# New Zealand Charities Register with Financials (`tapedawn/nz-charities-register`) Actor

Every registered New Zealand charity from the official Charities Register, with the latest annual return: income by source, expenditure, assets, staff, and volunteers. Filter by sector, activity, beneficiaries, city, or income.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/tapedawn/nz-charities-register.md
- **Developed by:** [Ed Tan](https://apify.com/tapedawn) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 charity records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## New Zealand Charities Register with Financials

Export every registered New Zealand charity, about 27,000 organizations, from the official **Charities Register** run by Charities Services, with each charity's **latest annual return**: income by source, expenditure, assets, liabilities, staff, and volunteers. Built for fundraising and grant prospect research, nonprofit software and services sales, sector analysts, and AI agents that need reliable facts about New Zealand charities.

### What you get

For every charity: registration number, name and other names, registration status and dates, NZBN and Companies Office number, group membership, website, email, phone, street and postal address, main sector, activity and beneficiary, all sectors, activities, beneficiaries, areas of operation and sources of funds, the charitable purpose, and a link to the register page. From the latest annual return:

- **Income**: total gross income, donations and koha, bequests, government grants and contracts, other grants and sponsorship, membership fees, service and trading income, and investment income.
- **Spending**: total expenditure, salaries and wages, cost of service provision, grants paid inside and outside New Zealand, and fundraising expenses.
- **Balance sheet**: total assets, cash, investments, liabilities, and equity.
- **People**: full-time and part-time employees, volunteers per week, and volunteer hours per week.

```json
{
  "name": "North Waikato Care Of The Aged Trust Board",
  "status": "Registered",
  "main_sector": "Health",
  "street_address": {"city": "Huntly"},
  "website": "https://www.kimihia.co.nz",
  "latest_return": {
    "year_ended": "2025-03-31",
    "financials": {"total_gross_income": 6700350, "...": "..."},
    "people": {"full_time_employees": 59}
  }
}
```

### Filters

- **Registration status**: registered (default), deregistered, or all.
- **Registration numbers** and **Name contains**.
- **Sectors**, **Activities**, **Beneficiaries**, **Cities**.
- **Minimum / maximum total gross income** and **Minimum full-time employees**.
- **Latest return from year**: some charities now report only as part of a group, so their own latest return can be years old. Set this, for example to 2024, to keep only charities with recent figures.

### Pricing

Pay per event: one `charity` event per record saved. Reading the register costs you nothing. Set a maximum total charge and the Actor stops cleanly when it is reached. A full export takes a few minutes.

### Data, licence, and privacy

Data comes from the Charities Services open data service and is licensed under **Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand**. Credit "Charities Services, Department of Internal Affairs" when you republish it. Each run reads the live register.

The Actor only requests organization-level fields. It never requests officers, the certifying officer, or auditor names.

# Actor input Schema

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Stop after this many charities have been saved.

## `status` (type: `string`):

Registered charities only (default), deregistered only, or all.

## `registrationNumbers` (type: `array`):

Look up specific charities, for example CC21316.

## `nameContains` (type: `string`):

Keep charities whose name or other names contain this text.

## `sectors` (type: `array`):

Keep charities whose main or other sectors include any of these, for example Health, Education / training / research, Sport / recreation.

## `activities` (type: `array`):

Keep charities with any of these activities, for example 'Makes grants to organisations (including schools or other charities)'.

## `beneficiaries` (type: `array`):

Keep charities serving any of these groups, for example Children / young people, Older people, General public.

## `cities` (type: `array`):

Keep charities whose street or postal address is in these cities, for example Auckland or Christchurch.

## `minIncome` (type: `integer`):

Keep charities whose latest annual return shows at least this income.

## `maxIncome` (type: `integer`):

Keep charities whose latest annual return shows at most this income.

## `minFullTimeEmployees` (type: `integer`):

Keep charities with at least this many full-time employees in the latest return.

## `latestReturnYearFrom` (type: `integer`):

Keep charities whose latest annual return ended in this year or later, for example 2024, to skip charities that now report only as part of a group or stopped filing.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 1000,
  "status": "Registered",
  "sectors": []
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "sectors": []
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("tapedawn/nz-charities-register").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "sectors": [] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("tapedawn/nz-charities-register").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "sectors": []
}' |
apify call tapedawn/nz-charities-register --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,tapedawn/nz-charities-register"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/OFaL7qb2Oz5iiMSa4/builds/8JVE5EoAyjrHS4oce/openapi.json