We support students aged 4–24 facing financial hardship across NSW and ACT. Over 7,000 students helped since 1923. All donations $2+ are tax-deductible.
Deployment
- Grants deployed
- $852kFY24
- Reported corpus
- $13.2M
- Deployed / assets
- 6.5%
- Signal
- Actively deploying
From ACNC AIS FY24 · current as of July 2026. A payout near the ~5% ancillary-fund benchmark meets the legal minimum.
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What this fund supports
Fund details
- Website
- www.astartinlife.org.au
- Jurisdiction
- AU
- Size (income)
- $500k–$3M/yr
- ABN
- 21 871 881 074
- Tax status
- DGR-endorsed (tax-deductible)
- Beneficiaries
- Children, Youth, Early childhood, Financially disadvantaged, Rural, regional & remote
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