FAQs

Yes! Donations of $2 or more are tax deductible in Australia.

Effective Altruism Australia (ABN 87 608 863 467) is endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO). The Effective Altruism Australia Environment Public Fund – operated by Effective Altruism Australia Environment (ABN 57 659 447 417) – is also endorsed as a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).

You will receive a receipt for donations once we confirm it has arrived in our bank account. For bank transfers, this will usually take 1-2 days. For credit cards, the wait should be no longer than 15 minutes. If you do not receive a receipt within the relevant timeframe, please send an email to info@eaa.org.au including your full name, a description, the amount donated and the name of your banking institution. We’ll hop onto it straight away. Also note that receipts may occasionally end up in your spam inbox.

Yes you will. For the 2021-2022 financial year, these were sent on 11 July 2022. If you didn’t get yours, you are welcome to contact us at info@eaa.org.au and we’ll look into it. Note that we also send out individual receipts for each donation received, once the donation reaches our bank account (see above). 

Credit card donations cost us 1.4% plus 30c per donation. Bank transfers have no fees.

You can currently donate to EAA and EAAE in two different ways, by bank transfer or by credit card. Both methods allow us to process your payment at no cost to you. However, please note that for large donations (over $2,000) we prefer bank transfer, as it reduces the fees we pay. To donate by bank transfer you will need to register your intention to make a single, or recurring, transfer to our bank account. You can do this by completing the form on our donation page. Once we have registered your intention to donate we will send you a unique code. You will need to use this unique code as a reference number when sending your payment to our bank account so that we can identify your payment. We will send you a tax receipt for every payment we receive from you. You should receive your receipt within 1-2 days. To donate by credit card, simply follow the instructions and fill in your details on our donation page.

When making donations to EAA, the Donate page on our website will allow you to designate a specific EAA partner charity, if you so wish. Alternatively, you can also choose to allow EAA to decide on the partner designation based on the latest evidence available to us. 

By contrast, when making donations to EAAE, you will not be able to designate a specific EAAE partner charity. Instead, every three months, EAAE will consider the latest evidence pertaining to EAAE’s partner charities. EAAE will then decide which of its partner charities will be granted the donations that have been received over the past three months. This less flexible approach for designating donations to our partner charities is a result of specific regulatory requirements that apply to registered environmental charities.

You can now make donations via credit card.

We accept Visa, Mastercard and American Express.

Yes. Your credit card details are encrypted and submitted directly from your web browser to our payment processor, Stripe. Our accounting staff only have access to the last 4 digits of your credit card number.

We suggest that you use whichever payment method is most convenient for you. For major donations (over $2,000), we prefer that you donate via bank transfer to reduce fees.

Please email info@eaa.org.au with details of your donation, including name, description, amount and the name of your banking institution.

Running any charity has costs. To get your donation to its destination we need to meet our regulatory obligations and cover the costs of auditors, accountants, government registrations, banking facilities, websites, software and more. Like most charities, a portion of donations go to these kinds of expenses. In the 2018-2019 financial year, Effective Altruism Australia’s operational expenses were 2.84% of the overall amount of donations we received. Effective Altruism Australia Environment is run in a similar manner to EAA, however, since EAAE only started in 2023, we do not have data yet.

Yes, in April 2020. Previously Effective Altruism Australia separately raised funds to meet its operational expenses while providing 100% of donations received through this website to our partner charities. Our new policy is more transparent, more administratively efficient and sustainable. You can read more about the illusion of “0% overheads” here.

This is certainly possible and we welcome any assistance in meeting our running costs. To donate directly to EAA operational or community building costs, you can visit our Donate page and then select “I would like to choose how to allocate my donation” then “Effective Altruism Australia Operations” or “Effective Altruism Australia Community Building”. To donate directly towards operations for EAAE you can contact us at info@eaa.org.au.