ATO Data: Deductible Gift Recipients

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Title: ATO Data: Income Tax Exempt Charities Author: Centre of Philanthropy & Nonprofit Studies Type: Current Issues Information Sheet Focus: Statistics on number of DGRs Date: August 2006 Publisher: Queensland University of Technology Download: Current Issues Information Sheet from CPNS website (PDF)

This paper provides information on the number, purposes and locations of Deductible Gift Recipients (DGRs) in Australia. Among the findings:

• There are 21,957 DGRs endorsed in Australia.
• Welfare and rights (52%), education (21%) and cultural organisations (14%) are the largest categories of DGRs.
• The distribution of DGRs' main offices throughout the states is consistent with the population density, with slightly more DGRs in Western Australia
  • Queensland had 38% of the total DGR receipts, but only 19% of the DGRs had their main address in Queensland.
  • Western Australia also had just 7% of the DGR receipts but 11.9% of the DGRs had an address in Western Australia.
• The total reported receipts of DGRs were approximately $42 billion (as of November 2005).
• Half of the DGR population has less than $55,304 in receipts.
• About 40% of DGRs received over 70% of their annual receipts as government grants.