$1,517,179
DISTRIBUTED TO OUR COMMUNITIES IN 2025-2027
For more than three decades, the Whanganui Community Foundation has been quietly and consistently investing in the people, organisations and ideas that make this region thrive.
We began in 1988 as the Trust Bank Wanganui Community Trust — born out of the Government’s restructuring of Trustee Savings Banks. In the mid-1990s we sold our shares in the former Trust Bank, and the proceeds from those sales were carefully invested to generate an enduring source of community funding.
In 2000, we became the Whanganui Community Foundation. The name change was deliberate. “Community” sits at the heart of everything we do — because the wellbeing of this region is why we exist. “Foundation” speaks to who we are: a stable, enduring organisation that builds strong foundations for a thriving community, year after year.
That investment continues to grow and give. Every grant we make is a direct expression of our community’s generosity — returned to the people and places that need it most.
