Tahua Solutions

What Tahua Solutions does

Tahua Solutions Limited is a New Zealand-headquartered, privately held SaaS company that provides a purpose-built grants management platform for organisations that distribute funding. The platform handles the complete grant lifecycle — from fund-configuration and applicant intake through assessment, blind peer review, decision-making, contract execution, tranche-based milestone payments, and impact reporting. Unlike horizontal CRMs and project management tools retrofitted for grants, Tahua was built specifically for grantmakers and embeds domain features such as automatic conflict-of-interest recusal, OIA (Official Information Act) ready audit trails, Public Finance Act compliance, NZ Privacy Act 2020 alignment, and tikanga-informed workflows for iwi and Māori organisations. The system is multi-tenant, hosted on AWS with an Australia (Sydney) data-residency option, and exposes a REST API plus Zapier connectors alongside native Xero and QuickBooks Online payment integrations.

The product is sold through a sales-led motion combining enterprise field sales for government and Crown entities, inside sales for mid-market funders, and a self-serve 30-day trial. Five vertical solution modules — Government & Crown Entities, Medical & Health Research, Trusts & Foundations, Iwi & Māori Investment, and Indigenous & First Nations — sit atop the core platform, alongside application, assessor, contract-management, milestone/payment, reporting, CRM, and security sub-products. The revenue model is volume-tiered SaaS subscription (under 50, 50-200, 200-500, 500+ grant applications per year) plus separately quoted professional services for customisation and onboarding. Tahua is reported to serve 50+ funders across New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Canada, with 95%+ government client retention, 15,000+ processed applications, $1B+ in administered public funds, and a 5.0/5.0 Capterra rating. SOC 2 Type 2 certification is in progress via Vanta.

Name

Tahua Solutions

Legal name

Tahua Solutions Limited

Website

https://tahua.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Tahua Solutions provides purpose-built, cloud-based grants management SaaS for government agencies, Crown entities, medical research foundations, community trusts, and iwi/Māori organisations across New Zealand, Australia, the UK, and Canada, covering the full grant lifecycle from application intake through audit-ready reporting.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Grants Management Software

NAICS

Grantmaking and Giving Services (8132), Voluntary Health Organizations (813212), Other Grantmaking and Giving Services (813219), Scientific Research and Development Services (5417)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHLAJAMAC

Public Health Financing, Budgeting & Grants Management

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Public Health, Government & Regulators/Public Health Policy & Administration

SECONDARYHLAJALAC

Public Health Program Grants Management & Administration

Healthcare & Life Sciences/Public Health, Government & Regulators/Public Health Funding, Grants & Program Administration

SECONDARYEDALAJAB

Scholarships, Grants & Donor-Funded Awards Management

Education/Student Services & Campus Operations/Financial Aid, Scholarships & Student Accounts (Bursar)

SECONDARYEDADAHAC

Scholarship & Fellowship Foundations and Trusts

Education/Education Administration, Accreditation & Policy/Education Funding, Grants & Financial Aid Administration

SECONDARYBPADAOAG

Budget Support & Policy-Based Lending/Grants

Business & Public Services/International Organizations & Development/Donor Coordination, Grantmaking & Development Finance Programs

Keywords

• Grants management software
• Grant lifecycle platform
• Peer review tools
• Donor-advised funds
• Conflict of interest tracking

Headquarters

HQ city

Gisborne

HQ country

New Zealand

HQ region

Oceania

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subscription SaaS License: Monthly or annual subscription fee for platform access. Pricing based on grant volume thresholds. First invoice may be for partial month. Subscription fee includes standard initial configuration and onboarding (Associated Services). Additional customisation, implementation, support, and training (Additional Services) billed separately.
2. Additional Services: Customisation, configuration, implementation, support, and training beyond standard onboarding. Billed separately from subscription fee via quote provided at time of request.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Tahua Solutions sells a cloud-based grants management SaaS platform purpose-built for grantmakers, not adapted from a CRM. The platform manages the full grant lifecycle from no-code fund configuration and applicant intake through blind peer review, decisioning, contracts, tranche payments, and impact reporting, with built-in conflict-of-interest controls, immutable audit trails, and OIA/Public Finance Act compliance for government funders. Sector-specific modules serve medical research, community foundations, iwi/Māori organisations, and Indigenous/First Nations funders.

Product overview

Tahua Solutions offers a unified, purpose-built grants management platform — not adapted from a CRM. The core Tahua Grants Management Platform handles the full grant lifecycle through six integrated modules: Application & Fund Design (applicant portal with conditional logic, eligibility screening, auto-save drafts), Assessment & Review (assessor portal with weighted rubrics, blind review, per-application COI declarations), Decisions & Awards (bulk approval, merge-field decision letters, complete audit trails), Contracts & Agreements (template library, version history, formal variation management), Milestones & Payments (tranche payments, milestone-gated releases, Xero/QuickBooks sync), and Reporting & Impact (automated accountability collection, board-ready PDF exports, custom report builder). Sector-specific solutions layer on top as add-on modules: Government & Crown Entities (OIA-ready, ministerial dashboards, public register publishing), Medical & Health Research (blind peer review, multi-year milestone tracking), Trusts & Foundations (donor-advised fund rules, tagged payment batches), Iwi & Māori Investment (tikanga workflows, beneficiary registers, te reo support), and Indigenous & First Nations (lineage-based eligibility, consensus workflows, data sovereignty). Additional components include The Grants Desk (knowledge hub), a Verifier workflow for third-party sign-off, and a REST API for Power BI, Salesforce, and Zapier integrations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Tahua Grants Management Platform The core grants management SaaS platform for grantmakers. Handles the full grant lifecycle including no-code fund configuration, applicant portal, assessor portal with blind peer review and weighted scoring, decision management with audit trails, contract templates and variations, milestone-gated tranche payments, and impact reporting with Xero/QuickBooks integration. Designed for organisations replacing spreadsheets and email chains with structured workflow.
• Government & Crown Entities Solution Sector-specific solution for government agencies and Crown entities. Provides OIA-readiness, Public Finance Act compliance, ministerial and board-level reporting dashboards, automated decision letters with merge fields, public register publishing for approved grants, and complete decision audit trails for accountability.
• Medical & Health Research Solution Sector-specific solution for medical and health research foundations. Includes blind peer review enforcement, conflict-of-interest declarations with automatic recusal, multi-year milestone and tranche payment tracking, fellowship tracking, and board-ready trustee reporting.
• Trusts & Foundations Solution Sector-specific solution for community foundations, charitable trusts, and endowment-funded organisations. Manages donor-advised fund rules natively, tagged payment batches with donor conditions, Xero integration, automated donor impact reporting, and per-fund eligibility rule configuration.
• Iwi & Māori Investment Solution Sector-specific solution for Iwi and Māori organisations. Provides tikanga-informed workflows, beneficiary registers with whakapapa validation, te reo Māori interface support, cultural assessment panels, trustee/board approval trails, and data sovereignty via NZ-hosted AWS infrastructure.
• Indigenous & First Nations Solution Sector-specific solution for Indigenous and First Nations funders. Includes member registers with lineage-based eligibility validation, consensus-friendly non-scored review workflows, configurable data sovereignty hosting, multi-language Unicode support, cultural customisation of forms and communications, and dual government-community reporting.

Quantifiable outcome

• Teams running live within 90 days instead of 18 months
• +8 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

Feature12 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Microsoft Entra (Azure AD)coreTechnology or IntegrationSAML 2.0 SSO integration fully supported. Time-based one-time passwords via Microsoft Authenticator. Organisation-wide MFA enforcement available. SAML-only mode to disable password login entirely.
• OktacoreTechnology or IntegrationSAML 2.0 SSO integration supported for identity management and authentication.
• OneLogincoreTechnology or IntegrationSAML 2.0 SSO integration supported for single sign-on and identity management.
• Google WorkspacecoreTechnology or IntegrationSSO integration supported for organisations using Google Workspace for identity management.
• XerocoreTechnology or IntegrationPush approved payments as bills automatically. Finance system integration for payment processing and reconciliation. Annual finance reconciliation reduced from weeks to hours.
• QuickBooks OnlinecoreTechnology or IntegrationExport payment data for reconciliation. Integration with Intuit QuickBooks Online for finance system connectivity.
• Amazon Web ServicescoreTechnology or IntegrationCloud infrastructure provider. AWS Sydney region (ap-southeast-2) for ANZ data residency. AES-256 encryption at rest on all production databases (Amazon RDS). S3 server-side encryption for uploaded documents.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• GivingData: Grant lifecycle management software purpose-built for foundations. Closely aligned with Tahua's community foundation vertical, with comparable donor-advised fund and impact reporting functionality.
• Foundant Technologies: Provider of grantmaking software (Foundant GLM, SmartLynx, Scholarship Lifecycle Manager) for community foundations, scholarship providers, and corporate giving programs. Closely comparable in serving donor-advised funds and scholarship/grant lifecycles.
• Fluxx: US-based grants management cloud platform serving foundations and government grantmakers. Directly comparable in target customer (foundations, public sector) and core functionality (application, review, award, reporting lifecycle), with similar vertical-specialist positioning.
• SmartSimple: Cloud-based grants management platform serving government agencies, foundations, and corporations globally. Directly comparable purpose-built architecture, with similar compliance-focused positioning and multi-vertical coverage.
• WizeHive (Bonterra): Grants and application management platform acquired by Bonterra. Comparable in configurable application workflows, reviewer portals, and decision management, with overlap in foundation and grantmaking customer base.
• Submittable (Bonterra): Application management platform used heavily for grants, scholarships, and awards. Now part of Bonterra's social-good software suite. Comparable in applicant-facing portal, review workflows, and target market of grantmakers and foundations.

Broad incumbents

• Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud: Horizontal nonprofit CRM and program management suite with grants management capabilities. Comparable in serving nonprofits and foundations, but as part of a much broader CRM/platform offering rather than a grants-specialist.
• Microsoft Cloud for Nonprofit: Horizontal nonprofit solution stack built on Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Cloud. Comparable as a large incumbent offering grants-adjacent functionality bundled with broader productivity, CRM, and analytics tools.

Emerging players

• SurveyMonkey Apply (Momentive): Application management platform used for grants, scholarships, and awards programs. Comparable in applicant experience and review workflows, with broader consumer-survey heritage.

Regional players

• Good Grants: Grants management software provider with strong presence in UK, Europe, and ANZ markets. Comparable in grantmaker focus and compliance-driven positioning, and an indirect competitor particularly as Tahua expands into UK and Canada.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tahua

Compliance8 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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