Grants available for your community project
Queensland-Smithsonian Fellowships Program
Closes 14 May
This program provides unique opportunities to access the expertise, facilities and collections of the Smithsonian Institution. The program funds fellows from Queensland’s research, education and cultural sectors to visit the United States and/or Panama and complete a collaborative project with a Smithsonian Institution facility.
Arts Qld Grants
Various closing dates
Arts Queensland’s funding initiatives work to drive creative employment, and grow new creative work and events that will activate Queensland communities and showcase uniquely Queensland stories.
Wildlife Acoustics Scientific Product Grant
Closes 15 May + 15 August
This quarterly grant program supports the advancement of wildlife research, habitat monitoring, and environmental conservation. Scientists may apply for a product grant to advance the study of bats, birds, amphibians, and other terrestrial wildlife—or a new travel grant to help them attend a conference with their peers.
Nuffield Australia Farming Scholarships
Closes 16 May
This scolarship valued at about $40,000 is available to individuals directly involved in food and fibre production for travel and research around the world.
Grant writing: whittling your mission, goals, history and outcomes into a 250 character paragraph.
Agriculture Biodiversity in Action Grant
Closes 16 May
Helping groups across Australia improve their understanding and management of natural assets on-farm by testing, implementing and evaluating practical initiatives that can restore biodiversity and/or increase biodiversity values.
Up to $75,000 is available to not-for-profit organisations.
Junior Rangers Expansion
Closes 19 May
Junior ranger activities will support primary and secondary students to engage with their schooling through a combination of classroom and on-Country learning. NIAA is undertaking a targeted competitive grant opportunity in priority locations, to select new providers in every state and territory.
Reefwise Wetlands Program
Closes 23 May
The Reefwise Wetlands Program aims to improve water quality to strengthen the resilience of the Great Barrier Reef, through the rehabilitation, restoration and/or, modification of large-scale coastal wetland and riparian systems.
Birdlife Australia – Community Grants
Closes 25 May
Up to $10,000 is available for community and capacity building projects that align with and support the delivery of BirdLife Australia’s Bird Conservation Strategy.
Hamer Sprout Fund
Apply anytime
- Promote innovation in environmental education
- Facilitate engagement in environmental action
- Advocate for environmental sustainability
- Foster collaboration between young people engaged in environmental leadership
Up to $5,000 is available.
"Grant me the confidence and perseverance of a typo that's made it trough 45 rounds of edits." Dea Poirier
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Scientist Award
Closes 1 June
Up to $20,000 is available to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander PhD students and early- and mid-career scientists with their research and/or the expansion and growth of their research networks.
The Margaret Middleton Fund
Closes 1 June
This fund offers annual science grants of up to $20,000 each to support field-based, high-quality ecological research.
Max Day Environmental Science Fellowship Award
Closes 1 June
This fund offers annual science grants of up to $20,000 each to assist early-stage PhD students or early career researchers with their research.
Ignite Ideas Fund
Closes 3 June
Up to $200,000 is available for Queensland small to medium businesses with high-growth potential to commercialise highly innovative and new products or services that are at minimum viable product stage or beyond.
Wiri Yuwiburra Community Benefits Trust Grants
Apply anytime
This Trust aims to develop, support and promote programs and activities for the benefit of people from the identified communities.
We support:
– Education & Training
– Representative sports
– Cultural heritage and wellbeing
– Business development and research
that encourage individuals to maximise their skills, abilities and potential. We aim to assist social, emotional or economic advancement of our people.
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” Jane Goodall
Norman Wettenhall Small Environmental Grant
Apply anytime
Contemporary Music Fund Short Notice Activity Program
Closes 5 June
This fund offers up to $15,000 to assist homegrown contemporary music artists with projects that enable them to produce and promote their work, along with building links nationally and internationally.
Community Sustainability Action grants
Closes 11 June
Grants of up to $50,000 (excluding GST) will be provided to support eligible recipients using best practice to conserve and celebrate places entered on the Queensland Government’s Heritage Register that are, or will be, accessible to the local community and tourists.
Frank Moorhouse Fellowship for Young Writers
Closes 23 June
Up to $10,000 is available to writers aged 18-35 years to develop and write a new work of fiction.
Gambling Community Benefit Fund Grant
Closes 30 June + 31 Oct
The fund allocates grants to not-for-profit community groups, to enhance their capacity to provide services, leisure activities and opportunities for Queensland communities.
The June round makes $100,000 available
The Oct round makes $35,000 available
Manufacturing Energy Efficiency Grant Program
Closes 30 June
Up to $50,000 is for Queensland-based manufacturering businesses to improve energy efficiency measures and technology, reduce energy usage, costs and emissions.
The Ian Potter Foundation
Ongoing rounds
Environmental Grants and Support
Apply anytime
Our Country Our Future
Apply anytime
Screen Australia Funding
Various closing dates