But if not, then lets have a look now. All this information can be found at Granted.govt.nz.
Below is a shot of the dashboard on the first page.
I was also pleasantly surprised to see Netball feature so highly. This year that code got $9.6m: of course that’s amateur hour compared to rugby’s $27m.
So who received all this lovely money? Below is a table looking at the organisations that received over $1m in the 2024 calendar year, along with the percentage of the total that they received from the top giving grantmaker. Some you will know, some you’ll have to google, and some I have complained about several years ago. So clearly nothing to see here.
You may be surprised that there are 33 grantmakers in this sector. Below is a wee chart looking at who they are, how much they have given away in the calendar years, and how many machines they have as at 31 December. The Yellow is tagged as I find it odd that One Foundation has increased their grants by about $20m in one year without more machines (I do have a query in with DIA as of the end of June 2025 but not sure if they will get back to me). The red are the pokies that no longer exist, and green is a new entity.
I also have looked at productivity: the amount of grants produced per machine. Now, Problem Gambling Foundation may describe this differently, but my interest is around the grantmaking side of the business. The size of the circle relates to the amount granted (and apologies for the fuzzy words: only so much my free version of Power BI will do). You can see that One Foundation looks quite out of whack with the others: see above query. The most productive machines are managed by Blue Sky with each machine producing some $43,307 of grants, followed by ILT ($42,003) then closely followed by Rano ($41,851). ILT is an outlier: of course this is the Invercargill Licensing Trust, so has been able to manage its footprint within the area so historically not subject to the same competitive pressures. I confess ignorance as to the venue business model for pokies, but, given Blue Sky and Rano have been the subject of a few of my sector queries, I’d have a good look at why those specific venues have gone into business with these specific pokies.