Frequently Asked Questions: Charity Tax Deductible Donations

Frequently Asked Questions: Charity Tax Deductible Donations

General donation FAQs

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) provides an incentive for people to donate to charities. They do this by making your contributions tax-deductible. This means that gifts you make to registered charities like World Vision Australia, that have Deductible Gift Recipient status, can be claimed as a tax deduction. You can do this when you submit your tax return at the end of the financial year.

We'll send you an Annual Tax Statement at the end of the financial year, so that you have a record of the donations you've made to help your prepare your tax return. You can find more information about the rules and guidelines for tax-deductible donations by visiting the ATO website.

Gifts of $2 or more to a non-profit organisation like World Vision Australia that has Deductible Gift Recipient status with the Australian Tax Office (ATO) are tax deductible, depending on your own personal tax position. To find out more about the types of donations that are tax deductible, visit the ATO website.

You can make a tax deductible donation to World Vision Australia on our website, by completing and returning a donation coupon you receive from us, by calling our friendly team on 13 32 40 or by visiting a World Vision stand in your local shopping centre. We will send you an end of year tax statement that you can use to claim a deduction when completing your tax return.

The tax deduction you receive will depend on your personal circumstances. You can use our tax donation calculator to estimate the potential tax benefit based on your donation amount and income bracket.

Yes. Australian businesses can claim charity donations as a tax deduction. This includes giving to World Vision. We're registered with the Australian Tax Office (ATO) as a Deductible Gift Recipient. Visit the ATO website to learn more.

We’ll send you an Annual Tax Statement at the end of the financial year. This will help you claim a tax deduction when it is time to prepare your tax return.

As long as your donation is $2 or more, you can claim the full amount of money that you donated in the section on your tax return that deals with gifts and donations. Make sure to keep a copy of the Annual Tax Statement we send you as proof of your donation.

A tax-deductible donation receipt, which is also sometimes referred to as a donor acknowledgement letter, is provided to you by a charity as proof of your donation for tax-deductibility purposes. World Vision does not issue individual tax-deductible donation receipts. Instead, we will send you an Annual Tax Statement in July that contains a summary of tax-deductible donations you made to us over the course of the previous financial year. This will help you claim a tax deduction when it's time to prepare your tax return.

We will send you an Annual Tax Statement in July that will include all the donations you have made to World Vision Australia over the previous financial year. If you need a copy for your tax statement before the end of the financial year, please call our friendly team on 13 32 40 and they will be happy to help.


End Child Hunger appeal FAQs

During World Vision's 2023 financial year, we partnered with the World Food Programme to provide life-saving food to more than nine million people around the world. Entire communities also benefited from projects taking place alongside our food distribution programs that focus on fighting hunger in the long term.

The World Food Programme (WFP) is the world’s largest humanitarian agency dedicated to fighting global hunger. For more than 30 years, World Vision and the WFP have partnered around a shared goal of fighting child hunger around the world. Together, we provide you with an unrivalled operational network to reach the world’s most vulnerable children with food assistance and support. 
Every year, World Vision partners with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to deliver life-saving food aid and other essentials to hungry families. The WFP provides the food, but World Vision must raise money to share the costs involved in distributing it and ensuring it reaches those most in need. The value of every $1 you donate to help end child hunger enables World Vision to deliver aid up to the value of $20.

No. Your donation dollars multiply in value when combined with contributions from the World Food Programme including food, training and infrastructure.

To ensure that each designated country receives the level of assistance it needs, funds donated to the End Child Hunger Appeal are combined and distributed in line with assessments undertaken by World Vision and the World Food Programme to determine those most in need of food. In 2024, your donation will help fight hunger in 21 countries including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Malawi, Mozambique, Myanmar, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Syria, Sudan, Uganda, Moldova, Ukraine and Zimbabwe. It would not be practical to allow every supporter to elect which of these countries they would like their contribution directed to and would likely lead to surplus funds in some areas and shortfalls in others..

Every year, the impact of your donation will be multiplied by a certain amount depending on the multiplier figure that year. To see how many people you will help this year, please use our donation calculator. 

Should funds raised for this appeal exceed the amount required to fund World Vision's work in delivering food assistance and other essential supplies provided by the World Food Programme and other United Nations agencies, World Vision will use the excess funds in other work to help communities respond to the long-term effects of food insecurity.