Celebrate birthdays for students while raising money for causes that benefit them! A birthday board fundraiser is easy to create and can bring in lots of money for your school group. Here’s how FutureFund can help you run yours from start to finish.
Selling and redeeming tickets for your school just got easier
Turnstile speeds up ticket redemption for attendees, saves time for volunteers, and gives everyone a better experience – all for free.
Built for all your school events
Convenient and easy to use
No account setup required—just download and start scanning.
Exclusively for K-12 schools
A ticketing solution built for all K-12 school events.
Athletic events and games
For every game and tournament.
Performing arts
Theater performances, band concerts, and more!
Dances and graduation ceremonies
Help everyone attend the year’s biggest celebrations.
Trusted by schools coast to coast
FutureFund is used by over 1,000+ organizations, including:
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Raised For Our Schools Since 2014
S, Kazad
Bollinger Elementary & Iron Horse Middle School
“FutureFund is always responsive to questions and suggestions, and added new corporate matching features based on my feedback. We rarely had to wait more than 24 hours for support and always felt taken care of.”
Made by PTA members and former school faculty
Download and use turnstile for free
Schools that sign up for FutureFund get full access to all of FutureFund’s features, including Turnstile — it’s free, and it always will be.
The school ticketing app that puts you first
Sell tickets online
Integrate with Apple and Google Wallet. Accept credit, debit, Apple/Google Pay, cash, and check.
Manage inventory to prevent overselling
Easily set the number of tickets available for each event so you’re never oversold.
More ways to pay
Accept credit, debit, Apple/Google Pay, cash, and check.
Sell with permission
Connect tickets to forms and waivers as needed to suit your event.
Clean and contact-free
Contactless redemption keeps the process smooth, hygienic, and easy for everyone.
Offer seaons passes and preferred pricing
Make your events more convenient for parents—and more affordable for PTA members.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Do I Get Started?
Easy—just have your volunteers download the FutureFund Turnstile app, connect it to your online store, and start scanning.
How Much Does It Cost?
FutureFund Turnstile is free to download and use. Tickets sales are charged a fee for each ticket based on the following schedule:
- Tickets $1.00 – $10.00: Fee $1
- Tickets $10.01 – $15.00: Fee $1.50
- Tickets $15.01 – $20.00: Fee $2.00
- Etc.
How Does Self-Redemption Work?
Each ticket can be self redeemed by the purchaser by clicking on the Redeem button in the Turnstile app.
- Name
- Grade
- Registration status
Do My Volunteers Need Special Devices to Scan Tickets?
No! Turnstile is designed to make scanning tickets for your fundraising events as easy as possible. Purchasers receive multiple ticket formats that can be scanned by a variety of devices, including your volunteers’ phones.
- The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
- The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA)
- The California Consumer Privacy Act
- Assembly Bill 1584
- The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS)
Our platform also makes use of current technologies designed to provide extra layers of security when handling sensitive information. These include:
- TLS/SSL (Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer): These are cryptographic protocols designed to provide secure communication over a network by encrypting data in transit between client and server.
- WAF and DDOS Protection (Web Application Firewall and Distributed Denial of Service Protection): These are security measures to protect websites from harmful traffic, with WAF filtering, monitoring, and blocking HTTP traffic to and from a web application, and DDOS protection preventing overload of a network or server by a flood of internet traffic.
- Penetration Testing: This is a method of evaluating the security of a computer system or network by simulating attacks from malicious sources to identify vulnerabilities.
- Load Balancer Based Compute Isolations: This is a strategy of distributing network or application traffic across many servers to improve responsiveness and availability, while isolating workloads for security and fault tolerance.
- Role-based Access Control: This is a method of regulating access to computer network resources based on the roles of individual users within an organization, ensuring that only authorized individuals can access specific resources.
- Secure Logging: This is the process of recording events in a system in a manner that prevents tampering or deletion, providing a reliable record for security auditing and incident response.
- Static and Dynamic Code Analysis: These are methods of examining source code or running applications to find potential security vulnerabilities, with static analysis checking code without executing it, and dynamic analysis testing code while it’s running in a real or simulated environment.
- OWASP Secure Coding Principles (Open Web Application Security Project): These are a set of principles and best practices for secure coding aimed at preventing security vulnerabilities in web applications, as defined by the non-profit OWASP organization.
- Credit Card Tokenization: This is an advanced security process that protects sensitive payment information during transactions.
How Do You Manually Redeem Tickets?
To manually redeem a ticket, go to the Admin and follow these steps:
- Navigate to Store > Campaigns
- Select your Campaign
- Select the Ticketing tab
- Search for the ticket and click on the Redeem button
How Is FutureFund Different from Other Fundraising Platforms?
We built FutureFund specifically to support K-12 PTAs and school groups. Our team are PTA members ourselves, and we understand the relationships between parents, teachers, and students—so we created tools that solve the unique challenges these groups face when it comes to effectively organizing and fundraising.
How Does FutureFund Keep Member Data & Other Information Secure?
FutureFund is built to comply with all major financial regulations and data privacy laws governing PTAs and school groups in the United States. This includes Federal and state-specific legislation, such as:
- The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
- The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule (COPPA)
- The California Consumer Privacy Act
Assembly Bill 1584 - The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS)
Our platform also makes use of current technologies designed to provide extra layers of security when handling sensitive information. These include:
- TLS/SSL (Transport Layer Security/Secure Sockets Layer): These are cryptographic protocols designed to provide secure communication over a network by encrypting data in transit between client and server.
- WAF and DDOS Protection (Web Application Firewall and Distributed Denial of Service Protection): These are security measures to protect websites from harmful traffic, with WAF filtering, monitoring, and blocking HTTP traffic to and from a web application, and DDOS protection preventing overload of a network or server by a flood of internet traffic.
- Penetration Testing: This is a method of evaluating the security of a computer system or network by simulating attacks from malicious sources to identify vulnerabilities.
- Load Balancer Based Compute Isolations: This is a strategy of distributing network or application traffic across many servers to improve responsiveness and availability, while isolating workloads for security and fault tolerance.
- Role-based Access Control: This is a method of regulating access to computer network resources based on the roles of individual users within an organization, ensuring that only authorized individuals can access specific resources.
- Secure Logging: This is the process of recording events in a system in a manner that prevents tampering or deletion, providing a reliable record for security auditing and incident response.
- Static and Dynamic Code Analysis: These are methods of examining source code or running applications to find potential security vulnerabilities, with static analysis checking code without executing it, and dynamic analysis testing code while it’s running in a real or simulated environment.
- OWASP Secure Coding Principles (Open Web Application Security Project): These are a set of principles and best practices for secure coding aimed at preventing security vulnerabilities in web applications, as defined by the non-profit OWASP organization.
- Credit Card Tokenization: This is an advanced security process that protects sensitive payment information during transactions.