Here’s a selection of new opportunities with approaching deadlines, brought to you straight from GEMS, Australia and New Zealand’s most comprehensive grants database.
Grant: SA Water Community Partnerships Program
Areas of support: Community Partnerships Program is focused on supporting grassroots community events and projects run by not-for-profit organisations that share a focus on sustainability, healthy communities and environmental leadership.
Eligible regions: SA
Application deadline: 3 April 2026
Grant value: Up to $10,000
Grant: RAA Grassroots Community Giving Program 2026
Areas of support: The key areas of focus include: helping disadvantaged and/or vulnerable South Australians; supporting youth development; supporting and celebrating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and reconciliation activities; reducing inequalities in the community; community safety; innovation; environmental sustainability. These areas of focus highlight their values while supporting the needs of fellow South Aussies.
Eligible regions: SA
Application deadline: 6 April 2026
Grant value: up to $5,000
Grant: Stan Perron Charitable Foundation Community Grants
Areas of support: The focus areas for applications are: the health and well-being of children; iconic cultural and arts organisations; activities that foster ethical behavior in the business community including initiatives to promote ethics through education; programs that look to solve the cause of a problem rather than treating the symptoms, such as medical research and academic positions in local universities; funding that will encourage people, especially young people, to engage in community service.
Eligible regions: WA
Application deadline: 8 April 2026
Grant value: Encourages applications regardless of the level of funds sought.
Grant: Social Impact Leadership Australia (SILA)
Areas of support: Social Impact Leadership Australia (SILA) is a ground-breaking national capacity building and leadership program designed specifically for CEOs of Australian for-purpose organisations. This fully funded, world-class initiative strengthens leadership capability and empowers CEOs to drive meaningful change across the sector. Each CEO participant will undertake a 3-month sabbatical. During this sabbatical period, CEOs are asked to completely disengage from their organisations and take a period of leave. There will be no coursework or assignments to complete during this period. The organisation will commit to the CEO continuing to be paid during their period of leave, on top of their usual annual leave entitlements, and the identified Step-Up Leader from the organisation will step-up into the CEO role.
Eligible regions: TAS, VIC
Application deadline: 9 April 2026
Grant value: estimated value of $100,000 per delegate including $38,500 for the organisation
Grant: Kit Cares Community Program
Areas of support: To support their valuable work, four community organisations will each receive a cash prize to invest in essentials like equipment, coaching, and new or improved facilities. Participating community groups from around the country will also have the chance to win a range of smaller cash prizes and vouchers. Simply register your club, and then rally your community to win part of the prize pool. To vote, families download a Kit Money lesson each fortnight from the Kit website – each lesson counts as one vote towards their chosen organisation.
Eligible regions: Australia
Application deadline: 10 April 2026
Grant value: Up to $10,000
Grant: State Library of Western Australia – Encouraging Promising Practice and Technology and Digital Inclusion grants
Areas of support: The Technology and Digital Inclusion Grants are designed to enable local governments in Tiers 2 and 3 to respond to digital disadvantage within their communities. Digital inclusion relies on being able to both access and effectively use information and services online. The Encouraging Promising Practice Grants are designed to enable local governments in Tier 2 to better respond to the priorities of their communities in providing a 21st century public library service.
Eligible regions: WA
Application deadline: 10 April 2026
Grant value: up to $5,000
Grant: NSW Government – Expanding Quality Access program
Areas of support: Expanding Quality Access is a demand driven and non-competitive grant program. It is targeted to existing quality not-for-profit community preschools in NSW who want to transition to a quality not-for-profit centre-based day care (long day care) service model for local families who need ECEC for more weeks per year, or hours, and for different groups of non-school aged children.
Eligible regions: NSW
Application deadline: 13 April 2026
Grant value: Up to $151,250
Grant: TAC Road Safety Grant Program – Support Grants
Areas of support: To support community groups and organisations to develop and implement effective community-based road safety projects. Support grants are available to support the planning and/or delivery of community road safety projects. To be considered for funding, initiatives should: be road safety focused and address a demonstrated road safety issue or need; support positive road safety outcomes; align with the Victorian Road Safety Strategy 2021-2030.
Eligible regions: VIC
Application deadline: 15 April 2026
Grant value: Up to $50,000
Grant: Northern Territory Aboriginal Investment Corporation (NTAIC) – Community Impact and Innovation Grants
Areas of support: To support medium-scale Aboriginal community-led projects in the NT that seek to achieve a cultural, social and/or economic Impact, demonstrate an Innovative solution, or both, for the benefit of Aboriginal community members.
Eligible regions: NT
Application deadline: 30 April 2026
Grant value: $300,000 – $1,000,000
Grant: Ryman Healthcare – 2026-2027 Charity Partner Australia
Areas of support: Each year, Ryman Healthcare selects a charity partner to work with for the next 12 months. As a company, Ryman matches every dollar raised, so funding partners receive double. From art expos to walk-a-thons, the Ryman team works tirelessly to make their charity partnerships a roaring success. Ryman Healthcare also opens their village doors and supply catering for awareness-raising events, seminars, and lectures. Their marketing department keeps busy in the background promoting each partnership to their large audience, so the public knows who they’re supporting and how they can get involved.
Eligible regions: National presence across VIC
Application deadline: 30 April 2026
Grant value: Previous amounts of between $30,000 and $473,000.
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