Donor-advised funds that power
your employee giving

Groundswell provides donor-advised funds as an employee benefit to companies who want to run donation matching and gifting programs with a modern built-in giving platform.

Corporate giving made easy

With Groundswell’s platform, you can leave the busy work to us, like collecting donation receipts or vetting charities. With over 1.5M qualified nonprofits for employees to donate to, they can have a choice in where they make the most impact.

Eliminate administrative burden

Eliminate the accounts payable burden of traditional employee giving programs by reducing hundreds or thousands of checks down to a single annual wire transaction.

Fast deployment

Get your corporate giving program up and running in hours, not months.

Give back where it matters most

Boost employee morale and increase participation by supporting the causes your team members care most about.

Trusted by modern companies

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What was great about implementing Groundswell was it gave us a modern, easy-to-use program that immediately leveled the playing field between us and the largest financial institutions on the planet.

Chris Hughes
COO, Axonic Capital

I had explored employee giving software solutions in the past, but the price points and implementation timelines and costs just made them unjustifiable. How can I justify spending $40k per year on Benevity when we’re only giving away $100k? It seemed wildly inefficient.

David Bradley
COO, Hawk Ridge Capital

I felt like today’s hyper-polarized world left us exposed in both those scenarios. Employees don’t want me to know about their charitable business, and I imagine they simply may not have participated in our program if they had to disclose where they were donating. Groundswell solves for that.

Ian Malloch
Chief Risk & Operating Officer, One River Asset Management

Help employees lower their tax bill

Groundswell enables employees to contribute appreciated stock assets to their charitable giving account, allowing them to avoid paying taxes on capital gains while taking the full market value as a charitable deduction on their income taxes.

A corporate foundation at no extra charge

Companies can leverage Groundswell for all of its corporate grant making in addition to employee gifting and matching.
tax benefits of corporate donation matching gifts

One single receipt for tax season

No more tracking down donation receipts and drowning in administration during tax season. Receive one tax receipt for all your company’s charitable contributions.
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Reduce corporate brand risk

Groundswell eliminates a company’s affiliation with the nonprofits their employees choose to donate.

A new approach to employee giving

Groundswell’s Personal Giving Accounts are powered by Donor-Advised Funds (DAFs) held by the Groundswell Charitable Foundation.

We think corporate philanthropy should be easier.
Our competition doesn’t.

Cost
Program Implementation
Annual Licensing Fees
Implementation Fees
Distribution Fees
groundswell logo
1 week
Starts at $5,000*
None
1%
deed logo
3-4 weeks
$25,000+
$20,000+
5%
benevity logo
20 weeks
$40,000+
$25,000+
2.90%
cybergrants logo
20+ weeks
$75,000+
$50,000+
2.90%
groundswell logo
1 week
Starts at $5,000*
None
1%
deed logo
3-4 weeks
$25,000+
$20,000+
5%
benevity logo
20 weeks
$40,000+
$25,000+
2.90%
cybergrants logo
20+ weeks
$75,000+
$50,000+
2.90%
Platform capabilities
Schedule Gifting
Admin-Free Matching
Matching Privacy for Employee
Personal Employee Giving Accounts
Portability of Giving Account
Mobile-First Experience for Employees
Single Tax Receipt
groundswell logo
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
deed logo
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
benevity logo
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
cybergrants logo
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
groundswell logo
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
deed logo
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
benevity logo
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
cybergrants logo
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No

Corporate philanthropy resources

Easily find the information you need to make key decisions and stay on the pulse of corporate philanthropy.
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