Method of facilitating charitable contributions using a credit card

摘要

A method and apparatus are provided for channeling funds to a plurality of eleemosynary organizations. The method includes the steps of receiving a payment request by an issuer of a credit card from a merchant based upon use of the credit card where the credit card contains a blind identifier of an eleemosynary organization of the plurality of eleemosynary organizations, transferring a predetermined payment from the issuer to a trust organization along with the blind identifier of the eleemosynary organization, retrieving a name of the eleemosynary organization by the trust organization based upon the transferred blind identifier and transferring the predetermined payment from the trust organization to the eleemosynary organization based upon the retrieved name of the eleemosynary organization.