The Pinnacle Foundation
The Pinnacle Foundation is a charitable trust that reinvests surplus income from Pinnacle’s profit-for-purpose entities into primary care across Te Manawa Taki, supporting access, workforce and innovation.
The Pinnacle Foundation is a new charitable trust established by Pinnacle to strengthen support for general practice and community health across Te Manawa Taki.
It creates a clear, transparent way to reinvest surplus income from Pinnacle’s profit-for-purpose entities back into primary care, alongside our role as a PHO.
At our 2025 AGM on 25 November, Pinnacle announced the establishment of the Pinnacle Foundation, a new charitable trust to strengthen support for general practice and community health across Te Manawa Taki.
The Foundation gives us a clear, transparent charitable structure to reinvest surplus income from Pinnacle’s profit-for-purpose entities back into primary care. It sits alongside Pinnacle’s role as a PHO and government-funded service provider, with a clear separation between PHO funding and charitable investment.
The Foundation will invest in practical, high-value initiatives that improve access to care and support primary care teams. This may include:
- support with workforce recruitment
- professional development and capability building
- proven technology and innovation that help practices deliver care well
- support for patients to maintain access to care where cost is a barrier.
The Foundation will go live on 1 July 2026, with funding rounds available to practices within the Pinnacle PHO network across Te Manawa Taki.
We will continue to update our network as this work progresses.
Why the Foundation is being created
General practice continues to face rising demand, workforce shortages and the shift of more care into community settings. Practices consistently tell us they need support with recruitment, capability building, and access to tools and innovations that make day-to-day care easier to deliver.
The Foundation creates a purpose-built charitable mechanism for Pinnacle to provide additional support in these areas. It follows social investment principles, so funding decisions will need to show clear charitable purpose and measurable benefit for patients, whānau and communities.
This is not new work for Pinnacle. It is the next step in a strategy we have been pursuing for many years to support practices and communities across Te Manawa Taki, and a way to ensure more of what we earn as a network flows directly back into primary care.
By focusing this approach within Te Manawa Taki, the Foundation will also help build evidence about what works in primary care, and where innovations may be scalable across the wider health system.
Updates
We will continue to share updates via the Pinnacle website, newsletters and direct communication to practices.
Contact details
Chief Governance Officer