Funders offering COVID-19 response and special funds
Creative New Zealand
CNZ’s Emergency Response Package provides an income top-up as well as opportunities for new and refocused creative projects.
Creative New Zealand response to COVID-19
Office of Ethnic Communities
The priorities of the Ethnic Communities Development Fund have been suspended with new, realigned priorities to support ethnic communities while they navigate the impacts of COVID-19, for projects or activities that provide alternative means of staying socially connected, employment initiatives, and community resilience and recovery.
Ethnic Communities Development Fund
Ministry of Social Development
Community Awareness and Preparedness Grant fund is available to community groups providing essential community-led solutions that support local resilience and community wellbeing during COVID-19 restrictions, grants of up to $5,000.
COVID-19 Community Awareness and Preparedness Grant Fund
Philanthropy New Zealand
Philanthropy New Zealand are providing regular updates and news on funding and philanthropy.
Philanthropy New Zealand
Sport New Zealand
The Government has committed $265m in investment to assist the sector in its short-, medium- and long-term recovery.
Sport New Zealand COVID-19 response
General funding
Community Organisation Grants Scheme
The Community Organisation Grants Scheme (COGS) provides grants to non-profit organisations delivering community-based social services that contribute to achieving locally-determined outcomes.
Community Organisation Grants Scheme
Lottery Community
These grants are available for not-for-profit organisations with a community or social service focus for ongoing operating costs or projects which help improve the quality of people’s lives in their communities.
Lottery Community
Wellington Community Fund
Wellington Community Fund is an independent funder - giving out over $2 million dollars in grants, every year, in the Wellington region. Its vision is: Funding for communities to thrive, across the Wellington region.
Wellington Community Fund
Nikau Foundation
The Nikau Foundation is the local community foundation for Wellington region. It attracts gifts, handover trusts, legacies and community organisation endowments and invests them. The income from these investments is distributed to charitable organisations in accordance with the donor’s wishes.
Nikau Foundation
Gaming trusts
Gaming trusts are an important source of funding for community groups. They are monitored by the Department of Internal Affairs. Gaming trusts in different areas have their own funding criteria.
Gaming Trusts
Transpower CommunityCare Fund
Transpower CommunityCare Fund assists those communities affected by Transpower assets and projects by investing in community-based projects that add real value and benefit to the community as a whole.
Transpower CommunityCare Fund
Hutt Mana Charitable Trust
Provides funding for schools, community groups, and individuals in the Hutt Valley, Porirua City, and Wellington North that are working to build strong communities.
Hutt Mana Charitable Trust
givUS and givME
The Generosity New Zealand website has a database listing a wide range of potential funders. There are two main sections to the Generosity New Zealand Service - givUS is for community groups seeking funding and givME is for individuals seeking funding for study and professional development. You can access givUS and givME online with your Wellington City Libraries card.
givUS
givME
PledgeMe
New Zealand's crowdfunding platform to create, collaborate, and support the funding of creative projects.
PledgeMe
Arts funding
Boosted
The Boosted team can help you raise funds for any arts production, performance, infrastructure,orresearch/education project that benefits New Zealand in some way.
Boosted
Creative New Zealand
CNZ have a range of arts funding programmes.
Creative New Zealand
The Ministry for Culture and Heritage
The MCH website offer grants which focus specifically on arts funding.
Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Sport funding
Sport New Zealand
Sport NZ provides investments to boost access to opportunities for specific groups, and to organisations where they don’t already have a partnership investment model in place. Sport New Zealand also have a sport funding directory that provides information on a wide array of sport funding available throughout New Zealand. This directory can be filtered by location.
Sport New Zealand funding
Sport New Zealand directory
Conservation and Environmental Funding
Department of Conservation Directory
DOC maintains an extensive list of conservation and environmental funding sources. This funding directory is organised by project type (freshwater, planting, research etc.).
Department of Conservation directory
Wellington Zoo Conservation Fund Local Grants Programmes
These grants will provide funding for projects or programmes with clear community conservation value for native wildlife and wild places.
Wellington Zoo Conservation Fund Local Grants Programmes
West Wind Community Fund
Provides grants for projects in Makara, South Makara, Makara Beach and Takarau Gorge that support sustainable community development.
West Wind Community Fund
Greater Wellington Regional Council Community Environment Fund
The Community Environment Fund supports groups working to restore and protect native ecosystems on public land around Te Awarua-o-Porirua whaitua. The fund is administered by Greater Wellington and Te Rūnanga o Toa Rangatira. Community projects from Churton Park to Pukerua Bay are eligible to apply.
Greater Wellington Regional Council Community Environmental Fund