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
Giant Steps Australia: Giant Steps has recently purchased a site at Elanora Heights to expand the post-school program, early intervention services, respite, training, outreach, family support, camps...
Giant Steps Australia
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Autism Spectrum Australia (ASPECT): Aspect delivers support services for children and adults on the autism spectrum including research, diagnostic assessments, therapy, adult community services and...
Autism Spectrum Australia (aspect)
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Karinya House Home for Mothers and Babies: Funding to undertake an upgrade of the IT equipment utilised by the staff team daily to deliver services to women and their babies. Karinya House will purchase and install new...
Karinya House Home For Mothers And Babies
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Autism Mates: Funding to purchase a second van, removing transportation barriers for autistic individuals and ensuring full participation in programs. The van will provide safe, reliable...
Autism Mates
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Children's Medical Research Institute: Gene therapies for childhood diseases. The Institute's laboratory is focused on the research and development of gene therapies, the delivery of ‘genes as medicine'. Such...
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Butterfly Foundation: Wandi Nerida is Australia's first residential eating disorder recovery centre. Operated by Butterfly, Wandi is a mental health facility providing a safe and healing...
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Harding Miller Education Foundation: The Foundation awards many four-year scholarships to public high school girls who have proven academic talent, but are substantially hindered by socioeconomic disadvantage. The...
Harding Miller Education Foundation
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
KU Marcia Burgess Foundation: Funding to provide financial assistance for low-income families facing barriers of access to developmental assessments and therapy for their children before starting school....
Ku Marcia Burgess Foundation
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Jane Goodall Institute Australia: To equip students with the knowledge, skills, and resources to not only understand environmental issues but to actively participate in creating solutions. This is the mission...
Jane Goodall Institute Australia
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
The Footpath Library: Since 2003, The Footpath Library (TFL) has operated mobile library outreach services for people experiencing homelessness. In 2025, the need is greater than ever as more people...
The Footpath Library
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Aussie Ark: Funding to support the Broad Toothed Rat captive breeding program. This program is based at the Australian Reptile Park in Somersby, NSW. Aussie Ark has already funded the...
Aussie Ark
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Cancer Patients Foundation: ‘Look Good Feel Better' is a free national community service program, run by the Cancer Patients Foundation, offering cancer patients of all ages, genders, and cancer types the...
Cancer Patients Foundation
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Climateworks Centre: Climateworks Centre's Natural Capital Measurement Catalogue is a world-first open-source, science-based reference for measuring natural capital across all scales and land use...
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Hills Wildlife Sanctuary: Funding to refurbish and modernise the on-site education centre, originally built in 1980. This facility is vital for training wildlife carers, veterinarians, and students from...
Hills Wildlife Sanctuary
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Streetwork Australia: The Program is an early intervention strategy that seeks to reduce engagement in youth crime by pairing at-risk young people with a Streetwork Youth Caseworker. The Program...
Streetwork Australia
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Ensemble Offspring: Ensemble Offspring (EO) seeks funding to provide free access tickets for regional and low-ICSEA high school groups and First Nations Mob to attend NSW concerts in 2025-26....
Ensemble Offspring
2025 · grant · HEALTH
The Project Rockit Foundation: Funding to extend Project Rockit's impact at Warrawong High School for a second year. In 2024, their programs successfully engaged students in workshops on bullying,...
The Project Rockit Foundation
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Gidget Foundation Australia: This pilot offers an early intervention treatment and efficacious pathway for treating clients suffering grief, loss and /or perinatal depression and anxiety (PNDA) after...
Gidget Foundation Australia
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
The Australian National University: Funding to establish a climate-adjusted provenance trial of high mountain snow gums and co-occurring Eucalypts to identify variants best suited to withstand warming, drying...
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Sydney Legacy Appeals Fund: The ‘Legacy Wattle Group' Program is a recreational and social inclusion initiative for older people with intellectual disabilities, aged 40-80, enrolled with Sydney Legacy. It...
Sydney Legacy Appeals Fund
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
South Eastern Community Connect: South Eastern Community Connect (SECC) family care is about the support of FDV survivors, in particular mums with young children in southeast Sydney. Funding to provide...
South Eastern Community Connect
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Foundation For Australia's Most Endangered Species: ‘Rebuilding Rainforests' in the Northern Rivers is a three-year enrichment program restoring rainforest ecosystems by planting 12,000 trees annually to enhance biodiversity and...
Foundation For Australia's Most Endangered Species
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Sydney Eye Hospital Foundation Trust: To implement a hub and spoke model of care to integrate virtual technology in partnership with primary care providers, the community and local hospitals. Funding for the...
Sydney Eye Hospital Foundation Trust
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Farmers For Climate Action: Funding for an environmental research project to survey farmers on the best practices to reduce agricultural emissions. The survey will evaluate the effectiveness of current...
Farmers For Climate Action
2025 · grant · HEALTH
The Northcott Society: Funding to improve the accessibility of the ‘Life Skills' space in Parramatta to better support the independence of wheelchair users. This project will involve the installation...
The Northcott Society
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Rainforest Rescue: To purchase equipment to maintain momentum and expand operations this year. With a Rainforest Rescue ‘first' involving the purchase and future restoration of 110 Cape...
Rainforest Rescue
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Company B (Belvoir St Theatre): Funding to continue the 2024 program Unwaged. It invites unwaged and marginalized communities to visit Belvoir St Theatre completely free-of-charge for one show per production....
Company B (belvoir St Theatre)
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Fair Fight Foundation - Supertee: Funding to alleviate the discomfort and distress children experience when battling life-threatening conditions. The Supertee is a medical garment disguised as a fun hero design...
Fair Fight Foundation - Supertee
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Freedom Solutions Australia (Formerly Solve-Tad): This project will fund custom-made bikes for children with disabilities in regional NSW, ensuring physical, geographical and financial barriers do not prevent them benefiting...
Freedom Solutions Australia (formerly Solve-tad)
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Sydney Community Foundation Gives: ‘From Now' diverts pregnant women and mothers from incarceration, preventing family separation and breaking cycles of disadvantage. The Foundation meets them at prison gates,...
Sydney Community Foundation Gives
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Cancer Wellness Support: Funding to offer access to lymphoedema specialists, an evidence-based approach using complementary therapies, subsidised bandaging and pressure garments, cutting edge...
Cancer Wellness Support
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney): To develop a unique Human Mobility Facility focused on upper limb mobility, augmenting existing UNSW and NeuRA capabilities in lower limb mobility/gait analysis. While gait...
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Foodbank NSW & ACT: Over the last year, Foodbank has experienced record weekly food orders from their community partners. In fact, some of the largest community partners are anecdotally reporting...
Foodbank Nsw & Act
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Smart* Program (*Science, Maths and Real Technology): STEM Club is a workshop for students aged 8-12 years that provides the opportunity to develop skills and interest in STEM through hands-on experiments and activities, beyond...
Smart* Program (*science, Maths And Real Technology)
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital: The Critical Wildlife Rescue and Treatment Fund will directly support Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital and its ability to provide continuous, expert veterinary care for sick,...
Byron Bay Wildlife Hospital
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Symphony For Life Foundation: This project will bring the Foundation's first woodwinds (recorder, clarinet, flute) into the Program. Both intakes will have students from the Parramatta and Cumberland...
Symphony For Life Foundation
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Professor Harry Messel International Science School: The Professor Harry Messel International Science School is a prestigious biennial program, that gathers 110 exceptional Year 11 and 12 students, from across the globe for two...
Professor Harry Messel International Science School
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
The Marmalade Foundation: Funding to meet the food budget for the financial year. Due to the steady increase of women accessing the free meals at Lou's Place and the rise in grocery costs, the budget...
The Marmalade Foundation
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Epilepsy Action Australia: ‘EmpowerHER Sydney' is a one-day, in-person event designed exclusively for women with epilepsy. Drawing on the success of the 2024 Brisbane event, the program will deliver...
Epilepsy Action Australia
2025 · grant · HEALTH