Partner
We back those closest to the challenge and give them the certainty they need to create lasting change.
That’s why in 2025 we adopted a Pay What It Takes approach to funding.
Minderoo grants now cover the full cost of delivering change, including essential infrastructure like staff, systems and evaluation. This reflects our commitment to supporting partners to deliver impact that is effective and sustainable.
Throughout 2025, we backed our partners to make a difference, supporting them to design, build and scale initiatives that turn ideas into action.
Our role is to strengthen capability, remove barriers and help our partners go further. From supporting Ngangk Yira Institute for Change to create a culturally safe health pathway for Aboriginal children and their families in WA, to helping communities in Papua New Guinea recover from conflicts and natural disasters, we are backing partners who are delivering lasting change for people and our environment.
Snapshot: our impact by numbers
2,615,172
hot meals served to people in Gaza via World Central Kitchen
4,000+
new women-led businesses funded through Global Sisters
38,000
hours of support delivered by 619 Disaster Relief Australia volunteers following the NSW floods
3.7M
sq km in new ocean conservation areas delivered with our partners
Ngangk Yira partnership
The Ngangk Yira Institute for Change at Murdoch University has partnered with Minderoo Foundation on a $3 million program over three years to create a culturally safe health pathway for Aboriginal children and their families in Western Australia.
Professor Rhonda Marriott and her team at Ngangk Yira will expand their existing initiatives, such as perinatal assessment tool ‘Baby Coming You Ready’ and wrap-around maternal health program ICARE. They will also develop new Aboriginal health research programs and grow the Ngangk Yira team.
The collaboration will involve key stakeholders from across the health system, including the state government’s South Metropolitan Health Service, Aboriginal community representatives, and services offering pregnancy and early childhood care in the region.
- Professor Marriott
Enga’s Road to Recovery
In 2024, Papua New Guinea’s Enga Province faced a catastrophic landslide that displaced thousands and compounded long-running tribal conflict.
Minderoo responded immediately through our partnership with World Vision, helping more than 3,000 people access emergency shelter, safe water, sanitation and hygiene – including new water piping and storage systems that restored reliable access to clean water.
Additionally, Minderoo partnered with CARE to launch a peacebuilding and agricultural livelihoods pilot across seven conflict-affected communities. Backed by Enga Governor, Sir Peter Ipatas, the initiative is strengthening social cohesion and local leadership, with a strong focus on women’s inclusion. In six months, CARE reached 1,072 people (including 406 women), trained 952 community members, and established seven Peace Committees. CARE is also delivering small grants and financial management training for women.
Early results are significant: the province recorded its first violence-free local level government election, community acceptance of the program remains high, and government engagement in peace efforts is increasing.
Caption: CARE staff working with local women in Enga. Credit: CARE Australia.
Other stories of impact
We amplify our impact through collaboration and by empowering our partners to deliver and deploy resources more effectively. Discover more stories of how we back those closest to the problem.
Advocate
We affect system change at scale by shifting the expectations of decision-makers to act on our chosen issues by enhancing advocacy capacity and shifting attitudes, norms, mindsets and behaviours to support critical policy reform.
Develop
We collaborate with partners, communities and beneficiaries to develop, test, refine and de-risk solutions, sharing learnings to help others scale-up and adapt to local contexts.
Generate evidence
We generate, connect and leverage evidence to drive change, fuel advocacy, guide decisions and amplify our collective impact.