Our most popular prizes, Golden Tickets are random chance drawings. Each gift you make during Give to the Max enters you to win money for the Minnesota causes you support! If we randomly draw your gift, the organization you supported with that gift will receive an additional prize grant!

All you have to do is make a gift (or lots of gifts!) and we'll enter it into the prize drawings for each associated prize grant. This means your gift could be eligible for as many as three drawings!

$500 Early Giving Golden Tickets
Did you know you can make your Give to the Max gifts early? We start counting the total and giving out prizes on November 1, and we'll be drawing one gift each day for a $500 Early Giving Golden Ticket.

$500 Golden Tickets every 15 minutes on Give to the Max Day
We're thrilled to be drawing Golden Ticket winners every 15 minutes on November 20! Every 15 minutes is a new chance to win, and registered Minnesota-based organizations are eligible to win one or more!

$1,000 Hourly Golden Tickets on Give to the Max Day
Back again this year, we're also giving away our traditional $1,000 Hourly Golden Tickets on November 20. Your donation to any registered Minnesota-based nonprofit or school will be boosted by $1,000 if we draw your gift!

$10,000 Super-Sized Golden Ticket
The grand prize of Give to the Max, you could turn any gift of $5 or more into $10,000 for your favorite cause! This prize will be drawn from all gifts made during Give to the Max Day and Early Giving, from November 1-20.

Recent winners of this top prize include Alexandra House, Minnesota State Horticultural Society, Project Legacy, Prairie Five Community Action Council, Lights On! – a program of MicroGrants, Avenues for Homeless Youth, Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness, The Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education, Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley Elementary School, and Special Olympics Minnesota. Will we add your organization's name to the list?

GTMD25 Resources for OrganizationsPrize Pool Structure

UPDATE: As of 10/16/25, our team has reimagined our resource layout to group GTMD resources by different topics & themes!

While this page will remain live, we encourage you to explore our reimagined resource hub for a more streamlined user experience.

GTMD25 Resources for Organizations
Prize Pool Structure