Sydney
Ice cream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream
By Danielle Courtney October 2024Studio Artes Visual Art Program: Art Supplies
By Bexie Neeley October 2024Feeling the Wind in Their Hair
By Kerrie Barker October 2024Affordable Headshots for Artists
By Emma Wright September 2024Anomalies
By Jordyn Fulcher August 2024KinHub
By Corinne Smith June 2024Our Stories Through Theatre
By Tanja Djordjevic May 2024The Good Life: Voices from Sydney's Streets [wt]
By Jordan Grantham April 2024If/When
By Jasmine Hair March 2024Kangaroo & Joey Rehabilitation Enclosure
By Jill Gilbert February 2024MYST Madi Gras parade screening party
By Flinn Donovan February 2024Deb's Pouring and Craft Sanctuary
By Debbi-Ann Cain November 2023Pride Morris
By Rosie Wylie October 2023WWYW Survivor Healing Groups
By Brittany Cozic September 2023Sydney Pollinator Lab
By Alex Crowe August 2023Back to Birdy
By Sean Landis July 2023Deaf Festival Sydney
By Madeleine Uaine June 2023The Bass Hill Pre Kindy Program
By mecca laalaa June 2023Multilingual storytellers ready to fly
By Lillian Rodrigues-Pang May 2023Free Lightsabers in Darling Harbour
By Timothy Yang April 2023DSA Sydney Rashies
By Shane Henn March 2023NWME Inc - Nurrgingy Miniature Railway
By Jennifer Barnett-Baistow February 2023Art Kits for Kids & Women in Refuges
By Pamela Woods December 2022Dharawal Language Book and Gift Pack
By Aunty Donna & Sutherland Shire Reconciliation Group November 2022Coogee Surf Life Saving Community: Beach Safety
By Adam Cohen (UTS) October 2022NICI Gadigal Skills for Success Program
By Nathan Lovett October 2022Yanadi Ladies Group
By Wendy Anne French September 2022Holroyd High School Multicultural Day
By Courtney Palucci September 2022OddHearts Connect Through Art
By Jex Lopez July 2022Musical Milestones
By Tanya Marie Silveira June 2022Promote the Goat Uplift
By Josie Taoi April 2022The New Normal - A Trans-inclusive Women's Day Gig
By Geetha Balakrishnan March 2022The strength and resilience of refugee women
By Larissa Dulat February 2022Intercultural Connection Through Artwork
By Emma Bromley January 2022Queer community photo sessions at The Bearded Tit
By Dorcas Tang December 2021Vegepods for Disability Accommodation
By Emily Griffith December 2021Overnight hiking and camping adventure
By Neil McCulloch November 2021B-3-N
By Jestika Chand and Jayce Carrano October 2021We All Care Days
By Joanna Karalis September 2021Wilford Lane Garden
By James Cottam September 2021Caretakers of Campbelltown
By Gabriel Faatau'uu-Satiu August 2021Nile Football Program Balls Project
By Daniel Apat July 2021A Brief Escape
By Kate McLaren June 2021Didjurigur Netball - NAIDOC Cultural Celebration
By Didjurigur Netball Club May 2021Nimrod Park Mural - John’s Garden
By Sarah Ranner May 2021Furnish Our Therapy Space
By Lilli Barto April 2021Elevating Refugee Entrepreneurs in Australia
By Marjorie Tenchavez March 2021Music for All
By Arya Pratinidhi Sabha of Australia February 2021The Reconnect Project
By Annette Mayne December 2020Shade arbour for Plant Street Library
By Kelly Robin Parkins December 2020The Girls' edit
By Priyanka Bromhead November 2020Swim Sisters Surf Lifesaving for CaLD Communites
By Yusra Metwally October 2020Coloured Aliens
By Tiffany Wong August 2020Keeping Rough Sleepers Warm
By Jackie Warn July 2020Quicksan
By Ritwik Dasgupta June 2020Refloat the Titanic Volunteer Party
By Jon Simpson May 2020Face Shields for Medical Staff
By Naomi Brennan April 2020Lego for life
By Paul Karbon March 2020Bottle Lid Project
By Marijana Nad February 2020LumiCrux
By Melissa Silk and Annette Mauer February 2020Community Weekend at the Beach
By Naomi Smith January 2020Voices of Women CLEARWAY 2020
By Lliane Clarke December 2019Refugee Driving program
By Caroline Seaton November 2019TLC Choir for People with Dementia & Their Carers
By Geena Cheung October 2019Pocket City Farms needs more TOOLS!
By Michael Zagoridis August 2019Hair Aid Community Cuts
By Selina Tomasich July 2019The Supertee project
By Jason sotiris June 2019Hinchinbrook Hornets Open Women Team
By Jax Cornforth May 2019Penrith Rainbow Families Playgroup
By Simone Seeley April 2019Paddock to Plate Garden
By Fiona Liddle March 2019CHIKAS
By Genevieve Craig December 2018Music Therapy for the Elderly
By paul trad November 2018Groove Rising
By Asuka Hara October 2018DesignAbility
By Mona September 2018Uz: The Town
By Elizabeth Chua August 2018Let's Coach the Coach
By Kristina Travers July 2018Collarenebri sporting Leadership Project
By Paul Peters June 2018Inner West Beekeepers
By Nathan Organ May 2018Riverwood Reaching
By Alicia Boyden April 2018Heart and Soul Story's S.T.E.P
By Samantha Felicity Heron March 2018The Monstrosities
By Scott Parker February 2018FLEX
By Cameron Stead January 2018Accessible Abstracts
By M. Sunflower December 2017Inner West Tool Library
By Amy Croucher November 2017Good to Go
By Nanak Narulla October 2017Woolloomooloo Workshop Cafe
By Lincoln Smith June 2017Musical Pool Noodle
By Rachael Mackay May 2017Playgroups in The Park
By Natasha Sitanala April 2017Pocket Sized Precincts
By Rebecca Whittington March 2017Comedy Of Art
By Ivan Levant February 2017TechFugees Australia #Hack4Refugees
By Nicole Williamson December 2016Back to School with a Smile
By Natalie Wall November 2016Uprock Urban Arts Festival
By Matthew Peet September 2016HSCHero
By Cindy July 2016NEWTOWN NETFLIX NIGHTS
By Chloe Saintilan June 2016FoodFaith PlantingSeeds interfaith/cultural garden
By Judy Friedlander May 2016The Super Pollinators - Aussie Native Bees
By ABBIE MITCHELL April 2016Weekly Friday Lunch for Marginalised (at risk) You
By Satha Arumanayagam March 2016Femme Fatale
By Carissa Licciardello December 2015Young Aboriginal Mother’s and Children Mural
By Norma Tracey November 2015YAMMP - Young Aborigianl Mothers Mural Project
By Norma Tracey October 2015On The Floor
By Ollie Henderson September 2015The Seaside Scavenge
By Anna Jane Linke August 2015Disability Beyond Boundaries
By Zhila Hasanloo July 2015Off The Wall Gallery
By M. Sunflower Trad June 2015Biri Biri (Aboriginal Cafe)
By Matthew Pettit May 2015Care to Converse
By Jen Aboki April 2015Every Little Bit Helps
By Katryna Robinson March 2015A Sense of Place: Sydney's Inner West
By Lisa Cross November 2014Pizza in the Druitt
By Melissa Murphy October 2014Mayors and MP's Morning Ride
By Sarah Ladyman September 2014Primary Schoolers Programming with Bee-Bots
By Keira Fotakopoulos August 2014TRAP'D - The Rhythmic Arts Project Downunder
By Andrew Hewitt July 2014Arena Calcetto at The Rocks
By Archrival May 2014OpenLingo
By Leigh Harris April 2014Rooftop Garden for refugee's and asylum seekers
By Rob Caslick February 2014The Equal Hearts Project
By Fiona Hueston February 2014#wildsydney
By Diego BONETTO October 2013Meet the Maker
By Youth Food Movement - Melissa Ronca & Alecia Wood October 2013Re:make
By Vanessa Berry September 2013Laneway Learning Sydney
By Rick Benger August 2013Clovelly Road Better Block
By Phil Stubbs July 2013BYOB - Bring your own Beamer
By Tristan Deratz May 2013The Newsagency
By Alison Avron Flett April 2013The Backyard Bus
By Emma Cother (Emerald Violin) March 2013Truth or Dare Sydney
By Leigh Russell February 2013Craft Bike
By Kitiya Palaskas January 2013Sydney Small Bar Documentary
By Mel November 2012Hoopy Happenings
By Jewelz October 2012Pop up Ping Pong at Green Square
By John O'Callaghan September 2012Guerilla Dinner - know your food, know your farmer
By Youth Food Movement Sydney August 2012Under new Management
By Josh Capelin July 2012Australian National Qualifier for breakdancing
By Kristy Delaney April 2012Chalk & Talk
By Briar Hayward March 2012Hungry Ghost sound walk
By Mei Tsering February 2012The Dollar Shop
By Louise Helliwell January 2012Guerilla Lego project
By Nick Keilar November 2011Compos(ur)e
By Peter Wildman October 2011Physique Aerobics
By Kirk Docker September 2011World's smallest patch synthesizer
By Aras Vaichas August 2011PAN magazine
By Emma Dallas July 2011About Us
We love funding projects that make Sydney more awesome.
The Awesome Foundation is a global network of micro-giving chapters that give $1,000 of their own money every month to awesome projects. We're the Sydney chapter!
We fund out-there ideas that make Sydney more awesome. The ideas sometimes aren't so absurd: they can be super sensible, too. The catch? There isn’t one: there are no strings attached.
Since our foundation in 2011, the Sydney chapter has received more than 1,600 micro-grant applications and given away over $100,000. We also helped put on the first-ever
Australian Awesome Summit. That's a whole lot of awesome.
7 Things Trustees Think Make an Awesome Grant App
- Events and projects that are inclusive, and go the extra mile to include underrepresented people in our community.
- Projects that otherwise may not be funded. We like to know we're making an impact.
- Projects that would otherwise attract funding from traditional philanthropy, or already partially funded by large grants makers are less likely to be funded by AF.
- Applications with a nice neat budget. It helps us to understand just how impactful this funding really is.
- Projects that activate public spaces, illuminate local talent, and tell untold stories, or reveal hidden potential.
- Applications for projects that are sustainable or can be repeated for success are always welcome. For example, buying sports equipment that will be used season after season.
- Projects that are likely to live on long after our grant are always a favourite - will your impact be felt for time to come? Please tell us about that.
Read our Applicant Guide for more tips on creating an awesome application. Generally, we avoid funding salaries, websites, travel and ideas where the budget doesn’t make it clear enough how the money will be used.
Application deadline
Applications close at 6.30pm on the first Wednesday of every month (but do check our Facebook in case we move the deadline a day or two).
Join Awesome Foundation Sydney
We’d love to hear from you. Express interest in joining as a Trustee and we’ll be in touch when a spot opens.
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