Interested in donating your vehicle to support KEXP? Donating your car, truck, boat, motorcycle, or other vehicle is an easy way to make a contribution that supports KEXP and keeps the music playing all year long! It doesn't matter where you live — Seattle, San Francisco, Hawaii, or Tampa — you can donate your vehicle to support listener-powered radio at KEXP from anywhere inside the United States.
You can complete the process to donate your vehicle online through just a few easy steps and a CARS representative will call you to schedule a pick up time that’s convenient for you. You can also call a CARS representative directly to facilitate your vehicle donation.
Vehicles are typically sold within 6 to 8 weeks of hand-off to CARS. Once sold, CARS will send KEXP a check for your donation within 5 days of their receiving the funds from the sales company.
Yes, your gift counts toward one year of KEXP donor benefits once KEXP receives a check for your donation. As noted previously, this typically occurs in 6 - 8 weeks. Our vehicle donation partner, CARS, will send an initial donor acknowledgement letter for your gift and we’ll follow up with an email acknowledgement and instructions for choosing a thank you gift if you are eligible to select one.
If your vehicle sells for $120 or more, you are eligible to receive a KEXP thank you gift. If you would like to inquire after eligible gifts, have any questions, or need to update your contact information, please contact Donor Services at donorservices@kexp.org or call (206) 520-5843.
Regardless of your donation amount, you’ll also receive an exclusive KEXP donor sticker, which we will send to you the month after your donation has been processed.
If your vehicle sells for $500 or more at auction, you will receive VIP Insider Series invites! Our VIP Insider Series is a series of six concerts and behind the scenes events offered exclusively for donors who make gifts of $500 or more! You will need to register your e-mail address with the KEXP Donor Services Office at 206-520-5843 or donorservices@kexp.org to ensure that you receive VIP Insider Series invites.
Your car may not have sold yet. Most often it takes 6 to 8 weeks for a vehicle donation to be completed, but in some cases, it can take longer. Please feel free to contact the KEXP representative at CARS to check on your donation: 877-227-7485. For other questions, please contact KEXP Donor Services (donorservices@kexp.org) or 206-520-5843.
Your car donation to KEXP is considered a gift in-kind (a donation of good and services rather than straight cash), so you will receive the tax receipt for your vehicle donation from CARS rather than from KEXP. Feel free to call our CARS representative at (877) 227-7485 for more information.
