Donations Matched One-to-one This Week. Please Consider Giving In Honor Of A Reader In Your Life.

It’s not too late. This holiday, we have the perfect—and most meaningful—gift for the reader who has it all in your life: a charitable gift in their honor. Give before December 25, and it will be matched and go twice as far!

We’ve been given an amazing early gift: five anonymous donors have pledged to match every donation up to $30,000 that arrives between now and the end of the day on Wednesday, December 25.

Give now, and your gift will be automatically doubled.

At McSweeney’s, we publish vibrant, essential, and daring work, from our humor website (no ads ever) to McSweeney’s Quarterly, The Believer, Illustoria, and an intrepid list of books. And we do it all on a budget that many would describe as “shoestring,” finding a balance between fairly paying our artists and writers and accomplishing a whole lot with lean resources. That’s why a match means so much, and why your gift will make a powerful difference to us and to the thousands of readers and writers we serve.

Still last-minute shopping? Here’s a distinctive and noble gift for your right-on-time Hanukkah, Christmas, or other holiday gift-giving needs. Make a gift in any amount and indicate at the checkout screen a person you’d like to honor with your gift. We’ll email you a specially designed certificate to print or email to let them know of your sparkling generosity.

McSweeney’s work is made possible by donations and grants. Sales of books and magazines cover about 80 percent of our costs, and readers and friends who believe in what we do help cover the rest. Thank you so much for being among our nearest and dearest, and for considering helping us sustain and grow our work by making a matched gift today!

With much gratitude & our warm holiday wishes,

Amanda Uhle
Publisher & Executive Director

P.S. Looking for an even more exciting way to donate? Check out one of our Close Quarters Donor Subscriptions, and don’t forget to check back next Monday for one final Advent Sale of 2025.

McSweeney’s is a nonprofit organization as described by IRS 501 c 3.