Each year, the APRA Board sets aside 1.75% of distributable revenue to fund projects and organisations promoting the use and recognition of music by APRA members.

Arts Victoria offer a range of grants available to artists varying from touring assistance grants and CD recording grants.  

The ArtStart program provides financial assistance to recent creative arts graduates who are committed to establishing a career in the visual arts, hybrid and media arts, performing arts, literature or in community arts and cultural development.

Asialink offers opportunities for Australian Citizens/Permanent Residents who have at least three years experience in their field to live and work in the Asian region. Residencies are usually of three to four months duration and each residency offers a specified amount of funding and initial contacts.

The Australia Council invites Australian musicians, sound artists and media artists working in sound to apply for a 3-month residency in the AlloSphere at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The Australia Council for the Arts is the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body. We support Australia’s arts through funding, strengthening and developing the arts sector.

Australia Council offer numerous grants to Australian artists covering a disciplines including recording, promotion, touring and much more, as well as support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists.

The Australia-Japan Foundation funds projects which increase the understanding of shared interests between Japan and Australia.

The Australia-Korea Foundation Board seeks grants funding from $2,000 up to a maximum of $20,000 for projects commencing between 01 August 2011 and 30 June 2012.

Each year the Australian Government provides numerous grants and funding opportunities to artists. These primarily cover touring and festivals.

Recognising Australia’s most promising emerging talent, ‘Realise Your Dream’ awards offer career development in the UK creative industries, including $8000 cash and return flights to the UK.

Support for community organisations to preserve their cultural material, including archives and oral history recordings.

ComPeung AiR offers funding for music and visual artists to take up a residency in Thailand

The Australian Government's Contemporary Music Touring Program provides funding for bands and solo artists who play original contemporary music to tour within Australia.

Experimenta commissions new work by Australian media artists who work in the interactive, screen based, sound, public, transmedial, online artworks and beyond.

Projects supported will be funded up to $8,000.

The Ian Potter Cultural Trust provides grants to individuals in the early stages of their career as an artist. They provide grants for travel and even purchases of musical equipment.

The PPCA Performer’s Trust Foundation provides grants to promote and encourage music and the performing arts. Grants are awarded and can be used for tuition fees, travel costs, accommodation, venue/PA hire, investments in recordings, concerts or festival promotions or staging costs, tour support, artist management expenses, equipment purchases.

The Regional Arts Fund is designed to support sustainable cultural development in regional and remote Australia and assists the professional skills development of regional artists. The program also facilitates the formation of partnerships and networks, and supports strategic initiatives that address disadvantage in remote, isolated and Indigenous communities.

Managed by Regional Arts Victoria.

Established by musician John Butler through a donation to the Australian business arts Foundation’s Australia Cultural Fund, the Seed Fund offer grants annually to bona-fide practicing artists and arts practitioners who are Australian citizens.