Under the terms of the deed of The George Alexander Foundation and the taxation laws, The George Alexander Foundation can only make grants to organisations with BOTH Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) and Tax Concession Charity (TCC) status. TCC status was formerly called Income Tax Exempt Charity (ITEC) status.

Please ensure that your organisation has DGR and TCC status before writing your application.

The Australian Government's Australian Business Register Online enables you to search your organisation's name or ABN and see whether it is endorsed as a DGR and TCC.

Please also note the following advice regarding DGR status:

• Organisations must be EITHER endorsed by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) as a DGR, or they must be specifically named in the Income Tax Assessment Act 1977 as being a DGR.
• If an organisation uses more than one name (for example, a legal name and a trading name), then the application should be made in the name which has DGR status.
• Some organisations also have DGR status only in respect of a fund which they operate, or for only one part of their activities. Applications from such organisations should only relate to the fund or activities for which DGR status has been endorsed/approved.

Accordingly, each applicant must provide:

• a copy of the applicant organisation's "Endorsement as a Deductible Gift Recipient" issued by the ATO, OR
• the item number in which the applicant organisation is named in Subdivision 30-B of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997; AND
• a copy of the applicant organisation's "Notice of endorsement for Charity Tax Concessions" issued by the ATO on or after 1 July 2005.This notice will describe your organisation as a charitable institution, charitable fund, public benevolent institution or health promotion charity.

The George Alexander Foundation cannot make grants to other ancillary funds or to prescribed private funds.

• If your notice of endorsement as a DGR states the "Provision for gift deductibility" is "item 2 of the table in section 30-15 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997", your organisation will be an ancillary fund and therefore not entitled to receive grants.

ALL organisations applying to the Foundation must also advise their ABN.

More information about DGR and TCC status can be obtained from the ATO Non-Profit Organisations website. This website includes advice on who is eligible to obtain DGR status and how to apply.

Auspicing refers to the practice of an organisation which does not have DGR and TCC status applying to the Foundation under the name of another organisation which does. Auspicing arrangements are excluded under the Foundation's guidelines.

The organisation applying to the Foundation must be the organisation which would run the project or program for which a grant is being sought. The only exception to this exclusion is the support of heritage places and objects via the National Trust of Australia.

Please note that there are funding objectives and specific exclusions for each of the Program Areas. You should check these before beginning to write an application.

Exclusions

The Foundation does not support:

• Academic research.
• Recurrent expenditure for which no future provision is in sight.
• Capital or endowment funds established to provide a corpus for institutions.
• Retrospective expenditure.
• Funding via an auspicing institution.

Geographical constraints on grants

The Foundation is limited to providing money, property or benefits for public charitable purposes in the Commonwealth of Australia. It is therefore not permitted to make grants for such worthy causes as the relief of famine in Africa, nor tsunami relief in India. Such grants would be for public charitable purposes outside the Commonwealth of Australia.

NOTE: All grants are made subject to the Standard Grant Conditions.