ME/CFS Research Foundation is recognised by the German tax office as a non-profit organisation. Donations to us are therefore tax deductible in Germany. For donations of up to €300 per year, proof of payment (e.g. payment receipt, bank statement) is sufficient to claim the donation in your tax return. In order to keep our administrative workload to a minimum, we will only issue donation receipts for amounts up to €300 on request (please send your donation receipt inquiry here). Thank you for your understanding! We are working to enable tax-beneficial donations from other countries as a next step. For short-term larger international donations, please contact us at: donation@mecfs-research.org.

For your donation of more than 300€ per year (one-time or as a sum of several donations), you will automatically receive a donation receipt. In order to issue the receipt, we need the name, address and email of the donor.

For donations via Paypal, credit card, Apple/Google Pay or SEPA direct debit this information will be collected automatically during the transaction.

For donations by bank transfer please transmit your data with our donor data webform (if you missed to do that you can do that subsequently). Please use the donor webform if your donation comes from outside of Germany , or if you donate from a company account or from another foundations (charities) or if you may need a donation receipt for other reasons. Please always provide us with your email address as well. So we can process your request digitally (and save administrative costs). Thank you very much!  

For further enquiries, please write to us at: donation@mecfs-research.org 

We very much appreciate regular support. To do this, click on "Recurring donation" and "Donation by bank transfer" above (then simply set up a standing order to our donation account at your discretion). Alternatively, you can also donate via the link "Donate via PayPal" that supports recurring donations with Paypal, credit card or debit card. Thank you very much!   

If the total of your annual donations to us exceeds 300€, please share your contact details with us, using this form for your donation receipt (especially if you donate by standing order). Thank you very much!   

We guarantee that 100% of your donation will be used to support biomedical ME/CFS research. This is because the ME/CFS Research Foundation has only low administrative costs, which are fully covered by dedicated donations.

If you donate by bank transfer, ME/CFS Research Foundation does not incur any transaction costs.

For all other payment methods (Paypal, credit card, Apple/Google Pay, SEPA direct debit) we have negotiated reduced transaction fees with our payment providers. Nevertheless, we incur transaction costs of €0.25 to €0.35 per transaction plus 1.2% to 1.5% of the gross donation amount. These fees go to our payment processing partners Paypal and Stripe. Compared to other donation portals, these fees are relatively low.

However, your donations will only be received in full by bank transfer, standing order or deposit.

We strive to ensure that 100% of our research funding to universities and institutes benefits research (i.e. without the usual, lump-sum deductions by universities for administration, etc.). Should this not be possible in individual cases, we would either prioritise other institutes or projects, or we would try to reach an appropriate arrangement with the institutes concerned without deductions. So far, this has been possible in every case. 

For the sake of completeness, however, we would like to point out that every research project involves a certain amount of administrative work (e.g. to meet mandatory regulatory requirements). We support these costs, because without them research would not be feasible.

Yes, you may donate for a specific purpose. Please note the purpose of the donation in the subject of the transfer or in the note of your Paypal/credit card/Apple/Google Pay payment, e.g. "Donation for Project XY at University Hospital XY" or send us an explanatory note. e-Mail. However, we can only support projects that are recognised as non-profit. Otherwise, we again risk our non-profit status. Donations without earmarking will be used according to our research quality criteria and the priorities set by our scientific advisory board .

Your question about donations is not answered here? Then please send your question by e-mail to: donation@mecfs-research.org