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Survey: Government Funding of Not-For-Profits

Department of Internal Affairs,

This survey looked at central government’s funding of non-profit organisations (NPOs).

It highlights that in 2005/06:

• the largest amounts of departmental payments were made to NPOs in the social services, education and health activity sectors;
• contract payments for services dominate over grant funding;
• there are difficulties tracking payment and funding arrangements through more than one agency to NPOs;
• information about payments made by Crown entities to NPOs was limited; and
• some government payments to NPOs occur indirectly through a second tier of agencies such as Crown entities and local authorities

There are two distinct streams of funding:

• payments of $1.25 billion to NPOs from Departments; and
• payments of at least $141 million to NPOs from Crown entities

The survey report is at
www.dia.govt.nz/diawebsite.nsf/wpg_URL/Resource-material-Our-Research-and-Reports-A-Survey-of-Government-Funding-of-Non-profit-Organisations?OpenDocument

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