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Helping you donate with confidence

Use our search tool to find organisations you will be proud to support

More ways to search

Find a charity

Giving Guide wants to make it easier for donors to find charities they would like to support. We have proposed a few different ways to find a charity in Australia. Please give them a try.

Search for a charity by name or ABN

To find out more about a charity you already know, run a simple search by Charity Name or ABN.

Advanced search

The advanced search option gives you the ability to customise your search and order the results on a chosen criteria.

Find a charity near me

This option finds a charity by location and its details. Helping you find charitable causes that you care about which may be in your community.

About Giving Guide

Giving Guide is helping donors find Australian charities and increasing trust in the Australian charity sector. We intend to make it easier to find charities close to your home and to your heart.

Giving Guide has utilised the Australian Charities and Not-For-Profit Commission’s (ACNC) Annual Information Statements (AIS) submission data since 2013.

For guidance on how to use the different options please use the “How this works” links.

About Us

Declining Trust

Giving Guide has been created for donors and charities to build trust within the sector. We want to help increase the impact on society by increasing the exposure of charities to donors. The state of reporting, legislation, red tape processes and the level of trust all need to be improved. We don’t want to create further burden, but this would already be accomplished if it were easy.

Our intention is to introduce a higher level of accountability by charities to the Australian public and address donor concerns. We don’t have all the answers, but we think the current situation has room for improvement. If you are interested in contributing to our mission please get in touch.

Further Information

Information for charities

Giving guide wants to work with charities and improve the charity sector in Australia. Prompted by the decline of trust in the sector, we want to improve the relationship between donor and charity through transparency and accountability.

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