One car.
One kid's
better tomorrow.
Cars Helping Kids turns donated vehicles — running or not, with or without a clean title — into backpacks, weekend food bags, tutoring hours, and winter coats for kids and families who need help. Free nationwide tow. Maximum tax deduction. Zero hassle.
Not a Loss.
What are you donating?
We accept donated vehicles
Running or not. We'll pick it up for free, anywhere in the country.
Help kids & families
Your donation creates real opportunities, hope, and brighter futures.
100% Tax-deductible
You receive an IRS Form 1098-C tax receipt for your donation.
You drive, we deliver hope
Together we build stronger communities and change lives.
Three steps. We do the heavy lifting.
From your driveway to a kid's backpack, without you ever leaving the porch.
Tell us about it
Use the form below or call us. Cars, trucks, motorcycles, boats, RVs — anything with wheels (or a hull). 60 seconds, three quick questions.
We pick it up — free
Our licensed tow partner calls within 24 hours to schedule a time that works. You don't have to be home. Leave the keys with the title.
You get the receipt
You get a pickup confirmation by email when our tow driver collects the vehicle. Your IRS Form 1098-C with the final deduction amount is emailed after the vehicle sells.
Net proceeds → real programs.
No middlemen.
We don't fund a generic "general fund." Every program has a name, a partner, and a kid behind it.
Backpacks fully loaded with school supplies — handed to kids quietly, by name.
The whole team was kind, fast, and totally honest about what I'd be able to deduct. No pressure, no upsell — just real folks doing real good.— Derrick P. · Cumming, GA
Backpacks & school supplies
Every August, partnered with local school counselors. Kids whose families can't afford it get fully-loaded packs.
Weekend food bags
Kids on free school meals often go hungry on weekends. We fund weekend bags through partner pantries — quietly slipped into Friday backpacks.
After-school tutoring
Reading and math help for K–8 students at faith-based and community after-school sites. One tutor hour costs less than a tank of gas.
Holiday & winter help
Coats, shoes, and Christmas gifts for families choosing between heat and groceries.
Tiny.
Small lean program. No fancy offices, no national TV ads. A higher % of every dollar reaches kids than at most large national charities.
Real-time donor help any hour.
Our AI rep Riley answers donor questions 24/7 — donation process, what we accept, pickup, paperwork. For tax specifics or complex situations, she connects you to a real person at 770-871-9422.
Real donors. Real reviews.
From Google, Trustpilot, and email follow-ups. Latest first.
Donated my dad's old pickup that hadn't moved in 3 years. They picked it up the next morning and the tax receipt was in my email before I'd finished my coffee. Couldn't have been easier.
My Honda hadn't passed emissions in two years. Cars Helping Kids took it for free, and knowing it's funding school supplies in my own county made the whole thing feel like a win.
The whole team was kind, fast, and totally honest about how much I'd be able to deduct. No pressure, no upsell, just real folks doing real good. Highly recommend.
Track your donation. Get your receipt.
Reference-number lookup, live status, IRS Form 1098-C delivery — all on demand.
Track my donation
See where your vehicle is in the pipeline — pickup, auction, sale, 1098-C — using your reference number.
Check status After auction saleGet my tax receipt
Look up your IRS Form 1098-C any time with your name and reference number.
Get receipt Where it goesSee your impact
Visual breakdown of where every donation dollar goes — programs funded, beneficiaries, outcomes.
View impactThe Fainting Goat
Foundation.
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit accepting vehicle donations nationwide. We're small on purpose. Every car turns into something a kid can hold.
Built for kids. Free pickup, every state.
We started because a lot of folks have a car they don't quite know what to do with — too good to scrap, too tired to sell, too valuable to forget about — and a lot of kids around here have a backpack that's empty by the third week of school.
Putting those two facts in the same room turned out to be the whole idea.
So that's what we do. You hand us the keys, we hand a kid a backpack. The IRS handles the math. Your driveway gets cleaner, somebody's reading homework gets done, and on a good week the church up the road runs out of weekend food bags because we sent enough.
Net proceeds go to programs. Every donation is reportable, every program has a name, and every name has a kid behind it. That's the model. Not glamorous. Just useful.
Things people ask, before they call.
What kinds of vehicles do you take?
Is the donation really 100% tax-deductible?
How is "donate" different from "consign"?
Consign = we sell the vehicle on your behalf, proceeds are split between you and the foundation. More about consignment →
How fast can you pick it up?
Do I need to be there for the pickup?
How do I get my tax receipt?
What if I don't have the title?
What areas do you serve?
Donate your car.
Change a child's life.
Sixty seconds online — or one phone call. We come to you, free, anywhere in the country. You get the deduction. A kid gets the backpack.