How your gift is used
Sideline Fund is the platform that hosts each team's fundraiser. We want you to know exactly where every dollar goes before you give.
Our fee: 10% of each gift
Sideline Fund keeps 10% of every gift to cover hosting, service, and marketing — running the fundraising pages, the service that sends sponsor requests and tracks progress, and promoting the platform. The rest goes to the team's booster program.
| Example gift | $100.00 |
| Sideline Fund (hosting, service, and marketing) | − $10.00 |
| Goes to the team (before card processing) | $90.00 |
Want the full amount to reach the team? Cover the fee.
On the giving page you can tick “Cover the 10% platform fee.” We add 10% of your gift on top, so the team receives the full amount you intended. Sideline Fund still keeps the same 10% of your gift; you simply pay it instead of the team. It's optional and off by default.
| Intended gift | $100.00 |
| Platform fee you add on top | + $10.00 |
| You pay (before optional card processing) | $110.00 |
| Team receives (before card processing) | $100.00 |
Gear & spirit-pack items
Sponsors can fund a specific item (a sweatsuit, backpack, jersey…) for a player. Those items are priced all-in: the item's cost, plus sales tax, plus Sideline Fund's 10% fee (hosting, service, and marketing) calculated on the price you pay, plus an estimate of Stripe's card-processing fee. Each line is shown before you pay, and the booster program receives exactly the item cost plus tax to buy it for that player. Gear purchases don't count toward a player's fundraising goal.
Card processing is separate
Payments are handled by Stripe, which charges a card-processing fee (about 2.9% + $0.30 per payment in the U.S.). That fee is not part of the 10% above. When you give, you can choose to add a little extra to cover it so the team receives your full gift (less our 10%); if you don't, it is taken out of the amount the team receives.
Who gets your gift, and when
Your gift is paid to the team's booster program, not to an individual player. When a team has connected its Stripe account, the team's share is sent to that account as your payment goes through; when it reaches the program's bank account then follows Stripe's payout schedule for that account. If a payment can't be completed, you are not charged.
Tax-deductibility
Sideline Fund does not determine whether a gift is tax-deductible, and we don't issue tax receipts. Ask the team's booster program whether it is a registered charity before assuming your gift can be deducted.
Your information
If you enter your name, it may appear on the team's public award board (for example as a top sponsor), along with any message you leave. Leave the name blank to give without being named. Your email is used for your receipt.
Prefer to give directly?
You're always free to give to the team's booster program directly instead. Compare the fees above with any other option and give the way you're most comfortable with.
- The fee is calculated on the gift amount you choose — not on any processing add-on.
- Sideline Fund does not charge sponsors anything beyond the gift (and the optional add-ons).
Questions about a gift? Contact the team's booster program.