Double Your Gift — Without Spending Another Dollar

Most large employers (and many mid-size ones) will match charitable donations their employees make — often dollar-for-dollar — and many also pay volunteer grants: a donation to the nonprofit for every hour you volunteer. Billions of matching dollars go unclaimed every year simply because nobody submits the form. Two minutes of paperwork can double what your gift does for the charities we serve.

Step 1 — Check whether your employer matches

• Search your company intranet or benefits portal for “matching gifts.”
• Ask HR — the programs are usually run through platforms like Benevity, YourCause, or Bright Funds.
• Retirees and employees’ spouses are often eligible too — worth asking.

Step 2 — Submit FFC’s details

Everything a matching-gift or volunteer-grant form asks for:

Volunteer grants: your hours are worth money

If you volunteer with FFC — as a webmaster, project manager, designer, or M365 admin — your employer may donate for every hour you log (commonly $10–25/hour). A volunteer giving 4 hours a week can generate thousandsof dollars a year for the program without donating a cent. Check the same benefits portal for “volunteer grants” or “dollars for doers,” and we’ll gladly verify your hours. Not volunteering yet? Find your role.

What your matched dollars do

Every $16.5keeps one charity’s domain, email, and website alive for a year — see the full unit economics. A $100 gift matched to $200 covers twelve charities.

Questions, or a form that needs something we didn’t list? Contact usand we’ll turn it around quickly — matched money is the best kind of money.