BJ's Donation Request: How to Ask BJ's Wholesale Club for a Donation (2026 Guide)

To request a donation from BJ's Wholesale Club, email community@bjs.com, the address BJ's lists for donation requests on its investor relations contact page. BJ's has no online donation request form. Local donations are small, usually a BJ's gift card, and they are hard to get: only about 3% of BJ's donation requests tracked on TheShareWay succeed. BJ's larger grants, from BJ's Charitable Foundation, go to charities nominated by BJ's employees, and schools and nonprofits can also raise money by selling BJ's memberships through Club for a Cause. You can log your request on BJ's Wholesale Club's TheShareWay page to track it alongside your other asks.

What are your odds?

Figures as of October 2026, from applications tracked on TheShareWay.

Nonprofits have tracked 668 BJ's Wholesale Club donation requests on TheShareWay, 211 of them in the past 12 months. Only about 3% of BJ's donation requests succeed. Too few BJ's requests have a reported outcome for TheShareWay to publish a reliable response time or typical donation value. Send the email, but don't build your event around a yes from BJ's.

How to send a BJ's donation request

BJ's doesn't publish a request form, eligibility rules or a lead time, so your email has to do all the work.

1. Check that you're near a BJ's club. BJ's runs 268 clubs in 22 states (as of October 2026), and BJ's Charitable Foundation focuses on the communities where BJ's members and employees live and work. If there's no club near you, put your time into the alternatives below.
2. Write a short, specific email. Include your organization's legal name and 501(c)(3) status or EIN, a contact name and phone number, your event name and date, exactly what you're asking for (for example, a gift card for a raffle basket), and the BJ's club closest to you. Naming your club matters: the BJ's donations nonprofits have recorded on TheShareWay were usually picked up at a local club. TheShareWay's donation request letter template covers the same points and works as an email body.
3. Send it to community@bjs.com as early as you can. BJ's gives no lead time, so the earlier your request arrives, the better.
4. Log the request on BJ's TheShareWay page so you have the date you applied and a reminder to follow up.

What BJ's donates

For local nonprofits, schools and events, BJ's donations are modest. The donations recorded on TheShareWay have been BJ's gift cards and, now and then, cases of water or juice for an event, picked up at the local club. Think raffle-basket contribution, not event sponsor.

If you do receive one, a thank-you letter to the club keeps the door open for next year.

BJ's Charitable Foundation grants go to nominated charities

BJ's Charitable Foundation, established in 2004, funds three areas: hunger relief, education, and health and wellness. Its recent grant rounds have gone only to charities nominated by BJ's team members. In October 2025, BJ's Charitable Foundation gave more than $1.2 million to 88 charities nominated by BJ's team members, in 17 states and Washington, D.C. (BJ's announcement, October 23, 2025). The October 2024 round worked the same way, with grants of up to $50,000 for 70 nominated organizations.

BJ's doesn't publish a grant application, so the realistic route is a relationship. The charities BJ's funds are typically ones its employees already volunteer or fundraise with. If someone connected to your organization works at a BJ's club, they are the person who can put you forward.

Club for a Cause: raise money with BJ's memberships

Club for a Cause is BJ's membership fundraiser. Your supporters join BJ's at a discounted fundraiser rate, and BJ's gives part of each new membership back to your organization. BJ's Club for a Cause page calls it "a membership that gives back," with one-year Club Card and Club+ Card memberships offered to help groups reach a fundraising goal.

Terms vary by fundraiser. In one school fundraiser running in fall 2026, new members paid $15 for a Club Card membership (normally $60) or $50 for Club+ (normally $120), and BJ's donated $5 or $15 to the school for each new membership. Supporters signed up through a dedicated bjs.com partner link or by phone with a group code.

BJ's doesn't publish how an organization starts a Club for a Cause fundraiser. Ask about it in your email to community@bjs.com, or ask at your nearest club.

Food banks and pantries

BJ's supports food banks and pantries through a partnership with Feeding America that, by BJ's count, has provided more than 165 million meals over more than 15 years. In June 2025, BJ's Charitable Foundation announced $1.25 million in capacity-building grants for food banks and pantries, paying for things like trucks, refrigeration and renovations. BJ's also donates produce, meat and dairy to local Feeding America food banks. If you run a pantry, ask your regional Feeding America food bank whether it passes BJ's donations on to partner agencies.

Not the same BJ's: BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse

BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse is a separate company from BJ's Wholesale Club, and community@bjs.com won't reach it. The restaurant chain runs a local fundraising program that gives 20% back to schools, sports teams and other nonprofits; you can start one from its community page.

Better odds: other warehouse clubs and big-box stores

If BJ's is a long shot for your event, these retailers approve a much larger share of the requests tracked on TheShareWay:

Figures as of October 2026, from applications tracked on TheShareWay.

About 27% of Costco donation requests tracked on TheShareWay succeed, with a median response of 31 days. Each store has its own process, covered in the Costco donation request guide, the Target donation request guide and the Walmart donation request guide.

How TheShareWay helps with your BJ's request

BJ's Wholesale Club's page on TheShareWay keeps the request details in one place and lets you track your BJ's ask next to every other request for your event. Because a BJ's donation is small and uncertain, most events need several local donors, and TheShareWay's directory of popular in-kind donors is the fastest way to find them by state or city. For help writing the ask itself, read how to request donations from companies, and if you're raising money for a school, see 15 companies that donate to schools and PTA/PTOs.

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