High school athletic fundraising · 7,000+ schools · all 50 states
Custom blanket fundraisers built for high school athletic departments, booster clubs, and team parents. From Spectator Sport, the team that invented presale blanket fundraising in 2019.
The numbers ADs and boosters plan around
Built for high school athletics
High school fundraising lives and dies by timing. The campaigns that sell out launch when school spirit is peaking and close on a real deadline: homecoming in the fall, senior night in the spring, the holidays for winter sports. A blanket fits that rhythm better than a catalog or a cookie-dough sheet, because it is the spirit item families actually want at exactly the moment they want it.
It also fits how high schools are actually organized. Most of our schools run blankets at the athletic-department or booster level, with a team-specific design for each program, so football, basketball, wrestling, and band each get their own blanket under one coordinated campaign. One vendor, one timeline, and teams that stop competing against each other for the same parents.
Presale blanket fundraising itself was invented by Spectator Sport USA at Mountain Ridge High School in 2019 (the full origin story lives on our sister site, fundraiserblanket.com). What matters for your planning is the rule that came out of running it thousands of times since: start your design 8 to 10 weeks before the date you are selling against, so the campaign is live while spirit peaks and blankets are in hands before the season ends.
Campaign season, up close
From the first delivery box in the equipment room to the order table at a Friday home game. Drag or use the arrows to browse.
The nights you're funding
Skyridge vs Salem Hills, a packed student section, and the energy every athletic department is trying to fund. Campaigns timed to nights like this one are the campaigns that sell out, because the community is already showing up.
Time a campaign to your seasonThe campaign flow
Send your mascot, school colors, and logo files. A free custom mockup is back within 48 hours, with no commitment attached.
Your campaign page goes live within days of approval, carrying your design, your branding, and your pricing.
Parents, students, alumni, and supporters buy straight from the page while you watch progress in real time.
Production takes 2-6 weeks depending on tier. Blankets drop-ship to each buyer, or arrive in bulk if the school prefers handing them out.
Once delivery wraps, the profit check goes out. No fees carved off the top, no unsold product to deal with, just the margin your community earned.
Three program structures
Every structure ships the same premium NubaySoft custom mascot blanket. What changes is who fronts the money and when the school gets paid.
The community orders through your campaign page before anything gets produced, so the school only ever pays for blankets already sold. No fronted money, no inventory, nothing left over in the storage closet. This is the presale structure our team originated in 2019.
Best for: Athletic departments, booster clubs, cheer, band, theater, team parents
Typical raise: $15,000-$35,000 typical
We fund the design work, the production deposits, and the shipping. The school pays nothing, not upfront and not later; your community buys the blankets, your program hands them out and gets paid on how the campaign performs. A common first season for programs that want proof in hand before running their own presale.
Best for: Programs running their first blanket campaign, schools rebuilding momentum
Typical raise: Zero dollars ever, paid on performance
Wholesale pricing for the spirit store, the booster shop, or a stadium giveaway, with a 50-blanket minimum. We still stand up a campaign page and hand over the social kit, so families can keep buying direct long after the initial order arrives.
Best for: Established spirit stores, programs following up a sold-out presale
Typical raise: Margin on each retail sale
Everything that comes with the order
A branded order page carrying your mascot, your colors, and the approved design. Parents and alumni buy there directly, so nobody on the booster board is reconciling a spreadsheet at 11 pm.
Flyers, share graphics, and post templates already sized for Facebook, Instagram, and the parent group chat. The volunteer running promotion just posts; nothing gets designed at the kitchen table.
Email, text blast, and PA announcement copy refined across 7,000+ school campaigns. Add your school name, line it up with your game schedule, and hit send.
A live dashboard your AD or treasurer can check between periods. Orders appear the moment they land, while production triggering, payments, and customer service stay on our side of the table.
Every blanket ships straight to the person who bought it. No pallets in the equipment room, no distribution night in the cafeteria, no chasing down unpaid order forms.
One dedicated rep from the first mockup until the profit check clears, reachable by call or text. Your campaign hitting goal is how we earn the next season's, so we stay close.
Order 50 wholesale blankets for the spirit store and the campaign site and social kit still come with them. Making the sale easy for your program is the whole point.
Where blankets beat the usual options
Most athletic departments have been through catalog sales, t-shirt runs, and cookie dough sheets. This is how a presale blanket campaign compares on the numbers a booster treasurer actually checks.
vs Cookie Dough / Catalog
vs Cookie Dough / Catalog
The proof, where it lives
Our sister site is the canonical home for campaign case studies, verified order data, and the full origin story. Start with these two.
From coaches and HS programs
High school coaches, athletic staff, and program parents after their sample arrived.
Love the blanket, it's so soft and got so many folks asking about it and wanting to see about getting one. Had some admin and staff say they would buy one, and the design came out really well also.
The blanket is amazing, thank you so much. I will be showing it off today.
Highly, highly recommend high school blankets. Like, highly recommend.
Who runs blanket fundraisers
Football, basketball, wrestling, soccer, softball, track. The blanket table is the one parents actually stop at on game night, which is what carries these campaigns.
Band, choir, orchestra, and drama run these for trip funding and senior recognition. Fewer buyers than a football campaign, but each family tends to buy with both hands.
Senior trips, prom committees, graduation events. A class-year design gives every student a reason to buy and a keepsake that survives the move into a dorm.
An all-school spirit push built on the mascot and colors. The blanket lands on the family couch and keeps the school in the living room all winter.
Roster names, championship seasons, coach tributes. Identity-heavy designs that ride the bus to every competition with the squad.
Club soccer, Little League, travel football. Parents run the campaign and the blanket ends up as sideline gear for every cold Saturday morning.
Before you bring it to the booster meeting
Upfront cost, who runs what, timelines, and what happens if you miss goal. Straight answers from 7,000+ school campaigns.
No. Our presale fundraiser has zero upfront cost. Parents, alumni, students, and community members order through your campaign page over 2-4 weeks. Production only starts after the campaign closes. The school never holds inventory, never fronts a dollar, and never gets stuck with leftover blankets. You only pay for what was already sold.
Estimate your raise
Enter your enrollment, the size of your community, and your retail price. The estimate is built on conversion rates observed across real Spectator Sport school campaigns.
Numbers update live as you change inputs.
Most common HS size; the model is dialed for this profile
Parents, alumni, supporters likely to hear about the campaign. Usually 3-5× enrollment.
Estimated raise
~$0 typical
Typical campaign length
2-4 weeks of orders, then 4-6 wk production
Estimate assumes a real campaign with active social promotion from a school champion. Schools land in the upper range when the booster leader has access to parent text chains and game-day announcements.
Get a custom estimate →Pricing, blanket count, and the specific raise model are tailored per school. We'll send a custom estimate within 1 business day.
Send your mascot and colors today and a free mockup is back within 48 hours. Nothing upfront, and no obligation to run.