Social Enterprise Development Initiative (SEDI) Grants help social enterprises, including trading Indigenous owned or controlled organisations with a defined social benefit, grow their business, scale their impact and further their missions of creating positive social change.

SEDI Grants help social enterprises, including trading Indigenous owned or controlled organisations with a direct social benefit, grow their business, scale their impact and further their missions of creating positive social change. The grants, valued at up to $120,000 each, support social enterprises to be more effective and efficient in demonstrating and increasing social impact for the people and communities they exist to support.

The initiative supports social enterprises across all states and territories that are delivering services to improve social and economic outcomes for individuals, families and communities experiencing disadvantage in a range of social outcome areas, including: communities, employment, education and First Nations Australians. View full list of the DSS outcome areas.

Application timeline

There will be rolling grant rounds and we anticipate SEDI Grants will be open through to early 2027.

Eligible SEDI Grant applicants:

• Are a social enterprise (see definition below) or a trading Indigenous owned or controlled organisation with a defined social benefit
• Have a direct impact in one or more of the approved Department of Social Services outcome areas
• Currently provide direct benefit to those experiencing entrenched disadvantage in Australia
• Are an Australian organisation
• Have beneficiaries who primarily reside in Australia
• Have a trading revenue that exceeds $50,000 per year
• May be early stage but have progressed beyond the start-up phase
• Are seeking to scale impact (now or in the future) in one or more of the approved outcome areas to address entrenched disadvantage in Australia

• Phone: 0404 794 298
• Email: enquiries@impactinvestingaustralia.com
• Website: https://impactinvestingaustralia.com/looking-for-investors/