Offered by: Impact Investing Australia
Amount: up to $120,000
Closing date: 5 December 2025
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.
The grants, valued at up to $120,000 each, are targeted towards supporting 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 for people living in Australia who are experiencing entrenched disadvantage, in a range of social outcome areas, including: communities, employment, education and First Nations Australians.
Eligibility
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
