🔎 New Zealand Charity Status Check

One charity_status_check verdict per queried charity — resolve a registration number (CCxxxxx), NZBN, or exact name against the official NZ Charities Register OData feed, keyless and logged-out.

Difference: A verification CHECK, not a dump. Get one definitive verdict each — FOUND (on the register) with registration number, name, NZBN, status, dates, entity structure and city as evidence; or NOT_FOUND / AMBIGUOUS / SERVICE_FAULT. Rides the same official feed as the nz-charities-register roster.

Output is one charity_status_check row per result; billing is pay-per-event, the value event being one charity status check (a $0.02 start fee per run, then $0.05 per charity status check). Source: www.odata.charities.govt.nz.

No login, no API key and no CAPTCHA solving are involved: the source is read logged-out with an identified contact User-Agent.

📊 Sample Output

Real rows from run O7oa8ChUZ16nagTlG on build 0.1.5 (2026-09-18), the same input as the Quick start below — every value is as the source published it (emails masked, long text shortened):

input	query	query_kind	verdict	name	nzbn
CC49286	CC49286	reg	FOUND	The Pacific Island Assembly Of God Papatoetoe Trust Board	9429043156245
The Pacific Island Assembly Of God Papatoetoe Trust Board	The Pacific Island Assembly Of God Papatoetoe Trust Board	name	FOUND	The Pacific Island Assembly Of God Papatoetoe Trust Board	9429043156245
CC00000000	CC00000000	reg	NOT_FOUND

The run finished with the status message: PARTIAL: 2 resolved (1 not-found, 0 ambiguous, 0 service-fault, 0 unparseable) of 3 | answers billable=2 | charity_status_check charged=2

✅ What you get

Each row is flat JSON with these fields (from the dataset schema and the sample run; a field the source does not publish for a given row is null):

• record_type (string) — e.g. charity_status_check
• input (string/null) — e.g. CC49286
• query (string/null) — e.g. CC49286
• query_kind (string/null) — e.g. reg
• source (string/null) — e.g. https://www.odata.charities.govt.nz/Organisations
• verdict (string/null) — e.g. FOUND
• charity_registration_number (string/null) — e.g. CC49286
• name (string/null) — e.g. The Pacific Island Assembly Of God Papatoetoe Trust Board
• nzbn (string/null) — e.g. 9429043156245
• registration_status (string/null) — e.g. Deregistered
• date_registered (string/null) — e.g. 2013-06-17T00:00:00Z
• deregistration_date (string/null) — e.g. 2017-06-15T00:00:00Z
• entity_structure (string/null) — null in every sample row
• street_address_city (string/null) — e.g. Auckland
• candidates (string/null) — null in every sample row
• unbilled_reason (string/null) — e.g. not_found: no charity matches on the register

✅ What you get

What you get

One verdict per query. Only a completed official answer — a FOUND resolution — is billed; NOT_FOUND, AMBIGUOUS and service-fault are emitted and never billed; a run that resolves nothing fails loud.

Privacy: organisation-level evidence only — email, phone, fax, officers and controlled-by-person are never read or emitted (same strip as the master; their terms warn against charity-email misuse).

⚙️ Sample inputs

1. Quick start — the Store example (this is what the sample above came from)

{
  "queries": [
    "CC49286",
    "The Pacific Island Assembly Of God Papatoetoe Trust Board",
    "CC00000000"
  ]
}

The sample run charged exactly: 1 × $0.02 apify-actor-start + 2 × $0.05 charity_status_check = $0.12 on the Free tier — every delivered row was billed.

This actor takes no size cap or filter beyond the input above, so the Store example is the one input to run; put it on a schedule to keep the data current.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run O7oa8ChUZ16nagTlG, exactly as it lands in the dataset (emails masked, long text shortened):

{
  "record_type": "charity_status_check",
  "input": "CC49286",
  "query": "CC49286",
  "query_kind": "reg",
  "source": "https://www.odata.charities.govt.nz/Organisations",
  "verdict": "FOUND",
  "charity_registration_number": "CC49286",
  "name": "The Pacific Island Assembly Of God Papatoetoe Trust Board",
  "nzbn": "9429043156245",
  "registration_status": "Deregistered",
  "date_registered": "2013-06-17T00:00:00Z",
  "deregistration_date": "2017-06-15T00:00:00Z",
  "entity_structure": null,
  "street_address_city": "Auckland",
  "candidates": null,
  "unbilled_reason": null
}

🔧 How it works

Source. The actor reads www.odata.charities.govt.nz — endpoints: https://www.odata.charities.govt.nz/Organisations. Public pages and feeds only; nothing behind a login.

Transport. Plain HTTPS from the Apify platform, no proxy. Every request carries an identified contact User-Agent.

Charging. Each charity status check is charged at the moment it is pushed (charity_status_check); a row that fails to charge is not delivered, so the dataset count always equals the charged count.

🔧 How it works

How it behaves

Each query runs one OData $filter resolution (by registration number, NZBN, or name); a name matching several charities is AMBIGUOUS (unbilled). Bounded per run.

Source

https://www.odata.charities.govt.nz/Organisations

Attribution

Source: Charities Services / Ngā Ratonga Kaupapa Atawhai, New Zealand — Charities Register (CC BY 3.0 NZ).

What is not done. No login, no cookie or CAPTCHA bypass, no private or personal-account data, no browser automation.

💰 Pricing example

Event	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02	$0.02
Charity status check (charity_status_check)	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

Worked at the live Free-tier price:

• 3 charity status checks: $0.02 start + 3 × $0.05 = $0.17
• 25 charity status checks: $0.02 start + 25 × $0.05 = $1.27
• 100 charity status checks: $0.02 start + 100 × $0.05 = $5.02

A run that delivers zero rows charges the $0.02 start fee only. A BLOCKED run (source refused) fails loud and charges no value event. The start fee is charged once per GB of run memory; the default run memory is 4096 MB.

Yield on the sample run: PARTIAL: 2 resolved (1 not-found, 0 ambiguous, 0 service-fault, 0 unparseable) of 3 | answers billable=2 | charity_status_check charged=2.

⚖️ Legal & ToS

This actor reads public, logged-out pages and feeds published by www.odata.charities.govt.nz. It collects only what the source publishes to any visitor, identifies itself with a contact User-Agent, and does not access accounts, private data or anything behind authentication. Use the output in line with the source's terms and your local law; the intended use is B2B research and monitoring.

❓ FAQ

Q: Do I need an API key or a login?
A: No. The source (www.odata.charities.govt.nz) is read logged-out; the input schema has no key field and the actor carries no secrets.

Q: Why did my run return 0 rows?
A: Read the run's status message. GENUINE_EMPTY means the source was read and had nothing in scope for your input; BLOCKED means the source refused and the run failed without billing a value event — retry later or narrow the input. A zero-row run bills the start fee only.

Q: How fresh is the data?
A: Every run reads the source live at run time; nothing is cached between runs. Put it on a schedule for a continuous feed.

Q: What formats can I export?
A: The dataset downloads as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS from the run's Dataset tab or the Apify API, and any run can push to a webhook or integration.

Q: How is this different from the other company registry checks actors?
A: Same output shape and billing model; this one covers www.odata.charities.govt.nz. The siblings under Related Actors cover the other sources or slices — run several on one schedule for a combined feed.

Q: Are there rate limits?
A: The actor paces itself against the source; there is no per-buyer limit beyond your Apify plan's concurrency.

🆘 Troubleshooting

• Run FAILED with BLOCKED → the source refused the request or changed its page shape → nothing was billed beyond the start fee; retry after a while, and if it persists open an Issue with the run id.
• Fewer rows than expected → the source had fewer items in scope → widen the input.
• Input validation error on start → a field is outside the schema's allowed values → start from the Quick start block and change one field at a time.
• Run TIMED-OUT → a very wide request on a slow day → raise the run timeout in Run options or narrow the input; what was delivered before the timeout is still in the dataset.

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