Government Funding Analysis

What's included — and why our total may exceed narrower pulls. This figure counts every entity on the Charities Services register that received government_grants in their annual return — including Crown-funded tertiary education institutions (the University of Auckland and University of Otago alone account for ~$900M, ~10% of the headline figure), Crown-controlled health and research entities (e.g. Health Research Council), and iwi service trusts delivering Crown-contracted services. Also includes Charities Services Group consolidations— ~100 parent-with-subsidiaries filings per year (St John, IHC, National Hauora Coalition, Wise Group, Emerge Aotearoa, et al.) — that replace, rather than supplement, the subsidiaries' solo returns per Charities Services rules, so no double-count. Analysts using the Charities Services advanced search with a narrower definition (excluding TEIs, Crown entities, or fee-for-service revenue) typically arrive at $4–7B for a single FY. Both are correct — they answer different questions. Use the FY filter above to pin a single calendar year for direct reconciliation against a narrower pull.