Built for 501(c)(3) Organizations

Your donors deserve a draw they can actually verify.

This tool is free. No signup, no tips, no fine print. Every draw produces a shareable public record your supporters can check for themselves because "trust us" stopped being good enough a long time ago.

2005
Year we built the first online raffle ticket generator
20+
Years of nonprofit raffle experience

4
Raffle formats more than any other platform
US
Based in Apollo Beach, FL real phone support
Who Uses This Tool

If your organization runs raffles to raise money, this was built for you.

We have worked with every type of nonprofit over the past 20 years. The draw challenges are different but the need a fair, provable, shareable result is always the same.

Schools & PTAs

Field trip funds, gym equipment, scholarship raffles. Parents want proof the draw was fair and the verify link gives them that.

Churches & Faith Organizations

Annual fundraisers, building funds, community outreach. Your congregation's trust is your most valuable asset protect it.

Fire Departments & EMS

Volunteer departments run some of the most creative raffles we have seen. A verifiable draw makes the announcement night more credible.

Veterans Organizations

VFW posts, American Legion chapters, and veteran support funds communities that take fairness seriously deserve a tool that does too.

Hospital Foundations

Gala events, basket raffles, annual campaigns. Regulated environments where documentation isn't optional it's required.

Sports Boosters & Clubs

Youth leagues, booster clubs, athletic programs. Quick draws at events where everyone's watching get it right the first time.

From the Raffle Hotline Real Story

A gentleman called about running a small fundraiser for children in need. He was incredibly humble. They ran their charity through a small church in a worn-down little town the kind of place with maybe two stoplights. They were planning a Fourth of July picnic fundraiser and hoped to raise a few thousand dollars. We figured if they raised six or seven thousand it would be a success.

$351,100
raised 17,369 tickets sold supporters from all across the United States

The lesson: Successful fundraising isn't driven by big marketing budgets or celebrity endorsements. The most successful raffles are powered by authentic missions and communities that believe in the cause.

Why Transparency Wins

Your supporters are sharing your raffle. Make sure they trust it.

That small church's raffle went national because supporters trusted it enough to share it with people they had never met in states they had never visited. That kind of reach doesn't happen when people suspect something isn't right.

Every time someone buys a ticket or enters a raffle, they are extending trust to your organization. The verify link gives them something concrete to point to when they share it with their neighbor: "Here you can see exactly how the draw worked."

We have run so many raffles over the years that we honestly stopped counting. What we never stopped doing was answering the phone. If a supporter ever questions your draw, you want to be able to answer confidently and the public verify record makes that possible without a single awkward conversation.

Illustration of a raffle result verify link being shared via mobile building community trust in the draw
Free Draw Tool

Draw your winner right here no account needed.

Paste your entries, draw, share the result link. If you need to sell tickets and run the full raffle, we can help with that too see below.

Entries One name per line
Winner Selected
Need Full Platform →
Verifiable draw ID: Share this with participants anyone can check the draw record independently.
Generating...
Know the Difference

The draw tool is the last step. The platform is everything before it.

Most nonprofits need both at some point the free tool for simple draws, and the full platform when they need to actually sell tickets and raise money.

Feature comparison

Feature
Free Tool
C2W Platform
Draw winner from existing list
Shareable verifiable result
Cryptographic randomness
Sell tickets online
Accept payments (Stripe, Square)
Digital ticket delivery by email
Custom raffle website
Basket raffle / tricky tray
Queen of Hearts (multi-week)
Cash + online hybrid pool
Dedicated fundraising coach
Cost to your organization
Free
From $0

When is the free tool enough?

If you already have your list of entries from a paper ticket sale, in-person event, or spreadsheet and you just need a fair, verifiable draw, this tool handles that perfectly. It is free, takes under a minute, and the result link gives your participants independent proof.

When do you need the full platform?

As soon as you need to collect money. Selling tickets online, processing payments, managing entries automatically, sending confirmations, running basket raffles with individual basket allocations, running a Queen of Hearts over multiple weeks none of that is possible with a draw tool alone. That is where Chance2Win comes in.

Chance2Win builds and hosts a complete raffle website for your organization. You handle promotion. They handle everything technical compliance review, payment setup, ticket numbering, entry management, and the final draw.

Chance2Win is for 501(c)(3) nonprofits only. EIN verification required. Not available to for-profit businesses or individuals.

The Real Cost of "Free"

Free isn't free. It just means somebody else is paying for it and in this case, that somebody is your cause.

Several platforms market themselves as free to nonprofits. What they don't lead with is that they recoup their costs by prompting donors for a tip usually 17–29%, pre-checked at the moment of checkout.

That tip prompt causes real abandonment. Research across thousands of nonprofit transactions shows that when donors see an unexpected charge at checkout even a voluntary one a significant percentage of them leave without completing the purchase.

The math isn't complicated. On a $20,000 raffle goal, organizations using tip-based platforms typically receive approximately $13,000. Organizations using Chance2Win Zero Fee typically receive $19,800. The "free" platform cost more money.

Abandonment modeling based on internal data corroborated by Baymard Institute, eMarketer, Contentsquare 2025, and VWO 2026. Individual results vary.

Incremental cart abandonment by pricing model
~0%
C2W Premium optional ~8% supporter charge set by org, disclosed upfront
1–2%
C2W Zero Fee fixed 12% service charge, fully disclosed before purchase
~30%
Zeffy / tip model school & family events, 17–29% tip pre-checked
~40%
Zeffy / tip model church & community events, same tip range

The most common optional supporter charge organizations choose to add on Premium is approximately 8%. That charge flows 100% to the organization it is never Chance2Win's fee.

From the Raffle Hotline A Cautionary Story

The raffle for a house. The platform that had no compliance review.

We got a call from an organization that had just had their raffle shut down mid-campaign. They had been selling tickets for a house real estate raffles require specific state gaming licenses that take months to obtain and cost significant money to maintain.

Their platform had never asked about the prize. There was no compliance check before tickets went on sale. The raffle had to be cancelled, every ticket had to be refunded, and the organization had to manually process those refunds while still paying credit card processing fees.

Total loss: roughly $50,000 in fees.

They later ran another raffle this time for an SUV. With a proper compliance review. On Chance2Win. That fundraiser raised roughly $200,000.

Compliance review before launch can prevent extremely expensive mistakes. Chance2Win reviews organizations and raffle structure before any tickets go on sale.

The Napkin That Won the Car

During a board meeting about moving their raffle online, a volunteer held up the contact information for the winning ticket of their previous car raffle. The contact information was written on a diner napkin. No name. No phone number. Just an illegible email address scrawled in ballpoint pen.

The lesson: Paper systems lose winners. Digital platforms create a permanent, searchable record. When the winner calls six weeks later to claim their prize, you will be very glad you have it.

Why Chance2Win

We didn't add raffles to a fundraising tool. We built raffles first.

Most of today's nonprofit fundraising platforms started as donation tools or event management software. Raffles were added later as a feature. Chance2Win was built specifically for raffles in 2005 before any of those platforms existed.

Four raffle formats illustrated: traditional raffle, basket raffle, Queen of Hearts, and duck race

Four raffle formats exclusively

Traditional raffles, basket raffles, Queen of Hearts, and duck race / ball drop. No competitor supports all four. Most support one. None handle the hybrid cash + online drawing pool that Chance2Win does natively.

No commissions on ticket sales

Chance2Win does not take a cut of your raffle proceeds. Zero Fee plan covers costs through a transparent donor service charge. Premium plan charges the organization a flat fee. Your ticket revenue goes to your cause.

Compliance review before launch

Organizations are vetted. The raffle structure is reviewed. Your site is built after compliance review and payment setup not instant self-serve. This is not a limitation, it is the thing that prevents the $50,000 mistakes above.

Real phone support

Call (813) 699-9325. A real person answers. Not a chatbot. Not a ticketing system that takes 48 hours. We answer the phone because when a raffle is live and something isn't working, the solution needs to happen now.

Launches in days, not months

The setup process moves quickly. After compliance review and payment configuration, most organizations are live within days. No development team required. No technical knowledge needed on your end.

Multi-gateway payment support

Stripe, Square, and Authorize.net. This matters more than it sounds: Stripe and Givebutter suspend accounts for legally-prized raffles involving wine, bourbon, or certain other restricted items. Multi-gateway support is your insurance.

Common Questions

Questions we hear from nonprofits every week.

Yes, completely free no signup, no tips, no per-draw fee. The draw tool is free for any organization. If you need to sell tickets online and manage a full fundraising raffle, the Chance2Win platform has its own pricing structure two plans, both free to the organization in different ways. Neither takes commissions from your ticket revenue.
In approximately 45 US states, yes with varying requirements for permits, written rules, record-keeping, and sometimes in-person drawing requirements. Chance2Win does not operate in Utah (which prohibits fundraising raffles) or Hawaii (which prohibits paid raffles). Raffle and charitable gaming laws vary by state and this is not legal advice. Chance2Win reviews raffle structure as part of its onboarding process. Always verify your state's specific requirements, and call us if you are unsure we can help point you toward the right questions to ask.
No. Chance2Win does not take commissions or percentages from ticket sales. On the Zero Fee plan, donors pay a transparent fixed 12% service charge disclosed upfront at checkout the organization keeps 100% of ticket revenue. On Premium, the organization pays a flat fee starting at $329. The optional supporter charge of approximately 8% that most Premium organizations choose to add flows 100% to the organization it is never Chance2Win's fee.
Traditional raffles, basket raffles (tricky tray / Chinese auction), Queen of Hearts progressive raffles, duck race and ball drop events, 50/50 raffles, and hybrid draws that combine online and in-person cash or check entries in a single pool. No other platform supports all of these formats natively especially the basket raffle wallet model and the hybrid drawing pool, which are exclusive to Chance2Win.
Go to chance2win.org/start and begin the intake process. Your organization will need to be a registered 501(c)(3) with an active EIN. After submitting, the team reviews your raffle structure, confirms compliance, and builds your raffle website. Most organizations are live within days. Or you can call us directly at (813) 699-9325 we are happy to walk through your specific situation before you commit to anything.