Where Your Car Goes
A donated vehicle takes a short, specific path: your driveway, a tow truck, an auction lot, and then a commissary account inside a prison.
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Pickup
A licensed tow operator collects the vehicle at no cost to you, running or not. You sign the title and hand over the keys.
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Sale
CARS (Charitable Adult Rides & Services) handles the sale — most vehicles go to wholesale auction. Selling expenses such as towing, auction fees, and title work come out of the sale price.
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Net proceeds
What remains after those costs is the net proceeds. Those funds move to Soul Tribes International Ministries.
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Commissary grants
The ministry directs the funds into commissary grants — balances on the books of incarcerated people for soap, toothpaste, deodorant, writing paper, and stamps.
What commissary money buys
Commissary is the prison store. Hygiene items, over-the-counter basics, writing paper, envelopes, and stamps are bought there, out of pocket. In several states incarcerated workers earn pennies an hour, or nothing, so a small balance decides whether someone has soap and can mail a letter home.
Impact figures are reported once verified.
Roles, stated plainly
Soul Tribes International Ministries is the beneficiary that directs commissary grants. CARS (Charitable Adult Rides & Services) is the vehicle donation processor that handles intake, towing, and sale. DonateACar.io publishes the information — this site never collects donation-form data, VIN, title, lien, pickup, or tax details.
Consult your tax advisor. Vehicles over $500 receive IRS Form 1098-C from the processor.
Turn that vehicle into commissary money
Free tow pickup, running or not. One call starts it.