Build something that outlasts all of us.
A controller in a sick kid's hands is a small thing that changes a hospital stay. A major gift turns that one bedside into a network — a place that's still handing kids their game night back long after any of us are in the room.
Survivor-founded 501(c)(3) · EIN 26-3438815 · 19 years · 250+ hospitals · five continents. This page is a conversation, not a checkout.
It started in a hospital room, with a controller.
Taylor Carol was a kid when leukemia put him in a hospital bed for five years. Gaming wasn't a pastime — it was the thing that kept him connected, kept him a person, kept him a kid through treatment that takes both from you. He survived. He helps lead GameChanger today.
"We built GameChanger to give every kid in a hospital bed the same lifeline that carried my son through cancer."
The world's only networked Xbox hospital system. Reaching a fraction of who already loves it.
GameChanger built something no one else has — and there's a gap between the audience that cheers for this work and the resources behind it. A major gift is how that gap closes.
YouTube subscribers — a community of gamers and families who already believe play belongs at the bedside.
annual operating scale for a charity that runs the only networked hospital game system on five continents.
That's the opportunity. A category-defining program, a proven distribution machine, $18.4M in lifetime in-kind leverage — and room to grow many times over. Major donors don't fund a gap. They fund the next chapter.
This isn't a feel-good story. It's clinically backed.
Major gifts deserve major rigor. Here is the medicine behind the mission — and the research partner advancing it.
Research partner
GameChanger partners with the Yale XR Lab to study how extended-reality and game-based play reduce stress for hospitalized children — turning bedside joy into measured outcomes.
5,550 children
Across 59 trials, the gold standard of medical evidence found distraction — including games and play — is the best-supported way to ease the pain and distress of needle procedures.
"Prescribe" play
The American Academy of Pediatrics calls play essential to healthy development — and urges clinicians to prescribe it.
What a major gift builds.
Not a donation form — a set of outcomes. Each tier is a concrete thing your gift puts inside a hospital. Above $50,000, it begins with a conversation.
A game-room refresh
New titles, controllers and repairs for an existing hospital game room — keeping a space kids already love fully stocked for a year.
A networked console suite
A set of in-room consoles wired into GameChanger's safe hospital network — letting kids on the same ward play together from their beds.
Name a hospital game room
Fund and name a dedicated game room in a partner children's hospital — a permanent place to play, with your name or a loved one's on the door.
Build the next chapter — together
Gifts above $50,000, multi-year pledges and DAF commitments start with a conversation with Jim & Taylor, not a checkout. We'll design the impact, the naming, and the reporting around what matters to you.
Gifts at every tier run securely through Stripe (test mode on this concept site). Gifts of $50,000+ and pledges route to the founders directly — no payment is taken online.
Put a name on something that keeps giving.
Naming gifts make a space, a program, or a year of play permanent — for you, for a family member, for a child you remember.
A named game room
A dedicated, named game room inside a partner children's hospital — the room a kid wheels into when they need to be a kid again.
A named console network
Underwrite and name GameChanger's networked gaming system across a hospital — the infrastructure that serves hundreds of kids a day.
A named survivor scholarship
Endow a named scholarship for childhood-illness survivors — the same path Taylor walked, made possible for the next kid.
Give the way that's smartest for you.
Cash is one path. For many major donors, a donor-advised fund, appreciated stock, crypto, or a wire is the more tax-efficient way to make a bigger gift.
Donor-advised fund (DAF)
Recommend a grant to GameChanger directly from your DAF. We'll confirm receipt and put your gift to work right away.
EIN: 26-3438815
Designation: Greatest need, or name a hospital / program
Appreciated stock & securities
Donating long-held appreciated stock can let you avoid capital-gains tax and deduct the full fair-market value. We'll send transfer instructions for your broker.
To request: DTC / brokerage transfer instructions
Crypto
GameChanger accepts gifts of cryptocurrency. A crypto gift of appreciated assets can be a tax-efficient way to give at scale.
To request: current wallet / processor details
Wire transfer & check
For larger cash gifts, a bank wire or mailed check keeps every dollar working. We'll send banking details and our mailing address on request.
Location: Dana Point, California
To request: wire instructions & mailing address
Leave play in your legacy.
A gift in your will or estate plan costs nothing today and can be the largest, most lasting gift you ever make — a permanent stake in keeping kids playing through the hardest days of their lives.
"I give to GameChanger Charity, a 501(c)(3) organization (EIN 26-3438815), of Dana Point, California, ___ [a sum / a percentage / the residue] to be used for its general charitable purposes."
Ways to give later
Beneficiary designations on retirement accounts & life insurance · charitable gift annuities · charitable remainder trusts · a gift of real estate.
We'll connect you with the right path for your situation — and welcome you into the founding legacy circle.
Major donors who've backed this work.
Real supporters who chose to fund play at the bedside — and the hospitals that put their gifts to work.
"The joy on our patients' faces when they receive a GameChanger gaming kit is unforgettable. It transforms their hospital stay, giving them a sense of normalcy and connection that medicine alone can't provide."
"Thanks to GameChanger, we created what we believe is the world's most advanced safe gaming network in any hospital — serving over 350 kids a day."
Talk with Jim & Taylor.
Major gifts, naming opportunities, DAF and pledge commitments, planned giving — all of it starts the same way: a real conversation with the people who built this, including a survivor who lived the reason it exists.
Jim Carol, Co-Founder · Taylor Carol, Survivor & Co-Founder
Where a major gift goes — and what we'll tell you plainly.
Major donors deserve the real numbers, including the ones still in progress. Here they are.
In the spirit of full transparency: GameChanger's lifetime support totals roughly $26M, about 70% of it in-kind ($18.4M — donated digital codes and games), which means a cash major gift is leveraged many times over by the industry's product donations. An independent financial audit is currently underway; we're glad to walk you through it in detail and share documents directly. We'd rather tell you what's in progress than imply everything is finished.
Continue?
The next chapter of the only networked game system in the world's hospitals starts with one conversation.