How it works
What happens to your donation
A project is broken into stages. Each stage is verified by EffortX Foundation before it is paid for, and every payment we make is published.
Why we can check
We are the funder, not the deliverer
EffortX Foundation Ltd does not implement projects. The work is delivered by our in-country partner, and we pay for it in stages. That separation is the whole basis of the check: the organisation verifying a milestone is not the organisation that completed it.
Where a charity delivers its own programmes, its progress reports are self-assessment. Ours are not, because we did not do the work.
The steps
From a donation to a delivered stage
01 Choose a project
Every project we publish is broken into stages before it opens for funding, with what each stage delivers agreed with the partner in advance. You can give to a project once or monthly.
02 A stage is delivered
Our in-country partner carries out the stage and submits what they have done. They are accountable for delivery; we are not the party doing the work.
03 We verify it
EffortX Foundation checks the stage against what was agreed before the funds for it are released. Because we did not deliver the work, this is a check rather than a self-assessment.
04 It is published
Each payment we make is published with its amount and its date, against the stage it paid for, so the record is not a summary written after the fact.
The money
What we can and cannot tell you about a donation
Money given to a project is applied to that project. Payments are made stage by stage rather than as a single transfer at the start, and each one appears in the public record with the stage it paid for.
Amounts shown across this site and on the giving platform are in US dollars, not Australian dollars, because that is the currency the platform reports in. It is worth knowing when you are reading a total.
We are not endorsed as a deductible gift recipient, so a donation to us is not tax-deductible in Australia.
Limits
What we do not claim
We are a new and small organisation. We have not published audited financial statements, because we have not yet reached a reporting period that requires them.
We do not claim that every dollar reaches a beneficiary. Running a charity has costs, and the giving platform charges fees, which is why the published payments are worth reading rather than a single headline percentage.
And we do not present our partner’s work as ours. The programmes described on this site are delivered by Yayasan Jejak Kasih Indonesia.