Skip the fundraiser.
Keep the funding.
Parents at your school already sign big technology bills at work. Kithix connects one of them to the right supplier — and your org receives a donation from that spend every quarter, for as long as the account stays active. No selling. No inventory. No Saturday.
One connected company ≈ $6,000–$12,000 a year to your org.
Modeled possibilities are not guaranteed. Funding begins only after a referred company purchases through a matched supplier and invoices are paid, and continues only while that account remains active.
The program
Give the hours back to students.
The old cycle
- Candy
- Discount cards
- Plants
- Wrapping paper
Then start over.
The grind
→
Time back to students
360
hours a year in the chair
Seven hours a week. Nine work weeks. Give them back to the kids.
Same people. Every candy sale, every card drive, every plant. PTO, PTA, football, band. Fundraising chairs are among the hardest seats to fill (58%). PTO Today, 2023.
In the chair
The whole idea, once
Parents already know people who buy this stuff. Stop selling wrapping paper. Connect them once.
Meanwhile, at work on Monday.
The same parents working the Saturday table sign technology invoices at work — cloud, phones, security, internet. Often thousands of dollars a month, every month. That money was already moving. Your school just was never connected to it.
You already know restaurant night. Families eat at the place they were going anyway. The school gets a cut of the check. Kithix is that idea, at the size of a company’s technology bill, and it does not stop on a Tuesday in October.
Restaurant nightThey were already going to dinner. The school gets a cut of that Tuesday.
KithixThey were already going to buy the technology. The PTO or booster receives a donation every quarter after invoices are paid, while the referred account remains active.
Saturday / Monday
Two economies. Same parents. One red line between them.
This is not another sale. It is a recurring path.
Five roles in one continuous path. The organization makes the invitation. The buyer keeps the decision.
- 01
PTO or booster
Invite the IT parents
Use the ready-to-send kit. Approved organizations can also plan managed outreach with Kithix.
- 02
IT decision maker
Name a project or renewal
Complete a guided intake, choose meeting windows, and keep control of the buying process.
- 03
Kithix
Match the need
Use the stated requirements to identify relevant suppliers from the U.S. network.
- 04
IT decision maker
Decide if a supplier fits
An introduction is not a purchase. The buyer follows the employer’s procurement policy.
- 05
PTO or booster
Receive quarterly funding
Only after a purchase and paid invoices, and only while the referred account remains active.
Try your school
What could our school look like. A sense of, not a promise.
Leave the introductions blank if you are guessing. We will estimate from the school.
$12,000
if about 1 meeting happens this year
A sense of, not a promise. Your funding follows actual billed spend.
Modeled annual impact
What recurring funding could look like.
Each row represents one referred company and one technology category. The monthly-spend assumptions are examples, not quotes or historical Kithix results.
Conservative · eight introductions · illustrative
$50,100/ year
An annualized model based on paid invoices while the referred accounts remain active.
- Cloud$18,000
- Cybersecurity$9,000
- Connectivity / SD-WAN$6,000
- Contact center$4,200
- Networking / campus wireless$3,900
- UCaaS$3,600
- Mobility$3,300
- IoT$2,100
Illustrative mix. Eight introductions. About $50,000 a year, after paid invoices while those referred accounts remain active. Not a promise.
How the money moves
- 1. The company buys from a matched supplier. Same contract. Same price.
- 2. That supplier pays Kithix.
- 3. Kithix pays the organization a published share of the customer’s monthly spend.
- 4. The donation is calculated after invoices are paid and sent every quarter, only while that referred account remains active.
- 5. A floor applies: we never pay out more than we received on that account.
Org share of spend
| Customer monthly spend | Org share of spend |
|---|---|
| $0 – $74,999 | 5% |
| $75,000 – $99,999 | 6% |
| $100,000 – $249,999 | 7% |
| $250,000+ | 10% |
Plan on Conservative. Strong is the same parents at larger regional shops. Neither one is a promise.
Illustrative mixes. Your funding follows actual billed spend and the tier table.
We never sell student or family data. Ask your treasurer how to book the quarterly funding.
If nobody buys, you owe nothing.
Against the fundraisers you already run.
| Volunteer hours | Who pays | What the org keeps | Happens again? | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catalog / candy sale | 60+ per sale | The same families, again | A share of one sale, once | Only if you run it again |
| Restaurant night | 10–15 | Families, on dinner they'd buy anyway | A cut of one Tuesday | One night at a time |
| Kithix — one introduction | About 2 — send the kit | Nobody extra — supplier-funded | 5–10% of monthly business spend | Every quarter the account stays active |
Org share follows the published 5–10% tier table, paid quarterly after invoices. If nobody buys, you owe nothing.
- Leave the inventory in the box.
- Keep Saturday.
- Nobody’s company pays extra.
- We are paid by the suppliers we match.
- A donation every quarter after invoices are paid.
- 300+ U.S. suppliers. Cloud, connectivity, security, contact center, IoT, mobility, communications. United States only.
What it buys
Instruments out of their cases. The part the catalog never delivered.
What you will get asked on Tuesday
Money
No added customer cost. Kithix is paid by the suppliers we match. The organization’s donation does not appear as a line on the company’s invoice.
Trust
No. Nobody buys in. Nobody recruits a downline. You invite people who buy technology at work. If a referred company buys, the PTO or booster receives a donation every quarter after invoices are paid, while the referred account remains active.
Logistics
No. Official PTOs and PTAs can apply. So can football boosters, band boosters, theater, choir, and other school clubs that are not charities. If approved, the organization provides its legal payee details and completes W-9 and payment verification through the private setup process.
Apply
A short U.S.-only application. No EIN or bank details at this stage. Kithix reviews it, then sends a yes or no by email.