Community Grants for Frankston City

Local, not for profit (NFP) community groups or individuals apply for grant funding from Frankston City Council. Some grants are offered every year and some funding covers many years. The grants fit into major categories or themes. Total funds available are allocated as part of the Council’s Annual budget cycle.

Frankston City Council follows these key principles when awarding grants

The following guiding principles underpin the administration of the Community Grants Program:

  • Maximise outcomes: Deliver clear, measurable and sustainable benefits to the community, building long-term capacity and represent strong value for money, aligned with Council’s strategic priorities.
  • Sound Administration: Manage with transparent processes, accountability, probity and effective risk management to ensure responsible use of public funds.
  • Positive working relationships: Foster trust, reduce participation barriers, minimise administrative burden and strengthen capacity for better community outcomes.
  • Flexibility and responsiveness: Adapt to changing community needs and priorities to remain relevant, effective and impactful.

Further information can be found about grant policy on the Frankston Council’s main website.

Community Grants data
Categories of Grants
Organisations awarded most money
Community Grants recipients

Explore the Community Grants Data

The details are available from 2021/2022 financial year to 2025/ 2026.

  • A summary of the number of applications, the value of the grant, the receiving organisation and what type of grant are shown.
  • The amounts given out changes yearly.

Use the filters (green boxes above the graph) to explore details of interest. Note: names of minors have been removed to retain privacy

Grants are divided into Major Categories

The biggest category is the partnerships forged with community service providers (~60% of the budget).

Every year these grant categories and amounts are available for groups;

  • Annual Community (up to $7,500)
  • Community Service Partnerships (can be multi year)
  • Environmental Sustainability (between $1,000-$5,000 available)
  • Urgent (up to $1,000)

Every year these grant categories and amounts are available for individuals;

  • Artist Projects ($5,000 per recipient)

  • Child/Youth Inclusion (Education up to $600, Recreation 85% of club fees or up to $250)

These organisations have been awarded the most money

Graph shows the top 10 Recipients by grant value (all financial years)

Recipients of Community Grants

Use this table to search for all recipients of Community Grants

 

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