Awqaf Australia
Legal name: Awqaf Australia Limited
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ACNC registration
Registered charity
As stated by the charity
Mandate
Local - distributes within Australia
About
Awqaf Australia is an Islamic endowment (waqf) institution established in 2014 in Lakemba, Sydney. A waqf preserves donated capital in perpetuity: the capital is invested, and the returns - not the capital - fund charitable causes year after year. In the organisation's own words: "Your donations are invested and protected by our expert team to ensure it grows, forever."
It operates as a group of four entities, and tax treatment differs by entity (per the ABR): Awqaf Australia Limited, the parent, is a registered charity but is not DGR endorsed; the Benevolent Fund holds DGR endorsement (2021); the Forever Fund is a DGR-endorsed public ancillary fund (2025); and the Endowment Fund is deliberately not tax deductible, because preserving waqf capital forever is incompatible with the deductibility conditions. Whether a donation is deductible depends on which fund receives it - check the receiving fund's ABN on ABN Lookup.
Donors can support 14 targeted waqfs - from masjid building, Quranic education and youth innovation to disability support, refugee resettlement and global emergency relief - or establish a waqf of their own.
From the charity's own published material
Programs & projects
Targeted waqfs
Fourteen standing endowments a donor can grow, including Islamic and Quranic education, masjid building and restoration, disability support and care, orphan support, refugee resettlement and global emergency relief.
Establish your own waqf
Donors can found a named waqf; the capital is invested by the group's fund managers and the returns are granted to the chosen cause, forever.
As described by the charity
Related-party note
The Awqaf Australia Forever Fund states it has partnered with Koda Capital, Granada Asset Management and Invest Wholesum to manage investment returns. Wholesum is one of the providers whose products appear in InvestHAQ's comparison tables. InvestHAQ receives nothing from Awqaf Australia; placement on the Giving tab is not for sale and is not connected to any commercial system on this site.
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