What We Fund
Support for those who help our ageing communities
We have found that people aged over 65 who suffer from mobility issues, sickness or disease, experience adverse ageing outcomes. These adverse outcomes may include a lack of independence, loneliness and isolation, and poor emotional and physical health.
The Eastern Star Foundation’s core focus is to help improve these outcomes for the aged. We provide grants of up to $100,000 to registered charities that operate in Queensland to support evidence-based programs and initiatives that help older people to:
Eastern Star Foundation’s Theory of Change
People aged over 65 who suffer from mobility issues, sickness or disease, experience adverse ageing outcomes. These adverse outcomes may include a lack of independence, loneliness and isolation, and poor emotional and physical health.
Focus our resources and grant funding on helping to improve outcomes for our aged.
Build the right partnerships with charities whose focus is also on helping the aged.
Support our charity partners to measure their impact and better understand and manage the outcomes being created.
Share what we learn.
The support of evidence-based programs and initiatives that help older people to:
Remain independent
Practice choice
Participate in their community
Have a support network
Experience healthy ageing.
For the aged
Increased independence
Increased hope for the future
Increased community interactions
For charity partners
Greater clarity in how impact is created, managed and measured
Improved impact measurement to help improve practice ageing
Improved health and wellbeing
A stable support network in place
A more connected senior community
We have one grant round each year
Our next grant round is open from 7 October to 13 December 2024.
As an organisation operating in Queensland, to be considered for a grant from Eastern Star Foundation you must have:
Both Charity Tax Concession status and Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status under Item 1 of the table in Subdivision 30-15 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997. You can easily check this on the ABN lookup website at www.abn.business.gov.au.
The program or initiative must help older people to:
Remain independent
Practice choice
Participate in their community
Have a support network
Experience healthy ageing.
A specific program or initiative for which there is limited access to other funding or has a funding gap that needs to be filled for the initiative to proceed or for an essential service to continue.
Where possible, the Foundation encourages and prioritises programs and initiatives that support women over 65.
- Projects outside of Queensland.
- Applications submitted on your behalf by an auspice organisation.
- Retrospective or deficit funding.
- General fundraising appeals. Recurrent administration costs.
- Promotion of religion.
- Political organisations.
- Direct grants to individuals, including travel expenses, personal study or attendance at conferences.
- Charities who directly support animals unless the animals provide assistance for older people with a disability within the aged community (e.g. registered assistance dogs).
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