It’s been a while since I started my research on how to donate cost-effectively. That journey led me to GiveWell, TheLifeYouCanSave, Animal Charity Evaluators and, eventually, to the EA Community. I am so grateful for all the valuable resources, tools and concepts I could find thanks to the effective altruism movement. This has allowed me to start refining my mindset to maximise the positive impact, not only of my donations, but all my actions.
However, I have not found any way to donate tax-efficiently from my country (Spain). The charities I want to donate to are not among the 5 supported by Ayuda Efectiva, and neither among those listed in Transnational Giving ( I’ve seen that Transnational Giving has a process to donate to unlisted charities, but it is very complicated). Anyway, I have decided to donate directly to those charities.
Still, for upcoming donations, I’d like to know if you are aware of any other options to donate tax-efficiently from Spain that I haven’t considered.
Something like a Spanish RC Forward would be great, wouldn’t it? I think it would be a good idea to create a similar platform/tool for Spanish donors. What are your thoughts about that?
What a pitty that only Animal Ethics and Oxfam are the only tax-deductible listed charitities in Spain :/
Lately I have been seriously thinking about starting a Spanish platform like RC Forward. I may write a post soon about that idea, asking for the community’s feedback.
Hi everyone!
It’s been a while since I started my research on how to donate cost-effectively. That journey led me to GiveWell, TheLifeYouCanSave, Animal Charity Evaluators and, eventually, to the EA Community. I am so grateful for all the valuable resources, tools and concepts I could find thanks to the effective altruism movement. This has allowed me to start refining my mindset to maximise the positive impact, not only of my donations, but all my actions.
However, I have not found any way to donate tax-efficiently from my country (Spain). The charities I want to donate to are not among the 5 supported by Ayuda Efectiva, and neither among those listed in Transnational Giving ( I’ve seen that Transnational Giving has a process to donate to unlisted charities, but it is very complicated). Anyway, I have decided to donate directly to those charities.
Still, for upcoming donations, I’d like to know if you are aware of any other options to donate tax-efficiently from Spain that I haven’t considered.
Something like a Spanish RC Forward would be great, wouldn’t it? I think it would be a good idea to create a similar platform/tool for Spanish donors. What are your thoughts about that?
Feel free to contact me! :)
Hi Liam!
I usually look at this table for country-specific tax-deductibility opportunities https://donationswap.eahub.org/charities/
It seems that among the listed charities only Animal Ethics and Oxfam are tax-deductible in Spain :(
You can try the donation swap (not sure how responsive they are), and of course keep in mind that donating effectively does not necessarily imply donating tax-deductibly, but you probably already thought about that.
Hey Lorezo, thank you for your reply!
What a pitty that only Animal Ethics and Oxfam are the only tax-deductible listed charitities in Spain :/
Lately I have been seriously thinking about starting a Spanish platform like RC Forward. I may write a post soon about that idea, asking for the community’s feedback.