about us
What We Provide
UI Charitable makes it easy for mission-driven organizations to receive tax-deductible donations without the burden of forming their own nonprofit. Through our streamlined Fiscal Sponsorship program, we handle the compliance and administration so you can focus on creating impact.
Fiscal Sponsorships
Fiscal Sponsorships
A Fiscal Sponsorship is an arrangement in which a 501(c)(3) public charity sponsors a project that may lack exempt status. The sponsor enables an organization to solicit tax-deductible donations under their exempt status.
A Fiscal Sponsorship is an arrangement in which a 501(c)(3) public charity sponsors a project that may lack exempt status. The sponsor enables an organization to solicit tax-deductible donations under their exempt status.
about us
about us
What We Provide
What We Provide
UI Charitable makes it easy for mission-driven organizations to receive tax-deductible donations without the burden of forming their own nonprofit. Through our streamlined Fiscal Sponsorship program, we handle the compliance and administration so you can focus on creating impact.
UI Charitable makes it easy for mission-driven organizations to receive tax-deductible donations without the burden of forming their own nonprofit. Through our streamlined Fiscal Sponsorship program, we handle the compliance and administration so you can focus on creating impact.
For Impact Start-Ups
For Impact Start-Ups
For Impact Start-Ups
With a UI Fiscal Sponsorship, start-ups can kickstart their charitable mission and leverage immediate benefits from UI’s legal and tax-exempt status. Organizations can attract tax-deductible donations and establish themselves, while working to secure their own 501(c)(3) nonprofit status.
With a UI Fiscal Sponsorship, start-ups can kickstart their charitable mission and leverage immediate benefits from UI’s legal and tax-exempt status. Organizations can attract tax-deductible donations and establish themselves, while working to secure their own 501(c)(3) nonprofit status.
With a UI Fiscal Sponsorship, start-ups can kickstart their charitable mission and leverage immediate benefits from UI’s legal and tax-exempt status. Organizations can attract tax-deductible donations and establish themselves, while working to secure their own 501(c)(3) nonprofit status.
For Profit Social Impact Organizations
For Profit Social Impact
Organizations
For Profit Social Impact
Organizations
Social impact organizations can be LLCs or other for-profit corporate structures. These organizations can use a Fiscal Sponsorship to attract tax-deductible donations, rather than setting up a separate 501(c)(3).
Social impact organizations can be LLCs or other for-profit corporate structures. These organizations can use a Fiscal Sponsorship to attract tax-deductible donations, rather than setting up a separate 501(c)(3).
Social impact organizations can be LLCs or other for-profit corporate structures. These organizations can use a Fiscal Sponsorship to attract tax-deductible donations, rather than setting up a separate 501(c)(3).
For International Charities
For International Charities
For International Charities
Charities based outside the U.S. often enlist the support of a Fiscal Sponsor to allow them to offer U.S. donors the benefit of a tax deduction. Otherwise, gifts made to charities outside the U.S. without a 501(c)(3) designation are not tax deductible.
Charities based outside the U.S. often enlist the support of a Fiscal Sponsor to allow them to offer U.S. donors the benefit of a tax deduction. Otherwise, gifts made to charities outside the U.S. without a 501(c)(3) designation are not tax deductible.
Charities based outside the U.S. often enlist the support of a Fiscal Sponsor to allow them to offer U.S. donors the benefit of a tax deduction. Otherwise, gifts made to charities outside the U.S. without a 501(c)(3) designation are not tax deductible.
For Short-Term Projects
For Short-Term Projects
For Short-Term Projects
Some social impact efforts are designed to be short-term, such as a one-day event or a program intended to last only a few years. In either case, Fiscal Sponsorship with UI Charitable is a time and cost-efficient solution for short-term projects.
Some social impact efforts are designed to be short-term, such as a one-day event or a program intended to last only a few years. In either case, Fiscal Sponsorship with UI Charitable is a time and cost-efficient solution for short-term projects.
Some social impact efforts are designed to be short-term, such as a one-day event or a program intended to last only a few years. In either case, Fiscal Sponsorship with UI Charitable is a time and cost-efficient solution for short-term projects.
Testimonials
“The UI team has been really friendly, really responsive, very honest. When we've had a lot of questions that nobody knows the answer to yet, the UI team has been really proactive about finding some of those answers.”
Jackson Stern
President, Spiders Community Web
Testimonials
“I appreciate the approach that UI takes when working with its charitable funds. I like the way that UI allows for freedom to work with different vendors. UI has a
very hands-off approach and the fee structure is really helpful to a startup."
Heidi Kershaw
Global Autism Coalition
Testimonials
“UI Fiscal Sponsorship has really helped me to become more accountable and also helps me in managing my finances. UI also guides you on how best you can make sure you accomplish the project that you are doing.They help me to know I’m not alone and that I’m working with a team.”
Francis Adu Afari
Kenect School of Excellence
Fiscal Sponsorship FAQ's
Fiscal Sponsorships
FAQ
Fiscal Sponsorship FAQ's
What are Fiscal Sponsorships?
Can for-profit organizations that have a social impact focus attract funding through tax-deductible donations?
What is the difference between a nonprofit and a 501(C)(3)?
Where do donors send funds?
What type of Fiscal Sponsorships do you offer?
What are the benefits of being Fiscally Sponsored?
MEDICAL
Children Missions Charity
Imagine the joy of knowing you are making a
tangible difference in a child's life. In Uganda,
many children face challenges such as poverty,
lack of education, and inadequate nutrition. But
with your help, we can change that!
EDUCATION
Global Autism Coalition
Our mission is to secure the safety, livelihood and
success of the global autistic community. To
achieve our mission, our goals are to educate,
destigmatize, advance technologies, and provide
strategic policy direction to develop a universal
standard of care for those within the autism
community.
HUNGER & POVERTY
H2Ope
is a nonprofit organization dedicated to
alleviating one of the single biggest problems
facing families living in extreme poverty in Haiti:
access to water. Through a simple, yet highly
effective method of building individual water
reservoirs for vulnerable families, we are helping
to transform communities in rural Haiti.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND AGRICULTURE
ADEDE
The Association of Empowered People for Development and Entrepreneurship (ADEDE) bridges the financing gap for agrifood small businesses across Central America and Southern Mexico, providing accessible capital and hands-on support to strengthen regional food security.
ATHLETICS
Spiders Community Web
The Spiders Community Web is an organization formed to support Oakland and the Bay Area community through youth athletic programming, community volunteerism, and equipment giveaways for the East Bay.
Learn More
Donate
EDUCATION
Kenect School of Excellence
Kenect School of Excellence is a school in Adeiso, Ghana serving nursery, primary, and junior high students. With 373 students across 14 classes and 28 subjects, Kenect is focused on developing a lasting passion for learning in its community.
Learn More
Donate
YOUTH MENTORSHIP
Change System
We believe small businesses need to understand
their operational data to unlock their financial
sustainability. Their financial sustainability will
stabilize the economies they operate in. Our
software, KUUZA is the key that unlocks it all.
HOMELESSNESS
Lionheart U
Lionheart U is working to decrease the pain, suffering, and death associated with homelessness by empowering those with lived experience to share what is helping and hurting them along the way. Led by a founder who has lived unhoused for the past decade, the organization is producing documentary film, written work, and research to bring these firsthand accounts to the public and advocate for more effective, humane practices in homeless services.
EDUCATION
Polymath University
Polymath University is a 3-year, interdisciplinary,
apprenticeship-based and debt-free school built
from the ground up to empower leaders with the
breadth, depth, and integration needed for impact.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Make Sunsets
Make Sunsets creates global cooling by launching reflective, biodegradable, high-altitude balloons designed to reflect sunlight back into space. Their work aims to slow global warming while producing an unexpected bonus: more vivid sunsets.
LEGAL
Scientific Integrity Fund
The Scientific Integrity Fund aspires to set a
precedent for ethical conduct in scientific
research, reinforcing transparency, and trust
across the community.
BUSINESS
SecretSOS
We decode the secrets to business success with
customized, step-by-step instruction, expert
mentorship, and financial support. Our mission is
clear, to empower you with the business
intelligence necessary to overcome headaches,
outmaneuver the competition, and achieve all of
your objectives.
COMMUNITY
Sharing Aloha
At Sharing Aloha, our mission is to empower the
future generations of the South Pacific by
fostering educational growth and preserving
cultural heritage.
EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
The We Are One Foundation
The We Are One Foundation is focused on supporting continuing education and employment opportunities in developing countries. They exist to uplift entire communities by creating pathways to global work without requiring people to leave their home country.
HEALTH, AGRICULTURE, POVERTY
Utah Africa Mission
The Utah Africa Mission is focused on forging a vibrant future where every East African community thrives with sustainable access to clean, safe water, robust healthcare, nurtured youth, and flourishing agriculture.
REFUGEE RELIEF
Hansen Ukrainian Mission
HUM creates safe, supported, and connected spaces for those displaced by the war in Ukrain. Through partnerships and scalable housing models, we’ve launched 20+ communities that help Ukrainian IDPs rebuild their lives.
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
BE.IRL
BE.IRL helps kids reclaim the developmental milestones of childhood quietly eroded by heavy screen time. Through its Snail Mail Club curriculum, weekly letters, badges, and a paired parent track help kids build real-world skills and identity, giving them the tools to choose connection over screens.
GLOBAL HEALTH
Rheumatic Relief
Rheumatic Relief works to reduce the burden of rheumatic heart disease in the South Pacific through echocardiography screening, education, and training of local medical personnel.
EDUCATION
Career Invites
Rheumatic Relief works to reduce the burden of rheumatic heart disease in the South Pacific through echocardiography screening, education, and training of local medical personnel.
GLOBAL HEALTH
PredictDAO
PredictDAO is building prediction markets to help direct funding toward promising global health research, starting with clinical trials for neglected tropical diseases that traditional funders often overlook.
EDUCATION
How to Change the World
How to Change the World closes the sustainability skills gap by giving students and professionals hands-on, experiential learning in real-world problem solving. Partnering with over 50 universities globally, the organization has reached 1,700+ students.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Meta Tauta
Meta Tauta is a bible app that makes scripture more accessible through a minimal, mobile-first reading experience paired with verse-by-verse commentary synthesized from respected theological sources.
FAMILY SUPPORT
The Siempre Foundation
The Siempre Foundation provides financial assistance and legal support to help couples choose legal marriage and strengthen their families.
Sponsored Organizations
Sponsored Organizations
EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
The We Are One Foundation
The We Are One Foundation is focused on supporting continuing education and employment opportunities in developing countries. They exist to uplift entire communities by creating pathways to global work without requiring people to leave their home country.
HEALTH, AGRICULTURE, POVERTY
Utah Africa Mission
The Utah Africa Mission is focused on forging a vibrant future where every East African community thrives with sustainable access to clean, safe water, robust healthcare, nurtured youth, and flourishing agriculture.
REFUGEE RELIEF
Hansen Ukrainian Mission (HUM)
HUM creates safe, supported, and connected spaces for those displaced by the war in Ukrain. Through partnerships and scalable housing models, we’ve launched 20+ communities that help Ukrainian IDPs rebuild their lives.
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
BE.IRL
BE.IRL helps kids reclaim the developmental milestones of childhood quietly eroded by heavy screen time. Through its Snail Mail Club curriculum, weekly letters, badges, and a paired parent track help kids build real-world skills and identity, giving them the tools to choose connection over screens.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Meta Tauta
Meta Tauta is a bible app that makes scripture more accessible through a minimal, mobile-first reading experience paired with verse-by-verse commentary synthesized from respected theological sources. The project is designed to deepen spiritual literacy and understanding for a modern, mobile audience — free of charge and open to anyone, regardless of belief or affiliation.
EDUCATION
How to Change the World
How to Change the World closes the sustainability skills gap by giving students and professionals hands-on, experiential learning in real-world problem solving. Partnering with over 50 universities globally, the organization has reached 1,700+ students, helping them build the critical thinking, collaboration, and communication skills needed to drive a more sustainable, equitable future.
GLOBAL HEALTH
Rheumatic Relief
Rheumatic Relief works to reduce the burden of rheumatic heart disease in the South Pacific through echocardiography screening, education, and training of local medical personnel.
EDUCATION
Career Invites
Career Invites helps students discover high-demand careers and training pathways in clean energy, skilled trades, and healthcare through free, engaging digital resources. At roughly $3 per student, the platform connects schools, industry, and training providers, with a goal of reaching 250,000 students in its first year and helping close the gap between workforce shortages and student career awareness.
MEDICAL
Children Missions Charity
Imagine the joy of knowing you are making a tangible difference in a child's
life. In Uganda, many children face challenges such as poverty, lack of
education, and inadequate nutrition. But with your help, we can change that!
EDUCATION
Global Autism Coalition
Our mission is to secure the safety, livelihood and success of the global
autistic community. To achieve our mission, our goals are to educate,
destigmatize, advance technologies, and provide strategic policy direction to
develop a universal standard of care for those within the autism community.
HUNGER & POVERTY
H2Ope
H2Ope is a nonprofit organization dedicated to alleviating one of the single
biggest problems facing families living in extreme poverty in Haiti: access to
water. Through a simple, yet highly effective method of building individual
water reservoirs for vulnerable families, we are helping to transform
communities in rural Haiti.
ATHLETICS
Spiders Community Web
The Spiders Community Web is an organization formed to support Oakland and the Bay Area community through youth athletic programming, community volunteerism, and equipment giveaways for the East Bay.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND AGRICULTURE
ADEDE
The Association of Empowered People for Development and Entrepreneurship (ADEDE) bridges the financing gap for agrifood small businesses across Central America and Southern Mexico, providing accessible capital and hands-on support to strengthen regional food security.
GLOBAL HEALTH
PredictDAO
PredictDAO is building prediction markets to help direct funding toward promising global health research, starting with clinical trials for neglected tropical diseases that traditional funders often overlook.
EDUCATION
Kenect School of Excellence
Kenect School of Excellence is a school in Adeiso, Ghana serving nursery, primary, and junior high students. With 373 students across 14 classes and 28 subjects, Kenect is focused on developing a lasting passion for learning in its community.
YOUTH MENTORSHIP
Change System
Change System builds a culture of teen mentorship by rewarding healthy behaviors with real incentives at local businesses. The organization now operates a teen center, a job mentoring pilot with local employers, and an app-based rewards system.
HOMELESSNESS
Lionheart U
Lionheart U is working to decrease the pain, suffering, and death associated with homelessness by empowering those with lived experience to share what is helping and hurting them along the way. Led by a founder who has lived unhoused for the past decade, the organization is producing documentary film, written work, and research to bring these firsthand accounts to the public and advocate for more effective, humane practices in homeless services.
EDUCATION
Polymath University
Polymath University is a 3-year, interdisciplinary, apprenticeship-based and
debt-free school built from the ground up to empower leaders with the
breadth, depth, and integration needed for impact.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Make Sunsets
Make Sunsets creates global cooling by launching reflective, biodegradable, high-altitude balloons designed to reflect sunlight back into space. Their work aims to slow global warming while producing an unexpected bonus: more vivid sunsets.
LEGAL
Scientific Integrity Fund
The Scientific Integrity Fund aspires to set a precedent for ethical conduct in
scientific research, reinforcing transparency, and trust across the community.
BUSINESS
SecretSOS
We decode the secrets to business success with customized, step-by-step
instruction, expert mentorship, and financial support. Our mission is clear,
to empower you with the business intelligence necessary to overcome
headaches, outmaneuver the competition, and achieve all of your objectives.
COMMUNITY
Sharing Aloha
At Sharing Aloha, our mission is to empower the future generations of
the South Pacific by fostering educational growth and preserving cultural
heritage.
FAMILY SUPPORT
The Siempre Foundation
The Siempre Foundation provides financial assistance and legal support to help couples choose legal marriage and strengthen their families.
MEDICAL
Children Missions Charity
Imagine the joy of knowing you are making a tangible
difference in a child's life. In Uganda, many children
face challenges such as poverty, lack of education,
and inadequate nutrition. But with your help, we can
change that!
EDUCATION
Global Autism Coalition
Our mission is to secure the safety, livelihood and
success of the global autistic community To achieve
our mission, our goals are to educate, destigmatize,
advance technologies, and provide strategic policy
direction to develop a universal standard of care for
those within the autism community
HUNGER & POVERTY
H2Ope
is a non-profit organization dedicated to alleviating
one of the single biggest problems facing families
living in extreme poverty in Haiti: access to water.
Through a simple, yet highly effective method of
building individual water reservoirs for vulnerable
families, we are helping to transform communities
in rural Haiti.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND AGRICULTURE
ADEDE
The Association of Empowered People for Development and Entrepreneurship (ADEDE) bridges the financing gap for agrifood small businesses across Central America and Southern Mexico, providing accessible capital and hands-on support to strengthen regional food security.
GLOBAL HEALTH
PredictDAO
PredictDAO is building prediction markets to help direct funding toward promising global health research, starting with clinical trials for neglected tropical diseases that traditional funders often overlook.
ATHLETICS
Spiders Community Web
The Spiders Community Web is an organization formed to support Oakland and the Bay Area community through youth athletic programming, community volunteerism, and equipment giveaways for the East Bay.
Learn More
Donate
EDUCATION
Kenect School of Excellence
Kenect School of Excellence is a school in Adeiso, Ghana serving nursery, primary, and junior high students. With 373 students across 14 classes and 28 subjects, Kenect is focused on developing a lasting passion for learning in its community.
Learn More
Donate
YOUTH MENTORSHIP
Change System
Change System builds a culture of teen mentorship by rewarding healthy behaviors with real incentives at local businesses. The organization now operates a teen center, a job mentoring pilot with local employers, and an app-based rewards system.
HOMELESSNESS
Lionheart U
Lionheart U is working to decrease the pain, suffering, and death associated with homelessness by empowering those with lived experience to share what is helping and hurting them along the way. Led by a founder who has lived unhoused for the past decade, the organization is producing documentary film, written work, and research to bring these firsthand accounts to the public and advocate for more effective, humane practices in homeless services.
EDUCATION
Polymath University
Polymath University is a 3-year, interdisciplinary,
apprenticeship-based and debt-free school built from
the ground up to empower leaders with the breadth,
depth, and integration needed for impact.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Make Sunsets
Make Sunsets creates global cooling by launching reflective, biodegradable, high-altitude balloons designed to reflect sunlight back into space. Their work aims to slow global warming while producing an unexpected bonus: more vivid sunsets.
LEGAL
Scientific Integrity Fund
The Scientific Integrity Fund aspires to set a precedent
for ethical conduct in scientific research, reinforcing
transparency, and trust across the community.
BUSINESS
SecretSOS
We decode the secrets to business success with
customized, step-by-step instruction, expert
mentorship, and financial support. Our mission is clear,
to empower you with the business intelligence
necessary to overcome headaches, outmaneuver the
competition, and achieve all of your objectives.
COMMUNITY
Sharing Aloha
At Sharing Aloha, our mission is to empower the
future generations of the South Pacific by fostering
educational growth and preserving cultural
heritage.
EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
The We Are One Foundation
The We Are One Foundation is focused on supporting continuing education and employment opportunities in developing countries. They exist to uplift entire communities by creating pathways to global work without requiring people to leave their home country.
HEALTH, AGRICULTURE, POVERTY
Utah Africa Mission
The Utah Africa Mission is focused on forging a vibrant future where every East African community thrives with sustainable access to clean, safe water, robust healthcare, nurtured youth, and flourishing agriculture.
REFUGEE RELIEF
Hansen Ukrainian Mission
HUM creates safe, supported, and connected spaces for those displaced by the war in Ukrain. Through partnerships and scalable housing models, we’ve launched 20+ communities that help Ukrainian IDPs rebuild their lives.
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
BE.IRL
BE.IRL helps kids reclaim the developmental milestones of childhood quietly eroded by heavy screen time. Through its Snail Mail Club curriculum, weekly letters, badges, and a paired parent track help kids build real-world skills and identity, giving them the tools to choose connection over screens.
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
Meta Tauta
Meta Tauta is a bible app that makes scripture more accessible through a minimal, mobile-first reading experience paired with verse-by-verse commentary synthesized from respected theological sources. The project is designed to deepen spiritual literacy and understanding for a modern, mobile audience — free of charge and open to anyone.
EDUCATION
How to Change the World
How to Change the World closes the sustainability skills gap by giving students and professionals hands-on, experiential learning in real-world problem solving. Partnering with over 50 universities globally, the organization has reached 1,700+ students.
GLOBAL HEALTH
Rhuematic Relief
Rheumatic Relief works to reduce the burden of rheumatic heart disease in the South Pacific through echocardiography screening, education, and training of local medical personnel.
EDUCATION
Career Invites
Career Invites helps students discover high-demand careers and training pathways in clean energy, skilled trades, and healthcare through free, engaging digital resources.
FAMILY SUPPORT
The Siempre Foundation
The Siempre Foundation provides financial assistance and legal support to help couples choose legal marriage and strengthen their families.
Sponsored Organizations
Fiscal Sponsorships
A Fiscal Sponsorship arrangement in which a 501(c)(3) public charity sponsors a project that may lack exempt status. This arrangement enables an organization to solicit tax-deductible donations under the sponsor's exempt status.
