Arts grants in Australia

Australian grant programs for artists, creative projects, festivals and cultural organisations, pulled together from the Commonwealth, all 8 states and territories and local councils across the country. 1,594 programs are categorised under arts and culture in this catalogue and 111 of them are open right now. Open programs closing soonest come first; closed rounds stay on the list, because most Australian grant programs run again and the alert list tells you the night one reopens.

Ask your council first. 65% of arts and culture programs in this catalogue are run by local councils, so the fastest route into this money is usually the grants page of the council you sit in. The 553 state, territory and Commonwealth programs in this lane are the bigger cheques and the longer applications. The largest single funder of arts and culture projects in this catalogue is Create NSW at 146 programs, and 414 separate funders run at least one.

506 of these 1,594 programs carry a closing date the funder published, and this page shows the month for every one of them. 99 of them close inside the next year, with November 2026 the busiest month at 44. "Not stated" against an amount means the funder published no figure, and a program with no closing date means the funder published no deadline: neither is filled in with a guess. Where an amount is published, most arts and culture grants in this catalogue sit between $1k to $250k.

A category earns a page of its own at 25 programs, and the categories overlap on purpose. A council program upgrading a netball court is capital works and sport and community at the same time, because that is how the funder describes it and how three different people will look for it, so this page's count and the other categories' counts do not add up to the 4,049 programs in the catalogue, and this site never adds them up.

Confirm every detail on the funder's own page before you apply. Every program here has a page of its own showing the funder, the amount, who can apply and the date it was last checked. Everything closing in the next 60 days, the directory by state and territory, or every category we track.