Research funder · Australia
James N. Kirby Foundation
Organization in Sydney, Australia
- Grants since 2016
- 216
- Awarded, last 5 years (where amounts are published)
- AUD 14.5M
- Funded works, last 5 years
- 131
- Funded works, all time
- 571
Grants
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Grant to TOTAL HEALTH
Total Health
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
The University of Sydney: The Agenda for Action for Adolescents calls for high-quality, affordable digital health services to improve health and wellbeing. There is a gap in community- based preventive...
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Refugee Advice and Casework Service: While waiting for their asylum claims to be determined, people seeking asylum are granted a bridging visa. However, this doesn't automatically give them permission to work....
Refugee Advice And Casework Service
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Redkite: Funding for the music therapy program to support children with cancer. Professional music therapists engage with and support children during their hospital stay through playing...
Redkite
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Bowel Cancer Australia: In 2024 Bowel Cancer Australia convened the country's inaugural Early-Onset Bowel Cancer (EOBC) Research Symposium at Parliament House. Leveraging its success, the 2025 EOBC...
Bowel Cancer Australia
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Sydney Symphony Orchestra Holdings: The Sydney Symphony Orchestra has been dedicated to sharing music across NSW for decades. This tour is driven by the commitment to the accessibility of live symphonic music and...
Sydney Symphony Orchestra Holdings
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Crohn's and Colitis Australia: Funding to support a camp for young people living with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, known as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). These are chronic and incurable...
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
The Alannah and Madeline Foundation: The Alannah and Madeline Foundation provides support and comfort for vulnerable children entering emergency accommodation by providing ‘Buddy Bags'. Each Buddy Bag contains new...
The Alannah And Madeline Foundation
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Reachout Australia: ‘PeerChat' is a one-to-one service that connects young people 16-25 to a trained peer worker who has lived mental health experience. PeerChat is digital, enabling young people...
Reachout Australia
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
World Wide Fund for Nature Australia (WWF-Australia): Funding to scale the Indigenous Women Rangers Environmental Network (WREN) into remote Western Australia regions, increasing job participation for Indigenous women while caring...
World Wide Fund For Nature Australia (wwf-australia)
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Australian Indigenous Education Foundation: The Australian Indigenous Education Foundation's Pathways Program provides support services that help Indigenous students make a successful transition from school to further...
Australian Indigenous Education Foundation
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
The PYJama Foundation: Through the Love of Learning Program, volunteers called ‘Pyjama Angels' are recruited, screened, trained and then matched with a child in care and spend time with them once a...
The Pyjama Foundation
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Sydney Community Foundation Gives: Launched in 2022, The Foundation has supported the ‘Ukrainian Helping Hand' Project from its inception, providing crisis care, rental assistance, trauma support, and career...
Sydney Community Foundation Gives
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Karrkad Kanjdji Trust (KKT): This project will deliver full-time, bi-cultural, community-owned education to children living in the remote organisations of the Djelk IPA (Central Arnhem Land). Three...
Karrkad Kanjdji Trust (kkt)
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Australian Museum Trust: The Waranara Professional Development series offers urgently needed professional development workshops to help NSW primary school teachers confidently integrate First Nations...
Australian Museum Trust
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Sydney Youth Orchestras: Sydney Youth Orchestras (SYO) supports regional NSW musicians to attend Summer and Winter Schools, intensive programs held during school holidays. These provide access to...
Sydney Youth Orchestras
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Keep Australia Beautiful (NSW): EnviroMentors is Keep Australia Beautiful NSW's incursion program which brings interactive sustainability workshops to classrooms across NSW. The ‘EnviroMentors FOGO Workshop...
Keep Australia Beautiful (nsw)
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
The Sydney Festival: Garrigarang Badu is a large-scale female led First Nations contemporary dance work in Dharug language, created and choreographed by Peta Strachan, artistic director of Jannawi...
The Sydney Festival
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Carbon Positive Australia: Located in northern NSW, this 33-hectare property in koala habitat was cleared for cattle grazing. Now an ERF-registered ecological restoration project, it connects bushland...
Carbon Positive Australia
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Mito Foundation: The project aims to boost awareness and engagement in the Mito (mitochondrial disease) community around clinical trials. Mito is creating a knowledge hub with accessible...
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
The Australian Ballet: The Australian Ballet's ‘Education and Outreach Program' will implement a series of activities to improve the educational outcomes, arts experience and career-readiness of...
The Australian Ballet
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
The Girls and Boys Brigade: Funding to support activity and resource costs for the children's Vacation Care program which provides 11 weeks of free holiday programming to low-income families every year....
The Girls And Boys Brigade
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Biodiversity Council: In collaboration with Cool.org, this project will enable school students to act for threatened species and biodiversity. Biodiversity Council will design and develop...
Biodiversity Council
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Melanoma Institute Australia: Funding for the Melanoma Translational Research Group (MTRG) to purchase an Autostainer (AST) to facilitate research and data generation. Critical for research studies and data...
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Starlight Children's Foundation: Funding for ‘Starlight Moments' at Sydney Children's Hospital Network. Starlight Moments creates experiences of joy and happiness for families with a palliative child. Caring...
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Chris O'Brien Lifehouse: This research project represents a transformative advancement in biomarker discovery and introduces a groundbreaking approach to treating glioblastoma, the most lethal brain...
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Engineering AID Australia: The catchment area for the NSW Indigenous Australian Engineering School (IAES) program has been across Queensland, Victoria and South Australia as well as NSW. About 40% of the...
Engineering Aid Australia
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Native Animal Trust Fund: Hunter Wildlife Rescue is purchasing six Vetario T30 Portable Intensive Care Units, a state-of-the-art, multi-purpose small animal ICU specifically designed to meet the...
Native Animal Trust Fund
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
YHA Travel To Learn Foundation: Adventures for Every Child will ensure no student is left behind or misses out on important and valuable learning and travel experiences. Funding to enable disadvantaged young...
Yha Travel To Learn Foundation
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Sydney Institute of Marine Science Foundation (SIMS): Funding to develop sample processing pipelines that integrate artificial intelligence into the monitoring of marine biodiversity. Building on Project Restore's restoration...
Sydney Institute Of Marine Science Foundation (sims)
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Orange SKY: Funding to partially support the Kempsey laundry pod operations. Orange Sky's mission is to positively connect communities by offering free laundry and shower services and...
Orange Sky
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Pankind: To design and build a web-based tool, as part of Pankind's ‘Early Detection Initiative'. The screening tool will enable individuals to assess their risk level based on...
Pankind
2025 · grant · HEALTH
National Stroke Foundation: The ‘Our Education Journey' project will co-design resources to help families of childhood stroke survivors navigate education from childcare to secondary school. It empowers...
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Infants' Home Ashfield: Delivery of a free weekly playgroup for children aged 0-12 months and their parents and carers over 12 months, during school terms. The playgroup will particularly support...
Infants' Home Ashfield
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Australian Seabird and Turtle Rescue: Australian Seabird and Turtle Rescue rehabilitate impacted seabirds and turtles. The rehabilitation effort includes housing impacted birds onsite in specialised aviaries....
Australian Seabird And Turtle Rescue
2025 · grant · HEALTH
The Shepherd Centre: ‘Acoustic Skills Music Group' is an educational program created by music therapists and delivered with The Shepherd Centre clinical team. It harnesses music therapy to enhance...
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
SDN Child and Family Services: SDN's pioneering scholarships help to reduce financial barriers for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families, allowing them to access quality education and care for their...
Sdn Child And Family Services
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Grant to TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Total Environment
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Australian Youth Orchestra: The Australian Youth Orchestra returns to the world stage for the first time in six years this July, performing at six major festivals and concert hall stages in Europe before...
Australian Youth Orchestra
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation: Funding for a critical digital transformation of the online resource library and national community hub, The Shared Table. This project will enable the Foundation to scope,...
Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation