Te Kohanga Reo National Trust Board — Education Charity in Wellington
Te Kohanga Reo National Trust Board is a Charitable Trust charity in the Education sector, based in Wellington, Wellington. CharityData rates this charity C (60/100). Annual revenue: $39.1M NZD. 2 red flags detected. Financial data as at December 2025.
Mission: To continue to strengthen the growth of the Kohanga movement and the everyday use of Te Reo Māori including whanau learning and development.
- Registration Number
- CC11324
- Charity Type
- Charitable Trust
- Registration Date
- 2007-10-10
- Status
- Active
- CharityData Rating
- C (60/100)
- Sector
- Education
- Location
- Wellington, Wellington
- info@kohanga.ac.nz
- Data as at
- December 2025
Beneficiaries: Children / young people, Family / whanau
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $39.1M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $37.5M NZD
- Total Assets
- $87.5M NZD
- Net Assets
- $32.1M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 22.1 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 114
- Financial Year End
- 2025-12-31
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $39.1M | $37.5M | $32.1M |
| 2024 | $19.6M | $18.6M | $29.9M |
| 2023 | $19.5M | $17.9M | $28.8M |
| 2022 | $16.6M | $15.4M | $26.9M |
| 2021 | $14.9M | $15.5M | $25.5M |
| 2020 | $15.6M | $14.9M | $17.5M |
| 2019 | $12.2M | $11.6M | $16.8M |
| 2018 | $10.0M | $10.5M | $18.2M |
| 2017 | $10.5M | $9.8M | $18.4M |
| 2016 | $10.2M | $9.0M | $17.3M |
CharityData Rating
- Overall Grade
- C
- Overall Score
- 60/100
- Financial Score
- 52.2
- Governance Score
- 65
- Transparency Score
- 65
Red Flags
- 2 trustees of this charity also sit on multiple other charity boards — concentrated trustee bandwidth may warrant board-skill-mix review.
- Holding 22.1 months of expenses in reserves ($32.1M) — above the 18-month threshold (within 12 months of threshold). On its own, holding high reserves cannot take a CharityData grade below C, so this grade was held at that level
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (0)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|
Former Officers (26)
- Henare Te Kotuku Te Aika-Puanaki — Trustee
- Lorraine Hale — Trustee
- Jonathan Te Rire — Trustee
- Andrew Reiper — Trustee
- Eugene Cassidy — Trustee
- Tom Alesana — Trustee (departed 2025-07-18)
- Peggy Luke-Ngaheke — Trustee
- Hoana McMillian — Trustee
- Angus Hartley — CEO
- Susan Tipene — Trustee (departed 2023-04-22)
- Tariana Turia — Trustee (departed 2023-04-22)
- Matuakore Hook — Trustee
- Hurimoana Dennis — Trustee
- Tewheoro Rangikotua — Trustee (departed 2025-01-05)
- Waihoroi Hoterene — Trustee (departed 2023-04-22)
- Daniel Procter — Trustee
- Manuera Tohu — Trustee (departed 2016-05-22)
- Graham Latimer — Trustee (departed 2014-06-24)
- Toni James Davis Waho — Trustee (departed 2014-11-24)
- Drusilla Barrett — Trustee (departed 2017-12-12)
Disclosed Pay and Fees
| Name | Role | Role type | Compensation | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiona Rangi | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Whetu Wehi | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2023 |
| Wira Gardiner | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Carmel Sepuloni | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2023 |
| Susan Tipene | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2021 |
| Te Arikinui Arokitaake | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2023 |
| Dame Karen Sewell | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2024 |
| Hoana McMillan | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2021 |
| Eruera Manuera | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2023 |
| Hirini Kaa | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Harikoa Aparaita | Chief Executive | Executive role | - | 2023 |
| Daniel Procter | Co-chair | Board or trustee role | - | 2024 |
| Hurimoana Dennis | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2024 |
| Dame Tariana Turia | Co-Chair | Board or trustee role | - | 2021 |
| Matua Hook | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2024 |
| Monique Angus | Chair | Board or trustee role | - | 2023 |
| Wikitoria Tahua | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2023 |
| Waihoroi Hoterene | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2021 |
| Merepeka Founding Family | Founding Family | Role not classified | - | 2019 |
| Aroha Bennett | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Wikitoria Koia | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Zirus Zuber | Auditor (Director, Grant Thornton) | Board or trustee role | - | 2024 |
| Hone Te Rire | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2024 |
| Anaru Rieper | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2024 |
| Rangimarie Hunia | Chair | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| John Tamihere | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2023 |
| Hine Boyes | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Peggy Luke-Ngaheke | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2024 |
| Hoana McMillan | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2024 |
| Te Wheoro Rangikotua | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2021 |
| Peggy Luke-Ngaheke | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2021 |
| Raniera Procter | Heamana Takirua (Co-Chair) | Board or trustee role | - | 2024 |
| Te Arikinui Kingi Tuheitia | Te Whare Punanga Kōrero | Role not classified | - | 2021 |
| Merepeka Maipi | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Matuakore Hook | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2021 |
| Eugene Cassidy | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2024 |
| Rangi Whakataki | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2023 |
| Grant McCallum | Chief Financial Officer | Executive role | - | 2023 |
| Daniel Procter | Co-Chair | Board or trustee role | - | 2021 |
| Dame Iritana Tawhiwhirangi | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2024 |
| Anahera Morehu | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2023 |
| Tom Alesana | Trustee/Board Member | Board or trustee role | - | 2024 |
| Nga wai hono i te po Paki | Trustee/Board Member | Board or trustee role | - | 2024 |
| Te Wheoro Rangikotua | Heamana Takirua (Co-Chair) | Board or trustee role | - | 2024 |
| Hurimoana Dennis | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2021 |
Major Funders and Contracts (FY2021)
As disclosed in Te Kohanga Reo National Trust Board's annual report.
- Tertiary Education Commission – Te Amorangi Mātauranga Matua — Funding for Kōhanga Reo
- Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga | Ministry of Education — Funding for Kōhanga Reo operations and capital works (TAP - Targeted Assistance for Participation)
Service Providers
- Zirus Zuber
- KPMG
- Westpac
- ANZ Bank New Zealand Limited
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Te Kohanga Reo National Trust Board
Financial data as at December 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.
Reasons to look carefully (2)
These structural observations are drawn from public data and are worth considering before a donation. They are not allegations of wrongdoing, and they don’t affect the charity’s letter grade.
- No chair recorded on the registerNo chair or presiding role is recorded in the register for this board of 11. The Charities Register does not require one to be identified, so this is a gap in the public record rather than a finding about the board.
- Government-funding concentration82% of latest-year revenue came from government grants — single-stream dependency
Each signal is a data-driven observation, not a judgement. They fire automatically from the figures filed with Charities Services. A charity can address any of these by filing fuller disclosure or updating its officer register. Methodology: /about/methodology/concern-signals.
$39.1M
$37.5M
$87.5M
114
Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
About
To continue to strengthen the growth of the Kohanga movement and the everyday use of Te Reo Māori including whanau learning and development.
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Ranked against 3 peers · Education · $10M – $50M
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