CharityData NZ

Simple, transparent pricing

Free for anyone researching a single charity. Contact sales about CharityData Pro for due diligence workflows, watchlists, and API access used by community foundations and philanthropic advisers.

Free

For donors, journalists, and researchers looking up individual charities.

Free— no account required
  • Browse 44,000+ registered NZ charities
  • Independent rating grade (A+ to F) per charity
  • Key financials, governance, and red flag summary
  • Curated "Top Rated" list pages by sector
  • Basic charity search + filters
  • Community Q&A (Google-sourced frequently asked questions)
  • Data sourced directly from Charities Services register
  • Claim your charity profile (for charities — see Charity Portal)
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Pro

For community foundations, philanthropic advisers, governance consultants, and board-recruitment firms with recurring charity due-diligence workflows.

Contact sales— pricing on enquiry
  • Due Diligence Reports — one consolidated view per charity (audit history, going concern, related-party, conflicts, 5yr trend, red flags)
  • Watchlists + alerts (email notifications when audit opinion / officer / red-flag / financials change)
  • Full charity screener (60+ metrics, saved views, CSV export)
  • Bulk data export (XLSX)
  • Cross-platform intelligence — trustee ↔ NZX director ↔ MP ↔ iwi linkages
  • Funder Intelligence + Agency↔Charity funding graph
  • REST API access (higher rate limits + authenticated endpoints)
  • Priority support
Contact sales

For charities — claiming is free, always

Your charity can claim its profile at no cost — we auto-fill from your existing Charities Services register data (financials, officers, executives, service providers). Add your programs, impact metrics, and a donation link to complete the profile. No subscription required. Claim your profile →

What Pro adds beyond the free site

Due Diligence Reports

One consolidated view per charity: audit history, going concern, related-party transactions, cross-platform officer conflicts, 5-year financial trend, red flags, methodology.

Watchlists + alerts

Add charities you fund or monitor to a watchlist. Email alerts when audit opinion changes, officer resigns, red flag added, or new financials file.

Charity screener + API

Screen 44K charities across 60+ metrics. Save views, export CSV/XLSX. REST API with higher rate limits for integration into your own tools.

Cross-platform intelligence

Charity ↔ NZX director ↔ MP ↔ iwi linkages. Funder Intelligence, agency↔charity funding graph, trustee pipeline.

Who buys CharityData Pro?

Organisations with recurring charity due-diligence workflows. The free site is sufficient for one-off lookups; Pro is for teams doing this regularly.

  • Community foundations and philanthropic trusts evaluating grant recipients
  • Philanthropic advisers at wealth management and private-client practices
  • Governance consultants running board reviews
  • Board recruitment firms sourcing trustees from the 242K-officer pool
  • Journalists and researchers doing bulk analysis or API-driven work

Free Pro access for researchers, journalists, regulators and philanthropy

We waive the Pro subscription fee for the cohort below — the people for whom this data is load-bearing public-interest work. Verified researchers receive the same higher-detail access that paid Pro subscribers see; the criteria define who doesn’t have to pay, not who is allowed to view the data. The publicly-visible tiers (Tier 1/2 charity comp, all NZX-listed director and executive comp, source-register data) remain accessible to anyone, with or without an account.

  • Academic researchers
    Faculty, postgraduate researchers and graduate students at any New Zealand university (Auckland, AUT, Waikato, Massey, Victoria, Canterbury, Lincoln, Otago) or recognised overseas institution; ANU, Melbourne, Sydney, UNSW, Monash, Queensland, ANU and equivalent for cross-Tasman work. Verified via institutional email domain.
  • Journalists at FMA-recognised media outlets
    Working journalists at NZ-domiciled news organisations: NZ Herald, Stuff, RNZ, TVNZ, Newsroom, BusinessDesk, NBR, Interest.co.nz, The Spinoff, Te Ao Māori News, Pacific Media Network, plus regional dailies and recognised independent outlets. Australian Financial Review and Reuters / Bloomberg / Dow Jones for cross-Tasman business coverage. Citation requires "Source: [platform]" attribution.
  • Registered philanthropic advisers and foundation staff
    Programme officers and grants managers at New Zealand community trusts, gaming-machine societies, statutory funders, family foundations, and philanthropic advisory practices. Verified via organisation email domain or charity registration number.
  • Regulators, public-sector and Crown agency staff
    Charities Services / DIA, FMA, Reserve Bank, Commerce Commission, Companies Office, Te Puni Kōkiri, Te Arawhiti, Office of the Auditor-General, IRD, MBIE, Office of the Privacy Commissioner, Crown entities and statutory bodies. Verified via .govt.nz email domain.
  • Named research institutes and think tanks
    BERL, NZIER, Motu, NZ Initiative, Helen Clark Foundation, Maxim Institute, McGuinness Institute, Sustainable Business Network, Centre for Social Impact, Auckland Co-design Lab, plus Australian-domiciled equivalents for trans-Tasman research.

How to apply: email hello@charitydata.co.nz from your institutional / organisational email address with one or two sentences on what you’re researching. We turn approvals around within 2 business days. Approval is for a 12-month renewable window.

Categories can change as the public-interest landscape evolves; the canonical, current list is on this page. If your work clearly serves a public-interest purpose but doesn’t fit a category above, write anyway — we are deliberately not exhaustive.

Approved researcher access: 2-business-day turnaround · renewable annually

Interested in CharityData Pro?

We'll share a sample due diligence report generated from a charity in your portfolio. No obligation, no data sharing required.

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Data sourced from Charities Services register and annual returns. Our datasets may not be complete. Automated analysis can produce errors. If you believe any data on this page is incorrect, please contact us at hello@charitydata.co.nz. For informational purposes only. Not investment advice.