What Is the FCRA Quarterly Receipt Declaration - and Is It Still Required?
📌 Quick Answers
- Is the FCRA quarterly receipt declaration still mandatory? No. The quarterly website declaration under Rule 13(b) of the FCRR was omitted with effect from 1 July 2022. FCRA-registered organisations are no longer required to place donor-wise quarterly receipts on their website every quarter.
- What did the quarterly declaration require earlier? Until mid-2022, Rule 13(b) required an FCRA organisation to place on its own website (or the MHA portal) the donor-wise details of foreign contribution received in its designated bank account - donor name, address, type, purpose, amount and date of receipt - within 15 days of the end of each quarter.
- What FCRA website disclosure is required now? The organisation must place its audited statement of accounts of foreign contribution for each financial year on its own website (or the MHA website). This annual disclosure replaced the earlier quarterly obligation.
- How does this connect to the FC-4 annual return? The annual audited statement of accounts placed on the website corresponds to the figures filed in the Form FC-4 annual return, which every FCRA organisation must submit online by 31 December for the previous financial year.
TL;DR: The "FCRA quarterly receipt declaration" refers to a former requirement under Rule 13(b) of the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Rules, 2011, which obliged FCRA-registered NGOs and trusts to publish donor-wise details of foreign contribution on their website every quarter. That rule was omitted with effect from 1 July 2022 by the FCRA (Amendment) Rules, 2022. As of July 2026, there is no quarterly receipt declaration to file. The live obligation is an annual one: place the audited statement of accounts of foreign contribution on your website each financial year, in line with the data reported in your Form FC-4 annual return. This page explains the current obligations honestly, sets out the history of the quarterly rule and what replaced it, and shows how Patron Accounting helps FCRA organisations stay compliant.
If you searched for the quarterly declaration because your NGO used to upload receipts every quarter, you are in the right place - and the short answer is that you no longer need to. Read on for the exact scope of today's website disclosure, the FC-4 linkage, penalties for non-compliance, and how the June 2026 amendments changed donor transparency (without bringing the quarterly rule back). Framework references: the Ministry of Home Affairs FCRA portal (fcraonline.nic.in), and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA).



