Citi: Spend $5 On Dining Out & They Will Give $1 To No Kid Hungry (Up To $1 Million)

Update 10/22/21: Deal is back for 2021, this time a $1,000,000 cap (has been $2,000,000 cap in the past).

The Offer

Direct link to offer

  • Citi will donate $1 to No Kid Hungry when you spend $5 or more dining out with a registered Citi card.

 

The Fine Print

  • This offer is only available on Citi branded credit cards.
  • If you have any questions about your account, please call Customer Service at the number on the back of your card.
  • To learn more about No Kid Hungry and the impact of its work, visit nokidhungry.org/onedollar.
  • Citi does not determine how merchants or establishments are classified. Sometimes a merchant will sell a particular item that appears to fit within the dining category, but the merchant may not have a merchant code that fits within that category. Therefore, purchases with that merchant will not qualify for the promotion.

Our Verdict

Update: Prestige offers 5x points on dining making this even better

Citi cards don’t offer the best category bonuses for dining out (apart from the Citi Prestige offering 5x). Although the ThankYou Premier is 2x (Costco is 3% but co-branded cards don’t count I don’t think. Update: Readers are commenting that this does work). I still think this is worth doing if you’re dining out bill is low enough. I like to try and give positive press to companies when they do stuff like this as I think it genuinely makes the world a better place, even if they are only doing it for positive PR purposes.

Hat tip to -T-Rekt
    William Charles
  • On October 22, 2021, 15:00

View Comments (41)

  • I enrolled. But does anyone here know how to verify that the enrollment was successful and verify the dollar amount of donations Citi has processed on your behalf?

  • wtf they are probably donating this anyway for tax etc and also making consumers think they are doing good.Thats one way of making money off your goodwill along with good PR since most people are too numb to understand.

    • Just as you said, if this kind of donation counts as my donation instead of Citi's donation, I would be interested. Not because of my own tax issues, but because I don't want to be fooled by Citi.

  • My Citi Costco Anywhere lets me enroll (it appears under the Citi Offers for You page on the mobile app and then opens the website).

    I decided to also enroll my Citi Custom Cash, which is getting 5x on my highest spend category (which is dining right now).

  • Citibank's net income for Q3 was $4.6 billion. Maybe they could just give some money to hungry kids without me having to spend anything?

    • You planning to cancel all your Citi card as a sign of disapproval or you just making a comment?

    • When I get salty over corporate virtue signaling I like to compare corporate income to the median US household income.

      This act of generosity is equivalent to an average US household donating $7.40 to charity. Citi sure is reaching deep.

      edit: actually $3.67, I was using the $2mil number.

  • At first I read this as "they will give $1 to no hungry kids" and thought 'wow, that is just plain rude'.

    • My first thought was of a YouTube of a screaming Goat (kid) in a song because he was hungry.

      Bwahaha

  • Hey, that reader is me!

    Whether or not someone thinks this cause is "worthy enough" it doesn't cost anything to enroll, so why not? You might not even think you're going to spend the money dining, but you can still enroll, and it costs nothing to you.

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