2025-2026 Minister's Discretionary Fund

Who can apply

Aboriginal Affairs lists this program as open to the following kinds of applicant. It is a starting filter, not the full eligibility test, and the guidelines on the official page are what decide it.

• Indigenous organisations

What the program funds

The purpose of the Minister’s Discretionary Fund (MDF) is to provide one-off grant funding at the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Treaty’s discretion, to support Aboriginal people and communities across NSW. The objective of the MDF is to allow for the provision of small grants in support of and consistent with the targets and priorities of the vision of Aboriginal Affairs NSW (AANSW) and Minister’s Priorities through the funding of •

That description is Aboriginal Affairs's own wording, reproduced from the official listing under CC BY 4.0. Our plain-English summaries are being written program by program and this one has not been done yet.

What it is for

This program is categorised under the following purposes. Each one that has a page of its own links to every other Australian grant we track for the same purpose.

• Indigenous

How to apply

Applications for 2025-2026 Minister's Discretionary Fund are made through Aboriginal Affairs, not through GrantWindow. We do not take applications, charge a fee or act as an intermediary, and any site that offers to apply on your behalf for a government grant is worth a very careful look.

This round is closed. Many Australian grant programs run again, and a closed program is the reason the alert list exists: we watch this page nightly and tell the list the day it reopens.