Hearts of Hope Foundation is a newly registered Australian charity. We were endorsed by the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission and granted Deductible Gift Recipient status on 11 April 2025. Our promise is simple: 100% of every donation reaches the program you nominated, less only the card-processing fee. Our books are open from day one. Our offices, our partners and our impact will be earned program by program, dollar by dollar, on the public ledger.
Hearts of Hope Foundation is a registered trading name of Islamic Aid Worldwide Project Ltd, an Australian Public Benevolent Institution endorsed under Item 1, s30-15 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997. Cash gifts of $2 or more are tax-deductible to Australian donors.
We are new. We do not claim a multi-year track record we don't have. What we do claim is a structural commitment to where every dollar lands. The 100% donation policy is written into our governance charter, enforced by a three-pool bank-account separation at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and reconciled monthly by our Treasurer. Every dollar is published on a public ledger, line by line, from the day it arrives.
Operational costs salaries, rent, technology, marketing, audit fees are funded separately, by board-restricted gifts, fundraising channel margins (TCG Vault, branded merchandise) and the Foundation's planned endowment as it is built. They never touch your donation.
"Open books are not a marketing decision. They're a respect decision. The people who give us money trusted us. We owe them a receipt."
— Maya Okafor, founder (in memoriam)Programs change. Channels change. People change. These three principles do not. They are reviewed at every quarterly board meeting and any change to the language requires a unanimous board vote and 90 days of public notice to donors.
Less only the card-processing fee. No platform fee, no admin fee, no overhead allocation, and no implicit ratio. The Donor Pool is a legally segregated bank account; funds enter, sit briefly, and exit only as a program disbursement to a vetted partner.
We do not run camps or lead displaced families across borders. We deliver only through vetted in-country partners with the legal mandate, clinical workforce and local credibility we don't have. Our job is to fund their work transparently and publish what landed.
Every report, every reconciliation pack, every disbursement note is published on the Financials page in its original form. Where a thing didn't work, we say so. Where it did, the receipts are on the page. The Annual Report is not summarised, not curated.
As a newly registered charity, we are building our program portfolio responsibly. Two domestic initiatives are active; the rest are in pipeline, with funds held in restricted reserve until a signed memorandum of understanding, safeguarding review, sanctions screening and delivery feasibility are confirmed.
A community-based program supporting children and families through partner schools, councils, sporting clubs and community organisations across Australia. Referrals come from vetted partners; we do not solicit personal information from families directly.
See active initiatives →Essential household kits delivered through vetted in-country distribution partners. Sanctions screening against UN 1267 and the DFAT Consolidated List is completed before any transfer; ACNC External Conduct Standards are applied throughout.
See active initiatives →A community-funded fundraising channel sealed trading-card product sourced through licensed distributors, sold at fair retail, with 100% of margin going to the Hot Meals program. First drops in pre-launch.
TCG Vault →Planned therapeutic feeding and cash-first emergency response for households in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia, to be delivered through specialist in-country NGOs once a signed MOU is in place.
Where most needed →Cash-first support to displaced families across four target contexts Ukraine, Sudan/Chad border, eastern DRC, Syria/Türkiye corridor delivered through vetted local partners. No expat-led delivery.
Refugee Support →A permanent endowment, in pre-launch, that will grant emergency paediatric scholarships to children supported through our partner programs. 100% of donations flow through to scholarships within 90 days of receipt; principal is never spent.
Maya, in memoriam →As a newly registered charity, we operate from a single registered office in Brisbane. A Central Asia field office is on our growth roadmap, to be opened once partner relationships and program scale support locally-led delivery in the region. We will not claim a country footprint we do not yet have.
119 Telegraph Road, Bald Hills QLD 4036, Australia. Registered office, donor care, Treasurer reconciliation, partner due-diligence and program oversight all run from here. Phone +61 7 3862 0690. Office hours run Mon–Fri, 9am–6pm AEST; safeguarding and donor-emergency lines are monitored 24/7.
A Central Asia field office is in our roadmap to support locally-led program delivery in the region. Address and contact details will be published once the office is established. Until then, all overseas programs run through vetted in-country partners under signed MOUs and ACNC External Conduct Standards.
Hearts of Hope Foundation is registered under the framework of Australian charity law and binds itself to the four ACNC Governance Standards. All material policies are published on this site; where a policy or register exists in our internal records but has not yet been published, that is noted explicitly.
Every receipt, every disclosure and every regulator filing is issued in this entity's legal name.
Everything we publish about how we work is linked below. There is no separate “executive summary” deck — what's on these pages is the deck.
How Hearts of Hope Foundation came to be, from a single kitchen to a registered Australian charity.
Read →Founder, nurse, listener. The page she set the conditions for, and what we promised her we'd keep doing.
Read →Three pools, five mechanisms, one promise. The structural rule behind “100% to programs”.
Read →The framework, the board, fit-and-proper attestation, conflicts of interest and related-party transactions.
Read →Pool A, Pool B and Pool C broken out, with every program line itemised and the supporting reconciliation packs.
Read →Pre-AIS revenue and allocation in line-itemised detail. To be reconciled in our first AIS by 31 December 2026.
Read →Aligned with the Australian National Principles for Child Safe Organisations. Beneficiary records held under restricted access.
Read →Statutory protections under Part 9.4AAA of the Corporations Act for protected disclosures of suspected misconduct.
Read →ACNC External Conduct Standards, DFAT and UN sanctions screening, partner due diligence and acquittal.
Read →Where every Annual Report we publish will land. First report due after the first AIS lodgement.
Read →Long-form articles by us explaining how we plan to operate, plus pipeline notes for journalists on deadline.
Read →Open roles, our hiring process, and what work at Hearts of Hope actually looks like.
Read →Donor questions, partnership outreach, journalist enquiries, prospective volunteers we read every email and reply within two business days. Safeguarding and donor-emergency lines are monitored 24/7.
