# Financial Contributors **For more information about contributing financially to a collective please view the main Open Collective Documentation** [**here**](https://docs.opencollective.com/help/financial-contributors/financial-contributors)**.** ### **Can I get a refund of my contribution?** If you set up a recurring contribution to a Collective (e.g. $10/mo) you can cancel this at any time. If there was a mistake (e.g. you typed an extra zero), or it was made fraudulently (e.g. unauthorised use of your credit card), it can always be refunded. As a charity, the Gift Collective has certain restrictions for refunds, based on rules the IRD sets about how money must be spent on charitable purposes once a donation tax receipt has been issued, so refunds are at the discretion of the Gift Collective. If the funds were donated from a charity we can usually refund them back to that charity. We can usually redirect funds to another initiative under the Gift Collective umbrella or another charity working on a similar impact area. If we have signed a grant contract specifying circumstances where funds will be returned, those will be followed. In assessing whether refunds of online donations can be facilitated, we will determine whether the donation in question has already been applied to a charitable purpose or whether it is available to be released back to the donor. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://docs.giftcollective.nz/financial-contributors.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.