The Catalyst Fund awards small grants for early-stage, innovative, and unconventional ideas that address urgent challenges.
The Catalyst Fund makes grants between $2,500- $15,000.
Early stage
The Catalyst Fund is geared towards small and/or early-stage ideas and projects that need a capital infusion to launch or prove viability. Catalyst awardees are typically piloting a program, venturing into new territory, on the cusp of launching, or pivoting in a new direction.
Big Ideas
The Catalyst Fund supports big ideas or projects that depart from the status quo and require us to look at a problem and its solution in a new light. These big ideas have a high potential for impact across an entire community, city, or country. They tend to leverage existing infrastructure, build on partnerships (public and private), and improve on what’s already out there. Big ideas push boundaries and challenge convention.
Bold vision
The Catalyst Fund supports individuals whose vision for change is audacious. Catalyst awardees seek significant, long-term impact and have a vision for how to get there and what needs to get done. They are able to articulate how they plan to make the world better and why. Their vision inspires others and offers a glimpse of a better future.
Grants support marketing, promotion, and training to help Australian products and services enter, grow, and diversify in foreign markets.
Grant Tiers
The Export Market Development Grants (EMDG) program offers funding based on business goals and export status:
The minimum grant for all tiers is $20,000 annually.
Funding Details
The program funds activities for 2025–26 and 2026–27. Applications will close once funds are fully allocated, with provisions for withdrawn or ineligible applications.
The National Cultural Heritage Account is a grant program that assists Australian cultural organisations to acquire significant cultural heritage objects that they could not otherwise afford.
Australian cultural organisations can apply for funding. This includes public galleries, libraries, archives and museums as well as historic buildings, local cultural organisations and Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander keeping places for sacred/secret material.
The purpose of this grant is to provide Australian Government funding to support a wage increase for all eligible ECEC workers from December 2024.
The objectives of the program are to:
The program provides an Advisory Service for startups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) undertaking innovative commercialisation and/or growth projects that are within the priority areas of the Australian Government’s National Reconstruction Fund (NRF) and help build Australia’s manufacturing capability for the future.
The Industry Growth Program supports innovative small and medium enterprises undertaking commercialisation and/or growth projects.
Through the program, you will be connected to an Adviser who will:
Deaf Connect’s Community Grants & Sponsorships Program provides support for community members of the Deaf community to achieve their goals, whether recreational, career-oriented, or focused on wellbeing.
There are three categories available:
Promoting diversity, innovation and service responsiveness in the NSW workforce, the Elsa Dixon Aboriginal Employment Grant subsidises the salary, development and support costs of Aboriginal employees in public service agencies and local government authorities.
Organisations applying for funding under the EDAEG must be registered, based in NSW and provide services within the State.
To be eligible, organisations must be a:
There are four Elements of the grant:
Small businesses in NSW are eligible for a Bill Relief payment of up to $325 if they:
The Regional Filming Fund offsets costs associated with shooting in regional areas of NSW such as, location fees, travel, accommodation and more. Regional NSW is defined as all areas in NSW outside the Sydney Metro area with Cessnock LGA being within the limits of approval.
Find more information on filming in Cessnock on our website here, we could be your prefect location, and you could receive funding through this grant opportunity.
This grant provides assistance to declared Aboriginal places and items on the State Heritage Register that need repairs due to, or to address risks caused by, unexpected events.
Who can apply
Owners, managers, long-term lessees or custodians of a declared Aboriginal place or item listed on the State Heritage Register in NSW.