Grant Funding
Equity Trustees has overseen tens of thousands of gifts of education and funding throughout our long history. With a wide range of philanthropic areas to oversee, we use our extensive experience to ensure that each of our focus areas gives to the greatest good.
Our focus areas
We are working to ensure funds are applied wisely to create lasting positive change. Empowering Australian change-makers to deepen community impact in key granting areas.
Grant Programs
The Small Grants Program is focused on ensuring communities are resilient in the face of social, economic, and environmental change and local support networks are accessible and effective.
Equity Trustees is honoured to manage several trusts that provide scholarships and awards to worthy recipients
Open Grants
2026 Scholarship Applications
Applications open 24 November 2025
Applications close 30 January 2026
(5.00PM AEDT)
Philanthropy
Giving highlights 2025
This year’s Giving Highlights offers just a glimpse of the extraordinary impact that trust-based philanthropy creates. It is a small collection of stories, but together they reflect something much larger – the way not-for-profit partners listen deeply to their communities and respond with creativity, compassion, and commitment.
