FutureFund is designed by and for school groups to solve the unique fundraising challenges you face.
FutureFund is a free platform that helps school groups manage fundraising campaigns, including online payments, event ticketing, and product sales. While Cheddar Up offers similar functionality, it was not made specifically with school groups in mind.
Here’s how they compare when you look at their costs, benefits, and features.
Our purpose-built features help school groups fundraise more efficiently while engaging parents and giving time back to volunteers.
Sell tickets online—then use the free FutureFund Turnstile app to scan and redeem them instantly on the day of your event.
Use automated responses to resolve disputed payments quickly and avoid losing money.
Generate campaign summaries and financial reports in just a few clicks to keep your school group compliant with federal and state regulations.
Run donation drives, grow your membership, host Pledge-A-Thons, and more with custom campaign templates and help from a dedicated account manager.
Send messages to filtered audiences and create personas for targeted, personalized communication that inspires parents and volunteers to act.
School groups use FutureFund for free! Our costs are covered by small platform fees charged as a percentage of each donation.
Schools that sign up get full access to all of FutureFund’s features—it’s always free and it always will be.
FutureFund is used by over 1,000+ organizations, including:
Bollinger Elementary & Iron Horse Middle School
“FutureFund is always responsive to questions and suggestions, and added new corporate matching features based on my feedback. We rarely had to wait more than 24 hours for support and always felt taken care of.”
Tassajara Elementary
“FutureFund has been an invaluable tool for our school groups because it streamlines everything perfectly to be able to have one place for parents/caregivers to purchase and/or make donations. I recommend that all schools and their districts use FutureFund.”
Unlike other peer-to-peer fundraising platforms, FutureFund was created specifically for PTAs and school groups. Our features are designed to solve the problems parents and educators face every day.
Instead of having paid plans, we charge a small fee to donors as a portion of each payment they make through the platform. This spreads out the cost of our platform to make things easy for community members while allowing school groups to fundraise for free.
GoFan focuses on ticket sales, but FutureFund is an all-in-one fundraising platform built for K-12 school groups. In addition to selling tickets and redeeming them with the FutureFund Turnstile app, you can also run donation drives, sell products in an online store, run A-Thon style pledge campaigns, organize PTA membership drives, and more.
All kinds! While GoFan has no built-in messaging system, we provide tools that make it easy to communicate with parents and volunteers. Everything is customizable—including your audience filters and sender profiles.
We built FutureFund specifically to support K-12 PTAs and school groups. Our team are PTA members ourselves, and we understand the relationships between parents, teachers, and students—so we created tools that solve the unique challenges these groups face when it comes to effectively organizing and fundraising.
While GoFan only supports ticketed events, FutureFund lets you create a variety of custom campaign types to provide specific support for school group fundraisers of all kinds. These include:
Schools that sign up get full access to all of FutureFund’s features—it’s always free and it always will be.
