Affiliate & Giving Disclosure
ShopToDoGood is supported by affiliate commissions. When you shop through a link on this site, the retailer pays us a commission — at no extra cost to you, your price is exactly the same. The majority of that commission then goes to a registered charity. We disclose this plainly because it is required by law and it is the right thing to do.
How the giving works
You choose a cause. When a purchase you make through our links earns us a commission on a program that supports per-purchase attribution, 90% of that commission is directed to the charity you chose. We only ever report a donation a retailer has actually confirmed — never an estimate. Where a program does not permit per-purchase charity attribution, your give-back supports our general giving fund instead (see the note at the foot of this page).
Your price never changes. The commission comes out of the retailer's marketing budget, not your pocket.
Which affiliate programs we use
Product and store links route through established affiliate programs. As we are approved by each program, the matching stores switch on — a store appears as live here only once buying there genuinely earns for your cause.
- eBay Partner Network (EPN) — live. Campaign ID 5339144864. Most links go to eBay search results rather than a single listing, so results stay current and you can choose condition and seller.
- Being added via the major affiliate networks — Impact, CJ Affiliate, Rakuten Advertising and Awin — covering stores such as Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Lowe's and Etsy.
- Amazon — handled differently; see the note at the foot of this page.
What happens when you click an affiliate link
- The retailer or its affiliate network sets a cookie that attributes a purchase you make within its tracking window to us.
- If you complete a purchase, we receive a commission — usually a small percentage of the sale, varying by retailer and category.
- You pay exactly what you would have paid without clicking our link.
- We receive commission and transaction reports from the affiliate networks — not your name or email. With your consent we store one random, pseudonymous ID in your browser so the commission from your shopping can be routed to the charity you picked. Decline, and links still work — your give-back simply supports our general pool instead.
What doesn't happen
- We don't take payments from manufacturers to recommend their products.
- We don't run sponsored articles. If you see a brand mentioned positively, it's because the product was used and rated on its merits.
- We don't add hidden affiliate deals on top of the programs listed above.
- We don't write list-format content that exists only to scatter affiliate clicks.
If you want to help without spending
Share a tool or page you found useful with someone who would actually use it. Word of mouth is the growth channel we trust most.
FTC disclosure
This site complies with FTC guidelines for affiliate disclosure (16 CFR Part 255). Affiliate links on this site are marked with rel="sponsored" and disclosed in the page where they appear, in addition to this site-wide disclosure.
Note on certain retailers (e.g. Amazon): some retail affiliate programs do not permit publishers to offer shoppers a per-purchase charitable incentive. Where that is the case, any commission those programs pay ShopToDoGood is our own revenue, and ShopToDoGood directs a portion of its overall proceeds to charity through its general giving fund at its own discretion — rather than attributing an individual purchase to a charity you select. Charity selection applies to programs that permit per-purchase attribution.