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 · EDUCATION
Primary Ethics: Funding to deliver new curriculum topics for students to help guide them towards better decision-making and wellbeing when navigating the online world. To equip students with...
Primary Ethics
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Story Factory: To deliver creative writing programs for up to 100 young people (aged 7-17) from under-resourced communities in Western Sydney. Expert teaching staff and volunteer writing...
Story Factory
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Parramatta Mission: Parramatta Mission's ‘Conversational English' helps migrants and refugees gain English skills, confidence, and connections to integrate, access education, and navigate life in...
Parramatta Mission
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Barnardos Australia: Reconnect is an early intervention program for at-risk or homeless youth aged 12-18 in the Inner West area. It aims to break the cycle of disadvantage by helping young people...
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
KidsXpress: Funding to deliver one week of professional development for teachers in the NSW Northern Rivers, who are caring for children suffering mental ill-health stemming from exposure...
Kidsxpress
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Westmead Institute For Medical Research Foundation: Dr Caitlin Finney has made a breakthrough discovery, carriers of genetic variant APOE4 have protein changes indicative of an overactive immune system predisposing them to...
Westmead Institute For Medical Research Foundation
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Sir David Martin Foundation: Triple Care Farm is a youth-specific residential AOD program located on 110 acres in the NSW Southern Highlands. This funding will fund the Aftercare Program helping more young...
Sir David Martin Foundation
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Invasive Species Council: Funding for Australia's first State of Environmental Biosecurity Report, to outline how invasive species are driving extinction and causing the destruction of globally...
Invasive Species Council
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Children's Tumour Foundation: Funding for the NSW Neurofibromatosis (NF) camp to provide social inclusion opportunities for families who feel isolated and alone due to their experience of living with a...
Children's Tumour Foundation
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Soils for Life: This project will develop a set of practical soil health monitoring resources and upskilling opportunities to support profitable, resilient and environmentally sustainable...
Soils For Life
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (South Eastern Section): Funding to help deliver women's health and wellbeing services across remote western NSW clinic locations in 2025. These clinic days will provide comprehensive women's health...
Royal Flying Doctor Service Of Australia (south Eastern Section)
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Camp Quality: Camp Quality's ‘Ultimate Camp' focuses on the health and wellbeing of children and is an opportunity for families facing a cancer diagnosis to relax, create positive memories,...
Camp Quality
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Manly Adolescent and Young Adults Hospice: The ‘My Legacy' project at the Manly Adolescent and Young Adults Hospice (AYAH) aims to provide patients with life-limiting conditions and their families with opportunities to...
Manly Adolescent And Young Adults Hospice
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
UTS Fish Ecology Lab and Jordan ASkill: Insurance breeding and field mapping will document the current wild weedy seadragon population, utilising data and public engagement, including citizen scientist divers to...
Uts Fish Ecology Lab And Jordan Askill
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Miracle Babies Foundation: Funding for the globally recognised ‘NurtureTime' program, an in-hospital peer support service for families going through the emotionally challenging and often traumatic...
Miracle Babies Foundation
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Kids Giving Back: The project funds children to participate in incursions, excursions, and interactive sessions that build empathy, enhance mental health, and promote volunteerism. By shifting...
Kids Giving Back
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
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Total Social Welfare And The Arts
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Backtrack Youth Works: Funding to keep some of regional Australia's most disadvantaged young people alive, out of jail and chasing their hopes and dreams, by providing wraparound youth work,...
Backtrack Youth Works
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Vision Australia: ‘Living Stories' is a writing competition designed to ensure the stories and perspectives of residents from Western Sydney are seen, heard and celebrated. In partnership with...
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Milk Crate Theatre: Funding for two interlinked projects driving social impact. ‘Creating Impact' pilots a shared impact framework with arts organisations nationwide, culminating in a 2026 report....
Milk Crate Theatre
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Givit: Funding to support Domestic and Family Violence (DFV) survivors providing essential items such as clothing, beds, whitegoods, groceries, fuel vouchers, security cameras, and...
Givit
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Morris Children's Fund: The program is conducted each week of the school term by a specialist teacher who works with Special Needs schools, using music as a medium to unlock the students' hidden...
Morris Children's Fund
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Cerebral Palsy Alliance: Young Changemakers aims to accelerate leadership and advocacy skills for young people with cerebral palsy and similar disabilities, building their personal capacity, skills and...
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Surfers for Climate: Blue Minds Youth Ocean Leadership, a Surfers for Climate initiative with Good Human Factory, tackles youth eco-anxiety nationwide. In six months, Surfers for Climate have...
Surfers For Climate
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Reading Out Of Poverty (ROOP): ‘Books from Birth' provides early literacy skills to ensure school preparedness for children aged 0-5 and targets children from low socio-economic backgrounds, including...
Reading Out Of Poverty (roop)
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Gawura: To fund essential therapy for speech and literacy so that students can appropriately access the educational and cultural content that Gawura School provides. Students commence...
Gawura
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Country Education Foundation of Australia: In 2024, Country Education Foundation proudly supported 110 students undertaking vocational education and training (VET). Funding will provide fourteen, $3,000 scholarships in...
Country Education Foundation Of Australia
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Guide Dogs Association of NSW/ACT: Funding to purchase vital low vision equipment to distribute to clients living with low vision or blindness, at no cost to the client. Training with Low Vision Specialists will...
Guide Dogs Association Of Nsw/act
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Adventist Healthcare: Funding towards the Tovertafel, an interactive light projector designed to engage and stimulate individuals with dementia. It promotes social interaction, sensory stimulation,...
Adventist Healthcare
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Australian Wildlife Conservancy: Australian Wildlife Conservancy is developing and trialling a smart-gate solution to address the need for flexible management of fenced areas. A smart-gate is a double-gated...
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
BBM Youth Support: BBM Global Footprint Scholarships provide a life-changing experience for young people who have outstanding potential to become leaders in their chosen fields, focusing on work...
Bbm Youth Support
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Arrow Bone Marrow Transplant Foundation: Arrow's ‘Patient Support Program' provides financial, emotional and educational support to bone marrow and stem cell transplant patients, their carers and families aiming to...
Arrow Bone Marrow Transplant Foundation
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Chain Reaction Foundation: The project is a targeted intervention program designed to reduce student disengagement, absenteeism, and youth crime while improving mental health, resilience, and wellbeing...
Chain Reaction Foundation
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Gondwana Choirs: Gondwana Choirs' National Choral School, Australia's premier training program for young musicians from all over Australia, will convene at the University of Sydney's Women's...
Gondwana Choirs
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Parkinson's NSW: The project will purchase two specialised clinical Parkinson's disease chairs for patients who attend counselling sessions at Parkinson's NSW in the offices at North Ryde. In...
Parkinson's Nsw
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Sydney Dance Company: Funding towards a scholarship for its full-time ‘Pre-Professional Year' Program. The Company is at the forefront of contemporary dance, both in Australia and internationally,...
Sydney Dance Company
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Human Nature Adventure Therapy: To fund one-on-one sessions and small group therapeutic activities. These highly individualised sessions are co-designed with young people to address emerging mental health...
Human Nature Adventure Therapy
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
OceanEarth Foundation: Funding to establish a National Ocean Literacy Schools Coalition of educational stakeholders such as the Marine Teachers Association of New South Wales, Victoria and Western...
Oceanearth Foundation
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Heart Research Australia: Dr Gentile created a novel way to 3D bioprint heart tissues using a patients' own cells to repair heart damage and regain cardiac muscle function after a heart attack. Cells...
Heart Research Australia
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Southern Cross Kids' Camp: Southern Cross Kids' Camps (SCKC) Illawarra provides hope to children affected by trauma with annual camps. The camps are a structured five-day intervention program, with most...
Southern Cross Kids' Camp