Grants

Please note that there are different selection processes available. More information is available on the Selection Processes page.

The outcome of all grants awarded and funding rounds, including direct rounds, are published on GrantConnect no later than 21 working days after the grant agreement takes effect, in accordance with the Commonwealth Grants Rules and Principles 2024.

GrantConnect is the Australian Government’s centralised grants information system. It is the authoritative source for grants information.

Open Grants

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Financial Wellbeing and Capability Activity - Financial Wellbeing Hubs

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Grant Category

Social Inclusion

Closing Date & Time

AEDT

Selection Process

Open competitive

Delivered on behalf of

Department of Social Services
Financial Wellbeing Hubs provide integrated, co-located financial wellbeing services, including financial counselling, financial capability and emergency relief services, and access to microfinance products, with a focus on supporting people to increase their financial literacy and longer-term resilience.
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Financial Wellbeing and Capability Activity – Commonwealth Financial Counselling and Financial Capability

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Grant Category

Social Inclusion

Closing Date & Time

AEDT

Selection Process

Open competitive

Delivered on behalf of

Department of Social Services
The Commonwealth Financial Counselling and Financial Capability program provides free, confidential and non-judgmental financial counselling and financial capability services, including information, advice and advocacy to eligible people experiencing financial difficulty.
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Financial Wellbeing and Capability Activity - Financial Counselling for Gambling

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Grant Category

Social Inclusion

Closing Date & Time

AEDT

Selection Process

Open competitive

Delivered on behalf of

Department of Social Services
Financial Counselling for Gambling services provide specialised Commonwealth Financial Counselling services in targeted locations to support eligible people experiencing financial stress or hardship as a result of gambling harm.
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Financial Wellbeing and Capability Activity - National Debt Helpline

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Grant Category

Social Inclusion

Closing Date & Time

AEDT

Selection Process

Closed non-competitive

Delivered on behalf of

Department of Social Services
The National Debt Helpline is a national telephone and website service that provides access to financial counselling. These services support eligible people to address their financial problems through the provision of information, advocacy and negotiation.
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Financial Wellbeing and Capability Activity - Food Relief

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Grant Category

Social Inclusion

Closing Date & Time

AEDT

Selection Process

Open competitive

Delivered on behalf of

Department of Social Services

The Food Relief program aims to increase Commonwealth-funded Emergency Relief providers’ access to a cost-effective supply of food and material aid, for provision to eligible clients experiencing financial crisis.

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Financial Wellbeing and Capability Activity - Emergency Relief

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Grant Category

Social Inclusion

Closing Date & Time

AEDT

Selection Process

Open competitive

Delivered on behalf of

Department of Social Services

The Emergency Relief program provides immediate financial or material aid to eligible people in financial stress or hardship and who have limited means or resources to help them alleviate their financial crisis.

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Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis (CEBRA) grant program

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Grant Category

Scientific Research

Closing Date & Time

AEDT

Selection Process

Targeted competitive

Delivered on behalf of

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
The Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis (CEBRA) supports the government’s strategic advancement of biosecurity risk analysis by providing expertise in risk analysis techniques and the development of associated methods, protocols, tools and procedures.
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Forestry Industry - Support Plantation Establishment Round 3

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Grant Category

Agriculture

Closing Date & Time

AEDT

Selection Process

Demand-driven

Delivered on behalf of

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
This grant supports the establishment of new long rotation softwood and hardwood plantation forests and assists the sector to respond to the projected growth in demand for domestically sourced timber resources, contributing to Australia’s carbon emissions reduction commitments.
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National Justice Reinvestment Program Round 3

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Grant Category

Indigenous Communities

Closing Date & Time

AEDT

Selection Process

Open non-competitive

Delivered on behalf of

Attorney General’s Department
The National Justice Reinvestment Program aims to reduce contact with the criminal justice system and incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults and young people through support for place-based and community-led justice reinvestment initiatives across Australia.
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Future Drought Fund Long-term Trials of Drought Resilient Farming Practices Program Round 2

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Grant Category

Drought

Closing Date & Time

AEDT

Selection Process

Open competitive

Delivered on behalf of

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
The Program provides $40.3 million for projects that contribute to improved drought and climate resilience for farmers through innovative, evidence-based trials to support adoption and transformational change. Eligible applicants can apply for $3 million up to $8 million for the 6-year program.
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Future Drought Fund Resilient Landscapes Program

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Grant Category

Drought

Closing Date & Time

AEDT

Selection Process

Open competitive

Delivered on behalf of

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
These grants will allocate up to $40m (GST exclusive) over 6 years to 2029–30 for new projects between $2m to $6m. Projects will demonstrate practices, technologies or approaches to improve landscape function and ecosystem services, manage natural resources, and build drought and climate resilience.
Crisis and Transitional Accommodation Program open now

Housing Australia Future Fund (HAFF) – Crisis and Transitional Accommodation Program (CTAP)

Crisis and Transitional Accommodation Program open now

Grant Category

Housing and Homelessness

Closing Date & Time

AEDT

Selection Process

Open competitive

Delivered on behalf of

Department of Social Services
The CTAP is a capital works program funding the building, remodelling or purchase of new or expanded crisis and transitional accommodation for women and children experiencing family and domestic violence (FDV) and older women at risk of homelessness.
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Marking (First World War) Private Graves Grants Program

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Grant Category

Veterans

Closing Date & Time

AEDT

Selection Process

Demand-driven

Delivered on behalf of

Department of Veterans' Affairs
Throughout Australia, individuals and groups are working to identify private unmarked graves of First World War veterans and marking these graves to recognise their service. This grant program contributes to the cost of establishing a grave marker on currently unmarked private graves.
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Saluting Their Service Commemorative Grants Program

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Grant Category

Commemorative

Closing Date & Time

AEDT

Selection Process

Open competitive

Delivered on behalf of

Department of Veterans’ Affairs
The Saluting Their Service Commemorative Grants Program aims to commemorate the service and sacrifice of Australia’s defence personnel in wars, conflicts and peace operations, and their families.

Expansion of the Community Child Care Fund-Restricted (CCCFR) non-competitive grant opportunity (for specified services)

Grant Category

Indigenous Education

Closing Date & Time

AEST

Selection Process

Closed non-competitive

Delivered on behalf of

Department of Education

The CCCFR expansion program aims to establish new early childhood education and care (ECEC) services in mainly remote and very remote areas to increase participation by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in culturally appropriate ECEC.

Closed Grants

Australian Government Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Working for Women Program. National Women's Alliances Grant Opportunity. Applications close: 3 July 2024

National Women’s Alliances

Australian Government Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Working for Women Program. National Women's Alliances Grant Opportunity. Applications close: 3 July 2024

Grant Category

Women
Up to $10.88 million is available from December 2024 to June 2029 to establish a network of up to 6 civil society organisations to provide expert gender advice to Government and ensure women’s voices inform the implementation of the Working for Women: A Strategy for Gender Equality.
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Supporting Adolescent Boys Trial

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Grant Category

Children, Youth and Youth at Risk
A new national early intervention trial for young men and boys aged 12 to 18 years who present with adverse childhood experiences including family and domestic violence, and who are using or at risk of using family, domestic or sexual violence (FDSV).
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Justice Reinvestment in Central Australia – Round 2 Assessment Cycle 2

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Grant Category

Indigenous Communities
Successful initiatives under this opportunity will prevent and reduce Central Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ contact with the criminal justice system through place-based, community led measures to prevent crime, treat drug and alcohol addiction or address illegal drug use.
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National Justice Reinvestment Program – Round 2 Assessment Cycle 2

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Grant Category

Indigenous Communities
The National Justice Reinvestment Program aims to reduce contact with the criminal justice system and incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults and young people through support for place-based and community-led justice reinvestment initiatives across Australia.
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Climate-Smart Agriculture Program – Small Grants Round 1

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Grant Category

Agriculture
The Small Grants will support farmers and land holders to adopt sustainable agriculture best practices, as well as facilitate and implement practice change. The grants will improve management of our natural resources and increase sustainable on-farm productivity and resilience to climate change.
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Grants in Aid program 2024–25

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Grant Category

Veterans
The Grants in Aid 2024–25 program is only open to national ex-service organisations (ESOs) by invitation and aims to fund discrete projects or activities by national ESOs that address a specific problem or issue and achieve a clear benefit to the ex-service and Defence community.