What every nonprofit should know about 50/50 raffle compliance
Raffle law is set state by state. Here is how staff-audited activation keeps your fundraiser legal — without a lawyer on retainer.
Online 50/50 raffles are one of the most effective fundraisers a nonprofit can run — but the rules that govern them are set state by state, not federally. What is perfectly legal in California may require a different registration in New York.
RaffleGives ships every state as a template seeded from a compliance spreadsheet. Before your raffle can sell a single ticket in a given state, our staff reviews and signs off on that state’s activation. You get the audit trail; we carry the guardrails.
The result: you focus on the cause, and every purchase passes the same four gates — authenticated buyer, age + state affirmation, dual-signal geofencing, and capacity. Compliance stops being the thing that keeps you up at night.