"Matching" funds (longish)

[JeffB]

There was a recent thread in IMHO about matching funds. I’ll just link to my reply that it depends on the specifics:

Charitable donations questions

To answer your first question – it depends. Sometime matches are true matches and whoever is providing the matching funds will only give the amount to be matched. So in your scenario, the organization would only get $800,000 in matching funds. This is how employer matching gift programs run, and there are other third parties that provided this type of match. In other situations, the match is more of a challenge grant where the person or organization providing the match will still give the full…