The Cause tab on a request or invitation displays detailed information about the applying nonprofit organization. You can learn more about what you'll find on the Cause tab by watching this video, or reading the article below.
Cause Information
The Cause tab displays information directly from the Benevity Causes Portal. The status labels are helpful for managing your requests or invitations. Below is a breakdown of each label. Depending on your program settings, some of these labels, such as tax eligibility, may work differently.
- Verified: The nonprofit has a profile in the Causes Portal and the profile manager has been verified by our vetting team.
- Self-certified: The nonprofit has completed self-certification in the Causes Portal. Self-certification may be a requirement for a nonprofit to be eligible to apply for grants.
- Tax eligible: The nonprofit is a tax-eligible, registered charity in their country. Tax eligibility is a required field when completing a payment. If a nonprofit is not tax-eligible, they can still be paid, but they must be marked as “not tax eligible” in the payment line. Tax eligibility can be different for every program. If you have any questions on how it’s handled in your program, please contact support.
- Disbursable: Benevity can disburse funds to this nonprofit.
- Receives EFT: The nonprofit can receive disbursements by EFT. If the nonprofit has a checkmark for Disbursable, but not Receives EFT, they can only receive disbursements by check.
- PayPal: The nonprofit accepts payments via PayPal.
Note: If a nonprofit is Verified and Disbursable, you must have Benevity disbursements enabled to disburse to them through the platform. If you have any questions about your program, contact your Client Success Manager.
Employee Engagement
If you use Benevity’s software for employee donations and volunteering, you can learn more about Employee Engagement statistics. This section summarizes employee activity over the last 12 months.
Only nonprofits that have high engagement with your employees will show statistics. High engagement is defined by at least five employees donating or volunteering with a given nonprofit.
The following data is displayed:
- Number of giving opportunities (employee or user-created)
- Number of volunteer opportunities (employee or user-created)
- Total hours volunteered
- Total dollars donated
- Total company matching
Why is there no Cause tab?
The data shown on the tab is from the Benevity Causes Portal. If the nonprofit is not in the causes portal, it cannot receive disbursements from Benevity. The Cause tab will display a notification to nominate the nonprofit and perform vetting and validation. Note that the nonprofit doesn’t have to be in the portal to pay them through your accounts payable.