Which Theme Parks and Attractions Donate Tickets?

Yes — many theme parks, water parks, museums, zoos, aquariums, and activity centers donate tickets and passes to nonprofit fundraisers. This guide covers 17 attractions with dedicated pages in our directory of 4,000+ companies tracked, grouped by type so you can go straight to the ones near your event. It is part of our fundraiser donation answers library.

Donated admission is one of the most reliable prize types an organizer can request. A pair of park passes or a family museum membership is easy to ship, easy to display at an event, and appealing to almost every audience. Attraction programs do tend to book up, though, so read our guidance on how far in advance to send donation requests before you start. And if tickets are just one part of your prize table, start with our cross-category roundup of companies that donate to fundraisers.

Here are twelve attractions to consider first:

Theme parks and water parks

Seven theme parks and water parks in our directory have donation landing pages: LEGOLAND California, LEGOLAND Florida, Sesame Place, Six Flags St. Louis, California's Great America, Waterworld Concord, and Great Wolf Lodge. Park passes are strong raffle and auction prizes because families already plan to visit — a donated ticket often just decides which park wins that trip.

The two LEGOLAND resorts and Sesame Place are natural fits for elementary-school fundraisers and children's charities, since their audiences are young families. Six Flags St. Louis, California's Great America, and Waterworld Concord are regional parks; their donations tend to make the most sense for organizations in their home markets, so lead with your local connection when you ask.

Great Wolf Lodge is a special case: it is an indoor water park attached to a resort, so a donation can read as a day of water-park fun or as part of a getaway. If overnight prizes are what your auction really needs, see our companion piece on hotels and resorts that donate stays. For any of these parks, see the company's donor page for what its program has historically offered and current status — validity windows and seasonal dates are common.

Museums and landmarks

Museums and landmark attractions donate admission too, and they add variety to a prize table dominated by restaurant certificates. Five have pages in our directory: Crayola Experience, Top of the Rock, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, the Intrepid Museum, and Graceland.

Crayola Experience locations are hands-on creativity attractions aimed squarely at kids — a good match for PTA events. Top of the Rock, the observation deck at Rockefeller Center, and the Intrepid Museum, the sea-air-space museum on a retired aircraft carrier, are both New York City draws that suit metro-area fundraisers and travel-themed baskets. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland and Graceland, the landmark Memphis mansion-and-museum estate, are destination attractions with broad adult appeal. Each donor page lists what the program has historically offered and its current status.

Zoos and aquariums

Zoos and aquariums are dependable ticket donors for family-oriented events, and our directory currently has landing pages for two: the Indianapolis Zoo and Newport Aquarium. The Indianapolis Zoo combines a zoo, an aquarium, and botanical gardens on one campus; Newport Aquarium sits on the Ohio riverfront across from Cincinnati.

Both draw regional visitors, so they fit fundraisers in their surrounding areas best. Many zoos and aquariums beyond these two run community donation programs as well — if yours is local to you, ask directly, and search the donor directory to see whether we track it.

Activity centers

Activity venues round out the category with prizes that work for older kids, teens, and adults. Three have donor pages: Urban Air, Pacific Park, and TopGolf. Urban Air operates trampoline and adventure parks across the country, which makes it one of the few attraction donors with a location near many organizers. Pacific Park is the amusement park on the Santa Monica Pier — a strong fit for Southern California events. TopGolf venues combine a driving range with food and games, and donated passes there appeal to adult audiences that a kiddie park won't reach.

Because these are experience venues, they also show up in our roundup of companies that donate silent auction items; this article stays focused on tickets and passes.

What about Disneyland, Dollywood, and other big parks?

Some of the biggest names come with caveats. For Disneyland Resort, Dollywood, Kings Island, and AMC Theatres, no active donation program was listed at our last check — see each company's page for current status. Programs pause and restart, so a past "no" is worth re-checking before a big event.

Other major parks — Walt Disney World, Universal, SeaWorld, Cedar Point, and similar destinations — are not currently in our directory's landing pages; search the directory for the latest. We can't tell you whether they donate, only that we don't have a verified page to point you to yet.

How to request attraction tickets

Attraction requests follow a consistent pattern:

1. Start early. Ticket programs often review requests in batches, and popular parks book up. Many programs ask for several weeks' notice, and the timing guide linked above covers lead times by donor type.
2. Use the official channel. Most attractions review requests through a set community-donation process — each donor page above explains how the program has historically accepted requests and its current status.
3. Have your nonprofit documentation ready, since many programs ask for it.
4. Read the fine print on any donated ticket: validity windows, excluded dates, and expiration terms vary by program, so confirm them before printing your auction catalog.

Tickets and passes are some of the easiest donations to win because attractions benefit when a whole family redeems a single donated admission. Ask locally, ask early, and check the donor page first.