contribution of up to 50% of the project cost

The Active Transport Grants Program (‘the program’) supports Queensland councils to plan, design and construct high quality and safe active transport infrastructure on the local transport network. By ‘active transport’ we mean travel by walking and riding bikes.

The program supports councils with a funding contribution of up to 50% of the project cost (or up to 75% for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander councils and Very Remote Area councils), to deliver projects that:

anticipate and support future demand and use.

complete missing links and/or remove barriers that present significant obstacles to bike riding or walking

improve access to key destinations like schools, hospitals and public transport stops and stations, and Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games venues

support tourism destinations

meet best practice design and construction standards

National Pies for Local Legends

Opening date: 1st January 2026
Closing date: 31st January 2026
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $10,000

Supports local sporting clubs, community groups or not-for-profit organisations.

Any registered Australian community group, sporting club or not-for-profit organisation can apply. A grant of $1,000 will be awarded each month over the next 12 months, beginning in March 2024. A major grant of $10,000 will also be awarded at the end of the program.

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.

Narrative Content Production Program

Opening date: 1st November 2025
Closing date: 19th February 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Supports content makers to produce narrative projects for online/direct-to-audience, television and theatrical feature film platforms.

Gordon Darling Foundation Grants

Opening date: 21st November 2025
Closing date: 9th January 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides funding for a range of visual arts projects Australia-wide.

Emerging Artist Grants

Opening date: 25th November 2025
Closing date: 20th January 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $15,000

Assists talented emerging and early-career artists to take up professional development opportunities, usually overseas.

Art Music Fund

Opening date: 6th December 2025
Closing date: 16th February 2026
Funding Amount: $7,500

Supports new work that is innovative, displays professional compositional craft and represents a benchmark of excellence in its field.

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.

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.

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.

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.

tekFoundation Support

Opening date: 29th October 2025
Closing date: 29th October 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Connects charities across Australia with tech professionals that want to make an impact.

Secure communities partnership grants

Opening date: 12th November 2025
Closing date: 30th January 2026
Funding Amount: UP to $400,000

The $40 million Secure Communities Partnership Program offers funding to support safety measures to deter crime against small and family businesses and create safer and more vibrant business areas.

The program aims to protect small and family businesses from crime and economic losses, through the installation of vital safety and security infrastructure. This will create safer public commercial precincts and business strips and improve the operating environment for small and family businesses across Queensland.

Seedlab Australia Program

Opening date: 21st November 2025
Closing date: 16th January 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Aims to guide businesses through the process of starting, scaling and growing towards national supply.

Business Growth Fund Program

Opening date: 27th November 2025
Closing date: 30th January 2026
Funding Amount: $50,000 - $75,000

The Business Growth Fund (BGF) is a grant program targeting high-growth businesses who can accelerate growth, drive Queensland’s economy and employ more Queenslanders.

The program provides direct financial support for small and family businesses to purchase specialised equipment to grow, increase productivity and efficiency, increase market share or develop and expand export opportunities.

Community

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.

Advantage Community Grants Program

Opening date: 8th April 2025
Closing date: 29th December 2026
Funding Amount: $1,500

Aims to support you and your involvement in community groups, sporting organisations and other charitable causes close to your heart.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Petstock Foundation Grant Program

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

Aims to make a long-term difference and positive change in the lives of pets and humans.

The Foundation supports organisations that align with their vision and purpose:
– Vision: To create a community where all animals are respected, loved and treated as part of the family resulting in a happier, healthier life for all
– Purpose: Committed to making a long-term difference and positive change in the lives of pets and families within the community through education and raising awareness.

National Device Bank Support

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

Provides devices to community organisations, charities and schools, who distribute them to those most in need.

Myer Foundation – Inclusion & Equality Grants

Opening date: 21st October 2025
Closing date: 21st October 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

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

National Disability Conference Initiative

Opening date: 30th October 2025
Closing date: 15th January 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Provides grants to conference organisers to assist people with disability participate in nationally-focused, disability-related, conferences held in Australia.

Australian Wildlife Society Awards

Opening date: 1st November 2025
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $5,000

Acknowledges and rewards individuals or conservation groups that work tirelessly to save Australia’s native wildlife and precious habitats, and encourages them to continue their excellent work on behalf of the community.

ALWF Community Grants

Opening date: 1st November 2025
Closing date: 29th November 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $1,000

Makes small grants available to help enable the community to take positive action in the area of health and wellbeing.

Reece Foundation Grant

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

Supports locally led initiatives that help communities in Australia and overseas with access to clean water, sanitation or food security through irrigation.

The Wheelchair Accessible Taxi Grant Scheme

Opening date: 1st November 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $55,000

The Wheelchair Accessible Taxi Grant Scheme provides assistance of up to $55,000, with a 50 per cent co-contribution from applicants, to offset the cost of purchasing and modifying a new wheelchair accessible taxi.

Pace Farm Community Grants Program

Opening date: 1st November 2025
Closing date: 31st December 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000

Provides funding to support organisations across Australia to bring about positive, lasting change to their communities.

The grants of up to $5,000 are available to empower organisations to deliver real, tangible benefits to their communities, building facilities and services to improve the lives of local people across the country.

Veteran Wellbeing Grants (VWG) Program

Opening date: 20th November 2025
Closing date: 5th February 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $200,000

Provides funding for eligible organisations to deliver community-based projects and activities for the veteran community.

Moving Home Grants

Opening date: 20th November 2025
Closing date: 20th November 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000

Provides essential funding to assist people in moving from inappropriate housing, such as aged care, rehabilitation or hospital, into somewhere more appropriate.

Cultural Tourism Fund

Opening date: 26th November 2025
Closing date: 23rd February 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $170,000

Supports Queensland’s festivals and events to attract new audiences, increase visitation and drive regional growth.

Communities Innovation Fund: Responses to Social Isolation and Loneliness

Opening date: 1st December 2025
Closing date: 30th January 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $200,000

Provides a competitive grants program to support flexible person-centred and place-based responses to social isolation and loneliness in Queensland communities.

The grant program provides up to $200,000 per year to community organisations for innovative projects that create meaningful connections for Queenslanders experiencing social isolation and loneliness.

Strengthening Rural Communities — Small & Vital

Opening date: 5th December 2025
Closing date: 24th March 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

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.

There are two tiers of Small & Vital funding available:

Small grants up to $10,000 are available for a broad range of grassroots, community-led initiatives that directly and clearly benefit local communities that strengthen local people, places and climate solutions, with a preference for smaller communities (populations under 15,000). The timeframe to deliver these projects is up to 12 months.

National Pies for Local Legends

Opening date: 1st January 2026
Closing date: 31st January 2026
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $10,000

Supports local sporting clubs, community groups or not-for-profit organisations.

Any registered Australian community group, sporting club or not-for-profit organisation can apply. A grant of $1,000 will be awarded each month over the next 12 months, beginning in March 2024. A major grant of $10,000 will also be awarded at the end of the program.

Education

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.

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.

Research Grants on Education: Small

Opening date: 17th September 2025
Closing date: 15th December 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $50,000

Supports education research projects that will contribute to the improvement of education, broadly conceived.

The program supports budgets up to $50,000 for projects ranging from one to five years. Applications are accepted three times per year.

National Device Bank Support

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

Provides devices to community organisations, charities and schools, who distribute them to those most in need.

Commonwealth Teaching Scholarships

Opening date: 17th November 2025
Closing date: 12th January 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $40,000

Provides funding to new undergraduate and postgraduate teaching students in exchange for teaching in government schools or government-run early learning settings following their degree.

Women in STEM and Entrepreneurship Program

Opening date: 26th November 2025
Closing date: 18th February 2026
Funding Amount: $1,000,000 - $2,000,000

Supports investment in gender equity initiatives that aim for lasting systemic change by eliminating barriers for women’s participation in STEM education and careers, and entrepreneurship.

Health

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.

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.

National Disability Conference Initiative

Opening date: 30th October 2025
Closing date: 15th January 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Provides grants to conference organisers to assist people with disability participate in nationally-focused, disability-related, conferences held in Australia.

The Wheelchair Accessible Taxi Grant Scheme

Opening date: 1st November 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $55,000

The Wheelchair Accessible Taxi Grant Scheme provides assistance of up to $55,000, with a 50 per cent co-contribution from applicants, to offset the cost of purchasing and modifying a new wheelchair accessible taxi.

Moving Home Grants

Opening date: 20th November 2025
Closing date: 20th November 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $5,000

Provides essential funding to assist people in moving from inappropriate housing, such as aged care, rehabilitation or hospital, into somewhere more appropriate.

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.

Strengthening Drought Resilience on Country Program

Opening date: 12th August 2025
Closing date: 16th December 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $1,000,000

The Australian Government has committed $12 million to an inaugural grant program under the Future Drought Fund that supports place-based, First Nations-led initiatives.

The Strengthening Drought Resilience on Country Grant Program will deliver this investment through community-driven projects that build resilience to dry times and climate impacts.

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.

Mibilla Foundation – General Grant Fund

Opening date: 1st October 2025
Closing date: 15th December 2025
Funding Amount: Up to $10,000

Provides funding support to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, businesses, and community organisations to deliver community-driven initiatives that foster growth, innovation, and meaningful social, cultural, and economic impact.

Infrastructure

Active Transport Grants Program

Opening date: 8th December 2025
Closing date: 27th February 2026
Funding Amount: Funding contribution of up to 50% of the project cost

The Active Transport Grants Program (‘the program’) supports Queensland councils to plan, design and construct high quality and safe active transport infrastructure on the local transport network. By ‘active transport’ we mean travel by walking and riding bikes.

The program supports councils with a funding contribution of up to 50% of the project cost (or up to 75% for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander councils and Very Remote Area councils), to deliver projects that:

anticipate and support future demand and use.

complete missing links and/or remove barriers that present significant obstacles to bike riding or walking

improve access to key destinations like schools, hospitals and public transport stops and stations, and Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games venues

support tourism destinations

meet best practice design and construction standards

Sports

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.

Play Like A Girl Scholarships

Opening date: 22nd October 2025
Closing date: 31st October 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides fully funded leadership scholarships for women and girls in sport.

Play Like a Girl Australia, in partnership with Intuitive Finance, is offering six fully funded scholarships for women and girls aged 15 to 65 to join our flagship Empowered to Lead program: a six-week personal and professional leadership experience designed to help participants grow in confidence, influence, and purpose.

Local Sporting Champions

Opening date: 1st November 2025
Closing date: 31st January 2026
Funding Amount: $500 - $750

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

National Pies for Local Legends

Opening date: 1st January 2026
Closing date: 31st January 2026
Funding Amount: $1,000 - $10,000

Supports local sporting clubs, community groups or not-for-profit organisations.

Any registered Australian community group, sporting club or not-for-profit organisation can apply. A grant of $1,000 will be awarded each month over the next 12 months, beginning in March 2024. A major grant of $10,000 will also be awarded at the end of the program.

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.

Play Like A Girl Scholarships

Opening date: 22nd October 2025
Closing date: 31st October 2026
Funding Amount: Unspecified

Provides fully funded leadership scholarships for women and girls in sport.

Play Like a Girl Australia, in partnership with Intuitive Finance, is offering six fully funded scholarships for women and girls aged 15 to 65 to join our flagship Empowered to Lead program: a six-week personal and professional leadership experience designed to help participants grow in confidence, influence, and purpose.

Motherland Village Scholarship Program

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

Offers a six week online connection program for rural mums with children.

Motherland Village is open to rural and remote mums who are craving connection. Scholarship recipients have a connection to the land or agriculture, whether directly through their home location, career, or family, or indirectly through their spouses. They do accept isolated mums not necessarily connected to agriculture or a farm on a case by case basis in extenuating circumstances.

Women’s Career Grants

Opening date: 3rd November 2025
Closing date: 30th June 2026
Funding Amount: Up to $4,999

The Women’s Career Grant supports women in Queensland who are ready to re-enter the workforce after a break.

Women in STEM and Entrepreneurship Program

Opening date: 26th November 2025
Closing date: 18th February 2026
Funding Amount: $1,000,000 - $2,000,000

Supports investment in gender equity initiatives that aim for lasting systemic change by eliminating barriers for women’s participation in STEM education and careers, and entrepreneurship.