The Department of Internal Affairs administers these funds on behalf of the Crown.
The level of funding available in each fund is determined annually by the Crown as an appropriation.
Funding decisions for this funding are made based on the recommendations or decisions of independent panels, steering groups or committees.
Outcomes / Ngā Hua
The Crown aims to maximise the community benefits of Crown grants by focusing their decision-making on outcomes.
Outcomes are all the changes, benefits, learning and effects that happen, or start to happen, as a result of activities, projects or services in communities.
The Crown's key funding objectives and funding request criteria are designed to ensure that Crown grants achieve the specific purposes and objectives the Crown funded schemes were established to acheive.
Priorities / Ngā kaupapa matua
Crown grant requests must align with the priorities of the Crown funds. These funds are:
Relevant eligibility for Crown funds
- Requestors must follow legal and financial compliance measures
- Have employment policies and practices (if applicable)
- Have a conflict of interest policy for governance, management and staff
- Requestors must have in place governance, management structures, and financial results requirements, relative to the size and complexity of the project
- Requestors must have the capability to successfully complete the project for which funding is sought and achieve the outcomes within the agreed funding or partnership period
- Requestor must be GST registered (if applicable)
- Requestor organisations must have the following set of financial control systems in place:
- a person responsible for keeping the financial records of the organisation and two signatories to all bank accounts
- a regularly maintained and current cashbook or electronic equivalent, with the grant and expenditure of grant fully recorded
- production of annual accounts, which show the grant as a separate entry
- regularly maintained tax records and P.A.Y.E record (if applicable)
- regular financial reporting to every full meeting of the governing body
- Requestor organisations must be able to provide their latest end of year financial accounts, at the time of submitting a request. The financial accounts must be in line with the new financial reporting standards and in line with their constitution.The organisation must also provide:
- a declaration attesting to the accuracy of the financial update, signed by two people with the authority to sign on behalf of the organisation
- Requestors must have legal entity status if applying for over $10,000.
What we don't fund / Ngā kaupapa kāore e tautokona ā-pūtea
Crown funds will not fund some types of activities or requests.
In general, the Crown funds we administer do not fund:
- ongoing running costs for programmes or services, with the exception of COGS and DEUNIF
- individuals
- the inappropriate duplication of existing projects, programmes or services
- retreospective funding for projects, or parts of projects, that have been completed
- reimbursement for past transactions and completed work
- debt repayment or debt servicing
- applications for projects, programmes or services specifically intended to make a profit. This does not include generating income to be sustainable, but profit or surplus income must be reinvested to ensure this.
Any anticipated profit or surplus must be accounted for in the budget and shown as contributing to future needs - applications with a party-political purpose
- applications from fundraisers, including commercial or professional fundraisers whose purpose is to distribute money to others
- applications where there is evidence of a conflict of interest relating to the application and, in the opinion of the funding decision makers, it has not been disclosed or managed satisfactorily.