Nonprofits

Harness the power of the crowd

Cauze was founded on the idea that by making giving simple and social, people will give much more to nonprofits than they do now. The key to this model is to make giving about the giver.

Our goal is to enable people to support your organization at any moment they feel inspired, in a very social and amplified way. Let’s turn giving into a habit by tapping into the giver’s need for social expression and by amplifying individual giving via real time matching and corporate giving.

Did you just receive your first grant check?

HOW DOES IT WORK?

A Cauze user donates $10 to your organization through the Cauze app/website. Their $10 donation is donated to the Cauze Charitable Fund, a registered 501c3. At the end of every month, Cauze consolidates all donation recommendations for your nonprofit and makes a single grant on behalf of all the donors. This includes individual donations, matched donations, corporate donations, and gifted donations.

HOW WILL MY ORGANIZATION RECEIVE THE FUNDS?

We (currently) processes donations monthly once the total grant amount reaches $15.

We process our payments via Bill.com. Bill.com either distributes the payments via physical check (default), or via ACH (preferred).

In order for us to send payment via ACH, your nonprofit must connect with us on Bill.com. Our network path and ID is https://app01.us.bill.com/network/cauzecharitable.

DO I NEED TO SEND TAX RECEIPTS FOR DONATIONS RECEIVED THROUGH CAUZE?

No. The Cauze Charitable Fund is the donor of record and we kindly ask that you not send a receipt or add us to your direct mailing list. We receive entirely too much direct mail that goes directly into the recycle bin. The environmental waste is frustrating.

DO YOU PROVIDE A DETAILED GRANT OR DONOR REPORT TO NONPROFITS?

While we don’t provide details with the check (because Bill.com doesn’t enable that at scale), we do give nonprofits the option to create an admin account on our website.

That being said, Cauze is donor centric. This means that we give donors full control of their personal information. The only donor information we have is name and email address. And the donor decides which nonprofits to share that with.

To sign up for admin access, follow the directions on this page - https://www.cauze.com/grants

HOW DO WE ACKNOWLEDGE AND THANK DONORS?

We have made it extremely simple to thank donors in the Cauze portal and on the Cauze app. When you thank a donor, that donor is immediately notified on their phones and via email. The response from donors is powerful, and we highly encourage nonprofits to thank donors in Cauze, in real time.

You can also “like” their donations directly in the Cauze feed, which also notifies them. Similar to liking in Instagram.

WHAT ARE SOME OTHER WAYS WE CAN USE CAUZE TO INCREASE DONATIONS?

  • First, encourage your donors to favorite your profile in Cauze. This adds your nonprofit to their profile as one of their faves.

  • Second, encourage donors to add your nonprofit to their Recur basket of monthly recurring donations. This is an extremely powerful solution. Imagine 1k or 10k or 1M people giving $1 or $5 or $20 a month to you automatically in Cauze.

  • Third, encourage your donors to start cauzes for your nonprofit. Cauzes are our version of fundraisers… but of course, much better than Facebook or GofundMe or anything else out there.

  • Fourth, encourage your wealthy donors to match cauzes. If you have a donor who is going to donate $10k, have them do that as a match to encourage others.

WHAT ARE THE FEES ASSOCIATED WITH GIVING THROUGH CAUZE?

When a giver donates using a credit card, they cover a small credit card processing fee of 2.2% + .30. This is paid to our credit card vendor and is unfortunately unavoidable. The result is that 100% of their intended donation goes to the nonprofit.

If a Cauze user makes a donation from a gifted balance, or if a donation is matched, there is a gift/match processing fee of between 5% and 10%, depending on the client making the gift.