It depends on how the donor chooses to donate. Donations made online via credit or debit card are often available in almost real time. Donations made via other methods, like checks, can sometimes take a few days to clear the system before being available for use by your program.

No, we do not provide funding and we do not accept funding proposals. We don’t offer professional fundraising services, though we do publish general fundraising content in our email newsletter, blog and on social media.

Ribbon is the online platform we use to manage the fiscal sponsorship program. In Ribbon, sponsees can view donor information and the amount of funds available for their program. Sponsees can create donation pages through Ribbon that accept donations online. Sponsees can also create debit cards to use for the charitable program, submit expenses for reimbursement, submit bills for online bill pay and more! You can see a quick video about Ribbon here.

Yes! We fiscally sponsor existing 501c3s for a variety of reasons including: providing 3+ years of financial statements for specific grants, soliciting charitable donations in all 50 states (we’re licensed to fundraise in every state that requires it), and managing the donation processing/acknowledgements for you until you are able to handle that administrative task.