If you are considering a larger gift, clarity matters more than urgency. The first question is not how much you want to give. It is what you want the gift to do.
If your priority is humanitarian relief
Use the ICRC Middle East donation page or contact the ICRC directly through its donor channels. A larger relief gift belongs with the organization running the aid program, because that is where restrictions, acknowledgments, reporting, and stewardship live. OZJF should not sit in the middle of that relationship.
If your priority is OZJF’s own work
Use Support or Contact OZJF. That conversation is about institution-building: research, publishing, advocacy, coalition work, and growth. It is separate from civilian relief.
If you want to do both
Treat them as two separate decisions. One gift supports field relief through the ICRC. The other supports OZJF. Separate gifts keep the paperwork clean, the expectations clear, and the credit honest.
Why separation helps
Larger donors often need a clean internal record for boards, advisers, or family members. That is much easier when the relief gift and the OZJF gift are documented separately from the start. It also prevents the common misunderstanding that one organization is sponsoring or re-granting the other’s work when that is not what is happening.
What we can provide on the OZJF side
We can point you to our leadership, governance records, and financials pages so you can evaluate the organization on its own merits. If your giving team needs to understand the difference between humanitarian routing and institutional support, this page is the line: relief gifts go out; OZJF support stays with OZJF.
What we will not do
We will not imply that a large humanitarian gift sent through ICRC is an OZJF donation. We will not promise tax treatment, customized reporting, or donor recognition for a transaction we do not control.