FAQ

If you are over 18, you may participate. If not, you will need the permission of a parent or guardian before signing up for Team Kidney.

We don’t allow any dangerous events (i.e., events involving guns, binge drinking, smoking or reckless behavior.) If you are unsure if your event qualifies, please feel free to contact us!

For some Team Kidney Streams Partnership events, there may be a registration fee. This is case-by-case. For any Team Kidney events you are creating yourself, there is no registration fee. We suggest you set a realistic fundraising goal for yourself and consider increasing your goal each time you meet it. The National Kidney Foundation values donations of every size and no effort goes unnoticed or unappreciated!

No. Funds raised through Team Kidney Streams will stay with Team Kidney Streams. 

No. Once funds are received through your Team Kidney Streams page, they are considered donations and may not be used to pay expenses.

The money you raise helps NKF promote awareness, prevention and treatment of kidney disease to millions of patients and their families, and tens of millions of Americans at risk. To learn more about the National Kidney Foundation and the work we do, please visit www.kidney.org. 

Please contact us at teamkidney@kidney.org and we can help you out!

Yes. Not everyone is comfortable making a gift online so we encourage you to accept and mail in check donations. These donations need to be manually entered by the NKF team upon receipt.

To mail in your offline donations, please include an your personal information and the name of your fundraiser with each check. Place in an envelope and mail to:

National Kidney Foundation
c/o Team Kidney Fundraising Support
30 East 33rd Street, New York, NY 10016

Please do not mail cash to The National Kidney Foundation

If you receive cash donations, we highly recommend that you deposit the money and either make out a check or send a money order for that same amount. Be sure to fill out your offline pledge form and send it in with your check or money order so that we can issue tax receipts. You can also make a credit card donation to your page. In this case, we will not be able to track the individual names of your donors, and therefore, we can’t issue tax receipts. 

Yes! Matching gifts are a great way to increase donations. Click here to see if your company will match employee contributions. Encourage your donors to do the same.

Don’t see your employer on the list?

Contact donations@kidney.org for more information on how your business can participate in the matching gifts program

Many employers sponsor matching gift programs and will match donations made by their employees. If your employer has this program, check with your HR department for your company's matching gift application, fill it out, and turn it in to us with your donation. We’ll take care of the rest. Once your matching gift has been sent in and processed, you will receive an email.

Yes. You can make a donation to a fundraiser on a team or you can make a general team donation.

All donations should be mailed to:
National Kidney Foundation
30 E. 33rd Street
.

Please make all checks payable to: National Kidney Foundation.
Please make sure that in the memo it says and who the donations should be credited to.

Click on the home page and begin typing the first or last name. Your options will display as you type.

Any donation made online should post immediately. If an online donation does not post within 5 minutes, please contact us.

If you check this checkbox, you will be charged the amount indicated next to the checkbox. This amount will also be visible to the non-profit. However, on the fundraising page, your intended - initial donation amount will be displayed.

All monetary donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Yes. For Canadian donations made online with a credit card, the amount entered in the online donation form will be in U.S. dollars.

Any donor who mailed their donation and provided an address will receive a receipt via mail once the donation has been processed. If you made your donation in installments, you will receive a receipt each time a monthly payment is processed.

Yes, anyone who donates online, regardless of the amount, will receive a receipt via email.

A Tax ID number identifies National Kidney Foundation as a 501(c)(3) non-profit Organization. The National Kidney Foundation Tax ID number is 13-1673104

When you make a donation online, you can designate what you want to appear as your recognition name on the participant's Honor Roll. This may be your name, or it could be something such as "From the whole Wolf family" or "in memory of Aunt Cathy."

If a donation check has been written out to you personally, you may endorse the back of the check and mail it in with a completed donation form to National Kidney Foundation.

It is not a good idea to send a cash donation in the mail. You may drop off the cash at National Kidney Foundation along with your information or you can deposit the cash into your checking account and send a personal check from your account.

Any donation made online should post immediately. If your donation does not post within 5 minutes, please contact National Kidney Foundation.

You can't enter a check online. What you can do is enter a check as a pledge. This can be done in the fundraising section of your headquarters page. The status of the check will be pending until the check is received by National Kidney Foundation.

A Tax ID number identifies National Kidney Foundation as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Many donors will request this number to validate their donation as tax-deductible. The National Kidney Foundation Tax ID number is 13-1673104.

As your donors make a contribution, they have the option of whether or not they want to appear in the Honor Roll.

Log in with your email and password to visit your headquarters page. Select My Fundraising Report on the left side. You will then find a list of all of your donors as well as a list of all donors to your team .

To easily send thank-you emails to donors, follow these steps:

1. Log in to your fundraiser dashboard by clicking the "My HQ" link in the top right
2. Click "My Fundraising Report" in the left sidebar
3. Locate the donor/donation you'd like to thank, and click "Send Email" (If the donor didn't submit their email address, this option is unavailable.)
4. Type the message in the pop-up window, and click "Send Email"

You are receiving these emails because we would like to keep you updated on your fundraising efforts. If you wish to stop receiving these updates, please login to your headquarters and edit your account preferences.

A personal URL is a shortened link to your team or personal page that you can send to friends and family in emails. A personal URL will look like this https://tkstreams.rallybound.org/ben.

When a donor makes a donation online, s/he can enter text to appear on the fundraising honor roll. This may be the donor's name, or it could be something like "From the whole Wolf family" or "In Memory of Aunt Cathy".