Overview
Complete this schedule if your organisation is applying for endorsement as a deductible gift recipient (DGR) under the category Cultural organisation (item number 12.1.1).
Your organisation must be, either an:
- institution registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) as a charity
- Australian government agency.
Completing your schedule
Download the Cultural organisation – schedule for deductible gift recipient applicants (PDF, 388KB)This link will download a file
If you are unable to download the schedule, you can order a paper copy by phoning us on 1300 130 248.
Who should use this schedule
A cultural organisation seeking DGR endorsement under the category Cultural organisation (item number 12.1.1) must complete this schedule.
Cultural organisation
A cultural organisation is a registered charity or Australian government agency whose principal purpose is the promotion of, either:
- literature
- music
- a performing art
- a visual art
- a craft
- design
- film
- video
- television
- radio
- community arts
- arts or languages of Indigenous persons
- movable cultural heritage.
If your organisation doesn't qualify as a cultural organisation, check the DGR table to see if another category is applicable.
How to complete this schedule
In this schedule, when we say:
- ‘constituent or governing document’ – we mean an organisation’s trust deed, constitution, rules, memorandum and articles of association, statute or charter
- ‘clause’ in the constituent or governing document – we mean a rule, section, paragraph or other element of the document.
This schedule should be completed by a person authorised by the organisation to act on its behalf.
You must complete this schedule in full. Schedules that are not completed in full will be returned to the applicant.
If you can't save a completed copy of this schedule, print a copy before closing the schedule.
For details about the personal information we collect from you, see Privacy notice – Cultural organisation.
If you need help completing this schedule, phone us on 1300 130 248.
Lodging your schedule
If you are completing this schedule as part of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) charity registration application process, make sure you:
- completed the declaration at the end of the schedule
- attach the completed schedule to the ACNC charity registration application form where indicated (don't attach your evidence documents, we will request these from you at a later date).
If you aren't completing this schedule as part of the ACNC charity registration application process, make sure you:
- completed the declaration at the end of the schedule
- print the completed schedule
- send your completed schedule with all the following
- Application for endorsement as a deductible gift recipient (NAT 2948)
- evidence documents, if applicable
- a copy of your constituent or governing document
- post it to
Australian Taxation Office
PO Box 3373
PENRITH NSW 2740