Fundraising for schools and PTAs on your own website
PTAs and parent groups raise real money — for classroom supplies, field trips, the spring carnival — and most of it is small gifts from busy parents. CrowdCreate puts the ask on your own school or PTA page and sends every dollar (minus card processing) to your own account.
Why school fundraising leaks money
School fundraising is volunteer-run and seasonal. A treasurer signs up for a donation tool in the fall, the next treasurer inherits a login in the spring, and in between a percentage platform quietly takes a slice of every jog-a-thon pledge and book-fair donation — money parents meant for the classroom. The giving usually happens on the platform's page, so a parent who clicked a link from the class newsletter finishes on a checkout that doesn't look like the school at all. For a group counting every dollar against a supply list, the percentage and the handoff are both losses you feel.
Where CrowdCreate fits a PTA
You paste one snippet onto the page you already use — the PTA site, a class blog, the school's parent portal if it allows embeds — and parents give without leaving it. The money lands in the group's own bank account through your own Stripe, so whoever holds the books reconciles it like any other deposit, and the next treasurer just gets the same login. At a flat $20 a month, what you raise past break-even stays with the kids instead of scaling into a platform fee. The contributor list — names, emails, amounts — is yours to export for thank-you notes and your year-end report.
- One snippet on your PTA/class page — parents give without leaving for a third-party site.
- Money goes to the group's own Stripe and bank, reconciled by whoever holds the books.
- Flat $20/mo, no percentage — the carnival and the jog-a-thon don't get skimmed.
- Export the contributor list for thank-yous and the treasurer's report.
Where CrowdCreate might not fit
CrowdCreate is a donation tool, not a tax or accounting service. Many PTAs are 501(c)(3)s and some parents expect a deductible-gift receipt — CrowdCreate does not issue tax receipts, so handle that from your own records the way you would for any deposit. And if your fundraiser needs sold tickets, raffle entries, or product orders rather than donations, a dedicated event/store tool will fit better.
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$20/mo flat
One price, no percentage. We never take a cut of what your donors give.
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30-day refund if it's not a fit. Your donor data lives in your own Stripe.
Common questions
We change treasurers every year. Is that a problem?
No — that's part of why your own account matters. The Stripe account and the CrowdCreate login belong to the group, so handing off is just passing along credentials, not migrating data off a platform. The money has always been in your own account.
Can we put it on the school district's site?
If the page lets you paste an embed or HTML, yes. Many district sites are locked down — in that case use your hosted page at crowdcreate.app/c/your-name and link to it from the school newsletter or class email.
Are the donations tax-deductible?
That depends on your PTA's own tax status, not on CrowdCreate — we don't issue tax receipts or make any deductibility determination. If your group is a registered nonprofit, handle receipts from your own records, the same as any donation you'd take directly.
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