A split you actually control
Most cashback apps make you choose: save for yourself or give it away. Yard Pass gives you one slider, 0% to 100%, adjustable any time — and both halves are itemised.
Rakuten pays you only
Built with HBCU alumni & Greek organizations
Shop, Save, and
Support Education.
HBCU Yard Pass turns the purchases you were already making into cashback in your pocket and scholarship dollars for HBCU students. One membership. Two kinds of returns. You decide the split.
See how it works- flat per month
- $6flat per monthCancel anytime
- of rewards you route
- 0–100%of rewards you routeYou set the split
- to reward posting
- 48 hrsto reward postingNo receipt scanning
Reward earned
Sample$24.80
Northwind Outfitters · 8% back on $310.00
You keep $12.40Scholarship $12.40
Sample partner brands across 2,000+ categories
Northwind OutfittersCedar & Co.Bellhop TravelLumen ElectronicsVerdant GrocersAtlas AthleticsMarigold BeautyPace RideshareKindred HomeFoxglove Pharmacy
How it works
Three steps, then it runs in the background.
No coupon hunting, no receipt photos, no separate charity portal. Yard Pass sits on top of the spending you already do.
- 01
Activate your Yard Pass
Link the card you already shop with, or tap through from the app. No browser extension to babysit, no coupon codes to hunt down.
- 02
Earn on everyday spending
Groceries, travel, electronics, beauty, takeout — sample partner rates run 1–12% back, credited to your balance within 48 hours.
- 03
Split it your way
Keep every dollar, or send up to 100% to a named scholarship fund at the HBCU you choose. Change your split whenever you like.
Why Yard Pass
Six gaps the big cashback apps leave open.
We built for the shopper who wants the discount and the receipt for their giving. Here is where Yard Pass goes further than Rakuten, Upromise and Ibotta.
No receipt scanning. Ever.
Rewards post automatically from your linked card. No photographing receipts, no scanning barcodes in the aisle, no offers that expire before you get to the store.
Ibotta needs receipts
Dollars reach students, not a lock-up
Contributions flow to named HBCU scholarship funds each semester and are awarded to students — instead of sitting in a restricted college-savings account for years.
Upromise locks into 529s
Chapter leaderboards
Alumni chapters and Greek organizations get live standings on annual giving, so homecoming energy turns into a year-round campaign your members can see.
Nobody else does this
Payouts in days, not quarters
Withdraw your cashback from $5, weekly, to the account you already use. No quarterly cheque cycles and no minimum-balance traps.
Quarterly payout cycles
Receipts you can actually show
Every member gets an itemised annual impact statement — named funds, dollar amounts, award counts — so your giving is documented, not implied.
Impact left vague
Community first
Anchored to the yard before anywhere else.
Yard Pass grows chapter by chapter — alumni networks and Greek organizations get the tools first, because collective spending is what makes a scholarship fund move.
- Chapter dashboards
- Live totals for your alumni chapter, plus a shareable page members can rally around.
- Org-branded referral links
- Every chapter and Greek organization gets its own link — sign-ups credit automatically.
- Homecoming campaigns
- Spin up a time-boxed giving push with a goal thermometer and a leaderboard.
- Founding chapter status
- The first 100 chapters keep permanent founding badges and a locked member rate.
Chapter leaderboard
- 1. Atlanta Alumni$18,240
- 2. DMV Chapter$14,905
- 3. Greek Council$11,380
Illustrative pilot standings
The impact side
Your grocery run, on a student's tuition statement.
Every dollar you route is pooled into named scholarship funds and awarded each semester — then reported back to you line by line. Giving you can point at, not just feel good about.
Scholarship ledger
Sample dataYard Pass General Award
Fall 2026 · 18 awards
$46,500
Chapter Match — Atlanta
Fall 2026 · 6 awards
$18,000
Greek Council STEM Fund
Spring 2027 · 9 awards
$27,750
50%
default split to scholarships
12
participating HBCU funds at launch
2×
disbursements per academic year
Membership
One plan. Six dollars. Everything included.
We kept the fee low on purpose — adoption should never depend on how much you spend. Partner brand commissions do the rest of the work.
Founding membership
Rate locked for life$6/ month
Cancel any time. No card required to join the waitlist.
- Cashback at 2,000+ sample partner brands
- Your own 0–100% keep-versus-give split
- Automatic card-linked rewards — no receipts
- Weekly payouts from a $5 balance
- Pick the HBCU fund your dollars support
- Chapter and Greek organization leaderboards
- Itemised annual impact statement
- Founding rate of $6/month, locked for life
Chapters & organizations
Bringing an alumni chapter or Greek organization on board? Founding chapters get a named scholarship fund, a shared dashboard and leaderboard placement at no extra cost.
Add your chapter to the waitlistWhere the money comes from
Your $6 keeps the platform independent — no data selling. Partner brands pay affiliate commissions on member purchases, and that pool funds both your cashback and the scholarship awards.
Member stories
Both sides of the split, in their words.
Feedback placeholders from our founding pilot — members who shop, and a student on the receiving end.
“I was already using a cashback app. Now the exact same purchases fund an award in my chapter's name, and I didn't have to change a single thing about how I shop.”
“The chapter dashboard turned our homecoming drive into something year-round. We funded two awards last cycle without running a single bake sale.”
“My Yard Pass award covered a semester of books and a lab fee. Knowing it came from people just doing their grocery run still gets me.”
Illustrative sample quotes from fictional pilot members.
FAQ
Straight answers.
The things people ask before they hand over an email address.
Still curious? Join the waitlistYou link the card you already shop with. When you buy from a partner brand, the brand pays an affiliate commission on that purchase, and Yard Pass credits your share to your balance — typically within 48 hours. There is nothing to scan, clip or activate at the till.
The $6 monthly membership is what keeps the platform running without selling your data, and it unlocks the full reward rates, weekly payouts, the scholarship split and chapter tools. We kept it deliberately low so adoption never depends on how much you spend.
At launch you can direct your giving to a general Yard Pass award pool or to a named fund at a participating HBCU. Chapters and Greek organizations can also open their own fund, which their members can then select as a destination.
Those platforms pick one lane. Rakuten pays cashback to you only. Upromise routes savings into a restricted 529 account. Ibotta asks you to scan receipts for offers that expire. Yard Pass is card-linked, splits between your pocket and a scholarship fund on a slider you control, pays out weekly, and is organised around HBCU alumni chapters rather than generic shoppers.
Card linking is handled by our payments partner — Yard Pass never sees or stores full card numbers, and you can unlink a card from your account at any time. We do not sell member data to advertisers.
We are onboarding founding members by chapter, starting with alumni networks and Greek organizations. Join the waitlist and you will get your activation invite ahead of public launch, with your $6 founding rate held.
Founding members onboard by chapter
Get started. Your next purchase can fund a semester.
Join the waitlist for your activation invite, your founding $6/month rate, and first pick of the scholarship fund your rewards support.