Aurizon Community Giving Fund

Founded in 2011, our Community Giving Fund provides grants of up to $20,000 to eligible charities across our areas of operation. The Fund has helped over 670 charities with support for projects delivering benefits to our local communities in the areas of health and wellbeing, community safety, environment and education.

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Community Giving Fund applications now closed

Thank you to all those organisations who have applied to the latest round of the Aurizon Community Giving Fund, applications are now closed.

Successful applications will be announced in mid-December 2025.

  

 

 

Community Giving Fund eligibility

Please view our Guidelines and Terms and Conditions. There is also a list of Frequently Asked Questions and a guide on Tips for Writing Grant Applications which may be helpful to your charity when writing your grant application.

Who is eligible for a grant?

  • Non-profit organisations that hold an approved deductible gift recipient (DGR) status charity (Item 1) from the Australian Tax Office. If you are unsure of your organisation’s tax status, check with your financial advisor and the Australian Government’s ABN Lookup website.
  • The Aurizon Community Giving Fund is focused on the broad areas of health and wellbeing, community safety, environment and education. All applications for our Community Giving Fund grant must fit within at least one of these funding categories to be eligible for consideration.
  • Cash grants are only available for projects in the areas in which Aurizon operates. View our areas of operation and eligible grant locations on the map below.
Eligible grant locations
Community stories

We deliver support to many Australian communities we live and work in. Explore some of the programs we have supported through the Community Giving Fund program.

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