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PIE turns the operating expenses you already pay — Microsoft 365, payment processing, cloud, internet, phones, wireless — into passive, recurring donations to worthy nonprofit leaders. Same services. Same price or better. Zero downtime or big distractions.
Impact estimator
What could this year's bills fund?
Estimated recurring donation
$5,400 / year
To the nonprofit your team picks, funded by a bill you already pay.
Purpose-powering expenses for
Every company here funds a nonprofit out of bills it was already paying.
Begin your exploration
Which of the following best describes why you’re here? Pick a path. Each one takes you on its own journey.
You lead a company and want your success to mean more than the bottom line. Turn the expenses you already pay into passive, recurring donations for causes you choose, with no increase in cost. Most members save money too.
Estimate your impactMembers like Dr. Bronner’s · Techstars · Subaru of Bend
Grants, appeals, and events keep you raising money instead of doing the work. PIE gives you passive, recurring donations you can bank on and budget on, funded by your corporate partners’ everyday expenses, at zero cost to them or to you.
Fund your missionPartners: Boys & Girls Club · FFA · Giving Plate
PIE partners are the service providers behind everything we procure: Microsoft, Google, AWS, payment processors, carriers and more. Every partner service a member buys sends a share of the proceeds back to PIE and on to charity, at the same price or better than buying direct.
Explore partnersPartner services: Microsoft 365 · Google Workspace · Payments · Cloud
How PIE works
No new budget line. No switching costs. No downtime. You keep the services you already run. You just change who brokers them.
Most businesses already have at least one expense bucket that can be purpose-powered. Tell us what you spend in these buckets, and we will estimate the passive donation potential to the causes you love.
If the impact estimate uncovers a worthy donation, join PIE for free by creating a portal login. You’ll upload invoices, statements, licensing data, and answer a few questions. PIE will do the heavy lifting.
You receive a written proposal covering any cost savings, the estimated recurring donation to your chosen nonprofit, and exactly what onboarding will ask of your team.
Zero downtime and minimal disruption are the stated requirements, not a hope. Onboarding is usually measured in minutes or hours, not days or weeks.
You are now a Certified PIE Member. Launch it with an all-hands talk, put your PIE badge on your site and signatures, and let your team watch the giving compound.
The estimate takes five minutes. The review takes thirty. A few short 15-30 minute meetings take it home. 1-2 hours of finance and IT team time investment is typical.
Purpose-powered services
Over 1,000 providers (Microsoft, AWS, Verizon, Google and more) across every category below. You keep the same platform, the same contract terms, and the same or better price.
Licensing, Dynamics, Copilot
Merchant services & terminals
Mail, Drive, Meet
AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
Phones, webinar, contact centre
Circuits, SD-WAN, redundancy
Mobile fleets and devices
Deregulated power & gas
Endpoint, email, monitoring
The tools you already renew
Accounting and payroll
Purpose-built dealer programs
Don’t see your category? Ask us. The portfolio is deeper than this page.
Our mission
In almost every funding model, donations come out of what is left after a company pays its operating expenses. That thin slice of profit is the whole reason good organisations hear "not this year."
PIE moves giving upstream. We liberate capital from the expense side of the ledger, the largest, most predictable line in the business, and turn it into recurring, non-dilutive funding that arrives whether or not it was a good quarter.
“If one corporate sponsor’s essential business services can help thousands of people, imagine what we can do if we purpose-power the world’s business services.”
The PIE theory of change
The challenge
Social and environmental expectations keep rising. Growth targets do not move to make room for them.
The problem
Giving is the last line in the budget, so it is the first line cut. 53% of nonprofits report being underfunded.
The solution
PIE donates 50% of its top-line recurring compensation as a reseller, funding causes from spend that already exists, at no extra cost.
Our vision
$10 million in passive, recurring funding by 2030.
We are 100% committed to building the PIE movement to that number, and every purpose-powered invoice moves it.
Member results
Every figure below came from an expense the business was already paying before it met PIE.
Oregon FFA$100K+ saved
The Bend RV dealer cut more than $100,000 from its operating costs and turned the same expense line into a $6,000+ annual recurring donation for Oregon FFA.
Organ transplant community$17,660 donated
A department that historically could not give, IT, became a giving engine, directing $17,660 to the organ transplant community without touching the philanthropy budget.
1% for the Planet$11,000 saved + donated
The Ventura brewery exceeded its 1% for the Planet commitment on the strength of $11,000 in combined savings and donations, funded entirely by expenses it was already paying.
Community partners$17,000 donated
Sensiba purpose-powered its Microsoft estate and turned routine licensing spend into $17,000 of community funding, including free family days at the Fresno Art Museum, with its IT team generating impact metrics for the first time.
$8,000
Subaru of Bend
from payment processing to two local causes
$6,000+
Beaver Coach Sales
recurring, every year, to Oregon FFA
$3,000
Yerba Madre
recurring donation, set up in 30 minutes
For nonprofit teams
PIE turns your corporate partners’ everyday business expenses into passive, recurring donations, without asking them to spend a dollar more. It costs your organisation nothing, and it opens a door with companies whose giving budget is already spoken for.
A few of the causes our members fund
Every one of these is funded by a bill a PIE member was already paying.
Estimate your impact
Pick a category, move the slider to roughly what you spend on it in a year, and see the recurring donation that same expense could generate. Nothing changes about the service. Only where the reseller compensation goes.
These rates come from PIE's own estimator in the member portal. It is still an estimate for orientation, not a quote: your committed figure comes out of the free PIE Review, which takes 15-30 minutes and carries no obligation.
Estimated recurring donation
$5,400 / year
$27,000 over five years, without increasing your budget by a dollar.
Which could fund, for example
Illustrative, based on cost-per-impact figures published by nonprofits in categories PIE members commonly fund.
Member stories
Thanks to PIE, we’ve learned how to make our operating expenses work in favor of the community. Without adding costs or complicating our workflow, we’ve been able to better support local nonprofits. PIE’s procurement model is a revelation, and I encourage every leader with a social mission to explore it.
Will Blount
Co-Founder, Ruffwear & Embark
One of Dr. Bronner’s main missions is to donate to charities. Having the opportunity to do that, from a department that normally can’t do so, the IT department, is great. I’ve been surprised by the level of service PIE provides us. It’s excellent.
James Anctil
IT Manager, Dr. Bronner’s
It goes beyond mere financial contributions; it’s about creating lasting change by harnessing the resources already present in our business community. This partnership marks the beginning of something truly game-changing for our team and our community.
Gwenn Wysling
Executive Director, Bethlehem Inn
Until now, my department has never had the opportunity to directly generate impact metrics. Our IT team is delighted to have found a simple yet powerful way to optimize our budget and actively participate in the company’s mission to use our business as a force for good.
Igor Zaika
CTO, Sensiba
PIE purpose-powered our Microsoft 365 for our team in just 30 minutes. The process was painless. Our team is delighted to know that every email or Teams meeting is helping support our nonprofit partners.
Matt Palmer
Analyst & Systems Admin, Puffin Drinkwear
PIE helped us build systematic giving into the foundation of our operations, phones, webinar, email and QuickBooks, without downtime or major disruptions. The ROI for our nonprofit partners, our team and our brand is remarkable.
Kelley Pecoraro
Director of Finance & Administration, RealWealth
I helped execute PIE’s purpose-powered Google Workspace and webinar services, two mission-critical systems for us. Both were implemented seamlessly, with no downtime and practically zero distraction. PIE did the heavy lifting and we have been running on them for nearly two years without a hitch.
Amy Searcy
Marketing Technology Manager, RealWealth
In their own words
A few short videos from impact leaders sharing their experience of becoming members of the PIE nonprofit funding movement.
Our story
Jamie set out to ride a tandem bicycle through 81 countries on a project called Peace Pedalers, picking up a stranger on the back seat in every one. When corporate sponsors could not write cheques, one of them, Aceva Technologies, offered something stranger and better: become our technology reseller.
The recurring revenue from that single arrangement funded the entire expedition and 11 grassroots charity projects, including two schools and freshwater systems. One sponsor’s ordinary service expense had done all of it.
In spring 2020, Jamie Bianchini and Cristina Morales founded Purpose In Expenses in Bend, Oregon to do that at scale, a husband-and-wife team of mission-aligned technology advisors, raising three kids and a movement at the same time.
Jamie Bianchini
Co-founder & CEO
Peace Pedalers founder. 81 countries, one tandem bicycle.
Cristina Morales
Co-founder & Chief Impact Officer
Leads member impact, activation and nonprofit partnerships.
PIE is a Certified B Corporation and a member of 1% for the Planet, independently verified commitments to social and environmental performance, not a badge we awarded ourselves.
Join the PIE movement
Five minutes for the estimate. Thirty for the review. Then a nonprofit your team chose starts receiving money every month, funded by invoices you were already signing.
Common questions
PIE is a technology and business services brokerage. Service providers compensate every reseller monthly to attract and retain subscription business. That is standard industry practice. What is not standard is what we do with it: PIE donates 50% of its top-line recurring compensation to the nonprofit our member chooses. You simply name PIE as your reseller partner when contracts renew.
Still deciding? Book a five-minute call.
Get in touch
The first conversation is short, honest, and free. If the model does not fit your business, we will tell you that instead of selling you something.
The fastest way in
Bring one recent invoice: Microsoft, merchant services, internet, anything. We will tell you on the call what it could generate.
Call 541-640-5060Tell us which expense you are curious about: Microsoft, payment processing, cloud, phones, wireless. We will come back with a straight answer on what it could generate.
Business enquiries
Impact estimates, the PIE Review and proposals.
Nonprofit partnerships
Joining the partner network and referrals.
Existing members
New categories, certification and activation.
