Charity and deductible gift recipient data

Returns the ATO's data on income tax-exempt entities and Deductible Gift Recipients (DGRs): entity counts, income, expenditure, and gift deductions by charity subtype and state. Covers public benevolent institutions, health promotion charities, environmental organisations, and other DGR categories.

Usage

ato_charities(year = "latest")

Source

Australian Taxation Office charity statistics on data.gov.au. Licensed CC BY 2.5 AU.

Arguments

year

Income year in "YYYY-YY" form (e.g. "2021-22") or "latest".

Value

An ato_tbl. Monetary values in nominal AUD.

Details

Used by Treasury (charity tax expenditure estimates), researchers studying the non-profit sector, and civil society policy analysts.

See also

Other discovery: ato_catalog(), ato_cite(), ato_download(), ato_excise(), ato_fbt(), ato_help(), ato_irpd(), ato_payg(), ato_rdti(), ato_sme_benchmarks(), ato_tax_gaps(), ato_top_taxpayers(), ato_vttc()

Examples

# \donttest{
op <- options(ato.cache_dir = tempdir())
try({
  ch <- ato_charities(year = "2021-22")
  head(ch)
})
#> Error in ato_charities(year = "2021-22") : 
#>   Could not find a charity / DGR package on data.gov.au.
#> ℹ Browse: <https://data.gov.au/data/organization/australiantaxationoffice>
options(op)
# }