Draft — pending attorney review
1. What the Share Fund is
The Share Fund is a promotional referral pool operated by Hog Wild Fundraising LLC ("Shareathon," "we," "us"). It is funded exclusively by 20% of donations to campaigns that publish under the Shareathon Club plan. Once an organization refers another organization into Shareathon, the referring organization may earn from the Share Fund on the referred organization's eligible Club campaigns, as described below. Share Fund balances are not currency, have no independent cash value except as paid out under these terms, and are not transferable between accounts.
2. Which campaigns fund the Share Fund
Only campaigns published under the Shareathon Club plan generate Share Fund dollars (20% of each donation). Campaigns published under the Plain 80/20 plan do not generate any Share Fund allocation — 80% goes to the campaign organization and 20% is retained by Shareathon to operate the platform.
The referred organization is never required to publish a Club campaign. Plan choice is always the referred organization's decision, made at campaign publish time. A referring organization may earn nothing at all if none of the organizations they refer choose to run Club campaigns. Nothing in these terms conditions access to Shareathon on choosing Club.
3. How plans lock
A campaign's plan (Club or Plain 80/20) is selected before publish and locked at the moment the campaign is published. Published campaigns cannot be switched between plans. A single organization may run different campaigns on different plans over time; each campaign's Share Fund treatment is determined by the plan locked at that campaign's publish.
4. Attribution — how referrals are recorded
- First-touch, invite-based. When an admin creates their organization through a referring organization's share/invite link, the referring organization is recorded as the "referrer of record" and is locked to the new organization at signup. This attribution is immutable after signup.
- One referrer per organization. Only one organization can be the referrer of record. If no invite link was used at signup, no referrer is recorded and no Share Fund allocation is generated on that organization's campaigns.
- Single-hop only. A referring organization earns from the Share Fund on campaigns run by the organizations it directly referred — and nothing beyond that. If the organization you referred later refers a third organization, you earn nothing from that third organization's campaigns. Referral credit never chains.
5. Duration of the referral relationship
The referral relationship lasts for the life of the referred organization's active Shareathon account. There is no time limit and no cap on the number of referred campaigns that qualify — every eligible Club campaign the referred organization runs generates a Share Fund allocation for the referrer of record while both accounts remain active.
The referring organization does not need to be running a campaign of any particular plan to receive Share Fund allocations from its referred organizations' Club campaigns. Eligibility to receive is at the organization level and does not depend on the referrer's current campaign type.
6. Redemption window & forfeiture
Share Fund balances allocated to a referring organization must be redeemed (paid out to the organization's connected bank account through Stripe) within six (6) months of the date allocated. Balances not redeemed within that window are forfeited to Shareathon and used to fund platform operations, fraud protection, customer support, and the ongoing rewards program. We provide in-app and email reminders before amounts expire; timely redemption is the organization's responsibility.
7. Inactive, suspended, or closed referrer accounts
If a referring organization becomes inactive, is suspended for a violation of these terms, our Acceptable Use Policy, or our Terms of Service, or closes its Shareathon account, any pending Share Fund balance and any future allocations that would have accrued to that organization revert to Shareathon. No further Share Fund payouts are made to the referrer after that point, and the referral relationship ends. Reinstatement of a previously inactive or suspended organization does not restore forfeited balances.
8. Refunds and chargebacks after allocation
Donations are refundable and may be reversed via chargeback after Share Fund amounts have already been allocated (and, in some cases, paid out). When a refund or chargeback occurs after allocation:
- The reversal is deducted from the referred organization's available balance.
- If the referred organization's balance is insufficient, the deduction is recorded as a pending adjustment against that organization and is netted against its next campaign's proceeds when they land.
- Share Fund allocations tied to reversed donations are reversed on the referring organization's ledger. If the reversed amount was already paid out, it is netted against the referring organization's next Share Fund payout.
9. Anti-abuse
The Share Fund is designed to reward organizations that genuinely help other real organizations discover Shareathon. It is not a mechanism to farm balances. Prohibited conduct includes, without limitation, self-referral, running multiple organizations under common control primarily to route Share Fund dollars between them, coordinated referral rings, publishing sham campaigns to inflate referral totals, and using bots or automation to simulate donations, campaigns, or organizations. See our Acceptable Use Policy for the full list.
We may withhold, delay, claw back, or forfeit Share Fund balances; suspend or reverse allocations; and suspend or close accounts on reasonable suspicion of abuse. The specific detection signals and thresholds we use are proprietary and not disclosed.
10. Payouts, taxes, and reporting
Share Fund payouts are delivered to the referring organization's connected bank account through Stripe and are subject to the minimum payout threshold disclosed in-app. Share Fund payouts are tracked separately from campaign proceeds for accounting and reporting purposes. Recipients are solely responsible for any taxes owed on Share Fund payouts. Where required by law, we will collect taxpayer information (for example, IRS Form W-9 in the United States, typically at Stripe Connect onboarding) and issue applicable tax forms (for example, IRS Form 1099) when payouts meet or exceed the applicable reporting threshold. Share Fund payouts may be reported as a separate line item on any such form.
11. Disclosure to referred organizations
Organizations that sign up through another organization's referral link are told, at signup, that they were invited by a specific referring organization and that publishing a Club campaign will send 20% of donations into the Share Fund payable to that referring organization. Publishing a Plain 80/20 campaign generates no Share Fund. Plan choice remains entirely with the referred organization.
12. No fundraising guarantee
Participation in the Share Fund does not guarantee any particular level of referral revenue. Actual earnings depend entirely on how many organizations you refer, whether those organizations choose to publish Club campaigns, and how much those campaigns raise. Nothing in this policy is an offer of employment, contractor status, or a promise of income.
13. Program changes
We may change the Share Fund program at any time, including the split percentages that fund it, the redemption window, the payout minimum, the attribution rules, and the anti-abuse rules. Material changes will be disclosed in-app and, where appropriate, by email. Continued use of the platform after a change constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.
14. Relationship to other terms
These Share Fund Terms supplement, and do not replace, our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Refunds & Disputes policy, Acceptable Use Policy, and Carrots & Rewards Terms. If there is a conflict on a topic specific to the Share Fund, these terms control for that topic.
15. Contact
Questions about the Share Fund: rewards@shareathon.com.