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Your donation joins hundreds of others, creating bigger grants and backing climate work where it can make the most difference.
You give what you can, as a one-off or a regular donation. Every gift is tax-deductible.
Your contribution is combined with hundreds of others, creating grants that go further than any one donation on its own.
Climate organisations apply for funding. Together with expert advisors, we identify the strongest opportunities for change.
You help decide which shortlisted organisations receive funding.
Grants are delivered to organisations driving high impact climate action across Australia.
We already know what Australia needs to build a safer climate future. But solutions don’t become reality on their own.
That’s the role of climate advocacy. It builds public support, creates political pressure and helps turn good ideas into real-world change.
Groundswell backs the organisations doing that work, giving them the resources to seize opportunities, shift decisions and turn momentum into lasting change
Climate action succeeds when different forces move together. We back a mix of organisations and strategies working at different pressure points, because change in one area strengthens and unlocks change in another.
Helping communities shape, benefit from and lead the transition to a cleaner economy.
Holding governments and corporations accountable for decisions that affect our future.
Building public support for climate solutions through media, culture and storytelling.
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Backing First Nations and frontline communities to lead solutions, protect Country and shape decisions.
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We assess the strength of an organisation’s strategy, the opportunity in front of them, their ability to deliver and the impact our funding could make. It’s not simply asking ‘is this good work?’ It’s asking why this, why now and why this organisation.
Applications are reviewed by a rotating committee of Groundswell givers, supported by experienced advisors, including First Nations leaders. The shortlist then goes to all Groundswell givers for a vote. This gives our community a meaningful role in deciding where funding goes and a deeper understanding of climate advocacy along the way.
Wherever possible, we provide flexible, untied funding so organisations can use it where it’s most needed. Climate advocacy moves quickly – political opportunities open and close and strategies shift as new opportunities emerge. Flexible funding lets organisations respond to what’s actually happening rather than being locked into a plan written months earlier.
Want to know more about how we make funding decisions?
Read our Grantmaking GuideOur advisers bring knowledge across climate, First Nations leadership, community organising and systems change, helping us spot opportunities and make stronger decisions about where funding can have the greatest impact.
Meet our advisors
Your donation is pooled with hundreds of others and directed to the people making climate action happen across Australia.
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Wherever we are in this country, we are on Country.
We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as Traditional Custodians, and pay our respects to Elders past and present.
We honour their enduring care for Country and the First Nations leadership our climate future depends on.