Mackay Community Foundation

The Mackay Community Foundation is an independent philanthropic organization dedicated to supporting projects, activities and charities that sustain our region’s most needy.

The aim of The Mackay Community Foundation is to continually grow our base of investment funds in order to provide a permanent and growing source of funding which is then distributed to the community as annual grants to deductible gift recipients or other tax deductible entities.

A donation to The Mackay Community Foundation is a gift that keeps on giving. Donations to the Foundation are treated as capital. Only the income generated from the invested capital is distributed regularly to nominated charities and causes in the Mackay region. The stated aim of

The Mackay Community Foundation is to apply funds towards:

The relief of suffering of those persons in Mackay and the districts surrounding Mackay who endure poverty, sickness, distress, misfortune, destitution and helplessness
The improvement and assistance of educational, health, welfare, religious, environmental, family and cultural organisations in Mackay and surrounding districts.
The board of The Mackay Community Foundation manages the Foundations funds in accords to a specific constitution.