Fiscal Sponsorship
Thrive offers a limited number of fiscal sponsorships to non-USA and USA groups with a mission surrounding food systems, environmentalism or climate change, animal welfare or rights, veganism, food justice, racial food justice, or similar.
What is a fiscal sponsorship?
A fiscal sponsorship enables a group or individual without USA 501c3 nonprofit status to accept USA tax-deductible donations and grants from USA donors that require 501c3 status.
As a fiscal sponsor, Thrive Philanthropy will accept donations on your behalf, offer a USA-tax deductible donor receipt, and redirect the donation directly to you. Our fiscal sponsorship is more suitable for organizations that are expecting fewer large donations rather than expecting a lot of small donations.
Fiscal sponsorships are only available to groups that avoid exploiting or harming animals and uphold Thrive’s safespace and whistleblower protection policy.
Is there a fee?
Thrive requests a 10% fee to cover all the bank wire and administrative expenses that we incur while processing your sponsorship.
How to apply?
If interested, please apply below. We aim to respond to applications within 2 weeks, but if it’s urgent or if you have other questions, please write info@thrivephilanthropy.org.
We prioritize organizations that are currently expecting funding. And unfortunately, due to limit resources, we’re not able to accept every application.
Please note, due to seasonal schedules, there will be longer delays during the following months: January, April, July, October.
Is applying for fiscal sponsorship the same as applying for a Thrive grant?
No. Applying for a fiscal sponsorship does not mean that you will receive a Thrive grant. If you are interested in applying for a grant from Thrive, please learn more here.
Special note for Africa-based organizations:
Due to the high volume of applications we receive from Africa, we currently usually restrict fiscal sponsorships to Africa-based organizations that have been a Thrive grantee for 1 year and/or have a long track record of success. We thank you for your understanding!
We look forward to meeting you!