2026 Incentive Prize and Donation Rules

Below are the rules and guidelines for the Arizona Gives Day 2026 donations and incentive prizes. This year, 109 prizes will be awarded from the $145,500 prize pool. Thank you to our Incentive Award sponsors: Burton Family Foundation and Freeport McMoRan Foundation.

Only gifts made during the early giving period beginning March 17, 2026, and on April7,2026, through the AZGives.org website are included in the final rankings for prizes.

The official time that a donation is considered to have been “made” or “processed” will be the time that is timestamped on the Mightycause server system. (Mightycause is the name of the technology provider for our AZGives.org web platform.) That time is also recorded on the donor’s donation receipt, however, should those times not match, the Mightycause server timestamp will overrule the receipt time. Only donations timestamped up to 59minutesand 59.999 seconds will count toward that hour and/or date. Once the timestamp rolls over to 00:00.000 it counts toward the following hour and/or date. Please plan accordingly and note that the time on your watch, or your computer, or your email, or the time that the AZGives.org website/leaderboards refresh may differ from the official time. Because of this, you are strongly encouraged to push to have all donations completed at least 5 minutes before the end of the hour to help ensure that those donations count toward that hour’s total or that day’s total. You are strongly discouraged from holding back donations until the final minute as a strategy.
For matching grants to be included in your official totals and count towards any incentive prizes, the matching grant(s) must be processed as a donation (credit card or e-check) on AZGives.org on April7, 2026.Simply adding the amount to your profile page will not include those dollars in your official totals used to determine prizes.
If you do decide to process a matching grant through the AZGives.org platform:
Please keep in mind, if you have a matching grant amount listed in your profile, all donations you receive on April7, 2026, will be tallied in real time on your profile page to show progress towards your matching grant amount. If you do decide to then process that matching grant as a credit card or e-check on AZGives.org to count towards prize consideration, the running tally on your profile page would then show that you have matched or exceeded your matching grant amount since that processed matching grant will be included in that tallied amount.
Any donation processed between March 17, 2026, through April 7, 2026, will be included in the overall total. Any donations made April 8, 2026, or after will NOT be included in your official 24-hour total for Arizona Gives Day.
Prize categories based on the annual revenue/operating budget of an organization – Annual revenue will be verified according to an organization’s required upload of their Form 990 (Line 12) or 990-EZ (Line 9) for the most current year reported (no later than 2023, some exceptions made) during registration. If a 990 was not completed due to operating size, then the organization’s operating budget (income) must be used. Organizations are required to upload their most current year reported (2023 or later) Form 990 or Form 990-EZ to participate.
In the event that the top prize for which a single nonprofit qualifies is the same dollar amount as another prize for which it qualifies, the nonprofit will be awarded the highest prize in the following priority order: 1) Most Dollars By Size, 2) Power Hours Donor, 3) Early Giving, 4) Rural Golden Tickets, 5) Incentive Prizes amount in order from highest to lowest.
Prizes are Not Stackable: A nonprofit can only win one pre-event prize and one event prize. If they win more than one prize, they will receive the prize of the highest dollar amount as described previously in the official rules. The nonprofits below the ‘already winning nonprofit’ in that category will then move up one position and be eligible to win.
Results for all winners will be cross-checked by the Arizona Gives Team and announced no later than May 1, 2026.
If more than one organization has the same number of unique donors, their ranking will be based on the total dollars raised by donations that meet the time and minimum dollar amount requirements. If a single donor makes multiple donations of at least the minimum dollar amount, all of those donations will count toward the total dollar tie-breaker amount, but that donor will only count as one unique donor. The most qualified dollars raised will place that organization above another with the same number of unique donors, in the rankings. In the unlikely event that those dollar amounts also match, the ranking will be determined by putting the organization in a computer application for random drawing for rank with the first draw being highest in rank and so on.
Except where otherwise specified (primarily in the Power Hour categories), exact ties for prizes will be decided by random draw of the tied nonprofits. In the case of two tied nonprofits, the one not drawn for the prize level in question will move to the next lower position on that prize list. That next position may or may not include a financial prize. If more than two nonprofits tie, names will continue to be drawn for subsequent positions in the list.
Unique donors are determined based information entered during checkout with the unique identifier being the email address for the donor.

Incentive Prizes and Rules

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