Individual
Giving

Support Entrepreneurs: Your Impact Starts Here

Today’s entrepreneurs are creating solutions for tomorrow’s challenges, finding innovative ways to make the world a better place. With your generous donations, Tampa Bay Wave is helping to ensure those startups succeed while nurturing a vibrant tech ecosystem. Choose your preferred way to give and make a lasting difference.

Friends of Wave

As a Friend of Wave, you’ll join a dynamic network of supporters dedicated to growing the Tampa Bay tech community through annual giving. Benefits include direct engagement with startup founders, networking opportunities, event access, and recognition for your support.

Scholarships

As a Friend of Wave, you’ll join a dynamic network of business leaders and supporters dedicated to building and growing a robust Tampa Bay tech community through annual giving. Exclusive benefits include direct engagement with startup founders, networking opportunities, exclusive event access, and recognition for your support.

Splash Club

The Splash Club makes waves in the community with monthly recurring donations to drive innovation and growth in the tech scene. Dedicated Splash Club members enjoy benefits such as branded merchandise and exclusive invitations to network with our community.

Flexible Giving

Every gift counts. We welcome donations of all sizes and types, from tax-deductible monetary contributions to in-kind, stock, and other creative donation ideas. Larger gifts can earn named recognition at the Wave Venture Center, but everything makes an impact.

Tax-Advantaged Giving

Align your philanthropic giving with your values while maximizing meaningful tax benefits. When you support organizations in thoughtful, strategic ways, you not only give back to the community, you also make the most of tax-advantaged opportunities. All donations to Tampa Bay Wave are tax-deductible and directly fuel technological innovation, entrepreneurial development, and local economic growth.

Below, you’ll find a three-part podcast series featuring Danyell Jones Munassi, a Tampa Bay Wave mentor and expert in strategic giving. In this series, Danyell breaks down the benefits of tax-advantaged giving and explains why supporting Wave’s mission is so critical to the success of the innovation ecosystem of our region.