Can an organization reissue a receipt for a nonprofit donation if you lose it?

Providing reissues of receipts is at the discretion of the nonprofit organization. The donor should keep in mind that nonprofits are frequently understaffed and may have difficulty providing such a time-consuming service.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving provides explicit instructions for obtaining a duplicate receipt on the organization's website. Goodwill Industries, a charity that receives major donations of goods rather than cash, states that it cannot provide duplicate receipts. The IRS requires donors to obtain a receipt before filing income taxes. The donor should begin organizing receipts as soon as possible to give the nonprofit sufficient time to provide the duplicate receipt.