Small, steady support compounds.

Entry 2026 / 07 · 30 June 2026

End-of-year grants: our largest giving round to date

The trustees closed the 2025–26 financial year with the Foundation's largest annual distribution in its twenty-year history. After a year of steady investment income, grants were renewed across all four areas — community food relief, youth scholarships, land restoration and carer support among them.

This is the compounding effect the trust was built for: capital preserved through careful stewardship, income growing quietly, giving growing with it. A single founding act of generosity, still giving — more each year than the last.

Our full financial statements are public on the ACNC register.

Entry 2026 / 03 · 14 March 2026

Five years backing land restoration: what steady funding grows

Five years ago we made our first grant to a South Australian revegetation charity. This month we walked one of the sites: seedlings planted in year one are now taller than the volunteers who planted them, and a corridor of native bush links two paddocks that were bare in 2021.

The lesson is not complicated. Environmental work fails when funding arrives in single seasons. It succeeds when a charity can order seedlings a year ahead, keep a project officer employed, and promise landholders they will come back. Renewed grants are unglamorous. They are also how bush comes back.

Entry 2025 / 11 · 21 November 2025

The scholarship that gets renewed, not just awarded

One-off scholarships make announcements; renewable scholarships make graduates. Our education partners tell us the most important word in any award letter is "continuing" — the assurance that a student who keeps showing up keeps their support.

That principle now shapes how we structure every education grant: multi-year commitments, reviewed annually, renewed wherever the work continues to be done well. This year, students supported through our partner charities completed their studies and — our favourite sentence in any report — several have come back to mentor the next cohort.

Entry 2025 / 08 · 9 August 2025

Funding the people who hold everyone else up

Carers rarely appear in gala photographs. They appear at 3am, at hospital appointments, at the kitchen table doing someone else's paperwork. Our health and resilience grants increasingly flow to charities that support these households directly — respite, counselling, peer networks.

One partner put it plainly in their report: "Your grant didn't fund a program. It funded breathing room." We can think of no better description of what this trust exists to provide.

Entry 2025 / 12 · 31 December 2025

Twenty years in the ledger

On 31 December 2025 the Harvey Foundation turned twenty. Two decades of trustees' meetings, investment statements and grant resolutions add up to something simple: hundreds of grants to Australian charities that were already doing the work, delivered without fanfare, renewed wherever the work endured.

Anniversaries invite looking back, but a perpetual trust is pointed the other way. The capital is intact. The income flows. The next twenty years of giving are already funded. That, in the end, is the whole idea.