Employer matching
The gift you already made may still be worth double.
Thousands of employers match their people’s charitable donations, and many will still do it months after the fact. Most employees never find out. It takes about thirty seconds to check, and it costs you nothing.
Start typing your employer’s name
You will get their matching gift policy, their volunteer grant policy if they have one, the minimum and maximum they will match, their deadline, and a link to their submission form.
Not seeing a search box? Some workplace networks and ad blockers stop third-party tools like this one — which is a common thing to run into if you are reading this on a work laptop. Everything you need is in the panel below, and your HR team or company giving portal can take it from there.
That is the estimated value of matching gift funds that companies have set aside and nobody claims — money already budgeted, already approved, waiting on a form that never gets filled in.
Estimate published by Double the Donation, whose database powers the search above. Figures are industry-wide rather than specific to this Foundation.
Video courtesy of Double the Donation.
What the form will ask for
Everything your employer needs, in one place.
Company portals ask for some combination of these. Worth copying them rather than typing from memory — a wrong EIN is the most common reason a match quietly fails.
The Taylor LEAD Foundation
Use the legal name exactly as written. Some portals will not find us under “Taylor LEAD” alone.
- Legal name
- The Taylor LEAD Foundation
- EIN
- 99-2465893
- Address
- P.O. Box 8744, Boise, ID 83707
- Status
- 501(c)(3) public charity
- Category
- Youth development · Education · Athletics
- Contact
- hello@taylorleadscholarship.com · 208.477.1522
How it works
Four steps, and the last one matters more than it looks.
Search your employer above
If they run a program you will get their rules, their limits and a link straight to their form. If nothing comes up, ask your HR team anyway — smaller and newer programs are not always in any database.
Submit your request
Usually a short online form, occasionally a paper one. You will need your donation receipt and the details in the panel above. Most take under five minutes.
We confirm it
Your employer will contact us to verify the gift, and we handle that from our end. Nothing further is required from you.
Tell us you have done it
This is the step people skip. Matching gifts frequently arrive as a lump payment from a corporate giving platform with no donor attached — so we can end up with the money and no idea who to thank. Send us one line and we will watch for it.
Already gave earlier this year? Check anyway. Most corporate programs accept submissions well after the donation date — often up to a year, sometimes to a fixed calendar deadline. The gift you made in February may still be sitting there waiting to be doubled, and nobody is going to tell you that except us.
The one nobody uses
Some employers will pay us for hours you volunteered.
It is called a volunteer grant, and it is the most overlooked money in this whole category. You give your time; your company writes a check for it. Programs commonly pay a set rate per hour once you pass a threshold, and some make a lump grant for a season of service.
Fifty people worked our first gala
Fifty volunteers ran the inaugural Change Make*Hers Gala. If even a handful of them work for companies with volunteer grant programs, those hours were worth real money to this Foundation — and we never asked, because we did not have this page.
We would like that to be the last time.
Hours that usually qualify
Volunteering at the gala or a fundraiser. Helping run a Game On! camp or clinic. Serving on one of our standing committees. Reading scholarship applications during the January-to-May cycle. Board service.
Most programs need a log of dates and hours and a signature from us. Ask and we will send one.
If the answer is no
Three things still worth trying.
Check your spouse or partner’s employer
A good number of programs will match a gift made by an employee’s spouse or domestic partner. It is one of the most commonly missed provisions in the whole system.
Check whether you are retired, part-time or on a board
Some employers extend matching to retirees, part-time staff, and non-employee board members. If you have ever worked somewhere large, it is worth a look even years later.
And if your employer does not do this at all — someone has to ask them to start, and it is almost always an employee rather than a charity. If you would find it useful to have something to forward internally, write to us and we will put together whatever helps.
Thirty seconds
The cheapest gift you will ever make is the one you already made.
Search your employer, submit the form, and $115 becomes $230 — which is one funded season becoming two. There is no version of this where checking was not worth it.
The Taylor LEAD Foundation · P.O. Box 8744, Boise, ID 83707 · 501(c)(3) · EIN 99-2465893