What We Fund

Designated Purposes

The conditions imposed by the Wills require the Fund to be divided into 14 parts and the income distributed each year as follows:

Fund 1: to "Public Benevolent Asylums or Institutions in the State of Victoria" – three fourteenths,

Fund 2: to "Public Hospitals in the State of Victoria"- two fourteenths,

Fund 3: to "the [Melbourne] Lord Mayor's Charitable Fund" now called "the Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation"- one fourteenth,

Fund 4: for "Public Educational Purposes in the Commonwealth of Australia" – two fourteenths,

Fund 5: for "Religious Purposes in the Commonwealth of Australia" - two fourteenths,

Fund 6: to "The [Melbourne] Lord Mayor's Charitable Fund " (now called "The Lord Mayor's Charitable Foundation") with power in the Trustees to designate any hospital or charity as the ultimate recipients" – one fourteenth; and

Fund 7: for "the Relief of Poverty in Australia, the Australian Red Cross, the Education of children of deceased or incapacitated Sailors, Soldiers or Airmen or for any other charitable purposes not [otherwise] provided for" in any of the previous categories. – three fourteenths.

The Trustees are precluded from making any grants outside these fields.

Lists of the organisations that have received support in recent years for each of these designated purposes are set out in "Publications – Recent Distributions"

You may read the whole of the relevant terms of each Will that set out the charitable purposes of the Fund in "Publications – Extracts from the Wills"

See "Current Funding Policies" for more information about each of the Funds.

N.B. Please note that the closing date for Distribution applications for 2013 and thereafter will be 30 June, not 30 September.