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Fundraising raffles your donors never have to take on faith

You are asking people to give you money on the promise that a drawing will be fair. Rafflebase turns that promise into something they can check themselves — a public results page with cryptographic proof, and an audit trail your board can review line by line.

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Free for up to 100 entrants. No subscriptions.

The hard parts

What usually goes wrong

  • Donors can’t see the draw

    Most raffles end with a name read off a card. Rafflebase publishes a results page anyone can open, so the draw stops being something your supporters have to trust and starts being something they can verify.

  • The board wants a record

    Every entry is timestamped and every action is logged. When your treasurer or your auditor asks how the winner was chosen, the answer is a link, not a recollection.

  • Overhead eats the proceeds

    Ticket books, printing and per-entry platform fees come straight out of what you raised. Rafflebase is free up to 100 entrants and a flat $25 after that — never a cut of your donations.

How it runs

Three steps, start to finish

  1. 1

    Share one signup link

    Put it in the appeal email, the newsletter footer, or a QR code on the table at your gala. Supporters enter themselves — no volunteer transcribing names.

  2. 2

    Draw in front of everyone

    Run the draw live at the event or on a livestream. The result and its proof publish the moment you press the button.

  3. 3

    Send the proof with the thank-you

    The results link goes in your follow-up email. Donors who didn’t win still see exactly how the winner was chosen.

Every draw ships with its own proof

The winner and a SHA-256 hash of the draw publish together. Anyone can re-run the computation and confirm the same name comes out — no one has to take your word for it.

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Ideas

Drawings that work for nonprofits

  • Annual gala or benefit dinner drawing
  • 50/50 split-the-pot at a fundraising event
  • Giving Tuesday or year-end appeal drawing
  • Donor appreciation prize for recurring givers
  • Silent auction companion raffle
  • Volunteer recognition drawing

Winner drawn

Spring benefit drawing

Winner
M. Alvarez
Entries
842
Raised
$8,420
Cryptographically verified
Questions

Nonprofits, specifically

Do we need to be a registered 501(c)(3) to use Rafflebase?
Not to use the software — anyone can create a raffle. Whether your organization is permitted to run a raffle, and whether it needs a license to do so, is set by your state’s charitable gaming law rather than by us. Check your state’s rules before you sell a single ticket.
Can supporters enter online?
Yes. Every raffle gets a public signup page you can share by link, email or QR code. Entrants fill in their own details, so nobody on your team is typing names off paper. Note that some states restrict selling raffle tickets over the internet, which is a separate question from collecting entries.
How do we show the board the draw was fair?
Each completed raffle has a public verification page showing the SHA-256 hash and the seed used to pick the winner. Anyone can re-run the computation and confirm it produces the same result. The audit trail also logs every entry and every action with a timestamp.
What does it cost the organization?
Nothing for a raffle with up to 100 entrants. Past that, it is a one-time $25 for that raffle, which also unlocks CSV export, multiple winners, new signup alerts and payment reminder emails. There is no subscription and no per-entrant fee, so the amount you raise is never scaled against what you pay us.
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