Matching Gifts in DonorDock
A Matching Gift is a charitable contribution made by a company, employer, or other organization to match a donation made by an individual donor.
In DonorDock, you can link Matching Gifts to the original gift so your organization can easily see the relationship between the donor's contribution and the corresponding match.
You can create a new Matching Gift directly from an existing gift or link an already created gift as the match.
Create a New Linked Matching Gift
Navigate to the original gift record.
You can access gift records from a contact record or from Transactions > Gifts.
On the Gift Overview, locate the Linked Gifts section on the right.
Click + Linked Gift.
Select Add New Match from the dropdown.
The Add Gift panel will open with the original gift amount prefilled in the Received Amount field.
Select the contact associated with the Matching Gift and enter any additional gift information.
Click Create and Save.
The new Matching Gift will be created and linked to the original gift. After saving, you will be directed to the new gift record.
💡 The Received Amount is prefilled for convenience, but you can adjust it before saving if the matching organization is contributing a different amount.
Link an Existing Matching Gift
If the Matching Gift has already been entered in DonorDock, you can link the existing gift instead of creating a duplicate record.
Navigate to the original gift record.
Locate the Linked Gifts section on the right.
Click + Linked Gift.
Select Link Existing Match.
Search for the contact associated with the existing Matching Gift.
Select the appropriate gift from the dropdown.
Click Attach to Gift.
The existing gift will now appear in the Linked Gifts section of the original gift.
Linked Match Gift Tag
When a Matching Gift is linked to another gift, DonorDock automatically adds the Gift Tag: Linked Match Gift
This tag helps identify Matching Gift records in Gift Reports and other gift-level filtering.
💡 Because the tag is applied to the Matching Gift itself, you can use Linked Match Gift as a Gift Tag filter when you want to report specifically on matching contributions.
Viewing Linked Matching Gifts
Linked Matching Gifts appear in the Linked Gifts section of the Gift details page.
This allows you to move between the original gift and its related Matching Gift while keeping each contribution as its own separate gift record.
Matching Gifts remain separate transactions because they may have different:
Contacts
Gift Dates
Received Amounts
Payment Types
Campaigns, Appeals, Funds, or Giving Pages
Payment details
Linking the records preserves those individual gift details while showing that the gifts are related.