A charity bib is a guaranteed spot in the race. If you didn't get in through the drawing, every official charity partner can still get you in. In return you promise to raise a set amount for the charity, usually $3,000 to $5,000, by a deadline.
You give them a credit card when you're accepted. If you don't raise it all, they charge the rest to the card. That's normal. It's how the charity covers the spot it already paid for.
The charities are more different than the prices. Some give you a coach, group runs, a fundraising helper, a team, a bus to the start. Some give you a bib and a deadline. That's the difference between the money being easy and being hard to raise, and it's the main thing this site shows.
Every charity's fine print on this site counts how many of these four questions the charity answers on its own pages:
If a charity doesn't answer one, ask before you sign up. Any charity with a real program answers these in one email. Keep the reply.
Every amount, every "what they give you," and every quote was read from the charity's own web page and links back to it. Each charity's fine print shows the date it was last read.
If something says "not on their page," it means we couldn't find it published. That's not a no. Ask.
The cause label is the one thing written by hand, so the list is easy to scan. Everything else is the charity's words. The site is re-checked every week against the charities' pages, and nothing is estimated.