SG60 Matching Grants

SG60 Matching Grants

SG Gives Matching Grant

The SG Gives matching grant, will match donations made to national social and community programmes through the Community Chest, President's Challenge, and the Collective for a Stronger Society, will be matched by the Government up to $250 million under the General and Enhanced Matching tiers from 1 January 2025 onwards:

• Every dollar donation made in 2025, will be matched with an equivalent dollar.

• To encourage sustained giving, donations of $250,000 or more per year with a minimum three-year commitment will receive $1.50 for every dollar.

More details can be found in Table 1 and 2 below.

Table 1: General and Enhanced Matching

Table 2: Examples

Donations to the following organisations are eligible for the SG Gives matching grant:

• Community Chest:

  • The Community Chest supports over 200 critical social service programmes that empower the lives of adults with disabilities, children with special needs and youth-at-risk, persons with mental health conditions, and families and seniors in need of support.

  • Find out how you can give to Community Chest today: Donate - Community Chest 公益金

  • Through the SG Gives matching grant, donations made through Community Chest’s SGSHARE programme are eligible for matching. 100% of your contributions will go towards empowering communities in need. For multi-year donations, please send your enquiries to ncss_comchest@ncss.gov.sg.

• President's Challenge:

  • President's Challenge is an annual campaign that aims to rally Singaporeans to build a more caring and cohesive society, and to help communities in need. Beyond meeting immediate needs, it also aims to achieve sustained social impact by uplifting the aspirations, abilities and potential of those who start with greater odds.

  • Take action today at www.presidentschallenge.gov.sg/take-action/donate.

• The Collective for a Stronger Society

  • The Collective for a Stronger Society, convened by the Community Foundation of Singapore (CFS) in partnership with the Community Chest, unites donors, non-profits, public and private platforms to uplift lower-income families through a series of cross-sector programmes. It aims to inspire financial and non-financial contributions, providing wraparound support to give these families a chance for a brighter future.

  • To support the Collective, donate to the Stronger Society Fund at https://go.gov.sg/strongersocietyfund or contact CFS at css@cf.org.sg.

Tote Board's Enhanced Fund-Raising (EFR) Programme

Enhanced Fund-Raising Programme for Charities

Since FY2006, Tote Board's Fund-Raising Programme has provided matching support for eligible fund-raising projects by Singapore-registered charities. In FY2020, Tote Board introduced the Enhanced Fund-Raising (EFR) Programme, which now benefits about 400 charities.

For FY2025, (1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026), eligible charities and fund-raising projects will continue to benefit from dollar-for-dollar matching support from the EFR Programme:

• 40% matching by Tote Board, capped at $100,000 per application (annual cap of five applications per charity applicant)

• 60% by Government, capped at $150,000 per charity applicant per Financial Year

For more information and application details, please visit the Enhanced Fund-Raising Programme webpage.

Cultural Matching Fund Top-Up

Established in 2014, the Cultural Matching Fund (CMF) is one of the several schemes introduced by the Government to support the arts and heritage sector. It serves to foster a broad-based climate of giving by encouraging private donations to Singapore's arts and heritage sector, and to strengthen the sustainability of arts and heritage charities by incentivising them to diversify their income streams via fundraising. Arts and heritage charities and Institutions of Public Character are eligible to apply for CMF.

Since its setup, over $400 million in CMF matching grants have been disbursed to arts and heritage charities.

At Budget 2025 and as part of SG60, MOF announced that the CMF would be topped up by $100 million and extended to FY2029. This will continue to encourage giving to the arts and heritage sector.

For more details on CMF, please refer to www.mccy.gov.sg/sector/policies/cultural-matching-fund. Queries can be submitted to the CMF Secretariat at cmf@nac.gov.sg.