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Charity and deductible gift recipient data

Source: R/charities.R
ato_charities.Rd

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)
})
#> ℹ Downloading <https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/4be150cc-8f84-46b8-8c61-55ff1d4…
#> ✔ Downloading <https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/4be150cc-8f84-46b8-8c61-55ff1d4…
#> 
#> # ato_tbl: ATO charity / DGR statistics 2021-22
#> # Source:   https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/4be150cc-8f84-46b8-8c61-55ff1d48a700/resource/35bd310b-2c57-47d2-9bad-501095a66345/download/ts22charities01refundablefrankingcredits.xlsx
#> # Licence:  CC BY 2.5 AU
#> # Retrieved: 2026-08-23 17:35 UTC 
#> # SHA-256:  83afd3ab09d70031...
#> # Rows: 6  Cols: 24
#> 
#>            refund_ranges       2001_02  2002_03  2003_04  2004_05  2005_06
#> 1                   <NA> <NA>       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA
#> 2       a. Under $10,000  no.     1765     2140     1995     1920     1945
#> 3                   <NA>    $  3155218  4607630  4476899  5008137  5437626
#> 4  b. $10,000 - $100,000  no.      450      570      670      845      975
#> 5                   <NA>    $ 15092808 18380176 21767907 28364638 33482376
#> 6 c. $100,000 - $500,000  no.      100      115      140      215      285
#>    2006_07  2007_08  2008_09  2009_10  2010_11  2011_12  2012_13  2013_14
#> 1       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA
#> 2     2055     2230     2300     2470     2970     2420     2610     2715
#> 3  5301008  5957700  6973601  7678647  8126188 -9899729 -3128793  6439063
#> 4     1135     1245     1380     1445     1495     1670     1680     1715
#> 5 37852963 42353744 45274089 47558139 48936969 58523193 55765846 56857348
#> 6      315      355      325      335      295      465      410      405
#>    2014_15  2015_16  2016_17  2017_18  2018_19  2019_20  2020_21  2021_22
#> 1       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA       NA
#> 2     2424     2513     2604     2716     3275     2397     2944     3125
#> 3  4921609  6851425  8824712  9150824  9946889  8909484 10428662 10696563
#> 4     1634     1855     1932     2122     2159     2337     2233     1904
#> 5 53653549 61530052 65072023 70489305 71782829 82548277 73709814 58662402
#> 6      392      494      482      548      541      698      504      328
#>    2022_23
#> 1       NA
#> 2     2154
#> 3  7972534
#> 4     2350
#> 5 87404004
#> 6      704
options(op)
# }