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When you create an account with Cauze you create your own Donor Advised Fund, and just like a foundation you can fund your account and make “grants” (or donations) to any public charity.

The Cauze Charitable Fund is structured as a 501c3 and manages a Donor Advised Fund (DAF). Donor-advised funds are the fastest growing charitable giving vehicle in the U.S. -more than 175,000 donor-advised accounts hold over $70 billion in assets.

The basic structure of a DAF is as follows:

• The Donor makes a tax-deductible donation to the Cauze Charitable Fund.

• The Fund is then waiting for the Donor to advise the Fund on grants to nonprofits.

• When the Donor advises a grant, the Fund approves the grant and makes a donation to the nonprofit.

• The Donor's tax receipt comes from the Cauze Charitable Fund, regardless of # of grant recipients or timing of grants.

• The Donor of record for the recipient nonprofit is the Cauze Charitable Fund.

With Cauze, we also let the Donor distribute funds to other Donor's accounts, in the form of Gifts. The Donor who receives the gift advises on granting the funds.

We’re all unique in where we want to give. Cauze has every public 501c3 nonprofit and is updated weekly. It may be your local soccer club, an international organization, or a nonprofit that was recently started by a friend. They are all in Cauze.

The only exceptions to this are organizations identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as hate groups in the US. We filter out the 733 groups listed on the SPLC Hate Map. Our platform does not tolerate hate in any form.

100% of your personal donation goes to the charity. (there is a credit card fee that you pay, but that goes directly to our processor, and is something we hope to reduce.) If you use a gifted balance (from an employer for example), 95% of that portion goes to the nonprofit. Unless… your company has opted to cover that portion. Nonprofits are very excited about Cauze for many reasons, including the low cost relative to other fundraising options.

We never show how much someone gives.

Yes. Please follow the directions here to donate stock to fund your Cauze account. When we receive your stock, we will liquidate the stock and the proceeds will show up as a balance in your Cauze account. Here are the details:

• DTC Number: 0164

• DTC Code: 40

• DTC Name: Charles Schwab

• Account Number: 3254-7667

• Account Name: Cauze Charitable Fund

• EIN (if needed): 45-4602256

• If possible, please put your name in the memo "field" and please email us at hello@cauze.com to let us know.

Cauze is a nonprofit 501c3.

Companies pay a monthly SAAS fee to have a Cauze account and manage a workplace giving program based on the # of employees they have.

Whether you give to 5, 10, or 100 nonprofits during the year, it’s one simple receipt.

Currently, donations can only go to nonprofits, not personal fundraising like medical costs or college tuition, etc.

Nope. You cannot receive any personal benefit from a donation in Cauze. A weekend in Hawaii may be a great auction item, but it’s not technically a donation.

Yes! We have a program specifically for employers where they can donate to an employee’s Cauze account or match their donations in real-time. Now, more than ever, employers know the value of giving back. Cauze can partner with your employer to provide a real-time employee match for every donation you make. Employers also have the option to gift a balance to their employees, either as a one-time gift or as a recurring gift on a schedule set by them.

Cauze is all about individual givers. We do not enable employers to see specific details around where individual employees give or how much they give. We do give them an overall report on charities supported across all employees, but nothing personally identifiable.

Cauze disconnects you from your employer and your Cauze account follows you. We encourage you to create an account with your personal email.

Every 501c3 Public Charity is automatically in Cauze as long as they are in good standing with the IRS and not listed on the SLPC Hate Map. Our database of charities is 1M+, and is updated weekly. In fact, we often send grants to nonprofits who have never even heard of Cauze.

Often, nonprofits are a chapter or program of a larger nonprofit, and don’t have their own EIN. In this case, we may need to add them to the database, if they haven’t been already added.

You can always reach out to our team at feedback@cauze.com with questions or for help finding a charity.