Does New York Giants donate to fundraisers?

The Giants help over 3,500 tri-state organizations a year with their fundraising by donating Giants memorabilia.

Your organization must be located in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

Items are mailed about four weeks before your event, and the Giants cannot guarantee which item you will receive.

Because of the volume of requests, the Giants contribute one item per organization each year.

Tips from the program page: Do not send items to be autographed; the Giants do not accept them.

What New York Giants donates

New York Giants donates in-kind items.

New York Giants has typically donated: Giants memorabilia, one item per organization per year (which item is not guaranteed).

Who can apply

New York Giants limits donation requests by area: New York, New Jersey and Connecticut tri-state area.

How to apply

New York Giants asks every request to include the following.

• Submit your request online through the Giants Donation Request System, the form on the team's Donation Requests page. Requests by mail, email or fax are not accepted.
• Submit at least eight weeks before the date of your event.

What New York Giants will not fund

New York Giants states in its own published guidelines that it will not fund the following.

• Organizations outside the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut tri-state area
• Requests by mail, email or fax
• Items sent in to be autographed

This covers only what New York Giants states. A request can still be turned down for reasons a company does not publish.

When to ask

New York Giants states a lead time of 8 weeks. Count back that far from your event date and send the request no later than then.

Across more than 25,000 fundraising events in our own records over fifteen years, March, April and May are the busiest months for fundraisers, October is the next busiest, and July and December are the quietest.

Work backwards from your event rather than forwards from today, and if your event falls in the spring peak, ask earlier than the stated lead time rather than later.

Common questions

Can a school, team, or individual apply to New York Giants?

New York Giants states that it will not fund: Organizations outside the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut tri-state area; Requests by mail, email or fax; Items sent in to be autographed. Check your organization and your event against that list before you apply — those are the restrictions New York Giants publishes itself.

How far ahead should we ask New York Giants for a donation?

New York Giants' stated lead time is 8 weeks. Work backwards from your event date: count back that far from the day of the event and send your request before that point.