F.A.Q.

We have a network of thousands of volunteers across the country to provide free, fast pick ups of your donation at your earliest convenience.
After we collect your donation, we determine how to it can be used to earn the most money, either by selling the parts or by selling it at auction.

You earn a tax write-off equivalent to the value it sells for, or for a value of $500, whichever is higher. 
We can proudly say that 100% of the proceeds of any donation are used to help find lifesaving organs for our patient members.
Sure! You can donate almost any car that doesn’t run. Just fill out our donation form here with that information, or give us a call at 1-800-385-0422 ext. 7 and we will come pick it up for free.
We are partnered with the biggest auction company in the U.S. When we receive your donation, it will be sold at auction or sold for parts -- whichever will earn more money. You will receive your tax write-off for the amount it sold for, worth at least $500.
Our tow-truck driver will leave you a temporary receipt at your door or in the mailbox when they pick up your donation. We'll mail your tax receipt to you once your vehicle sells.

Real Estate is a different process because we do not pick it up from you. We will have our attorneys draft all of the paperwork and get it to you for free. 
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Yes. You should use MatchingDonors.com everyday and send your profile out to every donor in our database every day.

Do this by pressing on the EDIT/UPDATE PATIENT PROFILE button on the top of this page. Next, scroll to the bottom of the next page. Under where it states "Earliest Date The Patient Can Accept Organ", choose the ASAP DATE. Finally, press on the SUBMIT/UPDATE button.
Do this every day until you find your matched donor. Every time you do this your profile will be sent out to every donor in our database - through their search agent. Your profile will also go towards the top of the patient searchable list.
Contact donors through your search agent at least once a day.

Every day you will receive a list of donor's profiles from your "Search Agents"; these are very active donors that want to be contacted.  This is the list of the past three day's new and updated donors. Check your list at least once per day by going to the top of your "Patient Desktop" and pressing on the "Press here to view your daily donor matches at anytime" link. Donors add and deactivate their profiles continuously during the day, so check the list as often as you can. If you want to save this list of donors you can e-mail it to yourself. This is the most likely place for patients to find their donors. This list is available at the top of your patient desktop when you sign into your account. This is the best way for patients to find donors since patients can't search for donors any other way. You do not have a searchable list of donors where you can search every donor in the database. Always contact donors by pressing on the "Send Private Message" button. When you respond to donors through the search agent your messages to them and their subsequent messages to you will be in your In-Box above.
Yes. You should also contact every donor that has a telephone number at least twice a week until you personally talk to them. Leave a message if you can, and also continue to call twice a week until you personally talk to them, if they don't show a telephone number.

Also, some of the donors that you receive by the Search Agent or that contact you may not be a compatible blood type. These are still great donors that may be willing to take part in a paired exchange in order to get your needed organ donated to you. We have had tremendous success with paired exchanges. If you do not want to do a paired exchange you do not need to contact these donors.
Contact MatchingDonors.com within three days of finding a donor that has had a blood test and matched to you to start the process of us trying to help you and your donor with travel arrangements.
Please, you must be responsible.
No. Do not deal with any donors, or hospitals, outside of your own country; we will not support them. 
No. Do not give any money to any donor for any reason, or pay for anything for a donor for any reason. All money to donors for any reason must be paid through your hospital. 
No. Do not give your e-mail address or cell phone number or send a text to anyone. Also, do not contact any donor at their personal e-mail for any reason-all messages must go through your MatchingDonors.com In-Box. If you are using your cell phone to contact donors, be sure to block your telephone number so that the donor cannot see it.
No. Please, do not put any telephone numbers, contact info or website in your description in your profile or short or long description, for you or anyone else. All contact information that you want donors to see come automatically from your registration process.
No. Do not mention any other website or company through MatchingDonors.com.
Yes, we do. There are different criteria for free or discounted memberships. So, please call us at 781-821-2204 to see if you qualify for a free membership.
Your information can only be viewed by Potential Donors if you have an active membership.
Yes, donors can be testing for more than one patient at a time.
Donors can only see active patient profiles that the patient has not made private or confidential.
Donors can never see these.
Yes, we can. There are many great transplant centers out there that we can refer you to.
No.
It is your responsibility to find out before you register on MatchingDonors.com to see if you are a viable candidate for a transplant and that your transplant center will take your donors of any kind.
Yes, they can remove their profile at any time.
All messages that were sent will be removed from the In-Box of the patient or donor that they were sent to.
Either the patient or donor retracted the message or removed their profile.
Sorry. No, we cannot.
Sorry. No, we cannot.
Yes, a patient can apply for financing of a $595 lifetime membership. You will need to call MatchingDonors.com at 781-821-2204 Ext. 5 or 800-385-0422 ext. 5. A representative would be happy to help you.
Patients can only search donors through their search agents. Patients can only contact donors that contact them; also, patients can contact donors that are in their search agents.
Please follow the instruction on your MatchingDonors.com patient homepage.
You can go to http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=matchingdonors and view stories about MatchingDonors.com on CNN, CBS News, ABC Nightline and other television shows, as well as search the Internet for magazine and newspaper articles.
No. Free airfare may be arranged for travel within the United States for testing and surgery, but there are blackout periods and restrictions. We suggest you contact MatchingDonors.com at 800-385-0422 ext. #5 as soon as possible to see how we can help you with travel arrangements.
Patients can only deal with donors in the United States or the United Kingdom. If you deal with donors outside these countries in any way you will be permanently removed from MatchingDonors.com.
The United Kingdom hospitals will take donors on a case-by-case basis from other countries.
Yes, you have the ability to manage, edit, update your profile.
Our search agent will automatically search for new Donors, or Donors that have updated their profile continuously during the day, which meet the keyword criteria you specify. You must sign in to MatchingDonors.com every day to view these profiles. The organ that you are requesting is automatically put in as a search agent when you sign up. You can make up to 10 additional search agents. Be aware though that multiple search agents may get you multiple results with the same donor names.
Our search agent will automatically search for new Patients, or Patients that have updated their profile continuously during the day, which meet the keyword criteria you specify. You must sign in to MatchingDonors.com every day to view these profiles. The organ that you are requesting to donate is automatically put in as a search agent when you sign up. You can make up to 10 additional search agents. Be aware though that multiple search agents may get you multiple results with the same donor names.
NO. It is absolutely against the law to have any financial benefit from organ donation. If you are paid, or request to be paid, for any transplant, you will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Violators of this criminal prohibition can be subject to $50,000 fines and/or five years of imprisonment. Our terms allow us to give all of your personal, contact and tracking information to the FBI without your permission if you violate this prohibition.
Yes, MatchingDonors.com reserves the right to remove or suspend any patient or donor's profile at any time for any reason.
Many hospitals do; it may be worth your while to find another hospital if your hospital does not accept us.
Because, like the patient search agents, if a donor updates their profile the system will see them as a new or updated profile and will again send them out.
You can contact your doctor, or you can donate blood and they will tell you.
Please read the blood type table below to find who you are compatible with: Kidney donors must have a compatible blood type with the recipient.
In living donation, the following blood types are compatible:
Donors with blood type A... can donate to recipients with blood types A and AB.
Donors with blood type B... can donate to recipients with blood types B and AB.
Donors with blood type AB... can donate to recipients with blood type AB only.
Donors with blood type O... can donate to recipients with blood types A, B, AB and O (O is the universal donor: donors with O blood are compatible with any other blood type).
So, Recipients with blood type O... can receive a kidney from blood type O only.
Recipients with blood type A... can receive a kidney from blood types A and O.
Recipients with blood type B... can receive a kidney from blood types B and O.
Recipients with blood type AB... can receive a kidney from blood types A, B, AB and O (AB is the universal recipient: recipients with AB blood are compatible with any other blood type).
Call us at 781-821-2204 extension #2 and a representative will be happy to activate your free membership.
Yes, all patients from the United Kingdom can connect with donors from the United States over MatchingDonors.com.
Yes, we can try to, but we do not guarantee that we can find you a volunteer. Here is what you can expect from a volunteer: http://www.matchingdonors.com/life/index.cfm?page=p027
Yes, we will, ONLY under these following conditions will we do that for a patient. There are no exceptions. These steps must be done every day by the patient, with no exceptions, for three months prior to requesting an email blast from MatchingDonors. If you miss a day, the clock starts again. There are no exceptions. All of patient and donor actions on the site are recorded and there is a team that reviews that you have done all of this before we consider sending out the email blast.

After being registered as a patient at MatchingDonors.com, and after “using” MatchingDonors.com for at least 5 days a week for three consecutive months, at your written request, we will be able to send a personal email blast from the CEO of MatchingDonors.com to all donors in the MatchingDonors.com database that have a compatible blood type to the patient asking them if they will get tested to donate to the patient, under the following conditions.

By “using” MatchingDonors.com you must be
1. Sign into your MatchingDonors.com account and update your profile.
2. Contact every new and updated donor in your search agent that has a compatible blood type to you.
3. Save each donor that you contact and keep detailed notes on every donor in the “saved donor section”. These will be reviewed by the MatchingDonors.com team before we consider doing an email blast.
4. Send each of these donors a personalized private message through MatchingDonors.com.
5. If the donor has a telephone number, call the donor asking them if they will be tested for you. If you get a voicemail, leave a message and then call back three times a week until the donor talks to you. If there is no voicemail, call back three times a week until the donor talks to you.
6. If the donor’s telephone number does not work for any reason, you must send us a notification through the “Press Here To Report This Donor's Profile Because of Abuse” link in the donor’s profile. Then, press on the wrong or disconnected phone number button, put in your email address and reason for your complaint and send it to us.
7. Please remember, you must take notes in the notes section for every donor you save and include all interactions.
Donations can be immediate and we prefer to get them completed quickly. We are here to help you through the process.
You will have expert advise you through the whole process and we will work with your accountants and CPA’s to insure you are getting the maximum benefit from your donation.
You can claim the deduction in the same tax year that the property was donated. 
One of the advantages to the donor is that the size of the tax deduction is determined by the current market value of the property, as opposed to the cost of the property when it was purchased. So if you purchased your property in 1988 for $112,000 and today in 2008 it is worth $412,000, the current value is what you base your tax deduction on.

You should discuss your tax situation with your Accountant or Tax Professional to determine the best action 
Any type of Real Estate including
  • Residential property
  • Vacant land
  • Apartment buildings
  • Condos
  • Commercial
  • Industrial
  • Properties With Mortgages or Liens ( MatchingDonors has the ability to provide the necessary funds to complete a transaction to pay off existing loans, liens etc. and can even give some cash to the person donating the property if necessary)
  • Timeshares (accepted on a limited basis)
  • Hotels
  • Avoid Or Diminish Capital Gains
  • Receive a Charitable Tax Deduction
  • Eliminate Selling Problems
  • Simple to Transfer Ownership
  • No Real Estate Fees
  • Philanthropic Goals Are Met
  • Eliminates all selling costs thus increasing the owner's net tax benefit.
Yes, we are one of the few organizations that sometimes accepts properties with mortgages, tax burdens and those facing foreclosure. MatchingDonors.com can facilitate the donation of debt-encumbered properties. By using our own money the usual risks and issues that can arise when debt-encumbered property is transferred directly to a charity are negated in advance.


We will accept real estate donations from anywhere in the U.S.
No it will not cost you anything. Any surprise fees or processing fees will be covered by MatchingDonors.com. It is MatchingDonors.com’s responsibility to manage real estate state transactions so that there is no out of pocket cost to the donor.
Yes
We will send out a local real estate agent to check out the property before we accept it. There are very few things that will disqualify real estate from donation.
When we sell the property that you get donated to MatchingDonors.com we will pay you 15% of the net proceeds.  For example:  You find a property that is donated to MatchingDonors.com and we sell it for $500,000 we will pay a commission of $75,000.

You will be our listing agent.
We will take their information and have their tax situation evaluated by our professionals who are trusted experts in the field of charitable real estate gifts.
Any type of Real Estate including
  • Residential property
  • Vacant land
  • Apartment buildings
  • Condos
  • Commercial
  • Industrial
  • Properties With Mortgages or Liens ( MatchingDonors has the ability to provide the necessary funds to complete a transaction to pay off existing loans, liens etc. and can even give some cash to the person donating the property if necessary)
  • Timeshares (accepted on a limited basis)
  • Hotels
  • Avoid Or Diminish Capital Gains
  • Receive a Charitable Tax Deduction
  • Eliminate Selling Problems
  • Simple to Transfer Ownership
  • No Real Estate Fees
  • Philanthropic Goals Are Met
  • Eliminates all selling costs thus increasing the owner's net tax benefit.
Historically, most charities have been unable or unwilling to accommodate gifts of real estate. A large percentage of properties offered as donations are rejected by the charities because of liability concerns, mortgages or liens, or environmental issues. Charities’ staffs simply don’t have the expertise, or the time to safely handle such donations and many of their  boards of directors discourage such gifts.
Donating to MatchingDonors.com is different and has many advantages.
Advantages include:
  • We are proactive in selling properties quickly 
  • Access an Untapped Funding Resource, we can accept any type of property and also take properties with mortgages, liens, taxes etc.. and we can pay off these mortgages, liens, taxes etc…
  • One Contact for Donor and Charity
  • Our Experts Guide the Entire Process
  • No Costs to the donor, Including Insurance, Taxes, Fees
Yes, We are one of the few organizations that sometimes accepts properties with mortgages, tax burdens and those facing foreclosure. MatchingDonors.com can facilitate the donation of debt-encumbered properties. By using our own money the usual risks and issues that can arise when debt-encumbered property is transferred directly to a charity are negated in advance.


Anywhere in the United States. 
No it will not cost the donor anything. It is MatchingDonors.com’s responsibility to manage real estate state transactions so that there is no out of pocket cost to the donor.
The Internal Revenue Tax Codes are updated on an on-going basis. Our experts are constantly monitoring IRS changes to capital gains taxes, ordinary income taxes, gift taxes and inheritance taxes so they can provide the most up-to-date advice.
  • Those that want  to help charities
  • Anyone that desires an IRS tax write-off
  • Uninsured catastrophes
  • Businesses with abandoned properties
  • Fully depreciated properties
  • Uninsured catastrophes that are more of a detriment financially to continue to maintain

Donors receive a receipt for a tax deduction equal to the highest real estate appraisal of the donated property.  The usual headaches associated with selling real estate with various challenges are eliminated.  Donors can feel good about giving back to their community without stretching their budgets.
 The following rules apply in order to establish a “fair market value” acceptable to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS):

The IRS requires that all property donated that has a value of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) or more have a “qualified appraisal” to establish a “fair market value”. The appraisal must be performed by a “qualified appraiser” and must be attached to Form 8283 “ Charitable Contributions” and made a part of your tax return. It is suggested that you keep a copy of the appraisal as part of your record of contribution.
The charity will pay for the Title Search, Title Work, and any Closing Costs.
Yes. Sometimes it is more beneficial to sell a property, and make a partial cash donation at the closing to MatchingDonors.

Speak with your Accountant or Tax Professional to determine what course of action is most beneficial
Yes
No, any real estate of any size can be donated. For example:
Frederick C. Trump, the late father of real estate mogul Donald Trump, was a shrewd businessman who made an estimated $200 million in real estate. Seven years before his death in 1999, the elder Trump donated two apartment buildings, valued at approximately $33 million, to the National Kidney Foundation. The two buildings were expected to generate more than $600,000 in annual income for the nonprofit organization.

What was the reason behind Trump’s generosity? Doubtless the developer believed the foundation’s goals were ones worth supporting, but it is possible too that he, like many other high-net-worth individuals, donated the property to reduce the amount of estate taxes his family would pay after his death.

Of course, most Americans do not have a large real estate portfolio like Trump. But for those in the higher tax brackets, the donation of a Manhattan townhouse, a ranch in Montana or even an old family estate in Maine can help shave thousands, or even millions, off their heirs’ eventual tax bill–and do good works at the same time.
It is often financially preferable to donate properties to MatchingDonors.com,. especially when one takes into consideration costs of ownership: ongoing property taxes, maintenance costs, income taxes etc. or costs of selling: legal fees, brokerage fees, estate taxes, inheritance taxes and capital gains taxes. It also saves heirs the trouble of trying to divvy up the gains if the will is potentially contentious or inequitable. Sometimes there are intangible benefits as well. Often a donated estate will bear the donor's name, making the property a de facto memorial.

There is no correct answer to this question, every person and property is different. But for most people looking to donate real estate, a real estate donation has proven repeatedly to be one of the very best ways to rid themselves of unwanted property and a realization of a sizable / immediate, tax deduction. To learn more about your specific property and benefits, call our Director of Business Development at 1-800-385-0422 ext. 7 or fill out our contact form.
Real Estate Investing is about making money actively through the business of buying and selling houses for profit.  It is very possible to reap huge paydays through the fix and flip rehabbing side of the business. When your properties do not generate, it is time to think about a Real Estate Donation to MatchingDonors.com.
In the U.S., the Center for Disease Control estimates that over 10 percent of adults, about 20 million people, suffer from chronic kidney disease. Every day, 22 people in the U.S. die waiting for a kidney transplant, with the average wait time on the government’s deceased donor list being 7-10 years. MatchingDonors.com is a 501c3 nonprofit organization that is working hard to reduce that number by offering an online platform where those in need of an organ transplant can connect with living, altruistic members who are willing to donate. Because of our unique approach to organ donation, our patients can get their organ transplant within just 6 months of signing up. As a nonprofit, a large portion of our revenue comes from real estate, auto, boat, plane, and other donations.  
Once you spend a few moments reading through our site and speaking with our very knowledgeable representatives, you will quickly discover that MatchingDonors.com is unlike any other charitable organization you will come across. MatchingDonors.com is committed to helping those in need of an organ transplant. We connect those who wish to help with those who need help.

We are one of the few organizations that sometimes accepts properties with mortgages, tax burdens and those facing foreclosure. (Call 1-800-385-0422 ext. 6 for more information).