Innovation grants in Australia

Australian grant programs for new products, new processes and early stage ventures, pulled together from the Commonwealth, all 8 states and territories and local councils across the country. 303 programs are categorised under innovation in this catalogue and 35 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.

Funded from both ends. 26% of this lane is council money and 74% comes from a state, territory or Commonwealth agency, so both are worth an application and they are rarely the same size of cheque. The largest single funder of innovation projects in this catalogue is Australian Government at 45 programs, and 123 separate funders run at least one.

106 of these 303 programs carry a closing date the funder published, and this page shows the month for every one of them. 20 of them close inside the next year, with November 2026 the busiest month at 8. "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 innovation grants in this catalogue sit between $3k to $10m.

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.