Someone told me I couldn't raise $10,000.
I serve as fundraising chair for three different organizations in Pflugerville, Texas. When someone told me I couldn't raise $10,000 for one of the programs I support, I didn't argue. I got to work.
The more I tried, the more I ran into the same wall every fundraiser hits. The timing was never right. Businesses were already committed. Budgets were already spent. A manager at a local hospital mentioned offhand that their corporate charitable giving budget closes in late February — and I'd been calling in April.
I wasn't failing because the cause wasn't worthy. I was failing because I was knocking on the wrong door at the wrong time with no way to know the difference.
"Getting the right introduction, at the right time, to the right person felt like a crap shoot. And if I felt that way — running three organizations — so did every fundraiser trying to fund every cause worth caring about."
The problem isn't the cause.
It's the timing.
There are thousands of nonprofits that die on the vine every year — not because their mission isn't important, but because they can't get the funding they need when they need it. The money exists. The businesses that want to give exist. They just never find each other at the right moment.
Local businesses get solicited constantly — band, boosters, little league, PTA, food bank, church — every organization has their number and uses it. On the organization's schedule, not the business's. It's exhausting. It creates guilt instead of generosity. And it rarely produces the kind of intentional, sustained community investment that actually changes things.
There had to be a better way.
So I built the tool
I wished existed.
TownSponsor started as a personal project — a way to manage donor relationships, track giving patterns, and reach businesses at the moment they were actually ready to give. What emerged was something more than a fundraising tool.
It's a platform that respects both sides of the giving relationship. Nonprofits get the tools and timing intelligence to make the right ask at the right moment. Businesses get control — their causes, their giving window, their terms — and the recognition that comes from being a genuine community partner, not just a name on a check.
97 cents of every dollar goes directly to the cause. Receipts are automatic. The connection is real.
"Ease of giving should never be the reason a worthy cause goes unfunded."
Starting in Pflugerville.
Built for everywhere.
TownSponsor launched in 2026 with Hendrickson High School Hawks Foundation as our first partner organization. Every feature was built and tested here — in the community where this story started.
The platform is designed to scale. The IRS has 1.8 million registered nonprofits. America has 33 million small businesses. Every single one of those communities has the same problem we're solving in Pflugerville. The technology doesn't know zip codes. The mission doesn't stop at city limits.
But we're not rushing. We're building the right way — with security, with trust, with the conviction that a platform handling someone's charitable giving has to earn that trust before it asks for it.