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.

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.