Mater Lotteries: where your ticket money goes
Last updated 22 September 2026 (AEST) · 5 draws tracked · Method: registration and spending statements from Mater Lotteries's own published disclosures; prize and ticket figures read from their draw pages on our last sync.
Raising funds for Mater Foundation to support healthcare, research and education through prize home and car draws.
Mater Lotteries has not published a spending breakdown we can cite. Their charity register record, linked below, is the primary public source for how they spend.
How to use this page
Read the facts table for the checkable details, then follow the charity register link to see the operator's own financial reporting. The prize return figure lets you compare them against every other operator on the efficiency table.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Charity / licence number | ABN 96 723 184 640 |
| Public charity register | ACNC charity register record |
| Operating since | 1906 |
| Head office | Brisbane, Queensland |
| Published prize return | Not publishable |
| Median ticket price | $2.00 |
| Draws we track | 5 |
| Total prize value tracked | $11.6M |
| Winner stories on file | 1 |
| Measure | Published figure |
|---|---|
| Homes | 400 |
| Raised | $300 Million |
| Beneficiaries | Millions of patients |
What these numbers mean
Prize return is what the operator puts back as prizes per dollar of tickets at a full pool. It is not the charity's share — the remainder covers the cause, the cost of acquiring the prize home and the cost of running the draw. Those splits appear in the charity's annual reporting, not on the ticket page.
Questions people ask
Is Mater Lotteries a registered charity?
Mater Lotteries publishes the charity/licence number ABN 96 723 184 640. You can check it yourself on the ACNC charity register. Figures come from each operator's own published draw pages, recorded at the time we last fetched them. Charity lotteries are games of chance regulated under state gaming licences. Always confirm the price, close time and terms on the operator's official site before you buy.
How much of a Mater Lotteries ticket goes to prizes?
Mater Lotteries does not publish a maximum ticket pool on the draws we track, so no prize-return figure can be calculated without guessing. We leave it blank rather than estimate.
Do you earn a commission from this operator?
How we make money: we may earn a commission when you buy a ticket after following a link from this site. It is paid by the operator's marketing budget, never added to your ticket price, and it plays no part in any ranking on this page — every column here is computed from the operator's own published figures.