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Annual Giving

$2.8M

About

Australian Catholic University Limited is a tertiary education institution that functions as a grantmaker with annual giving of $2.8 million. While primarily a university, ACU supports research, scholarships, and community initiatives aligned with Catholic values, focusing on health sciences, education, nursing, allied health, and social impact programs. The institution operates across multiple Australian campuses and emphasizes preparing students and professionals to make meaningful contributions to society.

Tips for Applicants

Align proposals with ACU's core strengths in health sciences, education, nursing, allied health, and research. Emphasize community impact, innovation, and alignment with Catholic social teaching values; consider partnering with ACU researchers or leveraging their multi-campus network across NSW, VIC, and QLD.

Giving Philosophy

ACU's giving reflects its Catholic mission to empower individuals to make real impact in others' lives, with particular emphasis on scholarships, research advancement, and workforce development in health and education sectors. The foundation prioritizes innovation in teaching and learning, mental health awareness, and supporting underrepresented groups including mature-age students and regional/rural communities. Giving is strategically aligned with university research priorities and community partnerships that advance social good.

ACNC Financial History

Year	Grants Given	Revenue	Total Assets	Net Assets
FY2023	$504K	$575.6M	$1.3B	$764.3M
FY2022	$2.0M	$554.0M	$1.3B	$828.1M
FY2021	$2.5M	$563.4M	$1.3B	$869.6M
FY2020	$2.8M	$555.2M	$1.2B	$749.9M
FY2019	$2.0M	$556.1M	$1.1B	$705.8M
FY2018	$1.0M	$535.5M	$1.0B	$625.2M
FY2017	—	$536.0M	$955.4M	$562.5M
7yr total	$10.9M	Source: ACNC Annual Information Statements

Australian Catholic University Limited

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Grants in Database (24)

Deadly Start: Enabling Preschoolers’ Literacy, Numeracy and Wellbeing. This project aims to test the effectiveness of a new preschool oral language, literacy, numeracy and wellbeing intervention for I

A History of Early Modern Natural Resource Management. This project aims to analyse how early modern Europeans managed two key assets, water and forests. It expects to generate detailed knowledge of t

The Female Voice in Ancient Philosophical Dialogues. This project aims to conceptualise and communicate how a major innovation was accepted in the ancient world, when women for the first time began to

Metabolite regulation of mitochondrial fission. This project aims to understand how the function and health of mitochondria – the energy producing structures in cells - are controlled by fat molecules

Identifying how cortical bone microstructure deteriorates with age. This project aims to define the disruptions responsible for the gradual weakening of the skeleton in ageing by integrating a range o

Inside Others: Early Christian Protagonists and their Impairments. This project aims to uncover how disability functions in the portraits of key early Christian figures and their receptions over time.

Deadly Futures:Enabling Indigenous Children’s Literacy, Numeracy, Wellbeing. This project aims to test the effectiveness of new literacy, numeracy and wellbeing interventions using powerful interdisci

Classical Traditions and Future Thinking in Late Antiquity. The project aims to investigate how Classical texts were used to critique traditional Greco-Roman forms of predicting the future. It will sh

Creating sustainable employment for disadvantaged and vulnerable groups . This project aims to address long-term unemployment and labour market exclusion of disadvantaged and vulnerable groups by gene

Boosting high school students’ interest and course taking in STEM fields. This education psychology research aims to develop and test an online motivation intervention promoting high school students'

Utilising Digital Texts to Foster Volitional, Proficient Readers . This project responds to our partner schools’ deep concern about falling reading levels – a national issue. It aims to investigate ho

Enabling students' critical mathematical thinking. The capacity to use mathematics critically is essential for making prudent decisions and forming balanced judgements about economic, health, environm

Improving disadvantaged students’ writing engagement and achievement. Economically disadvantaged students are disproportionally represented among those who fail to attain minimum benchmarks in writing

Critical Pedagogies for AI and Extended Reality (XR) Technology . This project aims to advance critical pedagogies to address gaps in uses of artificial intelligence and extended reality technologies

Translation and Transformation in Late Antiquity. This project offers the first holistic assessment of translation in Late Antiquity, a critically important cultural transformation on par with the int

Artificial Intelligence for the Early Years . This project aims to generate new knowledge about Artificial Intelligence (AI) for the early years. Education and care for young children (birth-to-8-year

Uncovering a novel energy-sensing mechanism in the brain. This project aims to investigate a novel regulator of energy homeostasis in the brain, a protein kinase called SIK3. Energy homeostasis is ess

Night Vision in the Late Ancient Mediterranean. Night Vision aims to create a new history of wakeful nighttime activities in the late ancient world by combining study of material remains (e.g. lightin

Bridging the decoding-vocabulary gap during children's reading. This project aims to address the urgent problem of low reading achievement by discovering how children adjust their mispronunciations as

Literacy in adolescence: The next major challenge in the science of reading. This project aims to address the pressing problem of why Australian secondary school children have been declining in litera

Improving disciplinary literacy in Senior High School Industrial Technology. This project addresses major literacy issues in Senior High School Industrial Technology. It describes the distinctive lite

Deadly Teaching: Enhancing Indigenous School Attendance and Well-being. This project aims to significantly improve Indigenous students' school attendance, engagement and wellbeing. Indigenous students

Game-Changers: Enablers of Indigenous University Students’ Success. This project aims to identify game-changers that enable Indigenous students to complete university capitalising upon research advanc

Deadly Home Reading: Enabling Indigenous Children’s Literacy & Wellbeing. This project tests the effectiveness of a new parent/carer phonics, oral language and self-concept enhancement home reading in

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