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Annual Giving

$84.1M

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Macquarie University is a prominent educational institution in Australia that operates as a grantmaker, focusing on supporting various research and educational initiatives. While extensive information about their philanthropic activities is limited, their significant annual revenue mark suggests a robust commitment to fostering learning and innovation.

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Macquarie University aims to drive positive change through educational advancement, with a focus on enhancing research and student opportunities.

ACNC Financial History

Year	Grants Given	Revenue	Total Assets	Net Assets
FY2023	$34.4M	$948.9M	$4.0B	$2.4B
FY2022	$84.1M	$935.3M	$3.9B	$2.4B
FY2021	$79.7M	$996.3M	$3.9B	$2.4B
FY2020	—	$968.3M	$3.9B	$2.3B
FY2019	—	$1.0B	$4.0B	$2.4B
FY2018	—	$1.0B	$3.6M	$2.3M
FY2017	—	$938.8M	$3.2B	$2.2B
7yr total	$198.3M	Source: ACNC Annual Information Statements

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Grants in Database (159)

I can't find the word! Reading to maintain communication skills in ageing. This project aims to investigate why, as we age, we have trouble retrieving words when we speak but not when we read aloud. I

A multifaceted technology platform to enhance single cell genomics. A major limitation of traditional cellular studies is that they scrutinise DNA or RNA extracted from thousands of cells, resulting i

Flipping the mattress: infinite polyurethane recycling by synthetic biology. Australia is covered in billions of tonnes of plastic and yet <10% is recycled today. Polyurethane (PU) is ubiquitous in ou

Integrated multimodal microscopy facility for single molecule analysis. This project aims to establish an integrated multimodal microscopy facility in Australia for extensive structural characterizati

Why are warning colours in animals so rare? Toxic insects display warning colours as protection from predators who learn to associate them with an unpleasant taste. Theoretically, there is no limit to

From trash to treasure: engineering waste carbon utilisation in yeast. This project aims to engineer yeast to convert carbon dioxide- and methane-derived methanol into sustainable chemicals, foods, an

Philosophical Foundations of Mechanistic Understanding in AI. This project aims to design a comprehensive theoretical framework to understand the behaviour of AI systems mechanistically. By integratin

Creating Sustainability-Oriented Fintech Lending Platforms in Australia. This project aims to investigate how FinTech lending companies can use customers' environmental information to access their cre

Giving quantum systems a voice: quantum optoacoustics on a nanoscale. This project aims to build a complete and scalable platform for the new paradigm of quantum acoustics, ready for immediate deploym

Understanding and improving sustained attention under vigilance conditions. This project aims to address a major global challenge caused by technological advances: human operators have to monitor comp

The MARVEL exoplanet facility. This project aims to deliver critical parts for the new $6M international MARVEL exoplanet facility, in exchange for full access of Australian researchers to the facilit

Universities as entrepreneurial urban actors. This project aims to critically analyse the role of universities in shaping Australian cities. By mobilising a detailed case study approach, the project e

New Graph Mining Technologies to Enable Timely Exploration of Social Events. This project aims to develop scalable and effective graph mining techniques for the timely exploration of social events tha

Can cyanobacteria use organic nutrients to thrive in future oceans? Marine cyanobacteria are central to regulating the global climate and underpin entire marine food webs. Though they possess genes ne

Warrakan'puy Djäma: A new biocultural approach to fauna conservation. This project aims to record endangered Indigenous knowledge of fauna and integrate this with innovative Western science to develop

Indoor Photovoltaics Enabled by Wide-Bandgap Perovskite Quantum Dots. This project aims to develop a high-efficiency indoor photovoltaic (PV) technology to provide reliable low-cost power in the multi

Seeing the light: high-power visible-light generation using silicate fibre. Unlike their near-infrared counterparts, visible-light-emitting lasers are inefficient and complicated, impacting their broa

Creating coolspots: eco-engineering heat-resistant intertidal communities. This project aims to identify structural characteristics of marine intertidal habitat patches, formed by seaweeds and shellfi

Energy-efficient liquid-flow system for electroreduction of carbon dioxide. Concerns about fossil fuel depletion and rising carbon emissions have brought about an urgent demand for carbon dioxide (CO2

Harmonic analysis of Laplacians in curved spaces. Harmonic Analysis is a branch of mathematics which is interrelated to other fields of mathematics like complex analysis, number theory and partial dif

Integrated Nanoplatform for Multiomics Analysis of Cell-to-Cell Interaction. This project aims to develop an integrated nanoplatform for analysis of exosomes produced by host-pathogen interaction at t

New Foundations for Algebraic Geometry. Differential calculus is one of the most important and widely applied areas of mathematics. Differential categories are a modern foundational theory of differen

Hello, Mr America: Americans on R&R Leave in Australia in the Vietnam War. This project will provide the first comprehensive history of an important but neglected aspect of Australia's relationship wi

Using assisted evolution to win the war against invasive species. Invasive species disrupt ecosystem functioning, causing severe economic costs. This project investigates the use of native insects, al

Next-generation epigenetic analysis: direct reading of DNA methylation. This project aims to develop a new molecular tool to directly and dynamically read chemical modifications on genomic DNA (epigen

Crisis as Opportunity: Societal Change in Early Middle Kingdom Egypt. The project aims to address political and social shifts in the ancient Egyptian early Middle Kingdom c. 4000 years ago. For the fi

Mitonuclear incompatibility, speciation, and the Z sex chromosome. This project will characterise the interaction between the mitochondrial and nuclear genome in several species and its contribution t

Rewriting moral character and professional virtue. This project aims to solve the philosophical problems of whether moral character motivates action and how it does so by developing an innovative acco

Observe, Reflect, Improve: a tool to enrich Children’s Learning (ORICL). This project aims to address long-standing concerns about the quality of education and care for children during their critical

Robust and Scalable Autonomous Landing for Drones. The aim of this project is to develop a transformative robust and scalable autonomous landing system for drones. This is the critical missing techno

Storying and repairing water places in Wiradjuri Country. This project will centre Aboriginal knowledges to story, care for and repair Wiradjuri Country around the Mudgee area, central west NSW. Shari

Planet Formation at Solar System Scales with the James Webb Space Telescope. Planetary systems like our own form within vast disks of primordial gas and dust around newborn stars. This project will ob

Unlocking the genetic and biochemical potential of kangaroo paws. Using cutting-edge gene technology and an interdisciplinary approach, this project aims to uncover the genes responsible for flower co

Federated Omniverse Facilities for Smart Digital Futures. A world-first trans-disciplinary, -domain, and -institutional smart 3D omniverse R&D ecosystem AuVerse will be built in NSW, affiliated with Q

Removing the blur: Guidestar lasers for the space industry . The speed and quality of transferring information between earth and space can be greatly enhanced by adaptive optical systems that provide

The Power of Teacher-Student Relationships to Optimise Student Outcomes. This project aims to determine how teacher-student relationships support adolescents’ motivation, engagement, and achievement i

Survival & Wellbeing among Migrant Precariat in Australia’s Gig Economy . The food and parcel delivery industry is now a structural feature of the Australian labour market. Little is known about the

Will rivers be smaller when the climate is hotter? This project aims to investigate how large rivers are affected by changing atmospheric temperature. Large inland rivers are the main source of water

Illuminating the dark neutrophil glycoproteome. This project aims to shed light on the highly complex and dynamic sugar-coated surfaces of neutrophil white blood cells critical for the cell communicat

MAVIS: A Revolutionary New Instrument for the European Southern Observatory. This application aims to fund an innovative spectrograph for "MAVIS" - a ground-breaking Australian-led instrument for the

Towards Generalisable and Unbiased Dynamic Recommender Systems. This project aims to develop the foundations, including models, methodology, and algorithms for building generalisable and unbiased dyna

Faith in Development: Religion, Gender and Resource Extraction in PNG. Australia’s neighbour, the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in PNG, is about to become the world's newest nation. The proposed

Rethinking animals in research: Developing a novel ethical framework. Current approaches to animal ethics face challenges addressing significant problems in animal research. These problems include: ha

Supporting dynamic multidimensional entrepreneurial resilience in Australia. This project aims to model entrepreneurial resilience, its formation and its influence on how creative transformation occur

Scaling Up Satellite Communications for the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a revolution in sensing and automation that is becoming vital for industries including farming and minin

Advanced Bayesian Inversion Algorithms for Wave Propagation. This project aims to improve algorithms for detecting hidden items by developing new computational mathematical techniques capable of recon

Overcoming limits of miniaturisation to enhance spatial memory capacities. Ensuring optimal efficiency at the smallest possible physical limit is a challenge for technical systems, which has been eleg

Seeing Dark with Light: Revealing the Milky Way with Stellar Streams. This project aims to reveal the dark matter that envelops the Milky Way, deconstructing its mass through observations of cannibali

Quantum-enabled super-resolution imaging. The aim is to design large scale, quantum-enabled imaging systems to boost the resolution of state-of-the-art instruments by three to five orders of magnitude

Social Resilience, Migrant Integration and Informal Sport in Public Space. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of public space and leisure in strengthening individual and community we

Political connections and the cleantech transition in China and Australia. Estimates show that the transition to clean technology will likely create $20 trillion in wealth worldwide. This project aims

Swarm construction: ant-inspired processes for teams of building robots. Construction and manufacturing can be dangerous, wasteful industries—prime candidates for automation by teams of mobile robot b

Transcriptional and translational regulation of the neuronal protein tau. The microtubule-associated protein tau is important for brain development and performance. To perform these functions, tau lev

Reducing Cyberbullying: Turning Bystanders into Constructive Defenders. This project aims to develop a theoretically driven internet-based training program to reduce cyberbullying among adolescents. I

Enabling wide area mm-wave mobile broadband networks. This project will define a new architecture and algorithms based around a network of access points with overlapping coverage that will support bro

Trust-Oriented Data Analytics in Online Social Networks. Trust-oriented data analytics is essential in online social networks for reducing deceitful interactions and enhancing trust between users. Thi

Trust and Distrust in Social Epistemic Networks. This project aims to discover critically-needed understandings of the social causes and consequences of ‘fake news’. It will do this by investigating a

Microbial junk food: developing synthetic platforms for plastic degradation. This project aims to establish the genetic basis of polyethelene biodegradation (PED) by microbes from the gut microbiome o

Quantum measurement as a resource. Advanced quantum computers will use modular measurements significantly enhancing their capabilities. However, due to the noisy environment, the measurements may have

Using cane toads to eradicate cane toads. This project aims to develop effective ways to reduce the devastating ecological impact of cane toads, by exploiting the cannibalistic behaviour of tadpoles.

Re/connecting People, Nature and Sustainable Futures via Indigenous tourism. This project aims to identify how Australians might appropriately learn from and act on Indigenous knowledges for more sust

The ABC, its Archives and its Audiences. This project aims to enable deeper understandings of the role of Australia’s principal public service broadcaster in the lives of audience members across the c

The power of public spaces to connect communities and places. The project aims to uncover the vital role of public spaces during COVID-19 and in a time of climate change. Public spaces are not just pl

ARC Training Centre for Facilitated Advancement of Australia's Bioactives (FAAB). The Centre for Facilitated Advancement of Australia's Bioactives (FAAB) will transform the rapidly growing bioactive i

Understanding Growth in Emotion Regulatory Flexibility in Emerging Adults. Emerging adults (ages 18-25) are now facing unparalleled social and technological change and the on-going effects of the COVI

Microlocal Analysis - A Unified Approach for Geometric Models in Biology . This project will use microlocal analysis to create a unified approach for predicting the outcome of a broad class of diffus

Situational Assessment as a Marker of Cognitive Skill Decay. The aim of this study is to test how differences in exposure to complex tasks change the capacity for situational assessment. Amongst drive

Dispersing myths; Characterising human migration through Asia . The human journey across the globe is one of our greatest achievements, yet the archaeological evidence for the earliest migrations is

Investigating how visual imagery influences cognition. This project will characterise the role visual imagery plays in other cognitive functions, namely visual working memory and attention. This will

Chinese Australian Writing on Indigenous Country. This project will produce the first major study of Chinese Australian writing about Indigenous people, culture and country from the 19th century to th

Cosmic Renaissance: The Last Chance for Planet Formation Around Dying Stars. This project will generate a novel model where planets emerge from gas expelled during interactions between dying stars, ra

Deep Pattern Mining for Brain Graph Analysis: A Data Mining Perspective. This project brings together experts in the fields of data mining and cognitive neuroscience. This project aims to develop new

Upcycling of mixed plastics from bioprocessed municipal solid waste. This project aims to develop a scalable catalytic process that can sustainably upcycle mixed plastics from bioprocessed municipal s

Images of Power in the Roman Empire: Mass Media and the Cult of Emperors. Contemporary leaders understand the power of an image to influence public opinion, but are they following a path well-trodden