Donate & get it matched

Every gift goes through our fiscal sponsor, so it's fully tax-deductible — and most large employers in this region will match it, often dollar for dollar. Five minutes in your company's giving portal can double what your gift is worth.

The three things you'll need

Whatever portal your employer uses, it'll ask for some version of these. Copy them exactly.

Search for this organization

Yellowstone Robotics

EIN / Tax ID

46-3680683

Designation / memo / comment field — verbatim

In support of Launchpad Robotics

The memo line is the whole ballgame. Our sponsor supports multiple programs. Without that exact designation text, your gift lands in their general fund instead of with our teams. Use the copy button rather than retyping it.

Confirmed registrations. Our sponsor is already registered with Benevity, YourCause and the PayPal Giving Fund, and is certified to receive employee donations and corporate matching funds at several major Puget Sound employers including Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Meta. If you work at one of those, your search will resolve.

Organization address, if the form asks:
17714 NE 105th Street, Redmond, WA 98052-2888

Want to verify us independently? Yellowstone Robotics appears in the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search, as well as Charity Navigator and GuideStar.

Find your employer

Local employers we have confirmed program details for. If yours isn't listed, the generic steps above still work — search your giving portal by EIN.

Microsoftverified

1:1 match · Up to $15,000/year · via Benevity

Volunteer grants: about $25/hour — see how to log hours.

Eligible full-time and part-time employees; combined USD $15,000 (or local equivalent) cap

Most generous large employer in the region. Combined giving + volunteering cap.

Open giving portal →

Adobeverified

1:1 match · Up to $10,000/year · via internal

Volunteer grants: about $25/hour — see how to log hours.

Employees; retirees age 50+ with 15+ years of service capped at $5,000/yr

Amgenverified

1:1 match · Up to $10,000/year · via internal

Volunteer grants: about $25/hour — see how to log hours.

Staff members; minimum gift $50

Seattle-area (Amgen has had Seattle operations).

Appleverified

1:1 match · Up to $10,000/year · via Benevity

Volunteer grants: about $25/hour — see how to log hours.

Employees; no minimum donation and no limit on number of donations

Boeingverified

1:1 match · Up to $10,000/year · via internal

Volunteer grants: offered — see how to log hours.

Active full-time employees up to $10,000/yr; eligible retirees matched at 50% up to $3,000/yr. Minimum gift $25.

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Googleverified

1:1 match · Up to $10,000/year · via internal

Volunteer grants: about $10/hour — see how to log hours.

Nintendo of Americaverified

1:1 match · Up to $10,000/year · via Benevity

Volunteer grants: offered — see how to log hours.

Full-time and part-time employees; minimum gift $20

Redmond HQ - highly relevant locally.

PwCverified

1:1 match · Up to $10,000/year · via internal

US colleges and universities. Minimum $500 partners/principals, $50 staff. Fiscal year ending June 30.

Education-restricted.

Salesforce (incl. Tableau)verified

1:1 match · Up to $10,000/year · via internal

Salesforce employees including Tableau (Seattle)

Tableau employees fall under Salesforce's program.

T-Mobileverified

1:1 match · Up to $2,000/year · via Benevity

Volunteer grants: about $10/hour — see how to log hours.

Employees; combined donation + volunteer cap of $2,000/yr

Bellevue HQ - very relevant locally.

Starbucksverified

1:1 match · Up to $1,500/year · via internal

Volunteer grants: offered — see how to log hours.

Active US/Canada partners; fiscal year Oct 1 - Sep 30; minimum gift $20; combined donation + volunteer cap $1,500

Weyerhaeuserverified

1:1 match · Up to $1,500/year · via Benevity

Volunteer grants: offered — see how to log hours.

Employees; combined donations + volunteer time up to $1,500 per person per year

'TREE-mendous Matching Gifts' program.

Accentureverified

1:1 match · Up to $1,000/year · via internal

No traditional individual match. Via myGiving, a fundraiser with 10+ Accenture donors is matched dollar-for-dollar up to $1,000 per fundraiser.

Structure rewards team fundraisers, not individual gifts.

USAAverified

1:1 match · Up to $1,000/year · via internal

First $1,000 in donations each year; must be made through USAA's giving portal

Liberty Mutualverified

1:1 match · Cap not published — check your portal · via internal

Volunteer grants: offered — see how to log hours.

'Give with Liberty' matches 100% of qualified contributions made through payroll deduction, with no stated upper limit

Notably no published cap, but the gift must go through payroll deduction.

Other local employers

These employers are known to run giving programs, but we haven't been able to confirm current ratios or caps from a public source. Check your internal portal for the real numbers — and if you find them, tell us so we can update this page.

Cisco

internal · 1:1

Oracle

No workplace portal?

Friends, family and anyone without a corporate giving program can donate directly through our sponsor's secure page.

Donate via our sponsor →

Include this in the transaction note:

In support of Launchpad Robotics

Giving by check avoids processing fees.

Card gifts lose 2.9% plus 30¢ to the payment processor. A check delivers the full amount. If you'd rather give by card and still have us receive a round number, gross the gift up — a $1,000 gift should be entered as $1,030.18.

Make the check payable to

Yellowstone Robotics

Mail it to

17714 NE 105th Street, Redmond, WA 98052-2888

Write “In support of Launchpad Robotics” on the memo line so it reaches our club.

Gifts of $250 or more receive a written tax acknowledgement from Yellowstone Robotics, mailed no later than April 15 of the following year.

Not sure who to ask?

This pipeline is built for support from the wider community. Our sponsor's own guidance on where that support usually comes from:

Coworkers — especially at employers with matching programs, where one gift can double
Local professionals: dentists, orthodontists, doctors, lawyers
Local businesses looking for community sponsorship
Extended family — grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins
Neighbors and community members who want to back hands-on STEM for kids

If you're a parent on one of our teams, the highest-leverage thing you can do isn't writing a check — it's asking one coworker whose employer matches, and logging your volunteer hours. Both route through this page.

Rules we have to follow

These come from IRS public charity rules and our sponsor's policy. They protect the nonprofit status that makes your gift deductible in the first place.

Never name an individual child. Do not reference any individual child's name on a contribution or company form. Our sponsor will refuse and return any gift directed to the benefit of a specific individual, as IRS rules for public charities require.
Not for dues, fees, or a family's own equipment. Our sponsor cannot handle participation dues or fees, payments parents make to buy robotics equipment for their own kids, or entry fees parents pay for their own kids. Those are personal expenses, not deductible gifts, and they have to stay outside this pipeline.
A parent shouldn't fund their own child's participation here. Support from the general public is exactly what this pipeline is for — community members, local professionals, businesses, and coworkers. A parent covering their own child's costs is not making a charitable gift.
Gifts must be unrestricted. Our sponsor handles only unrestricted, properly tax-deductible donations supporting youth robotics education. Funds cannot be earmarked for a particular student, family, or private benefit.
No goods or services in return. If a donor receives something of equal value in return, that portion isn't a deductible gift and can't be routed through our sponsor. Raffles, merchandise sales, and ticketed items fall outside this pipeline.

Short version: give to the organization, not to a kid. We genuinely cannot accept gifts earmarked for an individual student, and a gift tagged that way can create real problems for our sponsor.

Funding is not tied to what any family gives.

Our sponsor does not make funding decisions to our club based on what parents or families contributed, how much a family fundraised, or how much time they put in. Yellowstone Robotics does not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, gender, or national origin. Every student on our teams has the same access to what the club has, regardless of whether their family donated, fundraised, or volunteered.