Palestine Aid Fund
Where your donation goes

95% goes to the work in Gaza

Every donation is split the same way: 95% funds our operation and work in Gaza, and 5% covers fundraising and admin. The 5% is part of your donation. It is not added on top at checkout.

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Palestine Aid Fund

Our split on every donation

Our operation and work in Gaza: 95%95%Fundraising and admin: 5%5%
  • Our operation and work in GazaWater, food, tents and medical support, and the team delivering them95%$95.00
  • Fundraising and adminRaising donations and running PAF, including this website5%$5.00

Five mainstream aid charities, averaged

Islamic Relief, IDRF, Human Appeal, MATW Project, Penny Appeal

Programs: 72.7%72.7%Fundraising, admin and other costs: 27.3%27.3%
  • ProgramsWhat is left for charitable work72.7%$72.70
  • Fundraising, admin and other costsAverage across the five, weighted by size27.3%$27.30
$22.30 more(30.7% more)

On a $100.00 donation, $95.00 funds the work in Gaza with PAF. At the five-charity average, $72.70 of the same amount goes to programs.

Where the comparison comes from

CharityYear endingLeft for programsFundraising, admin and other costsSource
Islamic Relief2024–2576.0%24.0%Annual report and member office reports
IDRFJun 202586.1%13.9%Charity Intelligence
Human AppealDec 202569.9%30.1%Full accounts
MATW ProjectAug 202563.7%36.3%Full accounts
Penny AppealDec 202546.4%53.6%Full accounts
Average, weighted by size72.7%27.3%
  • Sponsored missions (water trucks, food parcels, tents, joy bags) are priced as a package and are not part of the 95 / 5 split: each price includes the cost of the mission and PAF's operating share, itemized at checkout.
  • Each figure counts everything outside program delivery: fundraising, support and admin staff, offices, governance and other operating costs, taken from each charity's own accounts and set against its total spending for the year.
  • The average is weighted by size, so a larger charity counts for more in proportion to its yearly spending. Counting each charity once would give 31.6%.
  • Islamic Relief: two layers are counted, and the result is an estimate. Member offices keep 18.5% for fundraising, admin and other operating costs before passing money on (the five largest, each from its own latest report: 21.0%, 20.6%, 19.2%, 12.8% and 8.0%, weighted by how much each passed on). The main organisation then spent 33.5m of its 239.0m income on its own fundraising and support costs. Together that is 24.0% of what donors gave.
  • Human Appeal: fundraising, support costs, and grants made to build up its own affiliate offices.
  • MATW Project: fundraising plus general and admin costs. Its delivery support costs (logistics, field compliance, monitoring) are left in programs.
  • Penny Appeal: fundraising plus the support costs its accounts allocate to charitable activities.
  • IDRF's share adds its fundraising and administration costs.
  • PAF's 95 / 5 is the policy we set for every donation. The other figures are published results from audited accounts.
  • Fundraising and admin is one share that covers the cost of raising donations and running PAF, including this website.
  • The card processor's fee is charged by Stripe or PayPal and shown before you pay. PAF does not receive it.

Legal status

Palestine Aid Fund is an independent humanitarian initiative — not a registered charity. Donations are not tax-deductible.

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