Why nonprofits choose Sunday Squares
🏈 Built for season-long
One grid, a whole NFL slate. Sell 100 tickets once; every game plays the same numbers.
🗓️ Fundraise all season — not one game
One raffle runs the whole football season, turning every game into a drawing for your cause — chances to give and win all season long, not just one Sunday.
🚫 Never a cut of ticket sales
No rake, no percentage. A flat $500/year covers the software — fair draw, live scoring, alerts, printed tickets, compliance — and every ticket dollar stays with your raffle.
🎲 A fair draw anyone can check
Numbers are sealed before lock and drawn at random, so anyone can check the draw wasn't rigged.
📡 Automatic scoring & prizes
Live scores sync, winning tickets compute, patrons get an alert the moment they win — and winners pick a digital gift card from a menu you curate, delivered automatically.
📋 Compliance built in
A registration tracker plus an auto-filled annual-report worksheet (e.g. California CT-NRP-1 / CT-NRP-2) on your Payments tab.
How the money works
You sell paper raffle tickets in person and collect however you like at the sale — cash, check, Venmo, or a card reader. Sunday Squares just records who paid; the money never runs through the platform, so you stay the one in control of your funds.
🎫 Sell in person
Raffle law (e.g. California §320.5) requires paper tickets sold in person — so that's the model. Record each sale as you go.
💵 Collect any way
Take cash, check, Venmo, or a card reader at the point of sale. It's your ticket, your collection, your account.
📊 Reconciles cleanly
Every sale is tracked, so your treasurer report and annual charitable-raffle worksheet tie out to the penny.
🎟️
A registered charitable raffle — the model many have used for decades
Councils, parishes, booster clubs, and PTAs run their football squares as a charitable raffle: each ticket is a raffle ticket, and the football score draws the winning tickets. Sunday Squares speaks in raffle terms end-to-end and keeps you organized:
🎫 Tickets, not squares
Sell paper raffle tickets in person — the whole raffle reads in tickets, on screen and in print.
💛 For your cause
Ticket sales go to your beneficial or charitable purpose — prizes are donated or group-funded, not from ticket sales.
📋 Compliance built in
A registration tracker plus an auto-filled annual-report worksheet (e.g. California CT-NRP-1 / CT-NRP-2) on your Payments tab.
Raffle rules vary by state — many (like California) require in-person ticket sales and registration with the state before you begin. Confirm what applies to your organization; Sunday Squares helps you track it, not skip it. Not legal advice.
Simple pricing
Most groups · sponsored
Free for your group
One local sponsor package ($1,500/season) funds the whole raffle: a $1,000 cash prize donation — the platform automatically sources digital gift cards winners choose, and delivers them — plus the season's software. The sponsor gets “Sponsored by” on every printed ticket and the raffle page, all season. The pitch kit is built in.
Self-funded
$500/year flat
Fund your own prizes and pay one annual software fee — the fair draw, live scoring, winner alerts, printed tickets, the treasurer report, and compliance tracking, all in. Roughly $5 a ticket on a single 100-ticket raffle.
Either way: never a percentage of ticket sales — every ticket dollar stays with your raffle.
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