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Communities

5 ways lethal humidity is changing our world.

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Artificial Intelligence
Genie in a bottle? AI’s potential and peril.
Natural Ecosystems
From floods to forced migration, climate change is reshaping security risks worldwide.

Media

23 Aug 2025
Statement on the IPC report confirming famine in Gaza
11 Jul 2025
Minderoo’s Ukraine aid surpasses $30 million as Dr Forrest calls on global investors to back Ukraine’s strategic food bowl
11 Jun 2025
Roadmap to 30x30: Minderoo Foundation commits $10 million towards securing sustainable financing for marine protected areas
09 Jun 2025
Minderoo pledges record support to kickstart high seas marine parks across Australia–Pacific Region
28 Mar 2025
A statement from Dr Andrew Forrest AO and Nicola Forrest AO
04 Oct 2024
Minderoo boosts funding to Gaza partners delivering meals to starving families
21 Sep 2024
Minderoo Foundation to fund A$6 million worth of new research combatting lethal humidity
27 Feb 2024
Minderoo Foundation announces new partnership to support the demining of Ukraine farmland

Our focus areas and impact missions

We seek to uplift communities, support gender equality, protect natural ecosystems and respond to emerging threats and challenges.

Two young First Nations girls play with brightly coloured beads on bead mazes that are sitting on a pine table. In the background can be seen black safety fences, showing that this is in an early learning centre.

Communities

All children in Australia reach their full potential in thriving communities.

A mother and daughter pose smiling at the camera, with their faces close together. The mother has honey blonde hair and wears a sand coloured knitted jumper, the daughter has dark hair and is wearing a light blue buttoned shirt with a floral pattern.

Gender Equality

All people realise their inherent freedom and equality.

A New Holland Honeyeater, a small bird with black and white mottled body, a black head and white ear patch, and a large yellow wing patch and yellow sides on the tail. The bird sits on a a bright red, pink and yellow banksia flower. Another banksia flower and the serrated-edge, grey green foliage can be seen in the background.

Natural Ecosystems

Healthy ecosystems safeguarded for all generations.

An elderly woman holds her hand to her mouth, looking as though she might cry. She wears a light coloured jacket and has a grey and white striped scarf covering her hair. On either side of her are tall and thin yellow candles, on ornate brass plates. In the background are other men and women and arches of the cathedral.

Impact Missions

Agile response to existential threats and urgent challenges.

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Our vision

A society that values all people and natural ecosystems.

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Our impact and reach

We maximise our impact by focusing on our beneficiaries, consistent geographies and key stakeholders.

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Our role

We back those who are closest to the problems we seek to solve.

Partner

Support partners using the full spectrum of funding solutions, from grants to impact investing, to create, accelerate and scale measurable impact.

Advocate

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

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

Generate, connect and leverage evidence to drive change, fuel advocacy, guide decisions and amplify our collective impact.

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Our stories of impact

Read the latest stories, research and interviews from across Minderoo Foundation and our partners.

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A refinery complex at sunset. Across a field with frost on it, the industrial complex can be seen, putting out large amounts of heavy vapour. The sunset is beautiful and dramatic colours of pink and orange.
Natural Ecosystems
5 ways lethal humidity is changing our world
A long shot of the tallship Leeuwin under sail on a calm blue ocean. The photo of the Leeuwin is in a circle and surrounded by black, as if illuminated by a spotlight. At the bottom right is the word ‘SPOTLIGHT’ lightly glowing as though it is a light source.
Impact Missions
Spotlight: Leeuwin Ocean Adventure Foundation.

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Latest media releases

27 Aug 2025

Every child – no matter their postcode – deserves the best start in life

A statement from Nicola Forrest AO.

27 Aug 2025

Australia’s spiraling cost of missing early warning signs in our children

A new report reveals the economic burden of failing to identify health and development issues in young Australians has surged almost 50 per cent to $22.3 billion annually.

23 Aug 2025

Statement on the IPC report confirming famine in Gaza

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) Famine Review Committee has officially confirmed that famine is occurring in Gaza Governorate and is projected to spread rapidly – the first time a famine has been declared in the Middle East.