The Giving Challenge 2026

What Is the Giving Challenge?

Highlights From the 2024 Giving Challenge

In 24 hours on April 9 and 10, 2024, donors across the community united with an outpouring of support for the Giving Challenge, raising more than $17.2 million for 724 participating nonprofits in Sarasota, Manatee, Charlotte, and DeSoto counties.

With more than $10.5 million provided in community support and prizes from 53,305 donors and 90,147 total gifts, along with $6,725,932 million in matching funds from The Patterson Foundation, the 2024 Giving Challenge affirmed our community’s generosity, bringing the total raised through the Giving Challenge to more than $92 million over the last decade.

Thanks to your generosity, the 2024 Giving Challenge enhanced and augmented the efforts of our nonprofit community. The unrestricted funds raised during the Giving Challenge now provide our nonprofit partners flexibility to respond to community needs.

Giving Challenges of the past have raised more than funds: They’ve raised spirits in hard times and raised the prospect of hope during moments of uncertainty. Over the years, we've collected impact testimonials. Read about nonprofits’ experiences with previous Giving Challenges—how they leveraged their strengths to maximize fundraising and the ways in which the Giving Challenge supported their ability to pursue their missions in these impact testimonials.