Four Winds Foundation Community Grants
Four Winds Foundation
Applications
What it supports
Monthly Class 4 gaming-proceeds grants for eligible non-profit organisations and community-benefit activities in communities served by Four Winds Foundation gaming venues.
Funding
No published programme-wide minimum or maximum grant amount. Funding is entirely at Four Winds Foundation’s discretion. Grant size may depend on the authorised purpose, venue-linked distribution area, available proceeds, committee decision, cost evidence and applicant circumstances. Salaries, contractor fees and similar operating costs are generally funded for up to three months per application.
Timing
Opening date not published.
Closes 25 Aug 2026.
- August 2026 monthly application cycle — closes 25 Aug 2026 (Official schedule states this cycle is for funding required October–December. Applications are generally considered by the Grants Committee the following month.)
Who can apply
Non-profit incorporated societies, Non-profit bodies with other legal status, Non-profit sporting clubs and teams, Cultural organisations and groups, Philanthropic, health and welfare organisations, Educational organisations, Community-purpose organisations
- • Open to: Non-profit incorporated societies
- • Open to: Non-profit bodies with other legal status
- • Open to: Non-profit sporting clubs and teams
- • Open to: Cultural organisations and groups
- • Open to: Philanthropic, health and welfare organisations
- • Open to: Educational organisations
- • Open to: Community-purpose organisations
- • The applicant must be a non-profit body incorporated as a society or have other legal status. Charity registration is preferable rather than mandatory.
- • Applicants must have operated for at least 12 months.
- • Funding must provide benefit to a significant portion of the community in a non-commercial manner.
- • Four Winds funds communities associated with its current gaming venues. Project and community benefit should relate to a venue-served community, and the current official venue directory must be checked.
- • The regions field is coarse discovery metadata only, not definitive eligibility. No distance radius, territorial-authority rule, nearest-venue formula or proceeds-allocation formula is published.
Geography
Availability depends on the funder’s current venue-served communities; check the official source.
Areas noted by the funder: Current Four Winds gaming venue-served communities, Auckland, Christchurch, Tauranga, Matamata-Piako, Hamilton, Napier, Northland, Rotorua, Selwyn District, Wellington, Lower Hutt, New Plymouth, Kawerau, Whangārei