Grants & Opportunities

This program provides annual grants to organisations for activities that advance legal education for the community, disseminate legal information, and improve access to legal services in Western Australia.

Funds initiatives supporting economic equity, safety, and justice for women and girls.

Funds the establishment of micro-businesses in remote Aboriginal communities.

Provides resources for vulnerable families, focusing on income generation and children's healthcare needs.

Designed for smaller grassroots organisations and organisations new to the foundation. Maximum request is $25,000. Focus areas include mental health, education equity, homelessness, family violence, addiction, food insecurity, disability inclusion, and arts/culture.

Projects must result in sustainable benefits related to caring for Country, supporting cultural practice, renewal or cultural education, and/or development of First Peoples art forms. Thematic priorities for 2025/26 include cultural knowledge transfer and practices (intergenerational), and truth telling in historic or contemporary contexts.

Projects must focus on First Peoples personal and/or collective healing and wellbeing, ideally scalable and/or of national significance. Thematic priorities for 2025/26 include truth telling leading to healing, and social and emotional wellbeing for young people.

This program, delivered through the CommBank Staff Foundation, awards grants to community organisations across Australia. It supports initiatives focused on areas such as mental health, homelessness, education, disability inclusion, regional resilience, children's health, and support for First Nations Peoples, migrants, and refugees.

Prize funding for food justice initiatives for kids, partnered with Newman's Own Foundation and Henry P. Kendall Foundation

Commences in the 2025 academic year, providing $1,000 for successful completion of each academic year of full-time Cert IV or Degree courses lasting a year or more. Paid for the first qualification only, it is means-tested and requires applicants to be Central Australian Aboriginal.

This grant supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people in remote areas of South Australia, focusing on conservation initiatives, community engagement, education, and cultural connection.

Partnership with Hands Across Canberra and John James Foundation. $1.94M across 63 projects (2024). Supports community belonging, disability inclusion, healthcare, First Nations communities, DFV prevention.

An annual art prize competition that encourages students to learn about social justice issues in Australia and how they can help bring about change.

This award focuses on individuals, groups, or organisations that have made a major contribution to addressing key social justice issues in Australia; nominations are not generally accepted.

Funding opportunity to produce tangible outcomes with the potential to create high-impact change to the cardiovascular health of First Nations peoples.

Supporting women's economic empowerment in Australia

Addresses issues such as early marriages, slavery, and domestic and family violence, supported by Community Migrant Resource Centre and Western Sydney Migrant Resource Centre. Date to be confirmed.

Provides financial grants related to mothers and newborns, falling under women's health and maternity wellness.

Grants supporting health initiatives aimed at improving the wellbeing of the Warnindilyakwa people of Groote Eylandt.

Grants supporting educational initiatives and opportunities for the Warnindilyakwa people of Groote Eylandt.

Grants supporting social welfare initiatives to enhance the quality of life for the Warnindilyakwa people of Groote Eylandt.

Grants supporting cultural initiatives to preserve and promote the traditions and heritage of the Warnindilyakwa people of Groote Eylandt.

Grants supporting religious initiatives for the Warnindilyakwa people of Groote Eylandt.

Strategic Partnerships provide unrestricted grant funding and an opportunity to partner with the Foundation for organisations working to support preventative mental wellbeing at the systems change level.

An award-winning program established in 2012 that harnesses the power of football to positively engage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people, typically aged 2-18, across remote and regional communities in NSW, NT, and QLD. It focuses on improving health, education, wellbeing, and connection to Country.