The Foundation is a Public Benevolent Institution (PBI), a status granted by the Australian Tax Office.  Kids with Cancer Foundation (Australia) Limited, is an incorporated public company limited by guarantee.

The ATO describes a PBI as follows:

• Is an institution established and carried on for the relief of poverty, sickness, suffering, distress, misfortune, destitution or helplessness, and

• Makes its services available without discrimination to every member of the public which the organisation aims to benefit, and

• Is administered for the public good without purpose of private gain, and

• Provides direct relief for the benefit of a disadvantaged section of the public

Kids with Cancer Foundation received gift deductibility status from the beginning and all donations over $2 are tax deductible.  Donations to Kids with Cancer Foundation are separate and unlike most charities, have no management fees deducted.  Donations are passed on 100% to our ‘Gift Account’. All our running expenses such as prizes, rents, wages, etc. are borne by the lotteries.          

Kids with Cancer Foundation commenced in December 1997  with the aim to provide funding for:

• childhood cancer sufferers

• their families and

• other institutions that assist children with cancer. 

Through the social workers in our children's hospitals we provide financial assistance to the families of children with cancer.  We have in the past paid for small things like car repairs and rental accommodation for country based families and larger amounts such as, funeral expenses for families who have lost a child to cancer.  Through the requests of paediatric oncologists in these hospitals we provide assistance directly to the hospitals, improving the care of young cancer sufferers. 

We have been granted 'Founder' status of 'The Children's Hospital at Westmead'.  'The Sydney Children's Hospital' at Randwick has us as a 'Platinum Sunshine Partner', and at 'Monash Medical Centre/Hospital' in Victoria we are the 'Founding Patron' of the 'Children's Cancer Centre'

We have in the past, raised the majority of our funds, by conducting continuous, successful lotteries (art unions/ raffles). We have marketed our $2 tickets through shopping centres in NSW, the ACT and  in Victoria, as well as through our national telemarketing office in Brisbane. The Kids with Cancer Foundation has no major corporate sponsors the funds we raise come from our own efforts.

We are totally non-profit.  All profits raised from the raffles and donations that we receive are donated back to the State from which the funds originated.  This way, we are able to help kids in each state.