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Common questions about Uncommon Giving from companies evaluating workplace giving and volunteering platforms, and from nonprofits listed in our database. Last verified: April 30, 2026.
Uncommon Giving’s workplace giving and volunteering platform simplifies corporate philanthropy by centralizing all of your company’s generosity programs in one place. Employees can access our vetted nonprofit database, volunteer opportunities, their personal Giving Wallet, and all employee giving and volunteering information from native, easy-to-use mobile and desktop apps. Administrators can manage and analyze participation from their own dashboards.
Yes! Uncommon Giving utilizes state-of-the-art fraud detection tools and PCI-compliant merchant gateways for secure payment processing. Employee credit card data is not processed, stored, or transmitted by our app. Read our Privacy Policy for more information on how we keep our client data secure.
Uncommon Giving itself is not a donor-advised fund (DAF). However, our platform does provide personal charitable giving accounts that function as donor-advised funds to help individual employees centralize their philanthropic activity.
Uncommon Giving has a multistep nonprofit vetting process that includes:
Validation: A nonprofit must be a 501(c)(3) in good standing with the IRS. Uncommon Giving does continuous checks to ensure good standing.
Vetting: We partner with ProPublica and Guidestar to ensure the nonprofit is operating at a high level.
Company vetting: Admins for each company use value-based decision-making to determine nonprofit eligibility rules for company matching.
Yes. Uncommon Giving has real-time reporting for permissioned Admins and supports the ability to download the raw data in a CSV for upload into any corporate data warehouse for further evaluation. Uncommon Giving AI Insights provides an assessment of your company's program and offers suggestions for participation growth.
Yes. Uncommon Giving partners with Benevity and the UK Online Giving Foundation (UKOGF) to support international giving to vetted nonprofits in over 100 countries. You can find and contribute to many vetted global organizations from our nonprofit database.
Compared to legacy and enterprise platforms, Uncommon Giving is much more streamlined, user-friendly, and affordable for businesses of all sizes.
The Uncommon Giving platform centralizes all the features your employees actually need to participate in workplace giving in a single, user-friendly app. For a fraction of the price of other CSR platforms, Uncommon Giving provides automated donation and volunteer matching, volunteering, payroll giving, employee DAFs, real-time impact reporting, and more.
Companies of all sizes use Uncommon Giving to streamline their corporate philanthropy programs. From small businesses just getting started with CSR to large corporations looking for more user-friendly software, Uncommon Giving provides a streamlined alternative to legacy providers with an employee-focused solution. Customers include TOMS, RLI Insurance, and Bloomerang, among others.
Uncommon Giving starts at $4,200 a year, with zero additional implementation fees. Contact our team for a personalized quote based on your company's size and needs.
The Uncommon Wallet serves as a portable personal charitable giving account or DAF for each of your employees.
Individual employees (and your company, if applicable) have the option to add funds to their Giving Wallets at any time and claim a tax deduction for that year. Employees can add funds once or on a recurring basis via CC, ACH, payroll, crypto, or stock. Later, employees direct those funds toward the nonprofits and causes of their choice, ultimately receiving a single tax receipt for all donations.
Employees also have the option to bypass the wallet and make direct donations to vetted nonprofits via CC or ACH.
Yes, the Uncommon Giving application supports IdP-initiated SSO for both workplace admins and employee giver accounts. Employees can instantly use the same company credentials they already have to log into Uncommon Giving.
Yes! Uncommon Giving provides a comprehensive, user-friendly native mobile app that employees can use to find vetted nonprofits, donate, log volunteer hours, access their giving history, and much more. Uncommon Giving also offers a desktop app, so employees and admins can use whichever experience fits their workflow.
Uncommon Giving disburses donated funds twice a month via ACH transfer. Uncommon Giving can also support off-cycle disbursements when needed. Uncommon Giving does not hold funds to reach a specific threshold like legacy providers. All funds are distributed during each cycle, regardless of size. Company administrators receive full disbursement reports each time funds are distributed.
For nonprofits, Uncommon Giving automatically lists all vetted 501(c)(3) nonprofits in the database for users to make donations. Uncommon Giving makes it easy for nonprofits to claim their free profiles and add information about their mission, campaigns, funding needs, and ACH information for electronic distributions. When corporate donors and individuals browse the database, they’ll find your nonprofit’s official details. Uncommon Giving does all receipting in tool and provides nonprofits with detailed reporting of donors.
To claim your nonprofit with Uncommon Giving, follow this link and provide information like your nonprofit’s EIN, website, and mailing address. Once your organization is approved, you’ll receive a welcome email from us and be able to edit your profile.
No, you do not need to send tax receipts to donors who contribute to your nonprofit through Uncommon Giving. All donations are processed and distributed through Uncommon Charitable, Inc., and we provide tax receipts.
Yes, individuals can join Uncommon Giving and set up a Giving Wallet for free. There are no minimums, and your employer does not have to use Uncommon Giving for you to create an account.
Uncommon Giving Wallets are personal giving accounts that function as donor-advised funds. You can add funds to your wallet in the form of cash, stocks, or cryptocurrency to set them aside for charitable purposes. Then, browse our database of vetted nonprofits and donate money from your wallet to various causes and organizations on your own time. At the end of the year, you’ll receive a single tax receipt for all contributions.
Yes, all contributions to your Giving Wallet are tax-deductible for the year that you add the funding to your account.
Absolutely! Your Uncommon Wallet makes it easy to distribute donations to a variety of 501(c)(3) nonprofits, empowering you to impact all the different causes you care about.
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