The Insignia Community Foundation partners with Australian not-for-profit organisations to help create financial wellbeing for people who have limited access to opportunities.

In July 2024, the IOOF Foundation was renamed to Insignia Community Foundation.

The Insignia Community Foundation welcomes grant applications during the months of July and December each year.

Through the Foundation and Insignia Financial’s CommUnity program, around $1.2 million dollars each year is donated to not-for-profit organisations. Our CommUnity program also supports our employees to contribute their skills and time by volunteering in meaningful ways and donating through workplace giving and fundraising.

Grants through the Insignia Community Foundation typically range from $10,000-$150,000 per year. Please provide budget information via the Expression of Interest form to enable us to evaluate the grant amount requested against funds available to distribute.

The Insignia Community Foundation grants funding twice a year in July and December. We look for impactful programs addressing and relieving a specific need of people in the community, and look to ensure people who participate in the program will leave the program in a better way.

People usually supported through our grants are low-income families, at-risk young people and those who are experiencing inequalities. Specifically, the Foundation supports the community across five impact areas:

1. Financial wellbeing
2. Basic needs
3. Reconciliation
4. Diversity and inclusion
5. Mental health

Eligibility

The Insignia Community Foundation can only make grants to charitable organisations with an Australian Taxation Office Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) endorsement of DGR1 / Item 1.

In general, the Insignia Community Foundation will not support funding for the following:

• To or on behalf of individuals
• Capital funds and building works
• General fundraising appeals
• Ongoing organisational operating expenses
• Motor vehicles and buses
• Government entities
• Private schools
• Overseas programs
• Other foundations
• Retrospective requests
• General fundraising appeals or commercial sponsorships
• Organisations that are restrictive based on financial, religious or cultural origin
• Sport, recreation or social activities for their own sake
• One-off activities such as camps and festivals
• Debt retirement, budget deficits, endowments or bequest program
• Travel, study or conferences
• Provision of health and medical services
• Projects which duplicate existing services
• Research, except in special circumstances at the Board's discretion
• Protection and welfare of domestic animals
• Requests identical to previously submitted, unsuccessful applications

• Email: Foundation@insigniafinancial.com.au