AAP’s specialist reporting desks allow our teams to go beyond breaking news, delivering dedicated, in-depth coverage of topics crucial to Australia’s national agenda.  

• Arts - Balnaves Foundation
• Future Economies - Boundless Earth; McKinnon Family Foundation
• Climate desk - Multiple donors including Groundswell; the Isaacson Davis Foundation
• Indigenous Affairs - Snow Foundation
• Regional and Rural Affairs - Jibb Foundation
• Gender Equality - Minderoo, with additional project support from the Trawalla Foundation
• Transparency and Democracy desk - Rob Keldoulis of Vivcourt

Google is a long-standing supporter of AAP. An August 2025 partnership allows its use of newswire content to enhance responses in the Gemini app. Google has also supported AAP cadetships, journalism training inititiatives, and fact-checking projects. 

Led by John B. Fairfax, the Jibb Foundation is committed to funding two cadetships per year until December 2027.

McKinnon contributed vital funds to AAP FactCheck's election-year activities in 2024/25.

As a recipient of a grant under the Regional Media Fund, AAP provided 12 months of fully-subsidised content to select regional NSW media outlets.  

Between April 2024 and June 2025, AAP's fact-checking and media literacy work was partly supported by an Australian Government Social Cohesion Measures Grant. 

AAP FactCheck is a third-party fact-checking partner to Meta, which has also supported media literacy education and journalism skills training initiatives.

In early 2025, the IFCN awarded AAP a 12-month Global Fact Check Fund grant supporting audience growth via social media video.