Crowdfunding made for teams

What is FanAngel™?

FanAngel is an online fundraising platform designed for teams. Supported by dedicated campaign coaches, it leverages personalized, automated outreach to increase giving and reduce the burden of fundraising. FanAngel ensures secure, compliant donations; and teams keep over 90% of all money raised.

Who Uses FanAngel

Teams, Athletes, Schools, Non-Profits... anyone who needs to raise money and awareness and can use the power of sports to help excite and engage with their audience.  Examples include:

  • High School and Youth sports teams raising money for equipment and travel.

  • Non-traditional athletes who need to fund their training, equipment, or travel.

  • A community member who wants to use sports-based events and performances to raise funds and bring awareness for causes (e.g. raising money for American Cancer Society by completing their first marathon).

How It Works

FanAngel is a feature-rich platform focused on the unique needs and passions around school sports and activities. Some key features include:

  • Donations - Ability to accept a flat donation in any value over $1.

  • Performance/Challenge Pledges - Envision a jog-a-thon applied to every sport, every level, every stat. Or envision using that key rivalry game to motivate donations & awareness. Performance Pledges allow fans to pledge their donation based on real world outcomes like wins, touchdowns, miles, pounds... Imagine pledging $10 for each touchdown your local high school scores during the season. The campaign administrators will input the final results for the final donation amount.

  • Event Registration - Holding a car wash or barbecue fundraiser? Use FanAngel to sell tickets for delivery or will call.

  • Advanced Email and Social Features - Promoting your campaign is the hard work of fundraising. FanAngel is here to help alleviate some of that difficulty by offering features and best practices that have proven track records in the crowdfunding space. High schools and youth programs can leverage our powerful email networking features to emulate an old-school letter writing campaign, but with 21st century tracking (you’ll know exactly which participant sent the most emails and garnered the most donations).

  • More than Rewards - Donor incentives are a cornerstone many successful fundraising campaigns. FanAngel has expanded on the standard offerings -- e.g. weekly top supporter rewards, market value for tax donations, auction rewards... Adding in rewards shared with connected campaigns and rewards for "top" connected campaigns and the power FanAngel really begins to shine.

  • Online Auctions - FanAngel is the only fundraising platform that includes an auction platform inside your crowdfunding page.

  • Built for Schools and Non-Profits - FanAngel partners with FanAngel Foundation (fanangelfoundation.org) to accept non-profit donations. If you are a School or a federal charitable organization, all funds will be processed by FanAngel Foundation, and then will send all proceeds directly to the designated non-profit (minus FanAngel and credit card fees). Once a campaign is created with a FanAngel Foundation approved non-profit, it cannot be changed. If a beneficiary loses its non-profit status and there is an active campaign, the campaign is immediately suspended and the organizer is contacted. Proceeds collected by FanAngel Foundation will never be disbursed to an individual or a for-profit organization.

Who Gets The Money?

FanAngel campaigns will always clearly identify the beneficiaries of the funds raised. 

For "Verified" campaign donations are processed by our partner FanAngel Foundation and then sent to the school or non-profit that FanAngel Foundation has on record at the conclusion of the campaign. FanAngel LLC does not receive non-profit donations.  All funds for non-profit recipients go directly to FanAngel Foundation.  Any applicable tax receipts are generated by FanAngel Foundation.

FanAngel Foundation, Inc. (“FanAngel") is a California nonprofit corporation (Federal Tax ID: 83-0678354) with federal tax-exempt status from the IRS under Section 501(c)(3). Contributions to FanAngel are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

For-Profit/"Cash" campaigns donations, also known as Personal Fundraising, are processed through FanAngel LLC. These funds are directly sent to the designated recipient during the campaign. These donations are NOT tax deductible.  FanAngel DOES NOT VERIFY OR GUARANTEE the validity of for profit campaigns, but will indicate who the funds are being sent to. Therefore, donors should donate only to people and campaigns they personally know.

Fees

FanAngel’s platform fee is 7% on each donation made through the site, plus any third-party card processing fees associated with the transaction (currently 2.8% for non-profits or 2.9% + $0.30/transaction for-profit).  We currently use Stripe as our credit card processor.

FanAngel has no penalties or cancellation fees.

Contact

If you need more help, please contact FanAngel by emailing help@fanangel.com.