The Ian Potter Foundation is seeking to support outstanding tertiary institutions, medical research institutes or suitably qualified public health organisations which conduct translational public health research.

Funding Objectives

To improve the health and well-being of communities that have a high incidence of ill health by supporting them to implement preventative public health initiatives that work best in their specific context.

This can encompass:

• Early-stage projects exploring the most pressing public health challenges identified by a community and developing solutions with the community to improve health and well-being for that community
• Advanced projects that seek to implement solutions conceptualised and developed with the community as an equal partner
• Collecting and synthesising the evidence of established community-led initiatives to inform policy or develop and test funding models for long-term sustainability
• Scaling of pilot projects that have demonstrated success in improving health and well-being in a community
• Community-led innovative public health initiatives that disrupt or shift existing systems, driving determinants of health (social, economic and environmental), which perpetuate health outcome inequities.

Community-based organisations with the appropriate DGR status of any size are encouraged to apply. The Foundation only considers grant applications for multi-year grants for a minimum of $100,000.

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 organisation 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 organisations that have not successfully acquitted previous grants from the Foundation.
• We do not directly support schools.

Auspicing refers to the practice of an ineligible organisation (one that does not have DGR and TCC status) applying to the Foundation via an eligible organisation. Auspicing arrangements are excluded under the Foundation's guidelines. The organisation applying to the Foundation must be the organisation that will run the project or program for which a grant is being sought.

The Foundation is limited to providing money, property or benefits for public charitable purposes in the Commonwealth of Australia. However, the Foundation is able to provide a grant for activities outside the Commonwealth if the grant is made for a public charitable purpose in the Commonwealth. For example, a grant might be made to an Australian university to enable it to fund an overseas study tour by an Australian researcher engaged by the university.

• Phone: 03 9611 1591
• Website: https://www.ianpotter.org.au/contact/