Fundraising facts

The Fr Bob Maguire Foundation is a listed Public Benevolent Institution (PBI). That is, it’s a non-profit institution organised for the direct relief of poverty, sickness, suffering, distress, misfortune, disability or helplessness. The characteristics of a PBI are:

  • It is set up for needs that require benevolent relief
  • It relieves those needs by directly providing services to people suffering them
  • It is carried on for the public benefit
  • It is non-profit
  • It is an institution, and
  • Its dominant purpose is providing benevolent relief.

The foundation relies entirely upon the the proceeds from its fundraising efforts to operate - the generous donations from individuals and businesses.

A donation to the Foundation is also an investment made by that person or organisation in the social capital of the communities in which the Fr Bob Maguire Foundation provides services.