Which charity car donation program in Utah and Idaho is best? How do car donations work?

Kidney Kars / www.towKars.org (The National Kidney Foundation of Utah & Idaho) has been taking kidney car donations in Utah and Idaho since 1991; and is one of the country’s best and most legitimate car donation programs. Utahns love their tax deductions and so Kidney Kars / www.towKars.org has remained the number one choice for charity car donation in Utah for 29 years! Yep! Little ol’ Utah runs one of the best and largest car donation program in the country. This is because 2/3 of Kidney Kars donors come from repeat kidney cars donors and word of mouth referrals from former donors. To us, this is the highest compliment and testament to the work we do in our own community. In addition to asking a friend or neighbor ‘what charity program is best’ for car donations, a lot of people Google “how does car donation work?” or “what car donation program in Utah is best?” So we get a lot of referrals from search engines as well.  But we’d like to give Utahns a word of warning about Googling the ‘best car donation program in Utah or Idaho.’  Unfortunately, since Kidney Kars of Utah started in 1991, a lot of national charities have also started their own car donation for charity programs. They take the money from our community and give it to a national branch. Unfortunately, very few of those national charity car donation programs you see advertised online (or who come up when Googled) are actually IN UTAH. You can always call Utah State Division of Consumer protection to ask for information about Kidney Kars, because we are IN UTAH.

The National Kidney Foundation of Utah & Idaho Kidney Kars office is in Provo, Utah. So whether you’re in Utah or Idaho, we process your donation locally.  Donated Kidney Kars are then sold, parted or recycled in order to raise money for our kidney patient programs: medical financial aid, transportation to and from dialysis, transplantation costs, nutritional supplements (to keep patients healthy enough to qualify for the kidney transplant waiting list), patient educational scholarships, family and youth transplant camps, medical research, free kidney health screenings and way too many financial, patient, education and community programs to list here without getting super boring. But you can find a complete list of our programs on our Annual Report located online at: Kidneyut.org/who-we-are/#annual_report

So there’s a bit of  danger in simply Googling “Who accepts car donations in Utah?” Lots of charities take car donations, but chances are, if they are an out of state charity (and using 3rd party business to advertise, take calls for and manage their car donation program) the business claims a big chunk of the monies earned from your car donation. Sometimes out of state car donation programs are reaping as little as 50% or less of the funds raised.  But not Kidney Kars of Utah and Idaho (www.towKars.org)! We are able to accept the donations in Utah and Idaho, sell/part/recycle the donated cars to give 100% of the funds raised to our charitable mission (Utah and Idaho patient services/community services/medical research).

So the next time someone asks you which charity in Utah takes car donation, tell them it’s the National Kidney Foundation of Utah & Idaho’s Kidney Kars! How car donations work is, you can call us 9-5/M-F (801) 226-5111 or donate online at www.towKars.org  We’ll gather information about the car, who to call and where to pick it up and then we email you a tax receipt! You can always feel good about keeping your Kidney Kars donation local because you know there are over 3,000 Utah and Idaho dialysis and transplant patients who benefit from our services.

Tell a friend!