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 · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Eat Up Australia: Funding to help purchase fruit and snacks, critical in improving the nutrition of children in regional schools in the Wollongong and Illawarra region. Volunteer sandwich-making...
Eat Up Australia
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Taronga Conservation Society Australia: Conservation science applied to koala health, reproductive biology and translocation, will help deliver translocation goals set out in the Koala Strategy. In 2024, Taronga...
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Ballet Without Borders: Funding to provide a full term of professional ballet classes tailored for children of primary school age, at no cost. Ballet Without Borders aims to make ballet education...
Ballet Without Borders
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Kelp Forest Alliance: This project will develop a comprehensive Australian action plan to increase the area of kelp forest ecosystem protected and restored, and help Australia meet its international...
Kelp Forest Alliance
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
The Men's Table: Funding to design, plan and conduct an in-person Training Conference for the national volunteer team providing critical support to Tables nationally. To train and increase the...
The Men's Table
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Sydney Writers' Festival: Russ the Story Bus is a retired school bus that has been converted into a moving children's library. Across a 10-week tour, Russ brings a high-profile writer talk to 10,000...
Sydney Writers' Festival
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA): Funding to purchase equipment to set up a theatrical lighting Previsualisation Studio for Bachelor of Fine Arts Technical Theatre and Stage Management, and VET Diploma of Live...
National Institute Of Dramatic Art (nida)
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
Environmental Justice Australia: On behalf of clients, Environmental Justice Australia's team of nature lawyers hold governments to account for failures to meet legal obligations that lead to destruction of...
Environmental Justice Australia
2025 · grant · HEALTH
The Trustee for Raise Foundation: To provide evidence-based, early-intervention youth mentoring for teenagers across Australia. With over 2,500 students anticipated for 2025, this funding will support students...
The Trustee For Raise Foundation
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Birchtree Foundation: Funding to deliver Empowered Self-Defence workshops at Wayside Chapel Community Service Centre at Kings Cross, Sydney. The workshops will be run by expert facilitators and...
Birchtree Foundation
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Corowa and District She Shed: Since 2017, the Corowa SHE Shed has provided a welcoming and supportive environment for women, offering non-traditional activities such as woodworking, metalwork and welding,...
Corowa And District She Shed
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Asthma Australia: Smart Inhaler Research will transform asthma care by merging digital technology with inhaler use. Smart inhalers monitor medication use, provide real-time reminders, and syncs...
2025 · grant · HEALTH
The Humour Foundation: Bear Cottage is the only children's hospice in NSW to provide respite and end-of-life care for palliative-stage children and their families. The new Adolescent and Young Adult...
The Humour Foundation
2025 · grant · ENVIRONMENT
NSW Wildlife Information Rescue and Education Service (WIRES): Funding for Portable Wombat Pre-release Enclosures. Each of these enclosures will be made up of cattle yard perimeter fencing panels with colour bond shielding, steel mesh...
Nsw Wildlife Information Rescue And Education Service (wires)
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Be Centre Foundation: The ‘Hear Us Play' program will provide free play therapy sessions for seven children facing trauma and financial hardship, ensuring they receive vital mental health support....
Be Centre Foundation
2025 · grant · HEALTH
NextSense: Funding to install acoustic panelling in audiology rooms at the Port Macquarie and Alstonville service centres, where NextSense provides comprehensive cochlear implant-related...
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
The Smith Family Darlinghurst: Learning for Life (LFL) gives children living with poverty the tools and resources they need to receive a fair education. LFL provides educational support beyond the classroom...
The Smith Family Darlinghurst
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
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Grand Total
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Life Education Australia: ‘Narrowing the Regional Health Education Gap' addresses escalating demand for children's preventative health and mental wellbeing education in regional and rural primary...
Life Education Australia
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Bangarra Dance Theatre: Rekindling, provides free cultural dance residencies to young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander secondary school students. It fosters pride, kinship, and strength through...
Bangarra Dance Theatre
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Youth Insearch: Breaking Cycles, Building Futures in Moree. Funding for young people to attend transformative weekend workshops that use a peer support model to empower participants to build...
Youth Insearch
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
The University of Sydney: Empowering future engineers starts with access to industry-fit technology and hands-on learning experiences. By integrating AI-powered robotics into outreach programs and...
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Macquarie University: Funding to develop an innovative AI-powered tool to enhance academic vocabulary: a crucial element for literacy. The tool aligns with Australian Curriculum syllabi, identifies...
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Trustee for the Byron Bay CoMMunity Benefit Fund: Fletcher Street Cottage (FSC), a homelessness support hub in Byron Bay, is launching the ‘Women's Afternoon', a support program for women (and their children) experiencing or...
Trustee For The Byron Bay Community Benefit Fund
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Project Youth: ‘Beyond Homelessness' is a new podcast by Project Youth launching in 2025. The podcast allows young people with lived experience to work as interviewers and technical staff,...
Project Youth
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Strong Mothers: Funding to create a video to be viewed by refugee families using life-size puppets talking with a refugee mother, explaining normal feelings around the loss of family and...
Strong Mothers
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Dementia Australia: Dementia Australia delivers educational programs for best-practice dementia care through a variety of programs including leading-edge and award-winning virtual interactive...
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Biennale of Sydney: An expansive access program for the 2026 Biennale of Sydney, allowing Australian artists and audiences with disabilities to fulsomely participate in the festival. The program...
Biennale Of Sydney
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Youth Off The Streets: Funding towards Youth Off The Streets' Step Up program offering an alternative education to disadvantaged young people who have disengaged from mainstream education. Support of...
Youth Off The Streets
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
ASYlum Seekers Centre: Funding to support vital connections for people seeking asylum in Sydney, assisting clients to apply for NSW public transport Opal cards and provide free Opal card top ups and...
Asylum Seekers Centre
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
The Bell Shakespeare Company: Funding to develop and capture the next instalment of the digital resource series, In The Round or Macbeth:360. The 2025 project will focus on Shakespeare's Othello, which is a...
The Bell Shakespeare Company
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
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Total Education
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Save Sight Institute, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney: Funding to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and cost-effectiveness of home monitoring of visual field function for individuals living in rural Australia. The project will...
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
ABCN Scholarship Foundation: This project will support three NSW students from non-English speaking backgrounds to continue into Year 3 of the Accelerate program in 2026. These students are currently...
Abcn Scholarship Foundation
2025 · grant · HEALTH
Odyssey House NSW: This project will transform two Re-Entry Houses into true homes, providing a safe and nurturing environment for clients at the critical ‘post-treatment' stage of recovery....
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Bravehearts Foundation: To distribute child sexual abuse prevention packs to 150 schools and Early Learning Centres (ELCs) across the western suburbs of Sydney. This includes ‘Ditto's Keep Safe...
Bravehearts Foundation
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Outward Bound Australia (The Outward Bound Development Fund): Outward Bound's new Communal Centre is central to the Tharwa campus transformation, creating a hub for outdoor adventure learning that enhances capacity, inclusivity and...
Outward Bound Australia (the Outward Bound Development Fund)
2025 · grant · SOCIAL WELFARE AND THE ARTS
Stepping Stone House (Formerly Sydney Stepping Stone): The Stepping Stone House Education Program provides young people at risk of homelessness in Greater Sydney with high-quality, personalised support for school, TAFE, and /or...
Stepping Stone House (formerly Sydney Stepping Stone)
2025 · grant · EDUCATION
Learning Links: In partnership with Liverpool Local Aboriginal Education Consultative Group, Learning Links will deliver their innovative, early intervention Aboriginal Education Program in...
Learning Links
2025 · grant · HEALTH