MELBOURNE, VIC
Top Funded Entities
Justice Funding ($27K)
Evidence-Funding Alignment
NDIS Supply & Service Pressure
NDIS money is not the same thing as healthy service coverage. This view shows whether MELBOURNE, VIC sits inside a state market with thin provider supply, captured payment flows, and too few local disability-focused or community-controlled alternatives. This matters here because MELBOURNE, VIC already shows $27K in justice-related funding moving through local entities.
Social & Indigenous Enterprises (50)
ArtsPay is a payment company for the socially conscious business or government agency. We provide EFTPOS terminals and online payment solutions to businesses large and small, and direct profits towards supporting artists and small arts organisation. Every time a customer makes a purchase at a business using ArtsPay, transaction fees that would normally go to the banks or a for-profit multinational instead go to support Australian Artists.
Benefolk is a professional services intermediary with a focus on social sector wellbeing. We have 300+ capabilities from a pre-vetted national business network of 100 small business service providers, including consultants, coaches, trainers and advisory.
Sells magazines and newspapers through street vendors experiencing homelessness or financial disadvantage, generating income for vendors while addressing social welfare
Cirque du Soil aka 'Circular Soil' is a circular waste focused certified social enterprise, actively addressing the missing middle in urban waste in Precincts and Multi-Unit Developments, using place based frameworks to reduce our impact on the planet.
As a nonprofit, the organisation operates through volunteer efforts and likely relies on donations, grants, and community support rather than commercial revenue generation.
trades digital skills training
Spoil your staff with an exciting ice cream dessert event! We manufacture vanilla, chocolate, coffee and fig ripple gourmet ice cream mini-tubs, delivered to your office. Elato also sells bigger tubs in supermarkets including Woolworths. We offer "healthier indulgence", winning gold medals using 30% less added sugar! We've donated over 24,000 meals to OzHarvest since launching in 2021.
The Good Cycles mission is to help people facing barriers to employment. We operate across our key divisions to create employment-pathways Bicycle retail; Providing professional bicycle repair, on-site servicing, new bicycles, parts & accessories City Services; providing local council asset management, food waste disposal, Lime bike maintenance Open Spaces; Land care management across Melbourne, including road mowing, landscaping, irrigation, pest-control
Women led certified social enterprise solving gender inequality in senior leadership and poor employee engagement. Delivery of leadership programs leveraging virtual reality and gamification to help women thrive. Unconscious bias training to improve inclusion. This will increase women participation in senior roles and diversity and inclusion metrics. Surplus funds are used to impact teenage girls to become unstoppable women leaders.
Likely provides housing services and support to vulnerable populations, potentially generating revenue through service delivery while reinvesting in mission-driven housing solutions
Humanitarian Advisory Group brings fresh thinking to challenge the status quo of humanitarian aid and emergency response - both here in Australia and overseas. We provide research, evaluation, education and training, and advisory support on to government, humanitarian organisations, universities and businesses.
Provides independent living support services and accommodation for people with disabilities, generating revenue through service delivery while reinvesting into mission-driven disability support programs
We are Australia's first full-service management consulting & creative agency that is a certified social enterprise. We offer affordable high-end management consulting, strategic communications, D&I, social impact and creative services for all. Products & Services We offer strategy, communications, and social impact consulting, marketing and event services, community and stakeholder management, audiovisual production and design, eLearning, training, and innovative workshops.
NFP Law is a social enterprise of Justice Connect, a social justice organisation and community legal service and is itself a not-for-profit community organisation and registered charity. We provide free or low cost, high quality practical legal help for not-for-profit community organisations and advocates for improved standards and legal frameworks.
KIO focus on educating individuals, communities and the corporate sector on the effects of socially undesirable behaviours and stereotyping in Australia. We offer a range of programs and services that actively encourage and promote social inclusion and acceptance within communities and target potentially harmful behaviours.
We deliver leadership programs that build capability to drive real progress in organisations and communities, towards the ultimate vision of an inclusive, equitable and sustainable society. We use adaptive leadership development concepts, peer interaction and seasoned leaders to develop, connect and inspire diverse leaders across all sectors to strengthen communities and tackle society’s complex and systemic problems. Not-for-profit organisation.
Provides educational library services and resources to underserved communities including First Nations, migrants, and children, trading to fulfil its educational mission
Operating as an Indigenous corporation delivering higher education support services, likely funded through a combination of government grants and service contracts.
Since 2012, we have been building resilient values-based food systems. Our products: the Open Food Network software platform for transparent, short food supply chains and the Discover Regenerative portal for connecting B2B buyers with regenerative producers. Our projects and services: open-access resources, research projects, plus customised tech solutions to support local food system transformation, improved food security and regenerative farming practices.
Property Initiatives Real Estate provides real estate services across inner-Melbourne. As a investor, vendor, purchaser or tenant, Property Initiatives will take care of your needs, while the profits are helping to create positive social impact. We exist 100% to fund more affordable homes for at risk women and children. All our company profits go to our not-for-profit partner Women's Property Initiatives (WPI).
Schools (3)
ACARA school profiles in postcode 3000. ICSEA measures educational advantage (national avg 1000).
Crime & Safety — Melbourne LGA
Reported incidents by offence group (October 2024 - September 2025). Source: state crime statistics agencies.
Social Need
DSS payment recipients in this area by payment type. Higher counts indicate service demand and community need.
NDIS Participants
All Entities (200)
Disadvantage Index
This area has moderate socio-economic disadvantage.
Entity Types
- Company
- 200
Gap Alert
This postcode has 200 funded entities but no identified community-controlled organisations receiving funding. This may indicate a gap in community self-determination.