Fill the Bucket · Team pledges
Give together. Fill your bucket.
Alone your change is $180 a year. Together, 100 of you is $18,000.
Yearly estimate. See the math.
1coin pledged so far
Each shul, school or org fills its own bucket. When it's full, everyone sets up RealChange together.
The buckets
Find your team and drop your coin in.
Captain for your shul or school? Ask us for a bucket
How it works
- 1
Drop your coin in
Name, and a phone or email. Ten seconds. No card, nothing to pay, nothing to install.
- 2
Fill the bucket
Send it to your shul, your school, your family group. Every pledge drops a coin in.
- 3
It tips, you set up
At the goal, everyone gets a link to set up RealChange. About three minutes, once, and your change starts rounding up.
Why a bucket?
Spare change is small on its own. Pooled, it carries whole families.
- 1 person$180/yr
- 10 people$1,800/yr
- 100 people$18,000/yr
Estimates. Your own follows your own spending.
What is RealChange?
A free app that turns your card into a pushka. Buy a coffee for $1.89, it rounds up to $2.00, and the 11¢ goes to tzedakah. Once your change reaches $10, it's charged to your card and sent. You won't notice it. Your community will.
Free Takes about 3 minutes to set up.
Learn more at realchange.appQuestions
What am I committing to right now?
Nothing. You are saying you will be part of this if the rest of the team is. No card, no bank, no payment, and nothing to cancel if you change your mind before it fills.
What happens when the team is full?
You get one email with a link. You connect a card, and from then on your purchases round up to the next dollar. It takes a few minutes, once.
What does it cost me?
Your spare change. A $4.37 coffee becomes $5.00 and 63 cents goes to tzedakah. On average that is about 50 cents a day. It follows your own spending.
When is my card actually charged?
Each time your round-ups reach $10. That can be twice in a month, or not at all in a quiet month. Under $10 the change stays in your own bank account and carries forward.
Can you see my bank login?
No. The connection runs through Plaid and is read-only. It is used to work out round-ups and nothing else. Card details go straight to Stripe and never touch our servers.
Can I stop?
Any time, from your own dashboard. Pause stops the charges, and unlinking the bank stops everything. No phone call and nobody to ask.
Who actually gets the money?
The tzedakah, directly. The charity charges your card from its own account into its own bank, so your statement shows them. RealChange decides the amount and never holds a cent of it.
Chunon Bartfield, founder
Your digital pushka, automated.
RealChange is built by Chunon Bartfield. Since 2024 he has been working through the security side of it with payments engineers, including people at Plaid and Stripe. His brother Leivi runs Collective Kindness with Shalom Goodman.