&gt; Legally not allowed? You can donate to anybody you please I would think.<p>The point patio11 makes here is that as a company things are not so easy:<p>&gt; Both countries are very lenient with regards to necessary business expenses (必須経費 over here). Neither particularly likes arbitrary money moving out of the company; that smacks of unreported income.<p>(&quot;unreported income&quot; here means money paid to an employee but not reported as income). With a proper invoice and line item, all the boxes are checked and a random audit won&#x27;t fall on the company like a ton of bricks.<p>Even if the system handles company donations, that tends to be more complex both internally and externally than a &quot;software license&quot; line item, and thus to have way more overhead and to be way more likely to be refused.