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Annual Giving

$12.8M

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The University of Southern Queensland (USQ) is a philanthropic foundation primarily focused on educational initiatives. With a commitment to fostering knowledge and advancement, USQ supports a range of grantmaking activities intended to enhance educational outcomes and community engagement.

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Focus on demonstrating the educational impact of your initiatives and how they align with USQ's mission to enhance community and academic outcomes.

Giving Philosophy

USQ believes in empowering communities through education and learning opportunities. Their theory of change is centered on providing resources that enable individuals and groups to thrive in academic and professional environments, fostering innovation and community development.

ACNC Financial History

Year	Grants Given	Revenue	Total Assets	Net Assets
FY2023	$12.8M	$356.1M	$987.4M	$850.1M
FY2022	$10.3M	$326.6M	$936.4M	$806.3M
FY2021	$10.9M	$423.9M	$900.9M	$777.5M
FY2020	$12.5M	$345.0M	$830.6M	$721.7M
FY2019	$9.3M	$327.3M	$800.3M	$702.8M
FY2018	—	$328.5M	$688.5M	$611.0M
FY2017	—	$320.6M	$657.9M	$577.3M
7yr total	$55.7M	Source: ACNC Annual Information Statements

University Of Southern Queensland

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Remote diagnostics for space-access flight testing. Aerospace flight testing is essential for assessing the reliability of space-access technologies including re-usable rockets and hypersonic air-brea

Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope for High Temperature Analysis. Through the use of a high temperature stage in an environmental SEM, this project intends to develop a comprehensive capabilit

Dispersion of spacecraft components during re-entry. Destructive re-entry trajectories for used satellites are designed so debris remaining after re-entry falls harmlessly to the Earth. However, the d

Development of high-performance flame-retardant one-component epoxy resins. This project will create a new class of phosphorus/imidazole oligomers for single-component epoxy resins with superior stora

Catch me if you can: The race to rescue the smallest planets. This project will upgrade a unique Australian observatory to study the smallest planets around other stars, using an innovative new techni

The Births and Deaths of Stars. This project aims to investigate how the formation of planets and their stars are intertwined, by determining the ages, masses and compositions of the stars to unpreced

Degradation mechanisms of structural composites under extreme weather. The changing weather patterns and increasing solar radiation in Australia have greatly impacted the durability of construction ma

Customising weather index insurance for agribusiness using machine learning. This project aims to customise weather index insurance (WII) by utilising machine learning techniques. WII is used as a typ

Securing Web-based Services by Policy Coherence and Proof-checking. This project aims to develop a provably correct cybersecurity system for workflows, which enables organizations to provide flexible

Advanced Gas Diffusion Electrodes For Electrochemical Manufacturing. This project aims to develop electrochemical conversion technologies to convert carbon dioxide into globally needed chemicals. It t

Privacy Preservation over 5G and IoT Smart Devices. This project aims to investigate privacy preservation protocols in a 5G integrated IoT environment through an analysis of the depth of smart-device

Novel biological and genetic disease control tools for the barley industry. This project places Australian barley breeders at the forefront of disease resistance by providing them with novel tools to

Fire-Retardant Composite Resins for Bushfire-Safe Wind Farm Infrastructures. This project aims to develop advanced fire-retardant composite resins for manufacturing bushfire-safe wind farm infrastruct

Bioinspired Ceramifiable Fire-Retardant Composite Coatings. This project aims to design bioinspired, adhesive, ceramifiable fire-retardant coatings through understanding their composition-property rel

EEG Based Global Network Models and Platform for Brain States Assessment. This project aims to generate new knowledge and tools in global brain network modelling and deep learning technology. It addre

Thermal engineering in semiconductor heterojunction for space transducers . Microelectromechanical system (MEMS) transducers, including sensors and actuators, are essential for space applications. How

Carbon fibre thermoplastics as next-generation carbon fibre composites. By combining sizing, chemical grafting, and nano-reinforcement strategies, this project develops chemically and thermally robust

Robust Bulk Thermoelectric Technology for Harvesting Waste Energy. This project aims to develop robust thermoelectric technology to harvest waste energy from the use of fossil fuels by (i) establishin

Like a wrecking ball: giant planets as the key to finding Earths. Jupiter-like planets are the key to understanding Earth-like planets. Their presence can disrupt the orbits of inner habitable worlds

Decoding an ancient, iconic tree species to save it from disease. Bunya pines, iconic conifers that hold special significance to First Nations communities and Australia’s biodiversity, are seriously t

Development of a surface reconstruction model for re-entry objects. More than 300 tonnes of spacecraft re-enter Earth's atmosphere each year, with about 30% of this surviving re-entry; posing risk to

Revealing invisible stellar interiors using starquakes in star clusters. The project aims to study stellar and cluster evolution synergistically, using stellar oscillations as a key tool. This project

Watching planets grow in real time. This project will conduct the first in-depth examination of the atmospheres of newly born small planets around other stars, yielding a better understanding of how p

Upcycling agriculture plastic waste to high value cross-linked polyethylene. Working with a plastic recycling company and a regional council, this project aims to recycle ~200,000 kilometres of waste

Intelligent Emotion Detection: Next-Generation AI for Speech Analysis. This project aims to develop a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool to better detect subtle emotional changes in the human speec

Artificial aquatic ecosystems – sources or sinks of nitrous oxide? This project aims to determine the contribution of farm dams, canals, and urban ponds to human-derived nitrous oxide emissions: a gre

Unveiling Planet Atmosphere and Formation with James Webb Space Telescope. Leveraging Australia's largest exoplanet science program on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, this Discovery Project will ai

Probing the formation and migration pathways of Jovian planets. This project will explore the key physical mechanisms governing the formation and evolution of Jupiter-like planets around other stars,

Upcycling Waste Plastics to Value-Added Fire-Safe Cladding Materials. This project aims to enable the upcycling of used agricultural irrigation plastics into cheaper, fire-safe building cladding. The

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