Grants Criteria and Eligibility

To be eligible to apply for a Grant, an organisation must be endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient as covered by Item 1 of the table in section 30-15 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 and be endorsed as a Tax Concession Charity.

Evidence of these endorsements are required with your application as per below.

1. A copy of the applicant’s endorsement as a Deductible Gift Recipient issued by the ATO; and

2. A copy of the applicant organisation’s ‘Notice of endorsement for Charity Tax Concessions (TCC) issued by the ATO on or after 1 July, 2005.

Please contact the Grants Officer if you are unsure of your organisation’s eligibility.

Criteria

Grants are generally provided for projects delivered in the Melbourne Metropolitan area, however applications for projects to be delivered in Regional Victoria or other States will be considered.
General Grants may be provided for projects and programs which include salaries or operating costs.
Preference will be given to service delivery projects that are demonstrating best practice or piloting innovative services. Projects should not be within usual government funded services.

Exclusions
General Grants are not provided for:

Clinical or medical research;
Capital or endowment funds;
Conferences, events or fundraising;
Retrospective funding;
Recurrent expenditure where there is no plan in place for the long term sustainability of the project or program;
Auspicing – the organisation applying must be the organisation undertaking the project or program.

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