For donors
Give to a Malaysian cause, and keep the record
Temples, foundations, associations and charities across Malaysia take their donations through DonorCARE. This is what that means for you when you give.
- FPX
- DuitNow QR, cards and e-wallets too
- RM
- Every gift given and receipted in ringgit
- Email code
- No password to sign in
Giving
Pay the way you already pay
FPX online banking, DuitNow QR, cards and e-wallets, on a page made for the phone in your hand. Each organization chooses which of them it offers. Your gift goes to the organization's own account. It does not pass through ours.
- Give once, or monthly by card where the organization offers it
- Give in your own name or anonymously
- A name for a memorial tablet or a blessing is taken with the gift
Receipts
A receipt for every gift, sent to you
When your gift completes, the organization's receipt is emailed to you and kept in your account. If the organization can issue a tax-exempt receipt and you gave your details at checkout, that is the receipt you get.
- Download any receipt again, whenever you need it
- Ask the organization for a receipt you are missing
- Whether a gift earns tax relief depends on the organization and the fund, so check the receipt
Your account
Everything you have given, in one place
Sign in with a code sent to your email. There is no password to remember. One account holds your gifts to every organization on DonorCARE.
- Your giving history, by organization and campaign
- Monthly gifts you can change or stop yourself
- Names on a tablet you can correct while the organization still allows it
If something is wrong
You can say so, and it reaches someone
Every organization in the directory has a way to raise a concern about it. A person at DonorCARE reads each report, and the organization is never told who you are. You can report anonymously too.
Questions donors ask
Tax relief, receipts and your personal data, answered from LHDN and other primary sources.
Is my donation tax-deductible? How to check before you give
Not automatically. A gift only qualifies for a tax deduction if two things are true at once: the organisation holds current approval from LHDN under subsection 44(6) of the Income Tax Act 1967 — the LHDN approval that makes a gift deductible — and it covers the specific fund you're giving to [1][2]. It also has to be a genuine gift, money with nothing specific expected back, not payment for a meal, a ticket, a tablet, or anything else [3]. Even then, it's a deduction against your income, not a refund, capped at 10% of your aggregate income for the year [1][2]. Zakat and fitrah work differently again, as a rebate rather than a deduction [4]. Check before you give by asking the organisation directly, or looking them up on LHDN's own website [1].
What must be on a valid donation receipt in Malaysia? A checklist for NPOs
What makes a receipt valid for a donor's tax deduction is that (1) your organisation holds current approval from LHDN under subsection 44(6) of the Income Tax Act 1967 for the fund the donation went to, and (2) the receipt itself carries what LHDN's own current guideline requires of every approved organisation, plus anything extra your specific approval letter adds. That guideline, dated 23 October 2025, publishes a general receipt checklist — organisation details, a unique preprinted serial number, the donor's full particulars, the amount and date, the collector's position, and a fixed reference to your approval — which this article walks through in full below [1][2]. A donation to an organisation without 44(6) (or an equivalent) approval, or to a fund your approval doesn't cover, cannot be issued as tax-deductible at all — you can still give the donor an ordinary receipt as proof of payment, just not one that lets them claim a deduction.
How do I claim tax relief for my donations when I file my taxes?
You can only claim a donation as a tax deduction if the organisation you gave to holds current LHDN approval under subsection 44(6) of the Income Tax Act 1967 for the fund your gift went to [1][2]. If it does, your deduction is capped at 10% of your aggregate income for the year, shared with a few related categories rather than given fresh for each, and it reduces the income you're taxed on, not your tax bill directly — a RM2,000 gift doesn't come back as RM2,000 [2][3]. On Form BE, donations sit in Part F ("Donations / Gifts / Contributions"), separate from your personal reliefs, and e-Filing applies the 10% cap automatically [4]. Zakat and fitrah are claimed differently — as a rebate, not a deduction [4]. Keep your receipt: LHDN's e-Filing guidance says seven years from the end of the year you filed that return [4].
Do we need an e-Invoice for a donation, or is our LHDN receipt still enough?
It depends on what kind of organisation you are, on your annual turnover, and the answer has changed twice in the last year. If you are a religious institution or organisation set up exclusively for worship or advancing religion, LHDN's own rules currently exempt you from issuing e-Invoices for donations you receive [1] — your existing receipt can carry on unchanged. If your organisation also holds LHDN tax-exempt approval for a separate charity or community project, or you are a non-religious NPO with that approval, this donation-specific exemption does not apply to you [1] — but a separate, general exemption may still cover you: taxpayers of every kind with annual turnover or revenue under RM3,000,000 are currently exempt from e-Invoicing altogether, donations included [2]. Whether that covers your organisation depends on your own turnover, not on your s44(6) or 34(6)(h) status — see "The general small-taxpayer exemption" below.
I lost my donation receipt, or I'm not sure it's genuine — what do I check?
A receipt only lets you claim a tax deduction if it comes from an organisation currently approved by LHDN under subsection 44(6) of the Income Tax Act 1967, for a gift of money the approval actually covers [1]. It has to show specific things — the organisation's details, a unique receipt number, your name and identity number, the amount, and a fixed note naming the organisation's approval reference — checkable against the list below [2]. Missing your IC number or address on it? That's usually because the organisation legally can't issue a tax-deductible receipt without those details [2]. Gave by bank transfer and heard nothing back? Same reason: nobody could match the payment to a name [2]. Lost a receipt? Ask for it to be reissued under the same original number, not a fresh one [2]. And checking whether a receipt is genuine at all uses the same checklist LHDN requires every approved organisation's receipt format to follow [2].
Should we ask donors for their IC number? When it's needed, and how to protect it
Usually only if the donor wants something from it, with one hard floor. LHDN's current guideline for organisations approved under subsection 44(6) says a donor's identity number (NRIC, passport, or business registration number) and address must be on file before you can issue a tax-deductible receipt, and that a receipt should not be given without it [1]. If a donor only wants an ordinary receipt, you don't need it. If a donor asks for an individual e-Invoice, an identity number is needed too, though a Malaysian donor can give either their MyKad number or their TIN, not both [3]. The floor: for an organisation implementing e-Invoicing, since 1 January 2026, the rules expect any single donation over RM10,000 to carry the donor's complete information, whether or not the donor asks [1, §4.10(e) Note iii] — though an organisation with turnover up to RM5,000,000 may still fold it into the monthly consolidated e-Invoice under the Specific Guideline's interim relaxation, until 31 December 2027 [3, §16.1–16.2(a)]. Whether e-Invoicing applies to your organisation at all — and from when — is its own question, covered in Do we need an e-Invoice for a donation? . Below that amount, with no tax claim and no e-Invoice requested, you can accept the gift and issue a plain receipt with no identity number at all. Once you do collect one, the Personal Data Protection Act 2010 sets the baseline for how you tell donors why you're asking and how you look after it afterwards [4].
Find somewhere to give.
See the campaigns open now, or look up an organization in the directory of Malaysian NPOs.