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22 added, 1 removed. Audit A to A.

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name: public-trust-grants

- description: Query Public Trust New Zealand public grants and scholarships through the unauthenticated grants search index and public detail pages. Use when the task involves finding Public Trust-managed NZ grant or scholarship opportunities by keyword, organisation/individual type, region, sector, or application-open status, or checking public grant criteria text. Read-only; no login, application submission, SmartyGrants form access, or paywalled/commercial grant database scraping.

+ description: "Query Public Trust New Zealand public grants and scholarships through the unauthenticated grants search index and public detail pages. Use when the task involves finding Public Trust-managed NZ grant or scholarship opportunities by keyword, organisation/individual type, region, sector, or application-open status, or checking public grant criteria text. Read-only; no login, application submission, SmartyGrants form access, or paywalled/commercial grant database scraping."

+ license: MIT

+ compatibility: "Requires Python 3.10+ and network access for live data"

+ metadata:

+ thecolab.category: "public-data"

+ thecolab.source_owner: "Public Trust"

+ thecolab.source_type: "official"

+ thecolab.auth: "none"

+ thecolab.access_mode: "public-api"

+ thecolab.data_class: "public"

+ thecolab.writes: "false"

+ thecolab.browser: "false"

+ thecolab.risk: "low"

+ thecolab.cache_ttl: "24h"

+ thecolab.schema_version: "1"

+ thecolab.skill_type: "public-api"

+ thecolab.pack: "nz-public-data"

+ thecolab.source_url: "https://www.publictrust.co.nz"

+ thecolab.allowed_domains: "www.publictrust.co.nz,00gcmopt4b-dsn.algolia.net"

+ thecolab.last_verified: "2026-07-19"

+ thecolab.health: "healthy"

+ thecolab.maintainer: "@adam91holt"

---

# Public Trust Grants

## Goal

Find Public Trust NZ grant and scholarship listings from the public grants search page and fetch readable text from public grant detail pages.

## Use this when

- The user asks for Public Trust grants, NZ trusts administered by Public Trust, or scholarships listed at `publictrust.co.nz/grants`.

- You need to search by keyword, `individual` vs `organisation`, region facet, sector facet, or `applications_open_now`.

- You need a source URL and public summary/criteria text for a specific Public Trust grant.

## Do not use this for

- givUS, Fundsorter, GEM Local, GrantsGuru, Funding HQ, Strategic Grants GEMS, or other commercial/library-sponsored grant databases.

- Logging in, bypassing paywalls/CAPTCHAs, submitting applications, or interacting with SmartyGrants forms.

- Treating Public Trust listings as a complete national grants database; it only covers grants/scholarships Public Trust publishes.

## CLI workflow

The tool is in `scripts/cli.py` and uses Python standard library only.

```bash

python3 skills/public-trust-grants/scripts/cli.py search community --type organisation

python3 skills/public-trust-grants/scripts/cli.py search scholarship --type individual --json

python3 skills/public-trust-grants/scripts/cli.py facets --json

python3 skills/public-trust-grants/scripts/cli.py detail thomas-richard-moore-trust --json

```

Typical steps:

1. Run `facets` if you need available `grants_regions` or `sectors` slugs.

2. Run `search` with a keyword and optional filters. Use `--json` when you need machine-readable output.

3. Use `detail` with a result slug/URL for public page text and cite `source_url` in the answer.

## References

- See `references/recon.md` for the issue #112 portal-by-portal recon notes and source classification.

## Safety and caveats

- The CLI dynamically reads the browser-published Algolia search-only configuration from the Public Trust grants page; no API key is committed.

- Listings are public and unauthenticated, but licensing/terms are not asserted. Quote modestly and link back to Public Trust.

- `applications_open_now` is the upstream facet and may lag real application windows; verify the detail page before giving deadline advice.