
Giving is good - 2021 Charity updates
Your partnership with Pathfinder offers the unique opportunity to benefit from our growth because 20% of our management fee goes to the charities we've engaged with.

We have some great news to share. Our charitable donations exceed $100,000!
Pathfinder has grown to $80 million and we’re very excited about the commitment from our fast-growing number of members.
Our model for giving: Pathfinder is run as a social enterprise model. Every investor selects one of our 17 charity partners when they sign up. We then pay 20% of our KiwiSaver management fees to their chosen charity.
In the year to 31 March 2021, we are giving $101,950 to our charity partners (up from $15,000 a year ago). We hope to be donating more than double this amount next year.
Below is a list of our charities and the amount they will be receiving.
- Forest & Bird: $25,750
- Rainbow Youth: $5,050
- Mental Health Foundation: $12,250
- Melanoma New Zealand: $2,500
- Garden to Table: $8,150
- Everybody Eats: $1,850
- Mens Health Trust: $8,050
- Arthritis NZ: $1,750
- Youthline: $7,800
- Plunket: $1,500
- NZ Vegetarian Society: $7,700
- Chalky Carr Trust: $1,200
- Breast Cancer Cure: $6,200
- Tania Dalton Foundation: $550
- Project Jonah: $5,750
- Leadership NZ: $450
- Heart Kids: $5,100
- Drug Foundation: $350
In addition to the $101,950 above, we have donated an additional $14,500 across a range of charities which have included some in our charity family and others like the NZ Anti-Vivisection Society and 9 Lives Cat Orphanage.
That takes our total donations for the year to 31 March 2021 to just over $116,450.
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