About Grants SA

Grants SA conducts up to four open grant rounds each financial year to provide one-off funding to eligible community organisations for projects with outcomes of improved community participation, social inclusion, wellbeing, and quality of life for people living and working in South Australia.

Funding is prioritised to support people and/or communities experiencing vulnerability or disadvantage and face additional barriers to accessing services, including Aboriginal peoples, people from new and emerging culturally and linguistically diverse communities (CALD), people living with a disability, members of the LGBTIQA+ community and those in regional and remote South Australia.

Grant Guidelines and Funding Focus

Each grant round has a set of guidelines detailing eligibility to apply and the funding focus to help organisations write their grant application. As grant rounds can have different funding focus, it is recommended to read the guidelines for Available grants (link insert)

PLEASE NOTE that some grant rounds may have additional eligibility criteria, for example only for eligible organisations with annual turnover of less than $3m.

Who is eligible to receive funding from Grants SA

To be eligible to apply for Grants SA funding, organisations must be:

An Aboriginal Community-Controlled Organisation, or
Another not-for-profit organisation.

And

Be incorporated under the Associations Incorporation Act 1985, or the Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006, or have evidence of a comparable legal status, such as Australian Public Company limited by guarantee.

Is a Social Enterprise that holds current certification with Social Traders

Organisations that are not incorporated and/or do not have an ABN, can apply if they meet all other eligibility criteria and are able to secure an eligible organisation to act as their sponsor (auspice) for the project; Local Government (Council) is able to sponsor.