The ME/CFS Research Foundation is recognised by the tax office as a non-profit organisation. This means that donations to us can be claimed for tax purposes. In order to claim the donation in your tax return, a payment receipt (e.g. payment receipt, bank statement) is sufficient for donations up to €300 per year.

In order to minimise our administrative work, we only issue donation receipts for amounts up to €300 on request. Please request these via our donation form if necessary.

You will automatically receive a donation receipt from us for donations over €300 per year, provided we have your details (name, address, e-mail).

• When donations are made via PayPal or credit card this information will be collected automatically during the transaction. 
• For donations by bank transfer please transmit your data with our donor data webform mit.

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

We very much appreciate regular support. Thank you very much!

• If you donate by bank transfer, please set up a standing order to our donation account .
• If you donate via PayPal , you can choose between one-off, monthly or annual donations.   

If your annual donation to us exceeds €300, please provide us with your details via our donor data webform , 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. The administrative costs of the ME/CFS Research Foundation are fully funded by the founder Joerg Heydecke. Further details can be found in our activity report. 

If you donate to us by bank transfer , there are no transaction costs for the ME/CFS Research Foundation.

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MB3T763YDGPNQ (incl. credit card) charges us reduced transaction costs of €0.35 per transaction plus 1.5% of the donation amount (additional fees may apply for cross-border donations). 

Donation portals such as gofundme or betterplace.org or gooding.org charge their own fees (usually 2-3% of the donation amount).

Donations via the ME/CFS Research Foundation flow 100% into the research projects or to the working groups (i.e. without the usual flat-rate deductions made by universities for administration). We agree appropriate regulations with the institutes concerned.

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 can donate for a specific purpose. Please note the purpose of your donation in the subject line of the bank transfer or in the note of your PayPal / credit card payment, e.g. "Donation for project XY at XY University Hospital". You can also tell us the purpose of your donation via our donor data webform or by e-mail .  

However, we can only support projects and institutions that are recognised as charitable. Otherwise we risk losing our charitable status.

The following applies to all donations without earmarking: 

• The ME/CFS Research Foundation exclusively promotes scientific, evidence-based, biomedical research on ME/CFS and Long Covid. We focus on basic and clinical therapy research in Germany (later also in other EU countries). We report on the projects we fund under News & Events and in our newsletter (subscribe here).
• Our project funding is based on scientific quality criteria, such as those proposed in the "Guidelines to research and care for ME/CFS and Post-COVID-Syndrome". Our funding decisions are supported by an international scientific advisory board.

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