To support the provision of equipment and capital infrastructure to support outstanding medical research groups.

The Healthy Australia pillar supports organisations that strive to provide innovative solutions to improve the health of all Australians. The Medical Research stream aims to advance understanding and improve treatment of major diseases by supporting major initiatives by leading Australian research institutes, universities and teaching hospitals in innovative biomedical research.

In the Medical Research stream the Foundation will consider applications:

• To support the provision of equipment and capital infrastructure to support outstanding research groups.

You must speak with the Program Manager before submitting an application to be considered eligible to apply.

Medical Research applications are considered by the Board of Governors once a year.

In general, the recommended minimum grant amount for institutions and organisations is $100,000 in this program area.

The Ian Potter Foundation prioritises applications with evidence of collaboration. Please ensure that you have alternative providers of funding, and that your application clearly considers any possible grant from the Foundation in this context. The Foundation are unlikely to fund 100% of a project cost.

Eligibility

Under the terms of the deed of The Ian Potter Foundation and Australian taxation laws, The Ian Potter Foundation can only make grants to organisations with BOTH Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) Item 1 and Tax Concession Charity (TCC) status. 

Exclusions

Specific Exclusions:

• Purposes that are core to the operations of the organisation and should more appropriately be funded from institutional operating funds
• Research projects for which there would be a reasonable prospect of attracting commercial funding
• Research funding, scholarships or projects that would be awarded by the grantseeker to third parties.

General Exclusions:

Projects that fall into any of the following categories will not be considered for funding:

• Retrospective funding – projects which are already underway or which will commence prior to the date indicated in our online application information are not eligible for consideration
• Recurrent expenditure for which there is no future provision
• Capital or endowment funds established to fund a chair or to provide a corpus for institutions
• Auspicing is not permitted – the organisation applying must be the one that will run the program or project
• Applications for public charitable purposes outside the Commonwealth of Australia
• Applications for projects that have previously been declined by the Foundation cannot be resubmitted 
• Applications will not be accepted from organisations that have not successfully acquitted previous grants from the Foundation

• Phone: 03 9611 1591
• Website: https://www.ianpotter.org.au/contact/