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If you made a donation through your employer’s workplace giving program, log into your employer’s online giving portal.  Once you are logged in, you can view your pledge history and view a tax receipt to print. For step-by-step instructions on accessing your tax receipt, please reference the login instructions and FAQs listed on your employer's giving site. If you do not remember the link to your employee giving site, click here to submit your question to America’s Charities' Donor Services Team (be sure to include your employer’s name with your question so they can provide you with the correct link to your employer's giving website).

For Donations Made on this Website www.charities.org:

If you made your donation to America’s Charities or supported one of our Cause Funds featured on our website (www.charities.org), click here to log into your Give Lively user account. Once you have logged in, you can find a copy of your donation receipts on the main landing page or at the top of the “Payment history” page. Print the documents from that page for a copy of your receipt. You can also find other answers and "how to" steps for other questions you might have about your donation here. If you need assistance with your donation, please contact America's Charities Help Desk Team at help@charities.org.

America’s Charities offers two primary ways to give:

• Through your employer’s workplace giving campaign website (for which a custom website URL is provided), or
• Through our website at www.charities.org.

Donations made through your employer’s workplace giving campaign website cannot be accessed at www.charities.org. To participate in your employer's workplace giving campaign, visit the custom URL for your company's giving campaign.  If you are unsure of that site’s URL, please contact your campaign coordinator or click here to submit your question to America’s Charities' Help Desk Team (be sure to include your employer’s name when you submit your question). Additionally, our website (www.charities.org) only lists America’s Charities nonprofit members. Your employer might offer additional nonprofits as giving choices through your workplace giving campaign. To view a list of nonprofits available to support through your workplace giving campaign, you must log into your employer’s workplace giving website. For privacy and security purposes, we cannot list all of our employer clients and their unique giving site URLs publicly. We appreciate your understanding.

1. Confirm that you are using the correct password. Visit your company’s online giving website and click the “Forgot Password” button. You may also contact America's Charities' Help Desk Team at www.charities.org/support.
2. Create a new account. In accordance with your company’s security procedures, you may need to “Create a new account” at the beginning of a new workplace giving campaign season (even if you participated in a previous year’s campaign). If that is the case (which is not very common), your company's campaign coordinator can provide you wit step-by-step instructions (which are also typically listed on your workplace giving site's login page).

• To make a donation supporting America's Charities, click the "Donate" button located at the top of the website. You can make a donation via credit card, through your bank account, via DAF, Stock, or Crypto. We also encourage you to provide a recurring payroll deduction gift to us through your workplace giving campaign.
• To make a donation supporting one of our nonprofit members, select "Nonprofits" from the navigation menu on our website and choose "Charity Search" from the dropdown list. From there, you can view information about each of our members, including a link to donate directly to them through their nonprofit's website. We also encourage you to provide a recurring payroll deduction gift to sustain our members' missions through your workplace giving campaign.
• To make a donation to a cause that supports one or more America's Charities nonprofit members, select "Nonprofits" from the navigation menu on our website and choose "Cause Funds" from the dropdown list.

America's Charities is not legally set up to provide direct financial assistance to individuals, however, we work with many partner nonprofits that do. Click here for a list of our nonprofit members to find an organization that might be able to assist you. We also encourage you to contact your employer to see if they have an employee assistance fund set up. Based on your employer's unique employee assistance policy, you might be eligible to apply for assistance to help you with your financial hardship.

The percent of charity expenses that go to administrative and fundraising costs (AFR)—commonly referred to as “overhead”—is a misinterpreted measure of a charity’s performance. That is not to say that overhead has no role in detecting fraud or gross mismanagement, and shouldn’t be considered along with a range of other metrics. However, when you judge a nonprofit solely on this financial ratio, you are missing what really matters: a nonprofit’s impact. Instead, focus on true indicators of nonprofit performance: transparency, governance, leadership, and results.

In fact, focusing on overhead without considering other critical dimensions of a charity’s financial and organizational performance —such as costs incurred for expansion of programs and investment in organizational infrastructure--does more damage than good. Click here for more on this subject to understand how focusing on the “Overhead Myth” affects our shared goal of creating a better world.

America's Charities is proud of our record of accountability and transparency. We have met BBB Wise Giving Alliance's stringent and comprehensive 20 Standards for Accountability--see our report here. We are also committed to full transparency and reporting our results and impact, indicated by reaching the GuideStar Platinum level. See our profile here. When it comes to charity ratings (of America's Charities and our members), we encourage you to visit the following websites: BBB Wise Giving Alliance, GuideStar, and GreatNonprofits. Each of these 'charity validators' uses its own unique set of criteria and guidelines to review and assess charities. When visiting a nonprofit's website, if you do not see one or all of these charity validators promoted, that does not mean the charity hasn't been assessed. Many charity validators require the charities they review to pay a fee to promote/mention that charity validator's name, so not all nonprofits pay for that privilege. America's Charities provides a comprehensive list of our most recent financial reports and auditor reports, and we encourage you to review those reports anytime on our website by clicking here.