Grant stories

  • Supporting the restoration of our marine environments for the future

    The Ross Trust is helping a leading conservation organisation to continue its work of creating a healthier, more biodiverse, and resilient Port Phillip Bay through marine restoration.

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    Fund amount:
    $180,000

    Program area:
    Biodiversity Conservation

    Location:
    Southern Peninsula

    Year:
    2022

  • Growing food on Country the traditional ways

    The Ross Trust is supporting an Indigenous social enterprise that is committed to Aboriginal food sovereignty, which is achieved through a diverse business model that includes traditional food grow...

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    Fund amount:
    $106,000

    Program area:
    Biodiversity Conservation

    Location:
    East Gippsland

    Year:
    2022

  • Funding to advocate for our biodiversity

    The Ross Trust is joining seven other philanthropic funders and 11 major universities to support a new body that will advocate for Australia’s biodiversity.

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    Fund amount:
    $400,000

    Program area:
    Biodiversity Conservation

    Location:
    Statewide

    Year:
    2022

  • New project to document gnammas across north-east Victoria

    The Ross Trust is supporting a unique project that aims to improve the understanding of ‘gnammas’, which have been water sources and sometimes sacred features for Aboriginal people for more than 60...

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    Fund amount:
    $40,000

    Program area:
    Biodiversity Conservation

    Location:
    Hume

    Year:
    2022

  • Cats, foxes, goats and more: Reporting on Australia’s invasive species

    Cats, foxes, goats and more: Reporting on Australia’s invasive species Australia has one of the worst animal extinction records in the world, due mainly to invasive species. And the threa...

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    Fund amount:
    $45,000

    Program area:
    Biodiversity Conservation

    Location:
    Statewide

    Year:
    2021

  • Conserving our woodland birds, with farmers’ help

    BirdLife Australia has been a voice for birds for more than a century, protecting birds and their habitats through research, conservation programs and advocacy. Since 2017, BirdLife has facilitated...

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    Fund amount:
    $225,000

    Program area:
    Biodiversity Conservation

    Location:
    Eastern Metro

    Year:
    2021

  • Improving Farms for the Future

    The Ross Trust is pleased to be supporting Sustainable Farms, an initiative that has been conducting wildlife surveys on farms for more than 20 years to determine how plants and animals respond to ...

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    Fund amount:
    $300,000

    Program area:
    Biodiversity Conservation

    Location:
    Statewide

    Year:
    2021

  • Funding to map our platypus population

    The Ross Trust is thrilled to be playing a vital role in the Great Australian Platypus Search, which has begun in Victoria as one of the largest citizen scientist projects in the world.

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    Fund amount:
    200,000

    Program area:
    Biodiversity Conservation

    Location:
    Statewide

    Year:
    2021-2022

  • Caring for Melbourne’s ‘other’ river

    The Yarra is the first name that usually springs to mind when people think of a Melbourne waterway. But there is another important and much-loved river – the Maribyrnong, which at 160km long i...

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    Fund amount:
    $120,000 over three years

    Program area:
    Biodiversity Conservation

    Location:
    Maribyrnong River

    Year:
    2021

  • Watertrust Australia ready to dive in

    The new national independent policy centre Watertrust Australia Ltd has begun operations, thanks to a unique coalition of philanthropic funders, including The Ross Trust.

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    Fund amount:
    $1,000,000

    Program area:
    Biodiversity Conservation

    Location:
    Canberra

    Year:
    2021