Yes. ABC Home & Planet Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, founded as a Delaware non-profit corporation. You will receive a tax receipt letter from the ABC Home & Planet Foundation, and your credit card statement will show ABC Home & Planet Foundation as the recipient of your contribution.

Yes. The ABC Home & Planet Foundation has a contract with each participating non-profit organization requiring that the full amount of the grant received from the ABC Home & Planet Foundation be used for the project designated in the Gift of Compassion. These organizations must provide us with audited financial statements to document their use of the funds.

Up to 30% of the funds raised in the Gifts of Compassion initiative will be used to pay a portion of our costs associated with the initiative, which include credit card fees, marketing, advertising, public relations, staffing, below market rent, merchandising, general overhead and packaging. Since we handle most of the administration, the recipient organizations have agreed to apply all funds granted by the ABC Home & Planet Foundation directly to designated programmatic purposes. Any excess income generated by the ABC Home & Planet Foundation will be allocated among participating charitable organizations.

We have a strict privacy policy: we do not give away, rent or sell our mailing list to other organizations. We will use information you provide to help us give you access to programs that we develop or participate in. We will provide your contact information to the organization(s) you identify as the ultimate recipient(s) of your donation and/or Gift of Compassion, and if you provide it, we will give them information on any person you choose to honor with your gift. The organizations have agreed to offer to you the same membership services you would receive if you gave the contribution directly to them. These organizations have their own privacy policies, which are generally available on their websites.

Yes. When you order a Gift of Compassion and make donations on our website, the transaction is processed using Verisign’s encryption system. You will notice that a lock sign will appear at the bottom of your browser, indicating that the credit card and personal information you are providing is secure.

We currently do not accept proposals. Our process is to carefully research non-profit organizations through our board members and members of affiliated networks. At such time as we are in a position to receive proposals, we will post a procedure on this website.