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Annual Giving

$15.5M

About

Griffith University is a public university headquartered in Queensland, Australia, with campuses in Brisbane (Nathan, South Bank) and Gold Coast. While primarily an educational institution rather than a traditional philanthropic foundation, the university is registered as a charity with the ACNC and allocates approximately $15.5 million annually toward grants, scholarships, and community programs.

Tips for Applicants

For the Year 12 Early Offer Guarantee, ensure you list your preferred March 2026 degree as your FIRST QTAC preference. ATAR/IB students should submit QCAA portal screenshots showing all IA1, IA2, IA3 results by the deadline. VET students need completion certificates. Head Start students don't need to submit additional documentation—Griffith can verify enrollment directly. Northern NSW students must attend an eligible high school to qualify.

Giving Philosophy

Griffith University supports educational access and research excellence through early admission schemes, scholarships, and research funding. Their approach focuses on removing barriers to higher education for Year 12 students in Queensland and northern NSW, supporting VET pathway students, and advancing research across multiple disciplines.

ACNC Financial History

Year	Grants Given	Revenue	Total Assets	Net Assets
FY2023	$15.5M	$1.1B	$2.7B	$2.3B
FY2022	$12.2M	$934.9M	$2.7B	$2.3B
FY2021	$14.6M	$1.0B	$2.6B	$2.3B
FY2020	$15.3M	$967.8M	$2.6B	$2.2B
FY2019	$12.9M	$1.0B	$2.5B	$2.2B
FY2018	$13.2M	$971.1M	$2.4B	$2.1B
FY2017	$13.7M	$942.4M	$2.3B	$2.0B
7yr total	$97.4M	Source: ACNC Annual Information Statements

Griffith University

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Grants in Database (159)

Metal-support interactions: single atoms Vs nanoclusters. This project aims to fundamentally understand the catalytic mechanism at an atomic level through metal-metal and metal-metal/support interacti

Portable instrument for quantification and genotyping of Cryptosporidium . Cryptosporidium is a parasitic protozoan, causing more than 48,000 deaths in children under 5 and 7.2 million disability-adju

Engineering semitransparent perovskite solar cells for smart solar windows. This project aims to develop highly efficient and stable semitransparent perovskite solar cells for innovative smart solar w

Enhancing Australian biodiscovery molecule generation, storage and access. The project aims to establish the Australian Biodiscovery Network with the following integrated infrastructure: sample proces

Chemical probes to dissect the cell cycle of globally important parasites . This project aims to develop new reagents, called chemical probes, to visualise key biological events in globally important

Fusing wearables and advanced computational models for real world analysis. This project aims to solve a major technological problem: our inability to study human skeletal, muscular, and neural functi

Heralded entangled photons to enable quantum networking and computation. This project aims to advance quantum networking and quantum computation by developing the science of new heralded, i.e. nondest

Deep time extinctions and environments in Australian underwater caves. This project aims to investigate the unique submerged Mt Gambier fossil deposits to determine the role environmental change had o

The politics of expertise during COVID-19. Experts play a crucial role during crises. This project aims to examine how four governments (Australia, Sweden, United Kingdom and United States) have incor

Parenting in an unsteady world across nations. Overinvolved and overcontrolling parenting seems to be on the rise as families are confronted with an unsteady world. This project aims to investigate ho

Glycan-based prebiotic approaches to increase food safety in Australia. Since the launch of the first Australian Animal Sector National Antimicrobial Resistance Plan (2018) several approaches have bee

Assessing the impacts of droughts and water extraction on groundwater. This project aims to develop a novel framework that uses big data from satellites to assess the impacts of droughts and water ext

Co-creating Cultures of Inclusion: Redefining Access to Cultural Heritage . This project aims to respond to an identified injustice, as access to cultural heritage is still very limited for people wit

Enabling Automatic Graph Learning Pipelines with Limited Human Knowledge. This project aims to develop an automatic graph learning system for complex graph data analysis. Machine learning for graph da

Developing a transformative tourism model for the South Pacific. In a South Pacific context, this project aims to develop and disseminate a model of tourism that balances economic, social and environm

Intelligent pattern recognition of water end uses enabling recommendations. This project aims to develop a hybrid machine learning method for autonomously disaggregating high- and low-resolution water

Towards Robust Hydrogen Electrode for High-Rate Alkaline Electrolysis. This project aims to develop robust, efficient porous hybrid hydrogen electrodes for electrochemical hydrogen production in anion

A framework for adapting child interview protocols in complex cases. This project aims to develop–in collaboration with Aboriginal and other industry co-researchers–a ‘how to’ framework for effectivel

Privacy-Aware and Personalised Explanation Overlays for Recommender Systems. AI-powered recommender systems provide recommendations for daily lives, but they need to be legally interpretable and expla

Quantifying thermal environmental impact on office productivity. This project aims to quantify thermal environmental impacts on office productivity. It expects to firmly dismiss the prevailing misbeli

Sediment Drilling Facility for environmental and genetic archives. This Sediment Drilling Facility for Environmental and Genetic Archives combines versatile augers with new field spectrometers that wi

A next-generation whole parasite bovine Babesia vaccine. . In Australia, Babesia parasites cause most of the severe and often fatal cases of cattle-tick fever, a globally significant tick-borne diseas

Momentarily immobile: the futures of backpacking and seasonal farm workers. This project aims to examine the experiences of backpackers and seasonal migrants who live in communal hostel accommodation

Biomass-derived Carbon Dots Enable Flexible, On-Demand Hydrogen Delivery . Methanol is a promising liquid hydrogen carrier for long distance H2 transportation and exportation, because it is rich in hy

Microfluidics with core-shell beads: handling liquids like solids. Reducing waste of consumables in chemical reactions promises to solve environmental problems as well as enable novel applications in

Engineering micropatterned surfaces for cell mechanics and mechanobiology. This project aims to engineer a highly versatile micropatterned surface that can be used to culture and study cells. This pro

Engaging Outsiders in Sport: Transforming Sport Event Legacy Planning . The project aims to investigate intersectional inequities in sport participation for girls, women and non-binary people in Queen

Unlocking digital innovation: Intellectual Property and the Right to Repair. This project aims to investigate the role that Intellectual Property (IP) plays in the rights and capacities of Australians

Novel source of excited metastable atoms for Atom Trap Trace Analysis. This project aims to understand and to control light-induced processes in atoms by using finely shaped and tailored laser pulses,

Determining principles for successful episode retrieval of repeated events. This project aims to develop the first-ever set of explanatory principles for how people successfully retain and retrieve in

Innovation in police gender equity management: Looking back, moving forward. This project aims to investigate gender equity recruitment and career support policies in all nine Australian and New Zeala

An early warning system for police workplace health and performance. This project aims to build a comprehensive organisational model of police workplace health and performance. This project answers th

Indigenous solutions to global challenges in the Pacific Islands. The global COVID 19 pandemic represents a unique opportunity to understand the nature and potential of Indigenous sustainable developm

The impact of immigrant theatre artists on Australian culture 1919-1949. Using an innovative mixed-methods research design, this project aims to investigate the lives and impact of immigrant theatre a

Solving the solvent problem in chemical modelling. This project aims to produce highly accurate, user-friendly chemical solvent models using interdisciplinary theoretical chemistry techniques. The ben

Chlorine Evolution Catalysts for Efferent Seawater Electrolysis. Seawater is the most abundant aqueous resource on earth that is readily accessible at very low costs, but yet to be directly utilised f

Developing a novel carbon negative fertiliser . Food security is vital to support our growing population. However, our increasing reliance on intensive farming systems necessitates increased fertilise

Lifting the burden of imprisonment: Creating safer and stronger communities. This project aims to identify how a reduction in imprisonment rates could benefit Australian communities and enhance their

Re-Theorising Employee Voice in Times of Change. This project aims to generate new knowledge of the concept of employee voice as a part of organisational realignment throughout and following the CoVid

Developing a national rural volunteering roadmap. This project aims to investigate the challenges affecting rural volunteering in Australia. Conducting a national analysis of volunteering demand and s

High-speed impact fractures and the global origins of projectile technology. It is often argued that complex projectile technology emerged and spread out of Africa with Homo sapiens, but this hypothes

Colour change: Artistic/ritual responses to climate flux in Australasia . Art and ritual connect people socially and help them manage stress. Throughout human history, evidence for this is preserved b

Life in the Shipping Lane; The Cost of Increasing Disturbance to Whales. This project aims to quantify the increasing risk of ship strike to humpback whales in Moreton Bay, and predict the impact of c

Advanced chemical recycling of mixed plastics for monomer recovery. This project aims to develop innovative catalytic routes to the chemical recycling of mixed plastics for recovery of their molecular

Nano optoelectronic coupling: towards an ultrasensitive sensing technology. This project aims to elucidate ultrasensitive mechanical and thermal sensing effects that are tens of thousands of times bet

Co-designing a resilient water-energy toolbox with Indigenous communities. The aim is to collaboratively create a toolbox of innovative, community-based approaches for water and energy management in r

Heisenberg-limited lasers: building the revolution. The project aims to design and build a revolutionary new type of laser based on the ground-breaking 2020 Nature Physics paper by the two Chief Inves

Membrane-based real-time ammonia monitoring system for sewage treatment. This project aims to develop a real-time, calibration-free, low-maintenance ammoniacal nitrogen monitoring system to assist in

Every Day Matters: Reducing School Non-Attendance in Autistic Students. Autistic children miss one day a week of school, three times more than their peers. This significantly impacts their learning, w

China’s Law-Based Governance Revolution under Xi Jinping . To sustain its unmitigated power, the Chinese Communist Party is transforming its legal ideology and governance focus to make politico-legal

Plant community responses to fire regime: the role of plant–soil feedbacks. We need to know how different prescribed burning regimes set the stage for long-term changes in plant community composition,

The genetics of four ancient 'Kings' of Sahul and Sunda. This project aims to recover all the genetic information from four ancient humans. Two of these iconic specimens come from Australia and two fr

Resolving surface nanobubbles as cavitation nuclei. This project aims to investigate the onset and control of cavitation, a challenging problem for over half a century. Cavitation is a process of bubb

Decoding Bacterial Epigenetic Regulation. This project aims to characterise bacterial epigenetic regulation by determining the mechanism of action and impact of bacterial DNA methylation. This project

Understanding the Antipodean 'Fair Go'. There is bipartisan support for the 'fair go' in Australia and New Zealand, but what does the fair go actually mean? This project aims to generate new knowledge

Redefining success in marine ecosystem restoration. This project aims to improve evaluations of marine ecosystem restoration through the measurement of key animal health metrics, and automated monitor

Empowering Wearable Smart Devices with 3D Printed Energy Storage. This project aims to design and develop functional nanomaterials and nanocomposites for high-performance wearable energy storage devic

In-depth Investigation of Lithium Dendrite Formation Processes. Battery failure is mainly derived from uncontrollable lithium dendrite formation. This project aims to investigate fundamental lithium d

Designing and fabricating artificial blood cells for global shortages. This project aims to create the first biophysically accurate artificial blood cells through fabrication of novel synthetic partic

Violent offenders in the night-time economy: Building the evidence. Alcohol-related violence in entertainment precincts is a significant community safety problem. This project aims to improve knowledg

Harnessing creative heritage for migrant wellbeing in museums and libraries. This project investigates the use of novel cultural heritage preservation methods to support migrant wellbeing in Australia

Optimising the occupational wellbeing of Australian healthcare workers . This project aims to address the wellbeing of Australian healthcare workers by focusing on the relationship between a manager’

Bioengineering self-assembly of innovative core-shell nanomaterials . This project aims to generate new knowledge in nanoscale bioengineering. It expects to develop a disruptive platform technology fo

Agents of Disinformation: The Rise of Counterfeit Election Observers. This project investigates the rise of “counterfeit” election observers as agents of disinformation. Using four case studies and fo

Human use of early tropical forest ecosystems. This project aims to investigate the earliest records of tropical forests occupied by modern humans. This project expects to reconstruct ancient tropical

Cultivating digital music making in regional Australia. The project aims to examine effective methods of aligning local infrastructure and online resources to support digital music creators and their

Safety and robustness of tall timber buildings under extreme dynamic events. This project aims to develop innovative and robust structural connections in tall mass timber buildings by characterising t

Uncovering Antarctica’s Secret Chemical Voyagers for Expedited Regulation. This project aims to strengthen global chemical policy by rapidly identifying chemicals that demonstrate environmental persis

The internationalisation of nationalist populism. This project aims to explain the rising international cooperation between nationalist populists in democracies across the world. It expects to generat

Voice and Belonging: Pathways to inclusion for new migrant communities. This project investigates the role of Australia's ethnic media in the humanitarian and refugee settlement experience, conceptual

Advancing bioelectronics with silicon carbide on microfluidics. Flexible bioelectronics is an emerging technology for real-time monitoring of vital signals on skin and in the body. Microfluidics is a

Towards sustainable co-management of groundwater in the Beetaloo region, NT. This project aims to improve understanding of connections between groundwater, climate, surface water and Indigenous cultur

Is New Guinea the missing link for understanding Australia’s rainforests? This project aims to understand the extent to which the animals in Australia have shared histories with animals from the islan

Early art, culture and occupation along the northern route to Australia. This project aims to uncover archaeological evidence for early humans in Indonesia's northern island chain (from Borneo to West