Charitable donations can only be entered on Schedule A as an itemized deduction. If your total itemized deductions are not greater than the Standard Deduction for your filing status there is no need to report the charitable donation on your tax return.
Go to this IRS website that has a search to tool to determine the eligibility of an organization to receive tax-deductible charitable contributions - https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/search-for-tax-exempt-organizations
Standard deductions for 2023
Single - $13,850 add $1,850 if age 65 or older
Married Filing Separately - $13,850 add $1,500 if age 65 or older
Married Filing Jointly - $27,700 add $1,500 for each spouse age 65 or older
Head of Household - $20,800 add $1,850 if age 65 or older
To be deductible, the charity must be registered in the US as a tax-exempt organization. There is a search tool here,
https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/tax-exempt-organization-search
Some overseas charities have US branches, but others do not, so it depends on who you donated to.
Then, you can always list qualifying charitable donations on your tax return, but how much benefit you get depends on your other itemized deductions (mortgage interest, state and local taxes) and other filing situations that we don't know about.
And...you posted your question from the Free Edition, which does not support entering charitable donations. Unless you are really using Deluxe or higher, and are entering other itemized deductions like mortgage interest and property tax, etc. etc., the twelve dollar donation would not have any effect on your refund or tax due and does not need to be entered anywhere. And, since it was to an overseas charity, whether or not you could even enter it is questionable.
donations to foreign charities are not deductible unless made through a US registered branch or affiliate.
Hi, sorry for the late answer. So I clicked on the link leading me to the IRS, and the non-profit organization that I donated to go by the name of 'Zoopatrul' (they're a legit non-profit judging from their facebook and Instagram page). So I did that and they didn't come up. So, I should be fine, right? Anyways, thank you for answering my question. I was genuinely curious since doing my taxes can be a bit confusing for me.