Any non-profit organization, whether it be to shelter the homeless, provide homes for abandoned animals, send a high school gymnastic teams to Regional's, or anything and everything in-between, is going to rely heavily on receiving donations. And as anyone who has ever been involved in a non-profit organization is undoubtedly aware, no foundation is going to have even a limited amount of success without a steady stream of financial donations. Of course, the more basic way of saying the word "donate" is the phrase "give away for free.