· Private foundation
The Aotearoa Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GIFT TRUST | $1,694,466 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND | $465,646 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND | $59,196 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND | $46,259 |
| THE GIFT TRUST | $33,862 |
| THE GIFT TRUST | $6,020 |
| THE GIFT TRUST | $4,732 |
Where the grant dollars land
Across the US and around the world.
US giving: 1% of grant dollars ($129k). The 99% that went abroad ($10.0M) is mapped below.
Beyond the US: 99% of all-years giving ($10.0M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND5× · 2020–2024 · $3.8M
- TSTHE SPRINGBOARD TRUST5× · 2019–2023 · $1.3M
- TFTEACH FIRST NEW ZEALAND TRUST4× · 2019–2023 · $1.1M
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $257k
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY NEW ZEALANDone grant, 2020 · $129k
- MEMOTU ECONOMIC & PUBLIC POLICY RSRCH TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $103k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2019–2024.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2019 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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