Searching for funding

There are two ways to search for potential sources of funding for your projects:

Query Search: Answer the questions that are most relevant to your project. None of the questions are mandatory; don’t choose something if it doesn’t match your project.

Keyword Search: Enter the name of a grant, the name of an organisation or a keyword.

Note: Most sponsorships are for New Zealand citizens and organisations. Check sponsorship criteria before making enquiries or submitting an application.

What type of support do you want?

• Cause-related marketing is when you form a partnership with a funder for marketing an image, product or service.
• Payroll/employee giving is when a funder donates a proportion of staff salaries to your project.
• Staff involvement includes a funder providing volunteer labour and pro bono advice

What will you use the support for?

• Production costs are for concerts, stage productions, performances and exhibitions.
• Capital expenditure is funds spent on long-term assets such as buildings, fittings and equipment.
• Operating expenditure does not include salaries, which has its own categories.
• Conservation covers historic buildings and sites as well as collections.
• Acquisitions refer to acquisitions for collections at museums, galleries and archives, as well as public art.

What is your project’s category?

• General refers to funding that does not specify that the project needs to be an arts or cultural project.
• Arts general refers to funding for the arts but that does not specify an art form.
• Performing arts include theatre, opera and dance.
• Visual arts include painting, photography, sculpture, installation art and print making.
• Object art & craft includes pottery and ceramics, glass, jewellery, textiles, wood and metal.
• Other artforms include multimedia, digital, and conceptual, performance and graphic arts.
• Film includes TV programmes.
• Museums & galleries include historical and geneological societies.
• Heritage includes buildings and sites.
• Māori culture includes iwi (culture and heritage development), whare taonga and cultural centres.
• Sport funding is not included; go to SPARC’s funding directory.

Where is your project located?

Selecting a location will also give results for funding sources with national coverage. Go to our FAQ for a further breakdown of the locations.