Does Apple Inc. donate to fundraisers?

Electronics companies that do donate

Our directory lists 3 electronics companies with a published donation program. Canon U.S.A., Nikon and Nintendo are among them.

Those electronics companies are listed further down this page, with what each one gives and how much notice each one asks for.

How to ask a company with no published program

We found no company-wide donation program for Apple Inc. at our last check, which is not the same thing as a refusal. Small community donations at national chains are often handled by individual locations, so the local route is the one to try, and it works differently from a corporate application.

• Ask a local store or franchise manager directly. National chains often leave small community donations to individual locations even where there is no company-wide program, so an in-person ask is a different route from a corporate request.
• Check Apple's own website for a giving or community page. Programs change and are not always announced — our directory records what we found at the last check, not what is true today.
• Give as much notice as you can. Programs that do publish requirements commonly ask for several weeks, and a late request is refused on timing alone regardless of the cause.
• Ask a Electronics company that does publish a program — 3 companies in our directory do.

When to ask

The electronics companies in our directory that do publish a program state a lead time of 6 months — a local ask has no published deadline of its own, so use those as the guide.

Across more than 25,000 fundraising events in our own records over fifteen years, March, April and May are the busiest months for fundraisers, October is the next busiest, and July and December are the quietest.

Start from the event date and count backwards, not from today. Spring is the busiest stretch of the year, so an event in March, April or May needs a longer run-up than the figures above imply.

Common questions

Why is no donation program listed for Apple Inc.?

Ultimate Donations records what a company publishes about donation requests, and at our last check we found no published program for Apple Inc.. That is a record of what we found, not a statement from Apple Inc.: programs start, change and end, and they are not always announced.

Can we still ask Apple Inc. for a donation?

Nothing recorded here says Apple Inc. turns down donation requests — only that we found no company-wide program. National chains often leave small community donations to individual locations, so a local store or franchise manager is a different route from a corporate request, and it is the one worth trying when no program is published.

Which Electronics companies donate to fundraisers instead of Apple Inc.?

Canon U.S.A., Nikon, Nintendo. Each one has a donation program recorded in our directory, with what it gives and how much notice it asks for.