Tyler Gives is a one-day online fundraising event hosted by United Way of Smith County that takes place on #GivingTuesday (Dec. 2nd in 2025). 100% of your donation will go directly to one or more of the dozens of Tyler agencies you can designate to.
Giving Tuesday was launched in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good. Over the past several years, it has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity.
No! When United Way of Smith County and our local partner agencies discussed launching this special giving day, we wanted to make sure that 100% of your online donation will get to the agencies you choose to support. United Way and our sponsors are covering all transaction fees to ensure that every penny you give will go directly to meeting real needs and won’t be exhausted on overhead or technology platforms to make this day possible.
Starting at 8AM CST on December 2nd, 2025, the first $50,000 in online donations processed through the Tyler Gives campaign will be matched! Another $25,000 will be matched starting at 2PM!
There are two limits to this match:
1) Up to $2,000 per individual transaction.
2) Up to $20,000 for a single agency.
Donations will be matched from 8AM to Midnight CST or until the $75,000 match allotment has expired.
As soon as all donations are confirmed, the total raised will be announced through a press release and on United Way’s Facebook page. Agencies will be notified via email by the end of the week with donor contact details and matching payout information.
Our goal is for 100% of all contributions and matching funds to be paid out as a lump sum to the agencies before the end of the calendar year. We must get through a full billing cycle for all online transactions to clear and then process the payments to each agency.
While we certainly won’t discourage any type of gift on Giving Tuesday that is helping our local agencies, we can only match online transactions for this specific event made directly on our TylerGives.com platform. Online transactions are time stamped, allowing us to allocate the $75,000 matching funds in a fair way.