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How do you handle employees donating to a cause the company may not want to associate with? For example, the NRA is a registered nonprofit but I don’t think you’ll find many startups interested in donating to their cause.

Edit: Separately, I do think this is a worthwhile idea and I hope you succeed!

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Great question. We have existing customers who are doing this today—they have guidelines for charitable organizations they don't fund.

Today, we enable the company admin to quickly cancel any grant that gets loaded in their hopper of monthly matching grants. They can cancel any grant from their dashboard in two taps. The employee who submitted the grant for matching will get notified their match wasn't approved.

Got it, glad to hear you’ve thought about this. Can I also say I’m glad you’re deciding to charge the company instead of the individual users or the charities themselves.

Whenever I see companies targeting the nonprofit space but planning to monetize on the nonprofit side, I’m always skeptical.

> For example, the NRA is a registered nonprofit but I don’t think you’ll find many startups interested in donating to their cause

The NRA has really gone off the rails. I've switched my giving to the CGRF, which is much more palatable as a left-leaning gun owner. I'd suggest looking at them as well. https://www.cagunrights.org/