# Keeping your Gift Account active Gift Accounts aren't intended to sit dormant. To keep your Gift Account active, make sure you're holding a balance and regularly recommending gifts. ## Holding a balance Your new Gift Account must receive at least $1,000 NZD in donations in its first three months. You can make this initial donation when you open the account, or if your Gift Account is public, your community can donate. Your Gift Account must also, in each financial year: * receive at least $1,000 NZD in donations, * **or** must have a closing balance of at least $20,000 NZD. No gift will be paid that reduces a Gift Account's balance to below $400 NZD, unless that Gift Account usually maintains a zero balance and pays fees separately. ## Recommending gifts If you aren't regularly recommending gifts from your Gift Account, we ask that you remain in contact with us so we know you’re still wanting to keep your Gift Account open. If we don’t hear from you for three years, we may (at our discretion) [close your Gift Account](/your-gift-account/opening-a-gift-account.md#when-succession-occurs) and transfer its assets into our General Fund, to be used for charitable purposes. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://guide.thegifttrust.org.nz/your-gift-account/keeping-your-gift-account-active.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.