You decide how many kids we can say yes to.

One gift, any size, for tutoring, robotics, camp, and scholarships. It takes about a minute, and your tax receipt comes by email from our giving platform.

Monthly giving is the difference between hoping we can help a student and promising we can. A steady gift each month is what lets us plan a whole school year instead of a month at a time, and it is the single most useful thing a supporter can do for us. Change or pause it whenever you need to.

Many companies match what their employees give, dollar for dollar. If yours is one of them, your $100 becomes $200 and it costs you nothing extra. Ask your HR team for their matching gift process, and give them our EIN, 77-0151434. Some companies also match volunteer hours with a cash gift, so it's worth asking about that too.

How to request a match

A DAF is a charitable account you fund now and give from later. If you have one at Fidelity Charitable, Schwab Charitable, Vanguard Charitable, or a community foundation, you can recommend a grant to Hope Horizon in a few clicks. You already took the tax deduction when you funded the account, so this decision is purely about where the money goes.

You'll need our legal name, Hope Horizon East Palo Alto, and our EIN, 77-0151434.

If your fund’s search does not find us by name, search by EIN. Some funds still list us under our founding name, Bayshore Christian Ministries.

If you own stock that's worth more than you paid for it, giving the shares directly is usually better than selling them and giving the cash. When you sell, you owe capital gains tax on the growth. When you give the shares, generally nobody pays that tax, and you can typically deduct the full market value.

The practical effect: the student gets the whole gift instead of what's left after the tax bill, and the gift costs you less. Email us and we'll send the transfer instructions your broker needs.

The IRS treats crypto as property rather than currency, which means donating it works much like donating stock. Give it directly instead of cashing out first and you generally avoid the capital gains you'd owe on the sale, while deducting the fair market value.

We'll walk you through it. Tell us what you're giving and we'll send the details.

Make it out to Hope Horizon East Palo Alto and send it to:

1001 Beech Street
East Palo Alto, CA 94303

If you'd like a receipt sent a particular way, or you're giving on behalf of a church or business, put a note in with it and we'll take care of it.

Mark a birthday, a graduation, a retirement, or the memory of someone who believed in young people. Tell us who it's for and we'll let the family or the honoree know that a gift was made, without naming the amount.

A line in your will or a beneficiary designation on a retirement account costs you nothing now and can keep a door open in East Palo Alto long after. Some people name a specific amount, some name a percentage of what's left. Either is a real gift.

If you've already included us, please tell us, so we can thank you properly while we still can.

Snacks for camp, school supplies, laptops, materials for a robotics build. The catch with in-kind giving is that the wrong thing creates work instead of relief, so ask us first and we'll tell you what we actually need this month rather than what we needed last year.