General Support (from American Online Giving Foundation)

General Support (from American Online Giving Foundation) is sponsored by American Online Giving Foundation. The American Online Giving Foundation has provided general support grants to organizations like Brighter Ukraine Foundation. This indicates a potential for funding organizations with a focus on Ukrainian causes.

Our mission is to connect causes with the world’s largest companies and their employees, using technology to transform the way they receive funds and freeing up their time and resources to focus on delivering community impact.

Established in 2016, American Online Giving Foundation, Inc. (AOGF) is a US tax-exempt public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code that uses technology, automation and aggregation to help donors maximize their generosity while reducing administrative costs associated with charitable giving for other charities.

AOGF collaborates with Benevity, Inc., a for-profit certified B Corporation that provides leading global corporate purpose software. The Benevity technology platform helps companies and their employees make charitable donations in the most efficient, effective way possible and to recommend grants to other Section 501(c)(3) public charities.

AOGF uses donor advised funds and other charitable funding models to facilitate giving to a broad range of charities. How does a donation happen? When people and companies donate to AOGF, they also provide a recommendation to AOGF of which charity to support through the donation.

AOGF provides a tax receipt (if applicable), aggregates all donations received (from all donors) and typically makes disbursements to charities on a monthly basis. While AOGF endeavors to follow donor recommendations, it maintains exclusive legal ownership and discretion over donated funds. How does AOGF help charities the United States?

Serving a national constituency, AOGF’s primary purpose is to raise, aggregate and grant funds for charitable purposes and to make distributions to other Causes, all as efficiently as possible. “ AOGF connects more than 100,000 registered US charities with millions of donors. More than 95% of the $380 billion donated to North American charities in 2020 was paid to the charities by cash or check.

” Can you imagine what all of that costs to process? AOGF is committed to reducing the costs of charitable giving by streamlining donations to Causes. With a single monthly donation from AOGF, Causes are no longer required to perform manually intensive administrative tasks or deploy resources to cash checks, write and distribute tax receipts or verify donations.

Has your Cause received funds from AOGF? We encourage you to complete your Cause Profile in the Benevity Causes Portal so your organization can increase its opportunities to connect with additional donors. A Cause Profile allows your Cause to establish eligibility for hundreds of corporate giving programs and reach an audience of several million donors and volunteers.

You will be able to publish stories that update donors on the impact of their donations and access comprehensive donor reports. AOGF is registered as a 501 (c)(3) with the Internal Revenue Service with the EIN 81-0739440.