There are a number of organisations who provide funding for projects in our region.
Please note this list is not exhaustive, but if your organisation provides funding and would like to be included here please contact our team.
Acorn Foundation
The Acorn Foundation enables generous people to make a bigger impact by investing their donations and distributing the returns to causes close to their hearts, year after year. In 2025, Acorn distributed more than $5.1 million to 259 charities across the Western Bay of Plenty, including $844,746 in scholarships and awards. To learn how to apply for Acorn Foundation funding, visit their website.
ANZ New Zealand Staff Foundation
The Foundation provides grants that help New Zealanders improve their financial wellbeing, gain education and employment opportunities, achieve greater social and economic independence, strengthen community resilience, and protect New Zealand's natural and historic environment. The Foundation particularly supports practical, community-based initiatives that create positive and lasting outcomes for individuals, whānau, and communities
Ara Taiohi (Youth Week Grants)
Youth Week is about recognising the amazing contributions and achievements of young people in New Zealand. The week inspires Ara Taiohi to value, support, and affirm the diversity of young people in our society. Ultimately Ara Taiohi want Aotearoa/ New Zealand to be a country where young people are vibrant and optimistic through being supported and encouraged to take up challenges. The Youth Week Grants support activities held during the annual Youth Week and Ara Taiohi can only offer grants when they receive funding from the government.
BayTrust
BayTrust will consider grants for organisations and projects which help to accelerate bold meaningful change, assisting BOP communities and the environment to flourish. These initiatives and entities should align with BayTrust's Strategic Outcome areas, encompassing one or more of the following:
Katiakitanga - Empowering community-led environmental initiatives.
Community Well-being - Supporting initiatives that foster equitable, vibrant, fun and secure communities.
Healthy, Secure and Affordable Housing - Promoting community-based solutions to address substandard housing and mitigate the challenges posed by the lack of affordable housing.
Tū Māori Mai - Supporting Māori communities in the Bay of Plenty to achieve their aspirations and enable their whanau and the broader community to forge a prosperous future for themselves, the natural world (Te Taiao) and the Māori world (Te Ao Māori).
Bobby Foundation
The Bobby Foundation is about backing Kiwi sporting legends and helping them succeed. 100% of funding goes exclusively to NZ Racing & grassroots sports, providing the financial support and resources to create a thriving culture that benefits everyone in New Zealand.
Bay of Plenty Regional Council
The Bay of Plenty Regional Council (Toi Moana) offers a range of funding opportunities that support environmental protection, climate resilience, community safety, education, and Māori development across the region. Grants are available for community groups, iwi, schools, environmental projects, and organisations delivering public benefit initiatives, with a strong focus on sustainability, biodiversity, kaitiakitanga, and community wellbeing
Canon Oceania Grants - Inspiring Tomorrow
Canon Oceania Grants provides funding and Canon technology to support community, education, environmental, and cultural initiatives that create positive change across New Zealand and Australia. The programme assists schools, charities, and community organisations to amplify their impact, tell their stories, and deliver projects that strengthen communities, support learning, and protect the environment. .
Creative New Zealand
Creative NZ Fund across a range of different activities within the arts. These are activities that will deliver results that will achieve the long term goals of Creative New Zealand.
Creative Communities Arts Funding Scheme - this scheme is for Arts based initiatives and programmes.
Department of Internal Affairs
Funding opportunities are accessible for individuals, organisations, communities, hapū, and iwi, managed by Te Tari Taiwhenua, the Department of Internal Affairs' Hāpai Hapori (Community Operations) branch.
Our services aim to support robust, sustainable communities, hapū, and iwi within Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Four Winds Foundation
Funds are available for any charitable, philanthropic, cultural or sporting purpose that provides a benefit to the local community.
Frozen Funds Charitable Trust
The purpose of the Frozen Funds Charitable Trust is to provide grants for projects run by, and for, people who use mental health or intellectual disability services.
Grassroots Trust
Grassroots Trust is dedicated to providing local funding to local communities.
We share your passion and enthusiasm for amateur sport, education and various charitable community initiatives and we're here to help.
Great care is taken to ensure funds granted are well used and for the authorised purpose, and many local communities have already benefited from a Grassroots Trust grant. Grassroots Trust operates in accordance with the Gambling Act 2003 and is regulated by The Department of Internal Affairs.
Harcourts Foundation
The Harcourts Foundation - the charitable arm of Harcourts continues to support communities. Since its launch in 2008, the Harcourts Foundation has raised in excess of $10m. Community groups and crisis funds have benefitted from the Harcourts network's generosity.
iSport Foundation
The iSport Foundation has three initiatives that address well-being and reduce barriers to sport and physical activity. Their SPORTME TOO initiative supports young individuals who are experiencing extreme financial hardship and have not had the opportunity to be involved in a season of sport due to the cost of participation.
JR McKenzie Trust
J R McKenzie Trust's overall priority is "advancing equity" - addressing underlying causes of inequity and exclusion. The trust funds organisations in Aotearoa New Zealand with a focus on their key communities of interest, which are Children, Young People and Whānau, Māori, Pacific Peoples and Communities that experience exclusion.
Legacy Trust
Legacy Trust is the owner of Legacy Funerals Tauranga and other funeral business interests. The Trust is responsible for the management of the business operations and the annual distribution of all profits from the business for the good of the local community.
Lindsay Foundation
The Lindsay Foundation’s mission is to support Kiwi individuals and organisations who aspire to make a positive difference in New Zealand, with a focus on the areas of animal welfare, children, disabilities and health.
The Lion Foundation
The Lion Foundation’s purpose is to help good causes all around New Zealand. As a Charitable Trust, they grant millions of dollars every year to a huge range of clubs, charities and community groups from large to small, in areas as diverse as health, education, sports, arts and culture.
Lottery Community Grants Board
Lottery Community 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 Facilities provides grants to improve or build new community facilities, or for feasibility studies to work out if plans to improve or build community facilities can be achieved and will benefit the community.
Mazda Foundation Trust
Grants are targeted to the natural environment, arts and culture, education, employment skills. There are two closing dates for funding rounds every year: 31st March and 30th September.
Ministry for Ethnic Communities
The Ethnic Communities Development Fund has $4.2 million a year available for projects that support ethnic communities to grow their skills, celebrate their culture, and take part in society.
Ministry for Pacific Peoples
The Ministry for Pacific Peoples is the Crown's principal advisor on policies and interventions aimed at improving outcomes for Pacific peoples in Aotearoa. By using our extensive networks with Pacific communities across the country, as well as our knowledge and understanding of Pacific people, cultures, and values, we influence public policy, programme and service decisions affecting Pacific Aotearoa. There is a range of funding available for Pacific communities, youth, and established providers.
Ministry of Youth Development
The Ministry of Youth Development (MYD) – Te Manatū Whakahiato Taiohi – spends around $12.062 million per year on a wide range of youth development and youth enterprise initiatives. They fund organisations that employ a youth development approach which supports the wellbeing of young people (aged 12 to 24 years) in Aotearoa New Zealand.
New Horizons for Women Trust
The New Horizons for Women Trust: Hine Kahukura supports education, innovation and research that benefits women. We do this through an annual grants award programme for women in Aotearoa New Zealand.
New Zealand Community Trust (NZCT)
Kiwi’s love their sport, the NZCT loves to help them enjoy & participate in their sporting passions, NZCT is excited about the difference it makes to sporting organizations across the country, whether it’s a school group or adult team, a national sports body or elite competitor, the NZCT helps New Zealander’s of all ages & abilities to take part in sport. 80% amateur sport funded.
Perpetual Guardian
On behalf of its clients, Perpetual Guardian distribute over $40 million to charitable purposes every year – mainly in New Zealand. As a highly respected Trustee company with origins going back 135 years and charitable entities that are over 100 years old, philanthropy has always played a key part in the company’s business model. Perpetual Guardian manages almost 600 charitable entities, which, together with Givealittle, has become the largest portfolio of charitable entities and giving in New Zealand.
Pub Charity
Pub Charity's focus is on supporting communities all over NZ. They make a huge difference to a wide range of local causes each year by returning millions of dollars in gaming machine proceeds to NZ communities.
Rotary Club of Tauranga
The Rotary Club of Tauranga continues its strong tradition of community service.
Southern Stars Charitable Trust
Southern Stars is a Charitable Trust that is dedicated to providing a better life for special needs and disadvantaged children in New Zealand.
Sport New Zealand
Sport New Zealand is a kaitiaki (guardian) of the play, active recreation and sport system in Aotearoa New Zealand.
It promotes and supports quality experiences in play, active recreation and sport to improve levels of physical activity and, through this, ensure the greatest impact on wellbeing for all New Zealanders.
Tauranga City Council
Tauranga City Council provides a range of grants and funding opportunities that support strong, connected and resilient communities, vibrant arts and culture, environmental sustainability, housing and community-led initiatives. Funding programmes include the Community Grant Fund, Community Development Match Fund, Creative Communities Scheme, Resource Wise Community Fund, Climate Action Fund, Public Art Fund, community housing and papakāinga support. Event funding is available for a range of performing arts, sporting, cultural and community events.
Community funding supports projects, programmes and activities that deliver positive outcomes for Tauranga residents, while event funding helps create a diverse and vibrant programme of events that enrich community life and contribute to the city's social and economic wellbeing. Visit the Tauranga City Council Grants and Funding webpage for more information.
Tindall Foundation
The Tindall Foundation is a philanthropic family trust established in 1995 by Stephen and Margaret Tindall that seeks opportunities to support innovative, forward-thinking initiatives that make a positive difference for Aotearoa New Zealand, in areas of Whānau/Family, Community and Environment.
We Care Community Trust
We Care gives priority to grant applicants based in the cities where its gaming venues are located. They make grants for education, community cultural and arts festival, public amenities, sports facilities, amateur sports, and other charitable and non-charitable purposes beneficial to the community.
Western Bay of Plenty (WBOP) District Council
The main aim of the fund is to offer support to organisations and individuals with an activity or project that fits with Council’s long term plan and that benefits the residents and ratepayers of the Western Bay of Plenty District Council. Priority will be given to specific community based projects and community groups or individuals who are planning such projects. TECT, in partnership with the Western Bay of Plenty District Council, contributed funding to the Katikati Action Centre and TECT Park.
Wilson Home Trust
The trust provides a range of support for children with physical disabilities. They also actively collaborate with a range of health, education and community organisations that provide services for children with disabilities.
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