Deadline: 6-Nov-20
The Ian Potter Foundation is inviting expressions of interest (EoIs) for its grant program to support charitable organizations working to benefit the community across a wide range of sectors and endeavours.
The Ian Potter is a major Australian philanthropic foundation that supports and promotes excellence and innovation, facilitating positive social change, and developing Australia’s creativity and capacity as a nation.
Funding Pillars
- Vibrant:
- Arts
- To support first-rate artistic institutions and organizations in metropolitan and regional Australia which are distinctive in artistic achievement, imagination and innovation in fostering development across a sector or art form.
- To support such institutions to host artists in high-calibre professional development and/or leadership opportunities of at least 12 months (e.g. fellowships, apprenticeships, mentorships, internships).
- Arts
- Healthy:
- Public Health Research Projects
- To support outstanding tertiary institutions, medical research institutes or suitably qualified public health organizations which conduct translational public health research projects.
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Medical Research
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To support the provision of equipment and capital infrastructure to support outstanding medical research groups.
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- Public Health Research Projects
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligibility of organization:
- Under the terms of the deed of The Ian Potter Foundation and Australian taxation laws, The Ian Potter Foundation can only make grants to organizations based in Australia with BOTH Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) Item 1 and Tax Concession Charity (TCC) status.
- DGR requirements:
- There are two distinct types of DGR. This is identified on an organization’s notice of endorsement from the Australian Taxation Office as either a deductible gift recipient item 1, or item 2.
- The Ian Potter Foundation is limited to funding DGR’s where the ‘provision for gift deductibility’ is “item 1 of the table in section 30-15 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997”. That is, can only make grants to organizations endorsed as DGR Item 1.
- The Ian Potter Foundation is a public ancillary fund and cannot make grants to other public ancillary funds (PuAFs) or to private ancillary funds (PAFs). If your notice of endorsement as a DGR states the provision for gift deductibility is item 2 of the table in section 30-15 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997, your organization will be an ancillary fund and therefore not entitled to receive grants from us.
- An organization’s name or ABN can be used to search the Australian Government’s online Australian Business Register to check details of its DGR and TCC endorsements.
- Please also note the following regarding DGR status
- Organizations must be EITHER endorsed by the ATO as a DGR item 1, or they must be specifically named in Subdivision 30-B in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 as being a DGR.
- If an organization uses more than one name (for example, a legal name and a trading name), then any grant application must be made in the name which holds the correct DGR status.
- Some organizations also hold DGR status only for a fund which they operate, or one aspect of their activities. Applications from such organizations must relate to the fund or activities for which DGR status has been endorsed or approved.
- More information about DGR and TCC status can be obtained from the ATO Non-Profit Organizations website.
- Projects that fall into any of the following categories will not be considered for funding.
- Retrospective funding – projects which are already underway or which will commence prior to the date indicated in our online application information are not eligible for consideration.
- Recurrent expenditure for which there is no future provision.
- Capital or endowment funds established to fund a chair or to provide a corpus for institutions.
- Research for undergraduate, masters or doctoral students.
- Auspicing is not permitted – the organization applying must be the one that will run the program or project.
- Applications for public charitable purposes outside the Commonwealth of Australia.
- Applications for projects that have previously been declined by the Foundation cannot be resubmitted.
- Applications will not be accepted from organizations that have not successfully acquitted previous grants from the Foundation.
- The Foundation does not directly support schools.
For more information, visit https://www.ianpotter.org.au/