Big High 5

About Big High 5

Our mission is to make charitable giving easy, and keep it about the cause and not the charity.

Our vision is to create a number of technology tools and services that make it easy for charitable causes to raise funds, and do so in a way that forces efficiency.

Our Big High 5 Principles

  1. This is not about us.
  2. Charitable giving should be easy.
  3. Complete financial transparency.
  4. No marketing, no soliciting.
  5. Efficiency matters.

How We Do It:

Big High 5 provides 3 primary services:
1. We host fundraising web pages for charitable causes that ask us to, as well as causes we believe in.
2. We run online fundraising experiments, seeing if we can optimize giving and sharing. Think the AWS Ice Bucket Challenge, but without the publicity.
3. We offer fiscal sponsorship services to registered non-profit organizations that are in the process of applying for their own 501(c)3 status, but want to start fundraising now, before all the paperwork clears (which can take up to 2 years).

Where to Donate:

Donation Pages may be linked from the home page, or may be accessible only via an unlinked page. Public Donation Pages are available and open to everyone. Some of our supported causes do prefer to keep their Donation Pages private - in which case you need to know the URL to access them.

We also host several different online fundraising experiments. The Big High 5 experiments - CharityChain, AnonymousMatch & CharityTree - are accessible by invitation only.