Sponsor an Antelope Valley resident’s recovery — on your own terms.
Guardians of the AV turns a sponsorship dollar into a specific credit — a meal at a named café, a haircut at a named shop, a pair of work boots from a named store. You pick the lane. We report the outcomes. Your dollars stay inside Lancaster and Palmdale.
Why a business sponsors Guardians of the AV
Operational transparency
Every dollar maps to a specific credit redeemed at a named partner business — receipt-level reporting, not annual-report platitudes.
You pick the lane
Sponsor a meal lane, a grooming lane, a clothing lane, a specific event, or a population (veterans, families with kids). Not a general fund.
Local-loop dollars
Credits are redeemed at Lancaster and Palmdale businesses. Your sponsorship recirculates inside the Antelope Valley — it doesn't leave for a national overhead.
Tax status — honest
Our 501(c)(3) application is being prepared. Until it lands, your sponsorship is a marketing / community-impact spend, not yet tax-deductible. We'll tell you the day that changes.
Three ways to give
One-time, monthly, or annual. Pick the cadence that fits.
Recurring monthly
$10–$250 per month. Cancel anytime via your portal — ends at end-of-period.
Subscribe monthly →Recurring annual
$100–$2,500 per year. Single charge per year. Cancel anytime.
Subscribe annually →Refund policy: full refund within 7 days, no reason needed.
Three ways in (offline / large-gift)
Sponsoring above a single $500 event, or want a custom enterprise sponsorship? Use the form below to talk to us — we’ll scope it, then invoice or ACH the engagement.
Single event sponsor
- Fund a specific event end-to-end — e.g., back-to-school cuts for 35 kids, or 50 lunch credits across a holiday week.
- Logo on the Sponsor wall for the duration of the event.
- Post-event one-pager: who, how many, where the dollars landed.
Monthly partner
- Dedicated credit lane in your kind — e.g., the “Coffee Shop A Monthly Lunch Lane” — named on the redemption page.
- Quarterly outcome report: credits issued, redeemed, redemption rate, partner businesses touched.
- Logo on the Sponsor wall, year-round.
Founding sponsor
- Co-branding on operational reports (the same reports we send to county HHS).
- Quarterly stakeholder briefing with the founders.
- Featured on the /solano operational pitch we present to county supervisors.
- Logo on every page footer, site-wide.
Sponsor wall
The businesses, civic groups, and family funds standing behind this work will appear here as they sign on.
No sponsors yet
Be the first name on this wall.
We launched in Phase 0. The first sponsors to sign on get the earliest footer placement and a spot in the pitch we present to county supervisors.
Become our first sponsorTalk to us
Tell us a little about your organization and what you’d like to sponsor. We respond within 2 business days — personally, not via a CRM autoresponder.
Common questions
How is this different from the /support page?
/support is for individuals donating $25-$250 with a card, through Stripe. /sponsor is for businesses, chambers, congregations, and corporate-CSR teams committing $500 to $25,000+ to a specific lane or event. Sponsorships move offline — invoice, ACH, or check — once we’ve talked through what you want to fund.
Where do my dollars actually go?
Into credits — meal credits, grooming credits, clothing credits, gear credits — that residents redeem at named partner businesses inside Lancaster and Palmdale. We report redemption back to you at the credit level. No general-fund bucket.
Can I sponsor a specific event or week?
Yes — that’s Tier 1. Back-to-school cuts, a holiday lunch week, a women’s-shelter clothing drive, a veteran-lane month. Tell us in the form what you have in mind and we’ll scope it with you.
What about tax deductibility?
Tax-deductibility is not active until our 501(c)(3) IRS determination letter arrives. Until then, your sponsorship is a marketing / community-impact spend (typically deductible as a business expense), not yet a charitable contribution. Once the determination letter is issued, every 2026 sponsorship receipt will be amended retroactively so contributions made this fiscal year qualify for the charitable-deduction treatment under IRC §170(c). We notify every sponsor in writing the day this changes.
Do you accept in-kind sponsorships?
Yes — gift cards, gear, professional services (legal, accounting, design), space for events. Note that in the form and we’ll write up the equivalent dollar value alongside your cash sponsors on the wall.
This platform is built so it can be turned off. If it ever fails to serve the people it was built to serve — meaningfully and not transiently — the kill-switch is the structural answer rather than a layered rescue. The mechanism lives in the platform itself; what we will publish as we operationalize it is the trigger criteria, the operator authority, the data-handling sequence, and the partner-notification protocol. We share this as a design principle so donors and sponsors know how we think — not as a contract.
Operational details — trigger criteria, operator authority, data-destruction sequence, partner-notification protocol — are still being developed. We don’t claim “we will” until those are written and reviewed by counsel.