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/r/CFB Donates $18,000.00 to Toys For Tots & Children's Hospitals, thanks to the 8th annual Holiday Drive!
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EDIT: minor title error, this was the 9th not 8th annual drive! 😅


The best thing about the r/CFB is the Community, and an important extension of that is its generosity. The tradition continued in our 26th charitable drive, the 2023 r/CFB Holiday Drive: Toys & Children's Hospitals!

Since 2013, r/CFB readers have donated over $153,000 to charity.


Intro

The 9th annual r/CFB Holiday Drive raised $18,000.00!

Take a moment to appreciate all 80+ /r/CFB readers who donated.

Process:

This was the second year as a federally-recognized 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, OurCFB (backstory). The change opened-up more opportunities alongside more formalities.

That meant a slower process of getting funds, then distributing them:

  • PayPal waives all fees because we're a 501(C)(3). The trade-off is a delay in transfers: to save on their own fees they will send it to us in-bulk, once per month. That results in a donation that arrives late in the month each month, with the timing of the Holiday Drive, that means we get all the money by late January, then transfer it to the OurCFB bank account.

  • Dispersing funds was slightly delayed by working out which hospital was associated with Army West Point, we confirmed it with their athletic department today and the final donation was made.

All money received was split evenly between Toys For Tots and Children's Hospitals.

Donation Breakdown:

Category $ Notes
User Donations $11,457.56 Via PayPal (no fees) and Venmo (after fees deducted)
Employer Matching $2,700.00 As a 501(c)(3) we qualify for those programs; and at the request of a user filed with the clearing house their company uses. These also tend to arrive after a delay (this year on 1/29).
rCFB, LLC contribution $3,576.08 "What is rCFB, LLC" explanation; these funds were conservative as we are about to complete a full tax year and are playing things safe.
GRAND TOTAL donated $18,000.00
Toys for Donation $9,000.00 50% of total (RECEIPT)
Children's Hospitals $9,000.00 See breakdown below.

Donations to Children's Hospitals

The $9,000.00 is usually divided among the top-3 most generous fanbases, but we had a tie for 3rd and opted to divide that amount between the two schools:

  • 50% to Army

  • 30% to Tulane

  • 20% split between Notre Dame and South Dakota State

Notre Dame and South Dakota State returned, joined by newcomers Army West Point and Tulane. Although 3 of these programs do not have a medical school, we were able to identify which children's hospitals their athletic/university benefits favor.

So the Children's Hospital donations were:

First place: Army West Point Black Knights

  • $4,500.00 to St. Luke's Cornwall, Newburgh (Army West Point)

  • RECEIPT

Second place: Tulane Green Wave

  • $2,700.00 to Children's Hospital New Orleans (Tulane)

  • RECEIPT

Third place (TIE): Notre Dame Fighting Irish

  • $900.00 to Beacon Children's Hospital, South Bend (Notre Dame)

  • RECEIPT

Third place (TIE): South Dakota State

  • $900.00 to Sanford Children's Hospital Sioux Falls (South Dakota State)

  • RECEIPT


Finally:

  1. Thanks to all of you who DONATED

  2. Thanks to all of you who HELPED

  3. Thanks for making r/CFB a great COMMUNITY

We did it again, r/CFB!


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