Find grants and funding for your NZ charity or not-for-profit in minutes. This agent searches COGS, community trusts and regional funders by your region and cause.

If you've ever tried to fund a charity or community project in New Zealand, you already know where the real time goes. Writing the application is the easy part. The grind is finding the right grants to apply for in the first place, because the money is out there but it's scattered across hundreds of funders, buried in PDFs, trust websites and council pages that all word things differently and open and close on their own schedules.

New Zealand's funding landscape runs deep. There's the Community Organisation Grants Scheme (COGS) and the Lottery Grants Board through Community Matters, gaming trusts like NZCT, The Lion Foundation and Pub Charity, regional community trusts such as Foundation North, Rātā Foundation and Trust Waikato, and a long tail of philanthropic and charitable trusts that most organisations never even hear about. Each one has its own focus, its own eligibility rules and its own idea of what counts as a worthy cause. Keeping track of it all by hand is a job in itself, and it's usually why good projects miss out on funding they were perfectly eligible for.

This agent takes that work off your plate. Tell it where you're based and what you're fundraising for, and it searches across the New Zealand grant and funding landscape to find the opportunities that actually fit your organisation. You get back a focused shortlist of grants and funds worth pursuing, drawn from the schemes, trusts and funders relevant to your region and your cause, rather than a generic list you have to wade through yourself.

Working on something with national reach? Ask it to search nationally and it widens the net beyond your local funders. Running a tight regional campaign? Keep it focused on your area and it surfaces the community trusts and regional funders closest to home. Come back and run it again whenever a new project comes up or a funding round reopens, so you're never starting the hunt from scratch.

It's built for the people doing the mahi inside New Zealand charities, not-for-profits and community organisations: the fundraisers, coordinators and volunteers who are stretched thin and can't afford to lose days chasing leads. Put that time where it counts, into building the case and writing applications that win, and let the agent handle the searching.