$6-10 billion in corporate volunteer grants go unclaimed every year because employees don't know their company offers them

Over 40% of Fortune 500 companies run Dollars for Doers programs that donate $8-15 per volunteer hour to the nonprofit where their employees volunteer. Yet the median employee participation rate is just 9%, and only 3% of qualifying employees participate in volunteer grants. The result: $6-10 billion in matching gifts and volunteer grants goes unclaimed annually. A volunteer who logs 100 hours at a local animal shelter could unlock $1,500 for that shelter from their employer — but neither the volunteer nor the shelter knows the program exists. This matters because small nonprofits are perpetually underfunded, and this is literally free money sitting on the table. A mid-size food bank with 200 regular volunteers, half of whom work at Fortune 500 companies, could be leaving $50,000-100,000 per year unclaimed. That is the difference between hiring a part-time program manager and not. The volunteers are already doing the work; the company has already budgeted the money; the nonprofit just never gets it because no one connects the dots. The problem persists because the information flow is broken at every link in the chain. Companies bury Dollars for Doers programs in employee benefit portals that nobody reads. Nonprofits do not systematically ask volunteers where they work. Even when a volunteer knows about their company's program, the submission process typically requires logging into an internal corporate portal, entering the nonprofit's EIN, uploading proof of hours, and waiting weeks for approval. The friction is distributed across three parties (company, volunteer, nonprofit), and no single party has enough incentive to fix the entire pipeline alone.