About Us

We love funding projects that make Sydney more awesome.

The Awesome Foundation is a global network of micro-giving chapters that give $1000 of their own money every month to awesome projects. We're the Sydney chapter! We fund out-there ideas that make Sydney more awesome. The ideas sometimes aren't so absurd: they can be super sensible, too. The catch? There isn’t one: there are no strings attached. Since our foundation in 2011, the Sydney chapter has received more than 800 micro-grant applications and given away nearly $80,000. That's a whole lot of awesome.

Tips for your application

There aren’t any rules, but we do prefer to fund ideas that:

• Make us say ‘that’s awesome!’
• Clearly show us how you will spend the $1000 - here's an example of a grant recipient with a great budget breakdown
• Have a ‘tipping point’ of $1000 and our grant is what’s needed to make it happen
• Make Sydney more awesome

Things to avoid when applying: