Federal

Strategic Policy Grants Program

Amount: $10,000 to $50,000
Provider: Department of Defence
Closes: 30 November 2025

Provides an external perspective on strategic policy decision-making and stimulate public debate on Australia’s strategic and defence policy choices. 

Apprenticeship Wage Subsidies and Hiring Incentives 

Amount: Variable 
Provider: Department of Employment & Workplace Relations 
Closes: Ongoing

Support for the continued training and development of a highly skilled Australian workforce by providing employers with incentives to employ an apprentice.

Export Finance Australia Guarantees 

Amount: Guarantee amounts from $350,000         
Provider: Export Finance Australia
Closes: Ongoing

Guarantees to assist export businesses with accessing finance.

Home Care Package Subsidy

Amount: Funding to cover most of the cost of Home Care Packages
Provider: Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
Closes: Ongoing

Provides a government subsidy on behalf of each care recipient to cover most of the cost of Home Care Packages.

Industry Growth Program 

Amount: $50,000 to $5million         
Provider: Department of Industry, Science & Resources 
Closes: Ongoing

Support for innovative small and medium sized enterprises undertaking commercialisation and/or growth projects within the National Reconstruction Fund priority areas. 

Landing Pads Program

Amount: Not specified
Provider: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Closes: Ongoing

Support for export-ready Australian tech businesses to expand globally and find international investors.

Launch into Work Program

Amount: Not specified      
Provider: Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
Closes: Ongoing

Support for the delivery of pre-employment projects. These projects prepare eligible individuals for specific entry-level roles within a business.

Small Business Skills & Training Boost 

Amount: Not specified 
Provider: Australian Taxation Office 
Closes: Ongoing

Federal tax deduction of up to 20% for external training courses for small businesses with aggregate turnover of less than $50m.

Small Business Technology Investment Boost 

Amount: Not specified 
Provider: Australian Taxation Office 
Closes: Ongoing

Federal tax deduction of up to 20% on technology expenditure to help digitise the business.

Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme

Amount: Not specified 
Provider: Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Closes: Ongoing

This Australian Government initiative encourages investment in small-scale renewable energy. It provides incentives to households and businesses to install small-scale renewable energy systems like rooftop solar, solar water heaters and air sourced heat pumps.

NSW

NSW Going Global Export Program

Amount: Various
Provider: NSW Department of Enterprise, Investment and Trade
Closes: Ongoing

Support for businesses expanding into international markets.

Other

Australian Business Growth Fund

Amount: Funding between $5,000,000 and $15,000,000 available
Provider: Australian Business Growth Fund
Closes: Ongoing

Provides growth capital for small to medium-sized Australian businesses looking to expand, grow and scale.

Ethical Leadership Fellowship

Amount: $23,800
Provider: Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership
Closes: Ongoing

Support for training of leaders in critical thinking and moral courage to conduct their leadership within an ethical framework.

For more Federal opportunities see Support for businesses in Australia | business.gov.au and for more NSW opportunities see Grants & Programs - Investment NSW. 

Federal

Housing Australia – First Home Guarantee

Amount: Allows the home buyer to purchase a home with as little as a 5% deposit
Provider: Housing Australia
Closes: Open

Supports home buyers who have saved a minimum deposit of 5% of the property value, and meet other eligibility criteria, to buy a home.

Urban Precincts and Partnerships Program

Stream One: Precinct development and planning
Amount: $500,000 to $5million

Funding for master planning, consultation, design, business cases and partnership establishment.

Stream Two: Precinct delivery
Amount: $5 million to $50 million

Assistance for delivery of a specified project or projects as part of a precinct. This could include enabling public infrastructure (roads, pathways, underground infrastructure), open spaces between elements, or a particular building/s that is the catalyst for, or complements, other investment within a precinct.

Provider: DITRCA 
Closes: Ongoing

NSW

NSW Sexual Violence Recovery and Healing Grant Program

Amount: no specific limit on grant amount, total funding pool $3 million
Provider: NSW Department of Communities and Justice
Closes: 12 December 2025

Aims to support community-based initiatives that build the capacity of communities and services to strengthen recovery and healing support for victim-survivors of sexual violence from NSW priority groups.

ClubGRANTS – Category 3 Fund: Infrastructure Grants Program 

Amount: 50,000 up to 300,000 
Provider: NSW Government - ClubGrants 
Opens: 24 November 2025; Closes: 15 December 2025 

Support the infrastructure that underpins participation in the towns and suburbs by providing places for people to come together at sports facilities, playgrounds, parks, community centres, theatres and museums.  Its objective is to fund the costs of construction, alteration, renovation, completion and fit-out of buildings and community infrastructure to deliver outcomes for disadvantaged NSW communities including regional, remote and drought-affected areas, culturally and linguistically diverse, disability and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and disaster-affected communities.

Other

Pride Foundation Australia

Amount: Grants of up to $1,000
Provider: Pride Foundation Australia
Closes: 17 November 2025

Support projects proposed by individuals and or organisations and or communities who would otherwise be limited by the constraints of other funding programs.

Perpetual Trustees- IMPACT Philanthropy Application Program

Amount: $10,000 to $100,000
Provider: Perpetual Limited
Closes: 5 December 2025

Aims to allow philanthropists and not-for-profits (NFPs) to connect and allows NFPs to demonstrate how they improve outcomes for the communities in which they operate in the Education and Health sectors.

James N. Kirby Foundation – Small Grants

Amount: $3,000 to $15,000 inclusive
Provider: James N. Kirby Foundation
Closes: 27 February 2026

Aims to support organisations that provide innovative solutions and opportunities to those in the community who need it most.

Westfield Local Heroes Australia

Amount: Max funding $20,000
Provider: Scentre Group Limited
Closes: 12 March 2026

Aims to discover and celebrate individuals and the organisations they represent whose work or actions positively impact the local community or environment within the local area of a Westfield centre.

Australian Communities Foundation 

Amount: $2,000 to $15,000  
Provider: Australian Communities Foundation 
Closes: Ongoing

Opportunity to showcase projects requiring funding to potential funders.

Awesome Foundation Grants 

Amount: $1,000 
Provider: Awesome Foundation 
Closes: First Wednesday of every month

Regular small community grants

City of Sydney Affordable and Diverse Housing Fund 

Amount: Up to 3million 
Provider: City of Sydney 
Closes: Ongoing 

Promote the development of affordable and diverse rental housing in the area by community housing providers as well as not-for-profit and for-profit organisations. 

City of Sydney - Short-term empty properties program

Amount: N/A
Provider: City of Sydney
Closes: Ongoing

Short-term activation of temporarily vacant or under-used properties owned by the City from one month to one year.

The program supports:

• creative practitioners and cultural organisations
• community organisations and social enterprises
• businesses and startups that support the local economy.
• organisations with a focus on sustainability and the environment. Preference is given to applicants in the local government area or to projects that can demonstrate significant benefit to the local community.

City of Sydney - Quick Response Grants 

Amount: $10,000 
Provider: City of Sydney 
Closes: Ongoing

Support for small scale, community-led projects that encourage communities to take action to improve, enhance, represent or celebrate their local neighbourhoods. 

Google Ad Grants

Amount: USD$10,000 in-kind advertising
Provider: Google Ad Grants
Closes: Open

Aims to attract donors, raise awareness for the organisation, and recruit volunteers with in-kind advertising on Google Search.

Scanlon Foundation - General grants

Amount: Not specified
Provider: Scanlon Foundation
Closes: Ongoing

The Scanlon Foundation provides support to organisations working to improve Australia’s social cohesion in areas where there is the greatest need.

The Walter and Eliza Hall Trust – Community Supported Small Grants Program

Amount: Not specified
Provider: The Walter and Eliza Hall Trust
Closes: Ongoing

This program aims to assist individuals experiencing immediate financial hardship. Social workers, case managers or allied health professionals employed by supporting charitable organisations (holding DGR item 1 status) may apply on behalf of an individual in need.

See also: Waverley Council Venue Hire Grants

For more Federal opportunities see Community Grants Hub. See also, the NSW Government Cost of Living hub for tips and tools, easy ways to stretch budgets, and access to trusted advice and support. 

Other

We Care Therapy Grants

Amount: $2,000
Provider: Variety NSW/ACT
Closes: Ongoing

Financial assistance towards the cost of therapy for children with a diagnosis or condition and who do not have NDIS funding (ineligible or awaiting a diagnosis).

We Move Equipment Grants

Amount: $1,000
Provider: Variety NSW/ACT
Closes: Ongoing

Provide disability equipment that is not easily available through standard services. Supporting families in purchasing life-changing equipment to increase physical development, independence, and social inclusion. 

Federal

Capital Grants for Non-Government Schools

Amount: Various
Provider: Department of Education
Closes: Ongoing

Funding to non-government primary and secondary school communities to improve infrastructure, if they do not have enough capital resources.

Intercultural Understanding Partnership (ICUP) Grants

Amount: $10,000
Provider: Department of Education
Closes: Ongoing

Each year, schools are invited to apply for the program. Successful schools receive consultation time with intercultural experts and financial support to improve the learning and wellbeing of students by addressing an intercultural challenge in their school community.

NSW

Environmental Education Grants Program 

Amount: Grants between $60,000 and $250,000
Provider: NSW Environmental Trust
Closes: 11 November 2025

Build people's skills and capacity to adopt sustainable behaviours and contribute to protecting and improving the environment. 

OTHER

Good Things Foundation – Be Connected Program: Targeted Building Digital Skills Grant

Amount: $3,000 - $20,500
Provider: Good Things Foundation
Closes: 28 November 2025

Aims to help organisations support older Australians aged 50+ through free digital mentoring sessions.

Federal

Advancing Renewables Program 

Amount: $100,000 to $50million 
Provider: Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Closes: Ongoing

Support for the reduction in cost of renewable energy including improvement in technology, reduction in or removal of barriers to renewable energy uptake and increased skills, capacity and knowledge relevant to Renewable Energy Technologies.

Cheaper Home Batteries Program

Amount: The program offers a fee waiver in the form of a discount on the upfront cost of installing eligible battery systems. The total funding pool is valued at $2.3 billion.
Provider: Clean Energy Regulator (CER) under the supervision of the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. 
Closes: Ongoing

Provides a discount on the cost of installing small-scale battery systems.

Driving the Nation Fund

Amount: Not specified
Provider: Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Closes: Ongoing

Support for innovation in public charging and management of charging.

Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme

Amount: Not specified 
Provider: Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Closes: Ongoing

This Australian Government initiative encourages investment in small-scale renewable energy. It provides incentives to households and businesses to install small-scale renewable energy systems like rooftop solar, solar water heaters and air sourced heat pumps.

Solar Sunshot Program

Amount: $1m to $350million
Provider: Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA)
Closes: Ongoing

Support for the commercialisation of Australian solar photovoltaic (PV) innovations and to enhance solar PV supply chains in Australia.

NSW

Solar for Apartment Residents (SoAR) Grant Program

Amount: Max funding $150,000  
Provider: NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Closes: 30 March 2026

Aims to provide funding to support the installation of solar panels on eligible apartment buildings and other multi-unit dwellings in NSW.

NSW EPA – WASM Litter Prevention Grants Program

Amount: $5,000 to $500,000
Provider: Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure
Closes: 30 March 2026

Support for councils, community groups and other key stakeholders to deliver litter prevention projects and develop strategic plans to address litter in their local environments.

Other

Ian Potter Foundation – Environment Program

Amount: Min funding $100,000 per year
Provider: Ian Potter Foundation
Closes: EOI close 11 December 2025

Aims to support ambitious and transformative applied conservation initiatives including on-ground nature protection and restoration.

Sophie Danforth Conservation Biology Fund

Amount: USD $9,922
Provider: Roger Williams Park Zoo
Closes: 1 January 2026

Support conservation programs that protect threatened wildlife and habitats worldwide.

Clean Energy Seed Fund

Amount: Not specified
Provider: Clean Energy Finance Corporation
Closes: Ongoing

The Clean Energy Seed Fund targets scalable, high growth potential start-ups, encouraging innovation and creating opportunities in the development of clean technology.

Community Investment Program: Sustainability Rebates

Amount: $5,000
Provider: Randwick City Council
Closes: Ongoing

Support for households to implement energy and water saving initiatives.

CORENA - Project Loans

Amount: Various
Provider: Citizens Own Renewable Energy Network Australia
Closes: Ongoing

CORENA provides interest-free loans to help fund climate projects anywhere in Australia in cases where the up-front capital cost is a barrier.

Household Energy Upgrades Fund

Amount: Various
Provider: Plenti in partnership with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC)
Closes: Ongoing

$1 billion fund offering discounted rates off Plenti's standard green loans to Australian households.

Wettenhall Environment Trust – Small Environmental Grants

Amount: $10,000
Provider: The Norman Wettenhall Foundation
Closes: Ongoing

Support for groups or individuals undertaking projects that will make a positive difference to the natural living environment, in land, sea or air, rural or urban.

Other

CSIRO – Generation STEM Links Program 

Amount: A grant of $2,500 will be paid to the industry partner upon completion of the 200 hour placement.
Provider: CSIRO
Closes: Ongoing 

Provide high-quality internships to help tertiary students gain workplace skills, transition into STEM jobs after graduation, and build a pool of STEM-capable professionals for the future of NSW STEM industries.  

NSW

Surf Club Facility Program 

Amount: Grants between $15,000 – $1million
Provider: NSW Office of Sport
Closes: Category 1 - 20 Oct 2025, Category 2 &3 - 10 November 2025

Assist eligible Surf Life Saving Clubs throughout NSW to develop facilities that will enable increased participation in Surf Life Saving for all people, increased facility usage, and improved safety.

Other

Australian Cricket Infrastructure Fund (ACIF)

Amount: $500 to $40,000
Provider: Australian Cricket Infrastructure Fund (ACIF)
Closes: Ongoing

The Australian Cricket Infrastructure Fund (ACIF) provides funding for community cricket facility projects, with a focus on growing participation, promoting accessibility and inclusivity and delivering upon Australian Cricket’s strategic priorities.

Tennis Australia – Opportunity Knocks Subsidy Program

Amount: $500
Provider: Tennis Australia
Closes: Open ongoing

Subsidised coaching support, club membership fees or competition fees for young people facing financial hardship the opportunity to continue their tennis journey.

Federal

Veteran Community Grants Program (VCGP)

Amount: Grants of up to $3,000
Provider: Office of Veteran Affairs
Closes: 11 November 2025

Promote appreciation and understanding of the service and sacrifice of military service personnel or support activities and services to enhance the wellbeing of the NSW veteran community.

Saluting Their Service Commemorative Grants Program

Amount: $150,000
Provider: Department of Veterans Affairs
Closes: 5 February 2026

Funding to support the commemoration of the service and sacrifice of Australia’s service personnel who served in wars, conflicts and peace operations, and their families.

Federal

Women in Business

Amount: N/A
Provider: NSW Department of Education and TAFE
Closes: Ongoing

This online program supports women looking to establish a micro or small business, or already operating one.

Women in STEM Cadetships and Advanced Apprenticeships Program (Employer Grants)

Amount: $20,000
Provider: Department of Education
Closes: Ongoing

Support to promote equality of opportunity in higher education, through increasing access to, and participation of, up to 600 employed women studying Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).

Other

Women In IT Scholarship

Amount: $5,000
Provider: BizCover
Closes: 28 February 2026

Support for women in the IT field.

Australian Women in Security Network - Entry Level Certification Program

Amount: Not specified
Provider: Australian Women in Security Network
Closes: Ongoing

Support for students, unemployed, those returning to the workforce to access training and obtain their first Certification in Cybersecurity.

Chief Executive Women Scholarships

Amount: $5,000
Provider: Chief Executive Women (CEW)
Closes: Various

Various scholarships to support women in business.