How to track grants linked to federal or state Budget funding announcements

In a late 2025 Funding Centre survey, we found that 30 percent of respondents mentioned lack of time as their biggest barrier to finding and applying for grants. You can stay ahead by setting up tailored email alerts, running live searches, and saving the grants that matter most to your organisation.

Here’s how.

1. Save a grant to your grants list

Spot a grant round that isn't open yet? Click the star icon to add it to your grants list.

This includes any programs flagged in our Budget announcement articles - each one links to a pre-set search, from here you can save a previous round of the program to be notified when a new round goes live. From there you can assign the grant to a project, add notes, upload files, and set tasks and deadlines, keeping everything in one place so you can stay on top of due dates, progress, and priorities.

Watch tutorial on how to save a grant to your grants

2. Update your preferences and alert settings

Go to your Settings to update your preferences (including grant categories, organisation type and location) and alerts (opt in to receive grant alerts daily or weekly).

Watch tutorial on how to adjust your account settings

3. Save your search

Our Budget announcement articles link directly to pre-set searches for each program mentioned, so when you click a program name like Housing Australia Future Fund, it opens a filtered search ready to go.

Once you're on that search, save it so you don't have to come back to the article each time. Scroll to the bottom and click 'Save search', give it a name, and it'll auto-fill your filters whenever you select it. As soon as a new round opens for that program, you'll be able to find it straight away. Save multiple searches to keep tabs on every program that's relevant to your organisation.

Find out more on saving your search