A matching challenge allows you to stretch your donation further by allowing others to donate with a greater impact. Matching challenges put up a specified amount of money to be matched over a given timeframe, and any donations that come in within that timeframe will be matched by you up to the specified limit. Your name, match amount, and time limit will be announced immediately.

There is no limit to the amount of active matching challenges at once, however finished matching challenges cannot contribute to another challenge.

Matching challenges start with a pre-authorization, this is a check on your payment method to ensure you have the funds to fully pay out the match, should it be achieved. Because of this, we strongly encourage a credit card rather than a debit card to perform a matching challenge. When the match is finished, your preauthorization will be finalized with the amount the match completed.

You can still put your matching donation towards incentives like polls and filenames, however your matching donation will not be added to those totals or sent to our donation reader until the full amount is matched, or the time limit runs out.

Prize eligibility, including multi-entry prizes, are based on the final amount that your match challenge delivers (example, $150 is donated from your $250 matching challenge before the time limit runs out, during a $10 multi-entry giveaway you would recieve 15 entries). Your matching challenge must end within the window for prize entry.