What Combined Federal Campaign does

The Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) is the official workplace giving program of the United States federal government, administered by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). It enables federal civilian, postal, and military employees to make charitable donations through payroll deduction pledges, which are then collected and disbursed to participating eligible charities and federations according to established campaign schedules. The program collects a Distribution Fee from charities before disbursement, which constitutes its only revenue-generating mechanism.

The CFC platform consists of three integrated components: the Donor Portal (cfcgiving.opm.gov) for federal employees to manage pledges, view tax receipts, and access donation history; the Charity Portal (cfccharities.opm.gov) for registered charities and federations to view distribution reports and member allocations; and the underlying Pledge Processing System that ingests federal payroll deductions and executes scheduled disbursements. The technology is a government-operated transactional system with no proprietary AI, automation, or data flywheel beyond standard pledge processing workflows.

As of March 2026, the Donor and Charity Portals are being decommissioned to reduce administrative costs and maximize funds flowing to charities. OPM has assumed custodianship of historical campaign data. The 2024 and 2025 campaigns continue to process in-flight pledges and disbursements, but the 2026 application period has not been set and no formal decision has been made regarding the future of the program. The CFC is not a commercial enterprise, has no venture or equity funding, and operates as a federally administered channel rather than a revenue-generating business.

Name

Combined Federal Campaign

Legal name

Combined Federal Campaign

Website

https://givecfc.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1961

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

The Combined Federal Campaign is the official U.S. federal workplace giving program administered by OPM, enabling federal employees to make charitable donations via payroll deductions that are distributed to registered charities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Government Workplace Giving Services

NAICS

Executive and Legislative Offices, Combined (921140), Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Intergovernmental Affairs & Federal Grants Administration (BPAIAAAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Federated Giving Organizations (e.g., United Way-type) (BPAGAKAG), Public Charities & Grantmaking Intermediaries (BPAGAKAE)

Keywords

• Workplace giving program
• Payroll deduction donations
• Federal employee charity
• Charitable pledge processing
• Nonprofit donation disbursement

Headquarters

HQ city

Seattle

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Charitable Donation Processing: The CFC collects payroll deductions from federal employees and distributes funds to participating charities. A Distribution Fee is collected from organizations before disbursement is sent to charities.

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

The Combined Federal Campaign is the official U.S. federal workplace giving program, administered by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), that allows federal civilian, postal, and military employees to make charitable donations through payroll deductions. It provides self-service portals for donors (pledge management, tax receipts, history) and for participating charities and federations (distribution and allocation reporting), and processes pledged funds for scheduled disbursement to eligible charities after deducting a Distribution Fee.

Product overview

The Combined Federal Campaign is a charitable giving platform consisting of three integrated components: the Donor Portal for federal employees to manage donations and access tax receipts, the Charity Portal for participating organizations to view distribution reports, and the Pledge Processing System for collecting and disbursing funds to charities. The platform is being decommissioned in March 2026, with OPM retaining custody of historical campaign data after the portal shutdown.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• CFC Donor Portal Self-service portal for federal civilian, postal, and military employees to elect and manage recurring charitable payroll deduction pledges, view pledge history, generate reports, and download tax receipts for prior years.
• CFC Charity Portal Self-service portal for registered charities and federations participating in the CFC to view member distribution and allocation reports, monitor pledged and disbursed amounts, and reconcile funds received from federal employee donors.
• CFC Pledge Processing System Backend processing system that collects charitable pledge contributions from federal employee paychecks through federal payroll deduction channels, deducts the applicable Distribution Fee from participating organizations, and disburses the balance to eligible charities and federations on an established campaign schedule.

Named customers2 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• OPM (Office of Personnel Management)coreOthersOPM serves as the government administering body of the Combined Federal Campaign. OPM is the custodian of historical campaign data following portal decommissioning and manages the overall CFC program operations including campaign decisions, data retention, and federation reporting.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights1 record

Emerging players

• Bright Funds: Bright Funds is a workplace giving and employee engagement platform that integrates charitable giving, volunteering, and grants management — comparable to the CFC portal functionality but oriented toward corporate enterprise customers.
• Network for Good: Network for Good provides online fundraising and donation platforms for nonprofits and donors; it overlaps with CFC on donor-facing donation management and tax receipt functionality, though it does not run federal payroll deduction.

Broad incumbents

• Benevity: Benevity is the leading enterprise workplace giving and volunteer platform used by Fortune 500 employers; it competes for the same donor attention as CFC but serves private-sector employees via corporate-run programs with modern digital tooling.
• CyberGrants (Frontstream): CyberGrants (now part of Frontstream) provides corporate workplace giving, matching gift, and volunteer management software to large employers; it offers a modern alternative to legacy federal giving programs and competes indirectly with CFC for donor mindshare.

Others

• Independent Sector: Independent Sector is a national membership organization of nonprofits, foundations, and corporate giving programs that advocates for the charitable sector; it is thematically related to CFC as an ecosystem-level convener for workplace giving and charitable policy.
• U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM): OPM is the parent administering body of the CFC and oversees federal human resource programs; it is the regulatory and operational authority over CFC, including the recent portal decommissioning decision.

Direct peers

• United Way Worldwide: United Way operates the largest U.S. workplace giving federation for private-sector employees, functioning as a near-direct analog to CFC for federal employees: collects payroll deductions, aggregates pledges across thousands of charities, and distributes via federations on a scheduled campaign cycle.
• America's Charities: America's Charities is a federation that participates in workplace giving campaigns (including the CFC), aggregating member charities and processing pledge disbursements from payroll-deduction programs, making it a direct structural peer in the CFC distribution chain.
• Global Impact: Global Impact is a workplace giving federation that also operates in the CFC as a federation, aggregating international and domestic charities and managing pledge allocation — directly comparable to other CFC participating federations.

Regional players

• State Employee Charitable Campaign (SECC) programs: State Employee Charitable Campaigns are the state-government equivalents of the CFC, collecting payroll deductions from state employees and distributing to charities through local federations; structurally identical to CFC but operating at the state level rather than federal.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat1 record

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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