Charities

To be a charity, an organisation must be not-for-profit, have a charitable purpose and be for the public benefit (other than where the charitable purpose is the relief of poverty). A charity may be entitled to seek endorsement from the ATO for various concessions.

The Charities section contains the following tables:

• Table 41: Tax concession charities by entity type
• Table 42: Main charitable purpose of tax concession charities, as at 31 October 2013

We also have a set of more detailed tables available, in the form of Excel spreadsheets, containing charities data at a much finer level.

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• Charities
• Charities detailed tables

Data presented in this section includes active tax concession charities as at 31 October each year.

The number of charities has been rounded to the nearest 5 and totals may differ from the sum of components, due to rounding.