How we build this directory

Who we are

Ultimate Donations has tracked corporate donation programs for fifteen years. We publish a directory of companies that donate products, gift cards, tickets, and experiences to schools, nonprofits, and community fundraisers, and we maintain those records against what each company itself publishes.

We are an independent directory. We are not an agent for any company listed here, we are not paid by companies for inclusion, and a listing is not an endorsement in either direction.

Where the facts come from

Every company page is built from that company's own published donation guidelines — its charitable-giving page, its donation request form, or the application portal it directs applicants to. Where a company states a rule, we record the rule.

We do not invent facts to fill a gap. A field we have no source for is left out rather than guessed at, which is why pages differ in length: some companies publish detailed guidelines and some publish almost nothing, and the pages reflect that honestly.

Why every page carries a date

Donation programs change without notice, and a directory that hides its age is worse than no directory at all. Each page shows when its information was last updated, so you can judge for yourself how much weight to give it.

We would rather show you a date you find too old than let you assume a page is current when it is not. Whatever a page says, the company's own page is the authority at the moment you apply, and every page says so.

What we deliberately do not publish

We hold back the direct application link and the submission requirements for each company, and make those available to members. This is a deliberate choice, not an oversight: application URLs change and go stale silently, and a directory that scatters them across the open web helps nobody keep them accurate.

Everything else about a program — who can apply, what the company gives, how much lead time it needs, what it will not fund — is published openly, because that is what tells you whether an application is worth your time at all.

How eligibility is stated

Where a company's own guidelines say it requires 501(c)(3) status, or that it does not donate to individuals or to for-profit events, the page says so plainly.

Where we hold no record either way, the page stays silent rather than implying that anyone may apply. Telling a fundraiser they qualify when nobody has checked would cost them a real application and they would never know why it failed, so we only ever publish a restriction we can point to.

Corrections

If a page here is wrong about your company, or about a program you have applied to, tell us and we will correct it. Accuracy in this directory is the whole product; a correction is a contribution, not a complaint.