99Pledges is a free online fundraising platform for schools, youth sports teams, and nonprofits to run a-thon campaigns with individual donation pages,…
99Pledges is a fundraising platform built specifically for schools, youth sports teams, and other nonprofit and community organizations that run activity-based "a-thon" fundraisers, including walk-a-thons, jog-a-thons, dance-a-thons, read-a-thons, hit-a-thons, and color runs. When an organizer creates a fundraiser, each participant automatically gets an individual donation page they can share by email, text message, Facebook, and X to collect pledges and one-time gifts from friends and family.
Donors can give using credit or debit cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, or Google Pay, and organizers can also log cash and check donations directly in the platform so every gift counts toward the campaign total. Throughout the campaign, organizers and participants can monitor progress through a real-time reporting dashboard with participation rates and leaderboard rankings, and 99Pledges assigns a dedicated fundraising coach to help plan and run the event. Once a fundraiser wraps up, raised funds are transferred to the organization within one business day.
99Pledges is free for organizing groups: there are no startup costs, subscription fees, or platform fees, and no fundraising minimums. The only costs are standard third-party card-processing fees (charged by the payment processors, not by 99Pledges), and the company also relies on optional donor tips to help sustain the platform. 99Pledges states that groups using its platform raise 2-3x more on average than their previous fundraising efforts, with online donations averaging roughly 25% larger than offline gifts. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.