We received 76 Expressions of Interest and invited 6 organisations to submit a full application, alongside 3 self-nominated 2025 Spark Partners for consideration by our Foundation team and Board. Ultimately, three applications were selected, including one from a Spark partner. These projects represent diverse opportunities to deepen understanding, build new knowledge, and contribute to compassionate, person-centred pathways that support mental health and wellbeing.

We are committed to continuing to offer open grant rounds that develop new partnerships and create pathways for philanthropic funding to reach community. You can learn more about the Expressions of Interest we received here.

We are excited to build on our existing partnerships and forge new ones over the next two years. Most importantly, we look forward to the positive impact these initiatives will have on the mental health and wellbeing of communities across South Australia.

We look forward to sharing more with you along their journey. If you have any questions about the Foundation's past or current partnerships and learnings, don't hesitate to reach out for a chat.

Meet our new Discovery partners below and explore the incredible work they will be doing alongside their communities.

The African Australian Men Wellness Foundation (AAMWF) is a community-led organisation supporting the health and wellbeing of African Australian men and their families across Adelaide. The Foundation works through faith networks, sporting clubs, elders' circles and everyday family relationships already woven into community life. Through Discovery, AAMWF will work alongside three community groups: Fullah Friends of SA, Amazing Northern Multicultural Services, and Adelaide's Congolese community, chosen to reflect the diversity of experience across the African diaspora.

At the heart of the project is a simple but powerful question: what might become possible for young people's wellbeing when the stories held within African Australian families are shared, heard, and carried forward across generations? Rather than arrive with a model to roll out, AAMWF will sit with community to understand how intergenerational storytelling already carries identity, faith and resilience, and discover with them whether and how it can support the conditions for wellbeing.

Through listening, co-design, and small-scale testing and learning alongside community, AAMWF hopes families walking this journey will feel more connected, more heard, and more confident that the stories they carry are a source of strength for the generations who follow.

Autism SA is Australia's longest-standing autism peak body, supporting people on the autism spectrum and their families across South Australia for more than 60 years. They have deep relationships with their community through a range of programs and supports, providing a strong understanding of the needs of autistic people and their families, with parent wellbeing consistently identified as a significant unmet need.

Through Discovery, Autism SA will build on its Spark Grant, Thriving Together, in which more than 130 parents helped co-design a wellbeing model grounded in connection and lived experience. The project will now work alongside parents and carers of autistic children across South Australia, including rural and remote families, culturally and linguistically diverse communities, LGBTQIA+ parents and fathers, to explore how communities can take ownership of that model and build the local leadership needed to sustain it.

Autism SA's commitment to co-design and community ownership will drive the work, with the goal of moving communities from participation to genuine leadership of their own wellbeing supports. The project aims to develop a practical, adaptable methodology for community-led wellbeing.

Ramble Arts is a grassroots community youth arts organisation with a 40-year history of connecting young people to community across the Riverland, including Renmark, Berri, Barmera, Loxton and Waikerie. Sitting between an arts organisation and a community centre, Ramble Arts works through deep, personal relationships built over decades of Community Arts and Cultural Development practice.

Through Discovery, Ramble Arts will work alongside regional young people leaving school, a group that has told them how isolating this transition can be. The idea came directly from members of their community, who are ageing out of the organisation's youth programs and have spoken openly about the lack of community connection options for young adults in the Riverland.

This will be a youth-led exploration, with young people in paid positions leading the project throughout, backed by the systems and relationships of their community. Ramble Arts hopes to build the structures that enable young people to lead the conversation about what would genuinely support their wellbeing during this transition, testing ideas now with a view to lasting, community-owned change into the future.