Sponsor the Nation's Personal Finance Competition

A live national competition where the country's top students and teachers compete, every week of the school year.

950K+Students Lifetime
10,000+Teachers
All 50States Reached
52Cohorts a Year
22+Standards-Aligned States

Connect your brand to the most exciting program in personal finance education — and the strongest student results to back it up.

What your team will want to know first

Sponsoring a national education program with student visibility usually triggers a long list of legal-team questions. We've engineered Budget Challenge® to short-circuit most of them.

Zero

Personally identifiable info collected from students

No first or last names. No date of birth. No phone numbers. No school IDs. SSO names truncated to four letters and one initial before the database write. When a student wins a sponsored prize, we issue a non-PII winner code — the student or parent goes directly to you to claim, and you collect any identifying information at that point. Your legal team controls the data flow on your side.

1EdTech

Data Privacy Certified

Independent privacy certification from 1EdTech Consortium — the leading industry standards body for educational technology. Our current certification is publicly listed and verifiable.

12+ yrs

Operating across all 50 states

Patented in 2013 and operating across the country since. Three Excellence in Financial Literacy Education (EIFLE) Awards from the Institute for Financial Literacy (2015, 2020, 2023). 950,000+ students lifetime, 10,000+ teachers. The platform you'd attach your brand to has a longer track record than most ed-tech you can name.

Sponsorship Opportunities

Year-Round

Premier National Sponsor

  • Exit Prizes — Opted-in graduating students receive a prize from your business at the end of every simulation — something of real value that opens a direct customer relationship. Your logo appears in the Premier slot on the homepage and on every public leaderboard across every active simulation, all year.
  • Sponsor a School — Schools apply to you directly for a fully-funded Budget Challenge license. Students in schools that you sponsor will see your logo on every logged-in page.
  • Teacher Awards — Opportunity to sponsor Budget Challenge national teacher awards, such as Teacher of the Year and Best New Teacher. Your logo appears on the awards page, on the trophy, and in every public announcement when a recipient is honored.
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Pick and Choose from 52 Simulations Each Year

Sponsor a Simulation

  • Class Prizes — Award the winning class or classes in any simulation — a pizza party, cash to the school, a donation in the class's name. Your logo appears on the simulation's public “Sponsored By” strip and on the class-vs-class leaderboard where the prize is awarded. Multiple sponsors can fund prizes in the same simulation.
  • Student Prizes — Award top individual students on the national super leaderboard — a gift card, a scholarship, a funded savings account, anything you choose. Your logo and prize details show at the top of public and logged-in leaderboards.
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Start a sponsorship conversation

Whether you're exploring Premier or looking to fund a single class prize this season, we'll respond within the next two business days with the right next step.