For PTOs, PTAs, and boosters
Keep the funding.
Parents who buy technology at work share a project their company has already budgeted; Kithix introduces suppliers; if the company buys, the school organization receives a donation every quarter after invoices are paid, while the referral stays active. No selling. No inventory. No Saturday table.
One referred company spending $10,000 a month models at $1,500 a quarter, about $6,000 a year.
Started by Amber Nash, a PTO parent and volunteer. She reads every application.
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Who does what, and where the donation comes from, in under 90 seconds.
The way it works now
Up to360hours
a school year
Two in three PTO and PTA leaders volunteer up to 10 hours a week. Over a 36‑week school year that is up to 360 hours, or nine 40‑hour work weeks.
How that adds up
That is one leader’s whole volunteer load. The fundraisers come out of those same hours. Source: PTO Today, The State of School Volunteering.
The catalog goes home in backpacks. The order forms come back, mostly. The boxes land in the gym and somebody sorts them. The families who bought last time are asked to buy again.
Then next fall it starts over.
Same parents, different day
Some of the same parents working the Saturday table choose and approve the technology their companies pay for: cloud, artificial intelligence (AI), phones, security, internet. Bills that run every month, year after year. That money was already moving. Your school was just never connected to it.
You already know restaurant night (Spirit Night). Families pick one restaurant on one night, and the school gets a cut of the check. This is that idea at the size of a company’s technology bill, and it does not stop on a Tuesday in October.
Restaurant night
One Tuesday at a restaurant
Every family is asked to go out and spend. Then Tuesday is over.
One referral that buys
One company, one year
No family is asked to buy anything. That is $1,500 a quarter, sent after invoices are paid.
About12restaurant nights a year, from one referral that buys.
And nobody has to talk 60 families into burritos on a school night.
How it works
Invite
The PTO or booster invites parents and neighbors who make technology decisions at work.
Share
The IT buyer shares a project their company has already planned and budgeted.
Connect
Kithix introduces suppliers that fit. The buyer decides whether to talk to any of them.
If the company buys
Receive
The organization receives a donation every quarter after invoices are paid.
Apply. A short application. No tax number, W-9, or bank details.
If you are accepted, finish setup. An officer signs the written agreement and completes private setup with Kithix. Your school gets its own link.
Send the invitations. The Fast Start Kit has the messages, the poster and the one-pager for IT buyers already written. They go to parents and neighbors who make technology decisions at work.
After that it is out of your hands. You are not in the supplier conversations, you do not sell anything, and you do not invoice anyone.
Five companies, one year
Each line is one referred company that bought, and the kind of technology it bought. The monthly amounts are examples, not quotes and not past Kithix results.
Five referred companies that bought
Donations to the organization in a year
What each company could be
No company here spends more than $250,000 a month, so every line is at 5%.
This example assumes every company on it buys, is billed for all twelve months, and stays active. Expect fewer purchases and a slower start.
Where the donation comes from
The company pays the supplier its normal price. The supplier side pays Kithix for the introduction. Kithix sends the organization its share. Schools pay nothing. Companies pay nothing extra.
Each referred company is counted on its own.
The payout cap. Kithix never sends more for a referral than it received for that referral, so on some services the donation can be less than the published share.
Not every service a supplier sells counts as qualifying. The written agreement says which do.
Who is behind this
Kithix was started by Amber Nash, a PTO parent and volunteer. The groups she was in were always fundraising, and she wanted that time back for the students.
Kithix LLC is the company: a United States-only referral practice. Skip the Fundraiser is the name of its program for PTOs, PTAs, and boosters, and this site is where a board can read the whole thing before deciding.
Questions
Every answer has its own link, so you can send one to your treasurer before the meeting.
No. Schools pay nothing. Applying is free and so is the kit. If nobody buys, nothing arrives and nothing is owed.
Link to this answer: Does this cost our PTO or booster anything?5% of qualifying monthly spend. On an account spending more than $250,000 a month, 7% applies to the portion above $250,000. Kithix never sends more for a referral than it received for that referral, so on some services the donation can be less than the published share. That limit is the payout cap. Qualifying spend is recurring services; one-time hardware and fees do not count. The written agreement says which services qualify.
Link to this answer: What share does the organization receive?That depends on who is in your community and what you raise now, and on the size of the projects. Internet access for one office, at $1,500 a month, models at $225 a quarter, about $900 a year. A $15,000-a-month AI rollout models at $2,250 a quarter, about $9,000 a year. A $50,000-a-month move to the cloud models at $7,500 a quarter, about $30,000 a year. Set that beside what your biggest fundraiser clears, and remember that nothing starts until a company buys and pays.
Link to this answer: How much of our fundraising does this replace?Every quarter, after the referred company’s invoices are paid, for as long as the referral stays active. Kithix sends a donation only after it has been paid for that referral. Where the donation goes is set up privately once you are accepted, never on a public form.
Link to this answer: How often are donations sent?The first donation arrives only after a company buys, is invoiced, and pays. Plan on months, not weeks. Nothing is sent when you apply or when an IT buyer shares a project, and no start date is guaranteed. Leave it out of the budget until the first one lands.
Link to this answer: When could a first donation arrive?Donations from that referral stop when the service is canceled or its invoices stop being paid. Your other referrals are not affected. No annual amount is guaranteed.
Link to this answer: What happens if a referred company cancels its service?Kithix does not describe it as one. The organization receives a donation from Kithix under a written agreement. The company is paying a supplier at its normal price, not making a gift. Kithix does not give tax advice. Ask your accountant how to record it.
Link to this answer: Is this a tax-deductible donation?No. Every donation figure on this site is worked out from the published share and an example monthly spend. Any example companies or project sizes, restaurant-night comparisons, or line items of what a donation could cover are illustrations. None is a forecast, and none is a result from a real organization. What arrives depends on a referred company buying, paying its invoices, and staying a customer.
Link to this answer: Are the funding examples guarantees?If an IT parent asks
No. The company pays the supplier its normal price. The supplier side pays Kithix for the introduction, and the donation comes out of that. Nothing is added to the company’s invoice, and Kithix is never on it.
Link to this answer: Does this cost the buyer’s company anything extra?Yes. Kithix is new. No school organization has a result to show yet, so none is named here, and there are no testimonials. What you can check today is how the money moves, the published share, the terms, and who answers the email: hello@kithix.com goes to Amber Nash, the founder.
Link to this answer: Is Kithix new?No. Nobody pays to join, there are no levels, and nobody earns from anyone beneath them. The parents you invite are never asked to sell anything or to invite anyone else. If one of their companies buys, the organization receives a donation.
Link to this answer: Is this a pyramid, an MLM, or selling?The school organization does, or a parent does, with the invitation in the kit. Kithix does not call an IT buyer to sell. The buyer opens the school’s link, shares a project, and decides whether to talk to any supplier Kithix introduces.
Link to this answer: Who contacts the IT buyer?Yes. Kithix works with school organizations and companies in the United States.
Link to this answer: Is this United States only?If an IT parent asks
It can look like one if you keep it quiet, so do not keep it quiet. The donation goes to the school organization, never to you, and it comes out of what the supplier side pays Kithix, not out of your company’s price.
Link to this answer: Is this a conflict of interest for me?No. Kithix does not sell, resell, quote, or mark anything up. The company buys direct from the supplier under its own procurement process. Kithix is never on the contract or the invoice. It makes the introduction, and the supplier side pays it for that.
Link to this answer: Does Kithix resell anything or sit in the contract?Yes, always. Approvals, due diligence, security review, contracting: all of it applies as usual. An introduction from Kithix replaces none of it. The buyer decides whether a supplier fits.
Link to this answer: Does the IT buyer still follow their employer’s procurement policy?A listing means Kithix can introduce an IT buyer to that supplier. It is not an endorsement, and it says nothing about quality, price, or fit. An introduction narrows the field to suppliers that match the project. The IT buyer evaluates them and decides.
Link to this answer: What does a supplier listing or an introduction mean?Three things, and two of them happen once. Apply. If you are accepted, an officer signs the written agreement and completes private setup. Then invite the parents and neighbors who make technology decisions at work, using the messages in the kit. You do not sell anything, staff a table, collect money, or send invoices. Kithix makes the introductions and sends the donation.
Link to this answer: What does our organization actually have to do?No. A group does not need 501(c)(3) status. PTOs, PTAs, athletic and band boosters, theater, choir, and other school clubs can all apply, whether or not they are registered charities. Once accepted, the organization gives its legal name, a W-9, and where to send the donation through a private setup step, never on a public form.
Link to this answer: Do we need to be a 501(c)(3)?You hear back by email within three business days. Applying does not start anything by itself: nothing goes out to families, and nothing is owed either way. If you are accepted, an officer signs the written agreement and completes private setup, and then Kithix emails your school’s link.
Link to this answer: What happens after we apply?Then this will not replace your bake sale, and we would rather you knew that now. Ask around before you decide. It does not take a CIO: a parent who buys internet, phones, cloud, security, or AI for an employer counts. Small projects count too: internet access at $1,500 a month models at $225 a quarter, about $900 a year. If you honestly have none, keep the catalog.
Link to this answer: What if nobody in our community works in IT?Those ask families to buy things. Kithix asks nobody in your school community to buy anything. It starts with a technology purchase a company has already planned and budgeted, and the donation comes from the supplier side, not from a family’s wallet.
Link to this answer: How is this different from catalog sales, scrip, or shopping rewards?It is the same idea at a different size. On restaurant night (some schools call it Spirit Night), people buy a dinner they were going to buy anyway and the school gets a share. Here the purchase is a company’s technology, and the donation comes every quarter while the referral stays active instead of ending when the night does.
Link to this answer: Is this like restaurant night?If they work for your school, yes. Kithix does not replace the events people enjoy, and it never asks families to give or buy. The aim is to let you drop the fundraisers nobody enjoys.
Link to this answer: Do we still run the auction and the spirit-wear store?If an IT parent asks
You can still start. Tell us which school you want to support. We will reach out to its parent organization so the donation can go to them.
Link to this answer: What happens if I do not have a school link?Kithix reads what the buyer wrote and introduces suppliers that fit. The buyer decides whether to talk to any of them. Nothing is bought through Kithix, and Kithix does not call the buyer to sell. No response time is promised.
Link to this answer: What happens after an IT buyer shares a project?That is fine. Nobody is asked to replace a contract that works. The buyer can share something else: a renewal that is coming up, a replacement, or a new project that is already in the budget. They decide what fits and buy from whoever they choose.
Link to this answer: What if the IT buyer already has a supplier?
The application is short, and applying commits your organization to nothing.
ApplyThese three documents cover why this beats another sale, what your organization would actually do, how to start, and what one referral could send you each quarter.