Premier
Western Sun Foundation × Propeller Premier
Western Sun already transforms shared passion into action, one show at a time.
Propeller Premier makes it automatic - a recurring membership that turns fans into monthly members, rewards them for showing up, and makes funding for Western Sun more sustainable.
Western Sun at a Goose show · today
The opportunity
At every run, your volunteers set up a table, a QR code, a $25 suggested donation, a few limited-edition pins. It works - because Goose fans want to give.
Premier makes that instinct year-round and automatic. The $25-at-the-merch-tent fan becomes an $11-a-month member who keeps giving long after the lot clears.
How Premier works
A simple mechanic that quietly compounds every time the band tours.
We design and build a Western Sun club page in your brand. Fans join in one tap and give monthly - no volunteer, no table, no app required.
Members unlock rewards, sweepstakes, and once-in-a-tour experiences - a signed setlist, a meet-and-greet, a pair of tickets. This is why recurring giving sticks.
Every membership gift is collected and paid out to Western Sun to fund your mission.
What fuels the program
The monthly membership is the base - but it grows fastest when big tour moments pour new members into it. Flyaways and in-venue sweepstakes do the acquiring; the recurring program keeps them.
A grand-prize experience - flights, tickets, meet the band - that any fan can enter with a donation. Our single biggest source of new members.
Call to action on the screens, and on-site sign-ups at the shows you already table. The fans in the room convert best - this scales, and tracks, the hand-run tabling you do today.
Every supporter these two engines bring in can roll into recurring monthly giving - the number that compounds tour over tour.
The financials
Propeller earns 15%, only when you raise.
Where every dollar goes
What that looks like
| Monthly gift | To WSF / mo | To WSF / yr |
|---|---|---|
| $11 | $8.62 | $103.44 |
| $25 | $19.90 | $238.80 |
| $50 | $40.05 | $480.60 |
250 members at $25/month is about $59,700 a year, renewing on its own.
Different campaigns, different math
Sweepstakes and in-venue feed the base and carry their own costs, always netted from the raise, never invoiced.
| Campaign | Fee | Campaign costs | For |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly & one-time | 15% + 2% OCF | None | Steady ~78-80% to cause |
| Flyaway sweepstakes | 15% + 2% OCF | Ads + prize, netted from the raise (near-zero if Goose donates it) | Member & email acquisition |
| In-venue | 15% + 2% OCF | Minimal | Warmest conversions |
Same fee everywhere; what changes is the costs. On a sweepstakes the promotion and prize come out first, so net-to-cause runs lower than a clean monthly gift, but you gain supporters you keep all year. Measure it by members gained. Either way, your downside stays zero.
Donations are collected by Our Change Foundation, our nonprofit giving partner, which disburses the net to Western Sun each month.
OCF issues a tax acknowledgment to every donor automatically.
Watch members, dollars, and what's driving them live, no waiting on a quarterly report.
What a partnership asks of each side
What we'd ask of the foundation and the band, in plain terms.
The organization
The band - light touch, high leverage
The band never has to carry it; a handful of moments a year does the work.
How promotion works
Done for you
The part only you can
"So is promotion on us, or on you?"
Both, by design, and we carry the weight. We run the ads, creative, and rewards; you and Goose bring the reach and the realness. Together it compounds.
Why Propeller
The same playbook that turns a fanbase into a funding base.
Proof · Noah Kahan & The Busyhead Project
The exact engine, built for Noah Kahan's foundation, now the largest recurring-giving program on Propeller.
If the board says yes
You give the green light at the August 12 meeting.
Your club page, rewards, and launch creative - roughly 1-2 weeks.
Timed to a tour moment for maximum lift.
Members renew monthly; we optimize and report continuously.
The ask