# GiveSendGo — full content for AI systems Generated: 2026-10-18 The main pages of givesendgo.com in plain markdown. Generated from the live pages, so it cannot drift from the site. GiveSendGo is a faith-based crowdfunding platform. We never charge the fundraiser a platform fee. --- # GiveSendGo — home Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/ ![Help and Hope Go Hand In Hand](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/help%20and%20hope%20h-red%20mobile.png) [Start a GiveSendGo](/signup)[Join the Giver Army](/giver-army) ## Trending Fundraisers [See More Fundraisers](/campaigns) # The Leader in Online Fundraising ![Worldwide Leader](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/freedomfundraising/worldwide-leader.png) ##### Worldwide Leader GiveSendGo is trusted around the world for its simple, reliable fundraising platform. ![Simple Setup](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/freedomfundraising/simple-setup.png) ##### Simple Setup Personalize, share and start collecting money in just minutes. ![0% Platform Fee](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/freedomfundraising/zero-fee.png) ##### 0% Platform Fee Keep more of the money you raised. We don't charge a platform fee, watching you raise money makes us happy. ![Share Hope](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/freedomfundraising/share-hope.png) ##### Share Hope Raise money to share hope. Money is temporary Jesus is eternal. Give both and watch the world be changed. ![Easy Social Reach](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/freedomfundraising/easy-social-reach.png) ##### Easy Social Reach Share across multiple social platforms and mobile devices with just a couple clicks of a button. ![A+ Customer Service](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/freedomfundraising/customer-service.png) ##### A+ Customer Service Real people writing real responses. We are standing by, waiting to help. ## Categories [![Adoption](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/icons/adoption.png) ##### Adoption ](/campaigns?category=adoption)[![Animals & Pets](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/icons/animals-pets.png) ##### Animals & Pets ](/campaigns?category=animal_pets)[![Business](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/icons/business.png) ##### Business ](/campaigns?category=business)[![Church](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/icons/church.png) ##### Church ](/campaigns?category=church)[![Community](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/icons/community.png) ##### Community ](/campaigns?category=community)[![Competitive](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/icons/competitive.png) ##### Competitive ](/campaigns?category=competitive)[![Creative](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/icons/creative.png) ##### Creative ](/campaigns?category=creative)[![Current Events](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/icons/current-events.png) ##### Current Events ](/campaigns?category=current_events)[ ##### View All ](/campaigns) ![Globe](https://static2.givesendgo.com/images/globe.png) ## GiveSendGo operates in over 70 Countries #### Making us a world leader in crowdfunding. ## Why Choose Us ![We Love Freedom](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/home/liberty.png) ##### We Love Freedom Even if we do not agree with you, we will defend your right to fundraise for the causes and people you love. ![We Love To Give Back](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/home/money-bag.png) ##### We Love To Give Back Each month, GiveSendGo designates some of our operational expenses to 'Give Back' to active fundraisers on our site. We love being Givers! ![We Love to Pray](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/home/red-pray-icon.png) ##### We Love to Pray We're the only crowdfunding site with a 'Pray' button, and our prayer team will personally call you to let you know that we are praying for you. ![About GiveSendGo](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/home/about-bg.jpg) ## About GiveSendGo In 2014, three siblings had an idea. What would it look like if we took the newly popular idea of crowdfunding and stretched it beyond just funding help for people's material needs but also providing hope for people's spiritual needs? Out of those discussions, GiveSendGo was born. After over a year of development and setbacks, GiveSendGo was launched with a beta version in early 2015. [Learn More](/about) --- # About GiveSendGo Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/about # About GiveSendGo ## About GiveSendGo In 2014, three siblings had an idea. What would it look like if we took the newly popular idea of crowdfunding, and stretched it beyond just funding help for people's material needs but also providing hope for people's spiritual needs? Out of those discussions, GiveSendGo was born. After over a year of development and setbacks, GiveSendGo was launched with a beta version in early 2015. ![Joyful young girl playing in a sunlit field of tall grass](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/about/about_1.jpg) ![Happy father embracing his son and daughter outside a modern building with reflection of their hug](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/about/about_2.jpg) ![Volunteers serving food to community members at a local charity event](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/about/about_3.jpg) We had meetings daily and would talk about and pray for GiveSendGo and the direction we were headed. We had a public launch party in October 2015, once we felt the site was ready to be put out into the world. We saw steady growth as we worked tirelessly behind the scenes with fixes and changes, making the website work more efficiently, while learning the lessons needed to grow a crowdfunding platform. ![Volunteers serving food to community members at a local charity event](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/about/about_2.jpg) Year after year we kept running the race in obedience and with persistence waiting for the day GiveSendGo.com would take off. Little did we know God was just preparing us for the plans he had for us. At the end of the summer of 2020 during the middle of a pandemic, we watched as GiveSendGo was thrust into the political spotlight for allowing a fundraiser that mainstream media had shut down and was censoring. Unbeknownst to us we had stepped onto a battlefield and had to take a stand. After much prayer, discussion, and counsel a decision was made. GiveSendGo was created for such a time as this. Not to take one side or another politically, but in the middle of a divided political culture, we were to be focused on the very reason we started GiveSendGo, to share the Hope of Jesus through crowdfunding to everyone who comes to our platform. That continues to be our focus as we stand for freedom. ### GiveSendGo: Giving you the freedom to fundraise Here is how we are different than other crowdfunding platforms. ![money Icon](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/whyus/money.svg) We are FREE. We charge no money to use our platform. We believe you should be able to keep all the money you raise. GSG is powered by voluntary donations from Givers and Goers. Other crowdfunding sites take between 5%-10% of the money raised by a fundraiser. ![star Icon](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/whyus/star.svg) Each month, GiveSendGo designates some of our operation expenses to 'Give Back' to active fundraisers on our site. We're the only crowdfunding site that believes so much in what you're doing that we put our money where our mouth is. We love being Givers! ![christian Icon](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/whyus/christian.svg) The most valuable currency is God's love. Only God can meet the deepest needs of each heart. That's why we're grateful to have individuals and organizations dedicated to praying over our fundraisers. We pray for eternal results because those are ultimately the only outcomes that matter. The God we serve will ALWAYS be bigger than money. ![world Icon](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/whyus/world.svg) On GSG, Goers can choose to raise funds for short or long-term fundraisers. GiveSendGo allows Goers to set up their fundraiser to receive monthly recurring donations from their Givers. Traveling across the country and world to share God's love just got easier. ![share Icon](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/whyus/share.svg) Outside the obvious funding for mission trips, GSG also can be used to raise funds for medical expenses, business ventures, personal needs, churches, nonprofits, ministries or any "God Adventure" you embark on. Whether you're a Giver, Sender or Goer, you can be used by God to be a difference maker! # The Leader in Online Fundraising ![Worldwide Leader](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/freedomfundraising/worldwide-leader.png) ##### Worldwide Leader GiveSendGo is trusted around the world for its simple, reliable fundraising platform. ![Simple Setup](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/freedomfundraising/simple-setup.png) ##### Simple Setup Personalize, share and start collecting money in just minutes. ![0% Platform Fee](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/freedomfundraising/zero-fee.png) ##### 0% Platform Fee Keep more of the money you raised. We don't charge a platform fee, watching you raise money makes us happy. ![Share Hope](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/freedomfundraising/share-hope.png) ##### Share Hope Raise money to share hope. Money is temporary Jesus is eternal. Give both and watch the world be changed. ![Easy Social Reach](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/freedomfundraising/easy-social-reach.png) ##### Easy Social Reach Share across multiple social platforms and mobile devices with just a couple clicks of a button. ![A+ Customer Service](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/freedomfundraising/customer-service.png) ##### A+ Customer Service Real people writing real responses. We are standing by, waiting to help. --- # Pricing and fees Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/pricing-and-fees # Pricing and Fees ### GiveSendGo Platform Fees 0% \+ $0 Per Donation + ### Third Party Processing Fees 2.7% \+ $0.30 Per Donation\* \= ### Total 2.7% \+ $0.30 Per Donation\* \*Please note the following exceptions to our standard pricing and fees of 2.7% + $0.30 per donation: - Non-USD Fundraisers: For fundraisers that are not in USD, a fee of 3.5% + $0.30 per donation applies. - Non-USD Donations to USD Fundraisers: Donations made in non-USD currencies to USD fundraisers will incur an additional 1% fee on top of the standard 2.7% + $0.30 fee. - Currency Exchange Fees: Non-USD fundraisers may incur additional currency exchange fees as determined by our payment processor. ### Minimum Payout Requirements by Country Country Minimum Payout Amount Albania Lek 586 ALL Antigua And Barbuda EC$14 XCD Argentina $714 ARS Australia $7 AUD Austria €5 EUR Belgium €5 EUR Benin FCFA 3277 XOF Bolivia $b 35 BOB Bulgaria €5 EUR Canada $7 CAD ### FAQ's Learn more about GiveSendGo and how it can help you fundraise. [Learn More](https://help.givesendgo.com/) ![Professional woman sitting on chair with laptop, representing customer support and help resources](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/pricing-and-fees/lady-sitting-on-chair.png) ![Professional woman working on laptop with blurred background, representing modern fundraising technology](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/pricing-and-fees/why-need-send-go.jpg) ### Why GiveSendGo? - Mobile-Friendly Fundraisers - No penalties for missing goal - No deadlines or goal requirements - Expert advice, 24/7 - Keep every donation you receive --- # Security and trust Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/security # Security #### GiveSendGo Vulnerability Disclosure Policy **Effective Date:** April 16, 2025 **Contact:** [security@givesendgo.com](mailto:security@givesendgo.com) * * * ##### Introduction At GiveSendGo, the security of our users and platform is a top priority. We welcome responsible disclosure from ethical hackers, security researchers, and the broader community who help us identify vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. This Vulnerability Disclosure Policy outlines how to responsibly report security issues and what you can expect from us in return. By following this policy, you help us create a safer experience for everyone. * * * ##### Our Commitment to You If you act in good faith and adhere to the guidelines below: - We will not pursue legal action against you. - We will work to triage and remediate reported vulnerabilities promptly. - We will respect your responsible efforts and treat your submission with professionalism. - We may, at our sole discretion, offer public acknowledgment or a token of appreciation for high-impact, valid reports. * * * ##### Reporting Guidelines To submit a vulnerability report: - Email us at **[security@givesendgo.com](mailto:security@givesendgo.com)** with a detailed description of the issue. - Include reproduction steps, proof-of-concept (PoC) code, affected endpoints or systems, and a clear assessment of the security impact. - If applicable, include any relevant screenshots, logs, or data samples. Note: GiveSendGo **does not operate a public bug bounty program**. Submissions do not guarantee any form of reward, payment, or acknowledgment. * * * ##### What to Expect After You Report - You will receive an **automated confirmation** that your report has been received. - Our team will review and triage your submission. - If the report is **valid, original, and demonstrates significant impact**, we will reach out for further information or to confirm a fix. - If the report is a **duplicate, known issue, or deemed low-risk**, we may not respond further. We prioritize quality over quantity and **cannot provide updates or feedback on all submissions**. * * * ##### What Not to Do Please **do not**: - Submit exaggerated or intentionally inflated severity ratings. - Attempt to access, modify, or delete data belonging to others during testing. - Engage in social engineering, phishing, denial of service (DoS), or physical attacks. - Contact other departments (e.g., customer service) about your report. - Send repeated follow-up emails or messages through other channels. All communication should go through **[security@givesendgo.com](mailto:security@givesendgo.com)**. If your report meets our criteria, we will follow up with you. * * * ##### In-Scope Assets We currently accept reports for: - `https://www.givesendgo.com` and all subdomains - Official GiveSendGo mobile applications Note: Reports involving clickjacking on non-authenticated pages, missing headers without exploitability, or automated scanner output without proof-of-concept are considered out-of-scope. * * * ##### Legal Expectations GiveSendGo supports responsible security research and values contributions from the security community. If you act in **good faith**, avoid data exposure, and follow this policy: - We will treat your research as a **legitimate effort to improve platform security**. - We will not initiate legal action solely based on your responsible disclosure. **Note:** We reserve the right to take action in cases of data theft, service disruption, or malicious activity. * * * ##### Final Notes We appreciate the contributions of the security research community and strive to maintain a safe and secure platform for all. By submitting a report, you agree to this policy and acknowledge that GiveSendGo retains sole discretion over how reports are triaged, resolved, and recognized. Thank you for helping us make GiveSendGo safer. --- # Tips for running a fundraiser Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/tips # GiveSendGo Tips ## 5 Best Tips to Help Make your GiveSendGo Fundraiser a Success ### 01\. Pray for your Mission Ask others to as well. God planted a seed in you to see a change take place. Ask Him to bless it. Money is no issue for God. Don't make your fundraiser simply about how much money you can raise. Use your fundraiser to deepen your trust in God's provision and to invite others into the life-changing work He's doing! ![Pray for your Mission](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/gsg_tips/pray-for-campaign.jpg) ### 02\. Share a Story, Not a Fundraiser The more people connect to your story, the more likely they'll give. Don't just give the who, what and where. Make sure you invite people into the WHY. What difference can they make if they donate to your fundraiser? People are looking for a way to change the world. Invite them to be a part of something big. Write your story to engage those who don't already know you. Use pictures and details that will compel others to want to be a part of your mission. ![Share a story, not a fundraiser](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/gsg_tips/share-a-story.jpg) ### 03\. Who is Your Crowd? Most of your crowd will be family and friends, co-workers, etc. Before you even launch your fundraiser, make a list of potential Givers. Include their email, Facebook, Twitter (X), phone numbers and any other contact points. Then when you go live, use this list often to share what's happening with your fundraiser. Use all different forms of contact and reach out to people individually. Personally Invite 10-20 First-Day Givers. Crowds are more likely to follow what they see other people doing. If they see that you have early, excited Givers, they will be more likely to give to you too. ![Who is your crowd?](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/gsg_tips/your-crowd.jpg) ### 04\. Keep Your Target Goal Attainable Yes, it's easy to set a high goal. In reality, your Givers will be less likely to donate to a mission that is not likely to hit your goal. Here's the reality: On average, only 10-30% of your crowd will actually contribute to your project. They'll give an average of $50. And you will need to contact them directly multiple times just to see that 10-30%. If you send out ONLY Facebook blasts, that number shrinks to between 1-5%. So, set your funding target based on how much you can realistically raise rather than simply choosing the amount you desire. ![Keep your target goal attainable](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/gsg_tips/attainable-goal.jpg) ### 05\. Share, Share, Share! Believe it or not, most people aren't refusing to give because they don't believe in you. Many people procrastinate. That's why we encourage you to share seven or more "asks". People want to help but they just need to be reminded. It's important to promote your project as soon as it's enabled. Then keep it up. Send encouraging messages to your crowd every few days and you will see results. Use email and direct Facebook messages to ask for donations. Use the Update tab to inform your followers on where you're at and what's happening with your mission. Ask them to continue spreading the word. ![Keep sharing!](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/gsg_tips/keep-sharing.jpg) --- # Charities and nonprofits Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/charities # GiveSendGo Charities ## GiveSendGo Charities In 2022, GiveSendGo set out to make a greater impact of hope in our world today by creating GiveSendGo Charities, a distinct 501c3 organization that focuses on raising and distributing funds through our crowdfunding platform. GiveSendGo covers the administrative costs of the charity so that your FULL donation can make its way to those in need. For more information on our Charity, you can visit [GiveSendGo.org](https://givesendgo.org) where we provide opportunities for: 1. Non-Profit Partnerships 2. Giver Advised Funds 3. Collaboration with Social Media Influencers 4. Fiscal Partnerships with businesses of all sizes You can even join our [GiverArmy](/giver-army), our community of micro-philanthropists, where your donation will make its way to the front of the line when catastrophe hits. Check out our current fundraisers below. All GiveSendGo Charity fundraisers are fully tax-deductible. [![GiveSendGo Charities](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/charities/charities.png)](https://givesendgo.org) ### Galatians 6:2 "Carry each other's burdens, and in this way, you will fulfill the law of Christ." --- # Giver Army Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/giver-army # The Giver Army 501(c)(3) Tax-Deductible $667K+ Deployed in 2025 Disaster Fundraisers Receive 100% First name Last name Email Platinum Transparency 2025 Candid. [View all reviews](/testimonials) Monthly GivingStart at $5 ## Meet Urgent Need. Be the Answer to Someone's Prayer. For as little as $5/month, you become the crowd for the crowdless—mobilizing resources where hope is desperately needed and sharing the love of Jesus through practical generosity. Some families have no one to rally for them. No network. No community. No crowd. You can be their crowd. Join the Giver Army—a movement of givers who pool monthly gifts to share hope, fund life-changing fundraisers, and meet urgent needs. ![Make a change — join the Giver Army](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/gsg-giver-army.jpg) ![Community gathering — laughter and connection](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/7cd1f06276ad85bbb90e5fc737d03315aad6b0c3.jpg) ![Giver Army patterned background](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/49f653ccb450dcc2b1a7eb77cf281e3f068fa0ea.jpg) How It Works ### Four Steps. Eternal Impact. Your generosity creates a ripple effect that transforms lives and opens doors for the Gospel. ![Friends embracing — generosity in action](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/gsg-giver-army.jpg) Causes ## 12 Causes Areas The Giver Army enables GiveSendGo Charities to mobilize resources for need, creating direct Kingdom impact. Your monthly commitment helps us support all 12 causes—pro-life, rescue & rehabilitation, crisis response, arts & education, earth care, medical relief, essentials for life, faith-based initiatives, animal rescue & care, current emergencies, justice for all, and the Barnabas Fund. You are the Generosity Movement. You create a crowd for the crowdless wherever urgent need appears. ![Pro-Life](https://static2.givesendgo.com/images/giverarmy/pro-life.jpg) ![](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/non-text-icon/6.webp) ### Pro-Life Supporting single parents and families in need, including financial relief, resources for adoption and foster care, and promoting a healthy family unit. ![Rescue & Rehabilitation](https://static2.givesendgo.com/images/giverarmy/rehabilitation.jpg) ![](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/non-text-icon/5.webp) ### Rescue & Rehabilitation Granting support to rescue people caught in human trafficking and assisting individuals in recovery from addiction through rehabilitation programs. ![Crisis Response](https://static2.givesendgo.com/images/giverarmy/natural-disaster.jpg) ![](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/non-text-icon/8.webp) ### Crisis Response Providing aid and support to individuals and communities affected by natural or man-made disasters, focusing on rebuilding and long-term recovery efforts. ![Arts & Education](https://static2.givesendgo.com/images/giverarmy/education.jpg) ![](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/non-text-icon/3.webp) ### Arts & Education Supporting art and educational programs, privately funded schools, international educational endeavors, and initiatives that promote and sustain the arts. ![Earth Care](https://static2.givesendgo.com/images/giverarmy/earth-care.jpg) ![](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/non-text-icon/9.webp) ### Earth Care Funding projects that enhance the environment, such as community service projects, community gardens, and educational initiatives on sustainable living. ![Medical Relief](https://static2.givesendgo.com/images/giverarmy/current-emergencies.jpg) ![](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/non-text-icon/11.webp) ### Medical Relief These funds are allocated to support community relief efforts for events such as war, school shootings, localized terrorism, and other tragedies that impact communities. ![Essentials for Life](https://static2.givesendgo.com/images/giverarmy/essentials-of-life.jpg) ![](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/non-text-icon/7.webp) ### Essentials for Life Providing assistance for basic necessities including food, water, transportation, utilities, and bills, ensuring individuals have access to essential resources for daily living. ![Faith Based](https://static2.givesendgo.com/images/giverarmy/faith-based.jpg) ![](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/non-text-icon/4.webp) ### Faith Based Supporting mission-oriented work, funding missionary projects, aiding struggling ministries or churches, and providing assistance to ministers in need. ![Animal Rescue & Care](https://static2.givesendgo.com/images/giverarmy/animal-care.jpg) ![](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/non-text-icon/2.webp) ### Animal Rescue & Care These funds are designated to support the rescue, rehabilitation, and care of animals, with the goal of promoting their well-being and protecting them from harm. ![Current Emergencies](https://static2.givesendgo.com/images/giverarmy/current-emergencies.jpg) ![](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/non-text-icon/1.webp) ### Current Emergencies Providing immediate aid and support during ongoing crises highlighted in the news cycle, primarily directed towards our own Care & Relief campaigns. ![Justice for All](https://static2.givesendgo.com/images/giverarmy/justice-for-all.jpg) ![](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/non-text-icon/10.webp) ### Justice for All Ensuring access to justice for individuals unable to afford legal representation. Supporting all regardless of their community or background. ![Barnabas Fund](https://static2.givesendgo.com/images/giverarmy/barnabas-fund.jpg) ![](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/non-text-icon/12.webp) ### Barnabas Fund Supporting persecuted Christians around the world by meeting their practical needs and providing them with spiritual encouragement. Click to Swipe Member Benefits ## Movement Builder Tools Everything you need to grow in generosity and make lasting impact ![](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/7b022cfa7d0c4ec1da5efd4222dde7687bae1b81.jpg) ![](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/52e259a1f99399092432f1e70f320252ca95a53f.jpg) ![](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/0cb3823dcd00aac0b703e0dd40e68f6572169b2f.jpg) #Hope #SupportACause #HelpingHands ![](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/0cb3823dcd00aac0b703e0dd40e68f6572169b2f.jpg) ![](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/52e259a1f99399092432f1e70f320252ca95a53f.jpg) ![](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/7b022cfa7d0c4ec1da5efd4222dde7687bae1b81.jpg) #Hope #SupportACause #HelpingHands FAQ ## Frequently Asked Questions Don't hesitate to reach out to us if you need further assistance. Your monthly commitment supports all 12 cause areas, allowing GiveSendGo Charities to mobilize resources strategically and create direct Kingdom impact. You're not restricted to one cause—you're the Generosity Movement, a crowd for the crowdless wherever need appears. ### The Crowdless Are Waiting. Will You Be Their Crowd? Every day you wait, someone prays for help that doesn't come. Someone battles alone. Someone needs the crowd that only you can provide. In this movement, every pledge is a prayer answered, a life touched, a soul awakened. Join us—because generosity isn't just giving; it's the heartbeat of the Gospel. ![Volunteers with donation boxes — Be the Answer](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/8e737e61ad5f726bca5a401cbd34f3d301d61161.jpg)#BeTheAnswer ![Friends gathered around a table — God's work](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/e75594a444889247bc8fe413fc14f7668b301d21.jpg)#GodsWork ![Hands cupping a heart — give hope](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/77f03004312491a2c0514131fcebb132cd0490d9.jpg)#GiveHope ![Group in a circle, hands together — together we rise](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/52e259a1f99399092432f1e70f320252ca95a53f.jpg)#TogetherWeRise ![Giving a gift outdoors — give today](https://static2.givesendgo.com/vue/GiverArmy/6ac13cfd1dc65fec67b19bbd33ffe67d20b952bd.jpg)#GiveToday ### Join the Giver Army "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Matthew 6:21 First Name \* 0/50 Last Name \* 0/50 Email Address \* 0/100 Country Phone Number +1 Selected country: United States. Phone number is incomplete. Sign up for SMS updates Your Monthly Impact: USD .00 Please enter a value between $5 USD and $10,000 USD. Help keep GiveSendGo free! Add an optional gift below to support the platform, powered 100% by givers like you. Add an optional gift to GiveSendGo below Stay connected with helpful resources, exclusive offers, and real stories of hope – inspiring YOU to make a difference! Opt out of receiving a prayer call from our Hope Team By checking this box, you acknowledge your commitment to an automatic recurring donation to the Giver Army Fund, with the option to cancel anytime. The Giver Army is a program of GiveSendGo Charities, Inc., a 501(c)(3) public charity (EIN 88-3776392) — a separate organization from GiveSendGo.com LLC. Monthly gifts are made to and stewarded by the charity. --- # Prayer Wall Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/prayer-wall # Prayer Wall ## Welcome to the Prayer Wall Welcome to the Prayer Wall, a sacred space for our community to share and uplift. Whether you're seeking prayers during challenging times or wish to celebrate and share your moments of joy, this is the place for you. Click on "Request Prayers" to seek support or "Give Praise" to share your blessings. Let's connect through the power of faith and unity. --- # Adoption fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/adoption # Adoption Fundraisers ## What adoption families raise for here Adoption fundraisers on GiveSendGo are usually run by the adopting family themselves, and the ask is almost always itemized: agency and program fees, the home study, legal fees, travel and a longer-than-planned stay abroad, or the phase of an embryo transfer that's next on the medical calendar. Domestic private infant, international, kinship, and embryo adoption fundraisers all run in this category. Costs attach to the process, never to the child. Anyone can start a fundraiser here, with no nonprofit status, no EIN, and no sponsor. The creator doesn't have to be one of the adopting parents either: a sibling, a friend, or a grandparent can run the page while the family is buried in paperwork, as long as the person the money is for is named as the recipient. Every fundraiser listed above belongs to a family in the middle of this process. Each page names its creator and its recipient, so you know where your gift lands. [**Support a family raising for their adoption on this page**](#fundraisers) ## Adoption fundraising: how to raise money for an adoption An adoption fundraiser reads best when it shows the process rather than one large number. A process is something a giver can picture and pay toward. Work through these four before you publish: - **Itemize what you actually owe:** agency and program fees, the home study, legal fees, travel and lodging, and post-placement costs. - **Set the goal to the next real number,** whether that's the home study, the agency retainer, or the next phase on the medical calendar, rather than the whole projected total. - **Write the story yourself,** or have MICA, GiveSendGo's AI writing assistant, draft one from a short description and edit from there. Our help desk names these key elements: a realistic goal, a specific breakdown of what the money covers, a clear story with a direct ask, strong photos or a short video, regular updates, and steady sharing. - **Decide what you'll say about the child and the birth family before you publish,** then hold that line in every update. Plenty of creators here leave detail out on purpose. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ## You don't have to wait for an approval to start Nothing on GiveSendGo's side waits for a completed home study, an agency match, or a grant cycle, so you can publish immediately or save the fundraiser and publish later. That matters because adoption-assistance grants generally don't accept an application until a home study is approved. The months before that approval are exactly when families here are raising. One account can run more than one fundraiser, and the category on a fundraiser is editable later if the situation changes. Verification is the one part that runs on its own clock. Review starts once the recipient has uploaded ID and the fundraiser has received its first gift, whichever comes later, and it typically completes in 1 to 2 business days after that. It's a standard financial-industry requirement and it isn't waived for anyone, so if a program payment is due soon, publish earlier than feels necessary. ## Setting your fundraiser to private Get this one right before you publish. You can set your fundraiser to **private**: it stays out of GiveSendGo search results and category listings, so only people you send the link to will find it. **Your name still shows to anyone who opens it.** GiveSendGo is a public platform, so the creator's and recipient's names always display on the page, and a fully anonymous fundraiser isn't possible. If you're withholding detail out of respect for a birth mother's privacy or a match that isn't final, write the page that way from the start, because privacy here comes from what you choose to put on the page rather than from a setting. ## Embryo adoption and IVF fundraisers run here too Embryo adoption fundraisers already run in this category, and so do the phases that come with them: a mock transfer, the home study, matching with an embryo's family, and the transfer itself. Because each phase arrives with its own date and its own invoice, most creators set the goal to the phase in front of them and update the page as each one completes. GiveSendGo lists medical costs, along with family and personal needs, among the things you can fundraise for. And if you want people praying with you through it, recipients who opt in can receive prayer calls. ## What reaches you, and when GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut. There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. The rest of the mechanics, in one place: - **The recipient** has to be 18 or older, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there, and every recipient completes identity verification before any transfer. - **The recipient's country can't be changed** after the fundraiser is created, so choose it carefully at the start. If your country isn't supported, a trusted adult in a supported country can be named as recipient and pass the funds along. - **Non-USD transfers can take longer,** which matters when you're paying an international program, and minimum transfer amounts vary by country. - **Transfers go out when you request them** from the Transfers tab, or on the weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly schedule you set. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ### How do I raise money for an adoption? Start a fundraiser and itemize the process: agency and program fees, the home study, legal fees, travel and lodging, and post-placement costs. A specific breakdown of what the money covers is one of the things the help desk names as making a fundraiser work, alongside a realistic goal, a clear personal story with a direct ask, strong photos or a short video, regular updates, and steady sharing rather than a single post. You don't need a nonprofit or an EIN, and you don't need to be working with an agency. ### Can we start before our home study is approved or before we're matched? Yes. Nothing on GiveSendGo's side depends on an approved home study, an agency, or a match. You can publish as soon as you're ready, or save the fundraiser and publish it later. Verification review of the fundraiser starts once the recipient has uploaded ID and the first gift has arrived, whichever comes later, and typically completes in 1 to 2 business days after that. ### Can we keep our adoption fundraiser private? You can set your fundraiser to **private**: it stays out of GiveSendGo search results and category listings, so only people you send the link to will find it. Your name still shows to anyone who opens it. GiveSendGo is a public platform, creator and recipient names always display, and a fully anonymous fundraiser is not possible, so decide what belongs on the page before you publish it. ### How much of each gift reaches us? GiveSendGo charges $0 in platform fees, and no cut of what you raise goes to us. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: 2.7% + 30¢ per gift for US fundraisers and 3.5% + 30¢ outside the US, so $97 of a $100 gift reaches a US fundraiser. At checkout your givers see an optional tip to GiveSendGo, adjustable to any amount including $0. If you set a percentage to GiveSendGo when you created the fundraiser, that amount is added on top of each gift and shown to your givers at checkout; it's editable anytime in fundraiser Settings. ### When does the money reach our bank? Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer it typically reaches your bank within 2 to 3 business days, and your bank's own posting schedule decides when it appears. Non-USD transfers can take longer, which matters if you're paying an international program. You can also set transfers to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. ### Are gifts to our adoption fundraiser tax-deductible? ### Who can be the recipient? Someone 18 or older who lives in the fundraiser's country and has a bank account there. They'll also provide a tax ID for that country, a government-issued photo ID with date of birth, a phone number, and a residential address, with no PO boxes. If your country isn't supported, a trusted adult in a supported country can be named as recipient and pass the funds along. The recipient's country can't be changed after the fundraiser is created. ### Can we raise for an embryo adoption or an embryo transfer here? Yes. Embryo adoption fundraisers run in this category already, usually with the goal set to the phase that's next on the medical calendar rather than the full projected cost. Medical costs and family and personal needs are both among the things GiveSendGo hosts. The category on a fundraiser is editable later if a different label fits better as things move. --- # Animals and pets fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/animal_pets # Animals / Pets Fundraisers ## What people raise for in Animals & Pets Most fundraisers here start with a number nobody was expecting. It might be a surgery quote after the dog got hit, or an x-ray that turns into a specialist and then a second specialist, or a cat with a long diagnosis and a monthly bill behind it. Rescues and shelters raise here too, for intake and medical care, food, transport, boarding, and hay through a bad season. Put the actual numbers in the story. If the clinic gave you an estimate, break it out into the surgery, the overnight stay, the medication, and the follow-up. Then use the animal's name, add clear photos, and say what happens next once the money comes in. Those specifics are what keep a stranger reading, and they're what make the people who already know you comfortable sharing it. ## Crowdfunding for pets and animals: how it works Crowdfunding for pets works the same way every other fundraiser on GiveSendGo does. People assume a vet bill needs some kind of special program, and it doesn't. You don't need a nonprofit, an EIN, or a registered rescue behind you. Anyone can start a fundraiser. Setup takes about ten minutes: create an account, open My Fundraisers, click Start a GiveSendGo, then pick the recipient's country, set a goal, choose a category, write your title and story, and add a photo or a short video. What GiveSendGo does require is that you're transparent about how the funds will be used. What actually moves an animal fundraiser: - Break the clinic's estimate into its parts, so people can see what they're covering. - Use the animal's name, and photos clear enough that a stranger stops scrolling. - Say what the surgery or the treatment is meant to fix. - Ask the people closest to you first, because early gifts tell everyone else the fundraiser is real. - Post an update once treatment starts, so the people who gave find out how it went. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ## What it costs to run one GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut. There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** Here's how that lands on the gifts you're most likely to see: Gift US (2.7% + 30¢) Non-US (3.5% + 30¢) $25 $24.03 $23.83 $50 $48.35 $47.95 $100 **$97.00** **$96.20** $250 $242.95 $240.95 Non-USD fundraisers may also see currency exchange fees set by the payment processor. When you create a fundraiser you can also pledge a percentage of what you raise to GiveSendGo. If you set one, that amount is added on top of each gift and shown to your givers at checkout, so some read it as a platform fee. It's editable any time in your fundraiser Settings, and it only applies to gifts that come in after you change it. ## When the money reaches your bank Nothing here is same-day, so it's worth knowing the timing before you promise anything to a clinic. Your **first** gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a **rolling 3-day** basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within **2 to 3 business days**. Non-USD transfers can take longer. You can request a transfer from the Transfers tab whenever funds are available, or set transfers to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. A manual transfer sends your whole available balance, and once one is approved you wait 24 hours before requesting another. If the bill is due before the money clears, tell the clinic you're raising funds and ask what they can do on timing. ## Who receives the money The recipient must be **18 or older**, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. That can be you. If a rescue or shelter is receiving the funds, the person completing the recipient form can choose the Business bank account type, entering the legal business name and the organization's own bank details, so the money lands in the organization's account rather than a personal one. Either way a real person, 18 or older, stands behind it and completes identity verification. That step is a standard financial-industry requirement and isn't waived for anyone. Review starts once the ID has been uploaded and the first gift has landed, whichever comes later. So it pays to get these right early: - Choose the country the recipient lives and banks in carefully, because **the recipient's country can't be changed after the fundraiser is created.** - Upload the ID as soon as the fundraiser is live, since verification has to clear before any transfer. - US recipients should connect a checking account rather than savings, because a savings account can be rejected by the bank. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ## If you came here to give Every gift runs through a PCI Level 1-certified payment processor, the highest tier in the payments industry, and card details are never stored on GiveSendGo's own servers. You can check "Hide My Name from Public View" at checkout and appear as an Anonymous Giver on the page, though the creator and recipient still see your name and email so they can thank you. You can send a prayer along with the gift, and plenty of people do. A rescue that sounds charitable isn't automatically a deductible gift, so this part matters before tax season. Nothing given on GiveSendGo is tax-deductible unless it goes through **GiveSendGo Charities**, the 501(c)(3). That includes the Giver Army, which is Charities' recurring giving program. The one exception is a recipient that is itself a verified 501(c)(3). GiveSendGo itself is not a 501(c)(3), does not verify any recipient's tax status, and does not issue tax receipts for a personal fundraiser. When the recipient is a nonprofit, the receipt comes from them, not from us. [**Support an animal fundraiser listed on this page**](#fundraisers) ### Can I use GiveSendGo for vet bills? Yes. GiveSendGo supports almost any need, and a veterinary bill for your own animal is a normal fundraiser here. You don't need a nonprofit, an EIN, or a registered rescue behind you. What's required is that you're transparent about how the funds will be used. ### What can I do if my dog's surgery costs more than I have? Start a fundraiser and be specific. Post the clinic's estimate broken into its parts, the animal's name, clear photos, and what the surgery is meant to fix. Ask the people closest to you first, because early gifts are what tell everyone else the fundraiser is real. The timing matters too. Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received, and gifts after that on a rolling 3-day basis, so tell the clinic you're fundraising and ask what they can do about the due date. ### Does GiveSendGo require verification? Yes, for everyone. Every recipient completes identity verification through the payment partner before any transfer, and it can't be waived. Review covers the fundraiser's content, the recipient's identity, and the bank setup. It starts once the recipient has uploaded ID and the fundraiser has received its first gift, whichever comes later, and typically completes 1 to 2 business days after that. ### Do I need to be a registered rescue or a nonprofit? No. Anyone can start a fundraiser. ### Can the money go into our rescue's bank account instead of a personal one? Yes. When the recipient sets up bank details they can choose the Business account type, entering the legal business name and the organization's own bank details. The person completing that form is still an individual, 18 or older, with a government-issued ID, acting as the authorized representative. ### Is a gift to my rescue or to my pet's vet bills tax-deductible? ### Is the money I raise for my pet's care taxable income? In most cases no. Funds raised are generally treated as personal gifts rather than taxable income, as long as nothing is given in exchange for the gift, and GiveSendGo doesn't issue 1099s to recipients or report gifts to the IRS. If a business or rewards for givers are involved, the IRS may treat it differently, and that's a question for a tax professional. ### What does GiveSendGo charge? GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut. There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: 2.7% + 30¢ per gift for US fundraisers, 3.5% + 30¢ outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, $97 reaches you. Non-USD fundraisers may also see currency exchange fees set by the payment processor. ### When does the money actually reach my bank? Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer. Request transfers from the Transfers tab whenever funds are available, or set them to weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. ### Can I keep the fundraiser out of public search? You can set your fundraiser to private: it stays out of GiveSendGo search results and category listings, so only people you send the link to will find it. Your name still shows to anyone who opens it. --- # Business fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/business # Business Fundraisers ## Crowdfunding for small business A small business runs on thin margins, so one bad month can undo a year of work. When the walk-in cooler quits in July, the people who already know your shop, your truck, or your farm are usually willing to help, and most are waiting to be asked. A GiveSendGo fundraiser is how you ask them all at once. You don't need an EIN and you don't need to be a nonprofit. Anyone can start a fundraiser, and nobody approves you before you publish. Log in, go to My Fundraisers, click Start a GiveSendGo, then set a goal, write your story, add a photo, and publish. Choose the recipient's country carefully: it's locked once the fundraiser is created, and the only fix for a wrong one is starting over. **Have three things ready before you publish:** - A goal that covers the real cost, broken out by line item, since a fundraiser has to be transparent about how the funds will be used. - A plain story that says what happened and what the money buys, with a photo of the shop, the truck, or the equipment. - The recipient's bank and ID details, because verification can't finish without them. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ## What it costs to raise money for your business > **GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut.** There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** Gift US (2.7% + 30¢) Non-US (3.5% + 30¢) $25 $24.03 $23.83 $50 $48.35 $47.95 $100 **$97.00** **$96.20** $250 $242.95 $240.95 Two different optional amounts get called the tip. Every giver sees a suggested tip to GiveSendGo at checkout that they can set to any amount, including zero. Separately, you can send GiveSendGo a percentage of what you raise, and if you set that at creation it's added on top of each gift and shown to your givers at checkout, so some read it as a platform fee. Change or remove it anytime in your fundraiser Settings. The business fundraisers listed further up this page are raising right now. **[Back one of them](#fundraisers)** ## Who receives the money, and where it lands > The recipient must be **18 or older**, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. If their country isn't supported, a trusted adult in a supported country can be named as recipient and pass the funds along. Every recipient completes identity verification before any transfer. **The recipient's country can't be changed after the fundraiser is created.** The money doesn't have to land in a personal account. When the recipient sets up bank details they can choose the **Business** account type and enter the legal business name with the business's own bank details, so funds arrive in the business account. A person still stands behind it. Whoever fills out that form does so as an authorized legal representative, 18 or older, and provides: - A bank account in the fundraiser's country, and in the US make it a checking account, since transfers go out as checking transactions and savings accounts can be rejected. - A tax ID, a government-issued photo ID with a date of birth, a phone number, and a residential address rather than a PO box. Verification runs through the payment partner and isn't waived for anyone. It starts once the ID is uploaded and the first gift has landed. ## When you can move it to your bank > Your **first** gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a **rolling 3-day** basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within **2 to 3 business days**. Non-USD transfers can take longer. You can set transfers to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly, or request them manually from the **Transfers** tab. Minimum transfer amounts vary by country. A manual transfer sends your whole available balance, and after one is approved you wait 24 hours before requesting another. ## Taxes, plainly > Nothing given on GiveSendGo is tax-deductible unless it goes through **GiveSendGo Charities**, the 501(c)(3). That includes the Giver Army, which is Charities' recurring giving program. The one exception is a recipient that is itself a verified 501(c)(3). GiveSendGo itself is not a 501(c)(3), does not verify any recipient's tax status, and does not issue tax receipts for a personal fundraiser. When the recipient is a nonprofit, the receipt comes from them, not from us. On your own side of it, funds raised are in most cases treated as personal gifts rather than taxable income, as long as nothing is given in exchange, and GiveSendGo doesn't issue 1099s or report gifts to the IRS. When a fundraiser involves a business, or rewards for givers, the IRS may treat it differently, and that one belongs with a tax professional. ## What actually brings the money in The business fundraisers that do well here post updates while people are still giving, because an update brings a giver back a second time. They also get shared more than once. A new fundraiser can take up to 48 hours to appear in GiveSendGo's search, and it joins a category listing like this one once it has been published 5 days and raised $100 USD in online gifts. Your own link works from the minute you publish, so start with your regulars. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ### Can I use GiveSendGo to raise money to start a business? Yes. Anyone can start a fundraiser, and a business is a normal reason to run one: opening a shop, buying a first food truck, replacing equipment, or getting a farm through a hard season. Say plainly what the money covers, since fundraisers have to be transparent about how funds will be used. ### Do I need an EIN or a registered business to start? No. Anyone can start a fundraiser. No EIN, no nonprofit status, no business registration is required to publish one. ### What does GiveSendGo charge to raise money for my business? GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut. There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: 2.7% + 30¢ per gift for US fundraisers, 3.5% + 30¢ outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, $97 reaches you. ### Can the money go to my business bank account instead of my personal one? Yes. When the recipient enters bank details, they choose the **Business** account type, which takes the legal business name plus the business's own bank details, and the funds land there. The person filling that out still has to be an authorized representative, 18 or older, who completes identity verification with a government-issued photo ID. ### Is money I raise for my business taxable income? In most cases funds raised are treated as personal gifts rather than taxable income, as long as nothing is given in exchange, and GiveSendGo doesn't issue 1099s or report gifts to the IRS. When a business is involved, though, the IRS may treat it differently. Ask a tax professional. GiveSendGo isn't a tax advisor and can't answer that for your situation. ### Are gifts to my business fundraiser tax-deductible for the people who give? ### How soon can I get the money into my bank? Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer, and minimum transfer amounts vary by country. ### Can I run more than one fundraiser from one account? Yes. One account can run more than one fundraiser: a second location, a separate piece of equipment, a new push after the first one closes. --- # Church fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/church # Church Fundraisers ## What churches raise for here Plenty of what gets raised here is the building itself, whether that's a cracked foundation wall, an HVAC unit that quit in January, a lease deposit on a first public space, or land for a sanctuary the congregation plans to pay for without debt. Just as much of it never touches the building. A church plant covers a monthly operating gap while it finds its footing, and a congregant opens a fund for the pastor's twentieth anniversary. A youth leader collects camp deposits for four students and routes them straight to the church's own finance office. A seminary student raises tuition with his home church behind him. None of it needs nonprofit status or an EIN, because anyone can start a fundraiser. ## How to raise money for a church The mechanics don't change whether you're patching a roof or launching a congregation, so here is the whole path in the order you'll meet it. - Log in, open **My Fundraisers**, and click **Start a GiveSendGo**. Pick the recipient's country first, since it's locked once the fundraiser exists and it decides which bank accounts can receive the money. - Set a goal, choose the **Church** category, and write your title and story. If the writing is the part you're dreading, MICA, GiveSendGo's AI writing assistant, will draft a story from a short description you can edit. - Add a photo or a short video, then publish. - Add the recipient. For a church that means the **Business** bank-account type, the church's legal name, and the church's own bank details. - Share it where your people already are: the bulletin, the pulpit, the group text, and the church's own social accounts. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ## What it costs your church GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut. There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** A $50 gift lands at $48.35, and a $250 gift at $242.95. There's one setting to know about before a board member asks. When you create the fundraiser you can set a percentage of what you raise to go to GiveSendGo. If you set it, that amount is added on top of each gift and shown to your givers at checkout, and some read it as a platform fee. It's editable anytime in your fundraiser's Settings. A fundraiser that isn't in US dollars can also pick up a currency-exchange fee set by the payment processor. ## When the money reaches the church's account The church itself can be the recipient. Whoever completes the recipient form chooses the **Business** bank-account type and enters the church's legal name and the church's own bank details, so funds land in the church's account rather than a personal one. That person still has to be an authorized adult, 18 or older, living in the fundraiser's country, with a government-issued photo ID, and they complete identity verification before any transfer. A real person always stands behind the organization. Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Request transfers from the Transfers tab whenever funds are available, or set them to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. Two details save a treasurer a phone call. A manual transfer sends your entire available balance and you wait 24 hours after one is approved before requesting the next, so when a transfer looks light it's usually because recent gifts are still inside the 3-day window. US recipients should also connect a checking account rather than savings, because transfers go out as checking transactions and a savings account can be rejected by the bank. ## What your congregation and your board will see Creator and recipient names always show on the page. If your leadership would rather not put a running total in front of the whole internet, set the fundraiser to **private**, and it stays out of GiveSendGo search results and category listings so that only the people you send the link to will find it. Your name still shows to anyone who opens it. Givers get a setting of their own. Any of them can hide their name from public view and appear as an Anonymous Giver, and you still see who they are in your Donations tab, so you can thank them properly. ## What the church fundraisers that get funded have in common Public or private, the ones that reach their number do the same handful of ordinary things. - Name a goal the congregation will read as realistic. - Break the cost down line by line, because a congregation reading a five-figure number wants to see what it buys. - Ask directly, in a clear story, with strong photos or a short personal video. - Post updates while people are still giving, not only once it's over. - If the plan runs in phases, say which phase this is. Creators who are honest that this is the first of three raises never have to explain later why the number moved. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** If you opt in when you add your phone number, someone from GiveSendGo can call and pray with you. And if you came here to give rather than organize, every fundraiser listed above belongs to a named congregation with a specific need. **[Give to a church on this page](#fundraisers)** ### How do I raise money for my church online? Start a fundraiser, name the need and the number, and add the church as the recipient. In practice that means: log in, click Start a GiveSendGo, pick the recipient's country (locked once you create it), set a goal, choose the Church category, write your title and story, add a photo or video, and publish. Then add the recipient. For a church, that's the **Business** bank-account type with the church's legal name and bank details, completed by an authorized adult who verifies their identity. GiveSendGo charges no platform fee, so what's deducted is the payment processor's 2.7% + 30¢ per gift in the US, 3.5% + 30¢ outside it. ### Can the church itself receive the money, or does it have to go to a person? The church can receive it. The recipient form has a **Business** bank-account type, which takes the legal business name plus the business's own bank details, so transfers go to the church's account. But an authorized human representative still stands behind it: 18 or older, living in the fundraiser's country, with a government-issued photo ID, a tax ID in that country, a phone number, and a residential address. That person completes identity verification before any funds move. ### Are donations to a church fundraiser tax-deductible? If your church is a verified 501(c)(3), say so yourself: state your status, your legal name, and your EIN in the fundraiser story and in a custom thank-you message. The official GiveSendGo donation receipt can't be edited to add it. ### Do we need 501(c)(3) status or an EIN to start? No. Anyone can start a fundraiser. A church plant with no incorporation yet can raise money the same day a hundred-year-old parish can. ### How fast can a church raise money for an urgent repair? You can publish the fundraiser and start receiving gifts immediately. Getting the money out takes a little longer, and the timeline is worth knowing before you promise a contractor anything. Verification review starts once the recipient has uploaded ID **and** the fundraiser has received its first donation, whichever comes later, and typically completes in 1 to 2 business days after that. Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received, then every gift after that on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank in 2 to 3 business days. ### How do churches fundraise online effectively? It comes down to six key elements: a realistic goal, a specific breakdown of what the money covers, a clear personal story with a direct ask, strong photos or a short personal video, regular updates, and consistent sharing rather than a single announcement. For a church that usually means the bulletin, the pulpit, the group text, and the church's own social accounts. A fundraiser page reaches the people you send it to. ### How do I raise money for a church building fund? The same way as any other fundraiser here, with two things worth doing deliberately. If the plan runs in phases, name the phase you're raising for and say so. Creators who are honest that this is the first of three raises don't have to explain later why the number moved. And break the cost down line by line, because a congregation reading a five-figure goal wants to see what it buys. The recipient's country is locked at creation, so if your church's bank account is in a different country than you first selected, you'd have to start over with the correct one. ### Can we keep the fundraiser out of public search? Yes. Set it to **private** and it won't appear in GiveSendGo search results or category listings; only someone with the direct link can open it. Creator and recipient names still show on the page itself. GiveSendGo is a public platform and a fully anonymous fundraiser isn't possible. A published, public fundraiser can take up to 48 hours to appear in GiveSendGo search, and it appears in its category listing once it has been published for 5 days and raised $100 USD or equivalent in online donations. Offline donations don't count toward that. ### Can churches use PayPal for online giving here? Givers can give by credit or debit card, bank transfer directly from their bank, Google Pay where it's available, and Link, the one-click checkout tied to a saved Link account. PayPal isn't one of the supported methods. Givers can also choose a single donation or a monthly subscription at checkout. ### What does GiveSendGo actually check before money moves? Before any transfer, the recipient completes identity verification, and the trust and safety team checks that the recipient's relationship to the person or body receiving help is appropriate and that the fundraiser's information is consistent and transparent. After that, ongoing monitoring watches for irregular activity, and any fundraiser can be placed on hold for review. Identity verification is a standard financial-industry requirement and isn't waived for anyone. --- # Community fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/community # Community Fundraisers ## What a community fundraiser looks like Community fundraisers are the local ones: a fire at the local coffee shop, a family with a crisis everyone on the block knows about, or a pantry trying to keep the shelves full through the winter. Small local groups raise here too, for a building, a program, or one season of equipment. Most of the time you aren't persuading strangers that a need is real. You're giving people who already care one central place to send help, and one place to see that it arrived. Write down what the money covers, in parts: rebuilding the kitchen, replacing the freezer, three months of rent for the resource center. Name who the funds are for. Then post updates as things change. In a small town the people watching the fundraiser are the same people you'll see at church and at the next town meeting, so keep the updates plain and keep them coming. ## Community fundraising: how to set one up Community fundraising on GiveSendGo starts the same way every other fundraiser does, and it takes about ten minutes. Create an account, open My Fundraisers, and click Start a GiveSendGo, then pick the recipient's country, set a goal, choose a category, write the title and the story, and add a photo or a short video before you publish. You don't need nonprofit status, an EIN, or a committee vote to get a page live. Anyone can start a fundraiser. What a local fundraiser needs to hold up in front of people who know you: - Set a goal that matches the real cost, and break it into the parts it covers. - Name the person receiving the funds, plainly, in the story. - Use photos of the actual place and the actual people. - Make a direct ask, and share it more than once instead of posting it and leaving it. - Post updates as the money gets used, since your givers will be at the next meeting. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ## Who receives the money when it's for a group The recipient must be **18 or older**, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. One named person takes that role and completes identity verification before any transfer, so a fundraiser for a family, a block, or a committee still runs through one accountable individual. Say in your story who that person is and what the money pays for. GiveSendGo requires every fundraiser to be transparent about how funds will be used, and it's the first thing your neighbors will want to know anyway. If an organization is receiving the funds, the person filling out the recipient form can choose the Business bank account type, entering the legal business name and the organization's own bank details, so the money lands in the organization's account rather than a personal one. Pick the country carefully either way, because **the recipient's country can't be changed after the fundraiser is created.** ## What it costs to run one GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut. There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** Here's how that lands on the gifts you're most likely to see: Gift US (2.7% + 30¢) Non-US (3.5% + 30¢) $25 $24.03 $23.83 $50 $48.35 $47.95 $100 **$97.00** **$96.20** $250 $242.95 $240.95 One more setting to know about before you publish. When you create a fundraiser you can pledge a percentage of what you raise to GiveSendGo, and if you set it, that amount is added on top of each gift and shown to your givers at checkout, so some read it as a platform fee. It's editable any time in your fundraiser Settings, and it only applies to gifts that come in after you change it. ## When the money reaches you Your **first** gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a **rolling 3-day** basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within **2 to 3 business days**. Non-USD transfers can take longer. Request transfers from the Transfers tab whenever funds are available, or set them to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. A manual transfer sends your whole available balance, and once one is approved you wait 24 hours before requesting another. Three things have to be in place before the first transfer can go out: - A named recipient, 18 or older, living in the fundraiser's country. - A connected bank account, checking rather than savings for US recipients. - An uploaded ID, since verification has to clear first. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ## If you came here to give Search by the fundraiser's title, the recipient's name, or the creator's name to find a local one, and if the site search doesn't surface it, search the group's name plus "GiveSendGo" on Google. Every gift runs through a PCI Level 1-certified payment processor, the highest tier in the payments industry, and card details are never stored on GiveSendGo's own servers. You can check "Hide My Name from Public View" and appear as an Anonymous Giver on the page, though the creator and recipient still see your name and email so they can thank you. You can send a prayer along with the gift, and plenty of people do. A pantry or a shelter can sound charitable and still not be a deductible gift, so know this before you file your taxes. Nothing given on GiveSendGo is tax-deductible unless it goes through **GiveSendGo Charities**, the 501(c)(3). That includes the Giver Army, which is Charities' recurring giving program. The one exception is a recipient that is itself a verified 501(c)(3). GiveSendGo itself is not a 501(c)(3), does not verify any recipient's tax status, and does not issue tax receipts for a personal fundraiser. When the recipient is a nonprofit, the receipt comes from them, not from us. [**Support a local fundraiser listed on this page**](#fundraisers) ### Can a neighborhood group, club, or small local organization run a fundraiser? Yes. Anyone can start a fundraiser, and you don't need nonprofit status or an EIN. One person, 18 or older, living in the fundraiser's country and with a bank account there, is named as the recipient and completes identity verification. If the funds belong to the organization rather than to a person, that recipient can choose the Business bank account type, entering the legal business name and the organization's own bank details. ### Who actually gets the money if the fundraiser is for a family or a group? One named recipient. They must be 18 or older, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there, and they complete identity verification before any transfer. There's no group or committee account, so name in your fundraiser story who receives the funds and how they'll be used. GiveSendGo requires every fundraiser to be transparent about how funds will be used. ### Do we need to be a nonprofit or a 501(c)(3) to start? No. Anyone can start a fundraiser. ### Is a gift to our food pantry, shelter, or community fund tax-deductible? ### What does GiveSendGo charge? GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut. There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: 2.7% + 30¢ per gift for US fundraisers, 3.5% + 30¢ outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, $97 reaches you. Non-USD fundraisers may also see currency exchange fees set by the payment processor. ### When does the money reach the bank? Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer. You can request a transfer from the Transfers tab whenever funds are available, or set them to weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. ### Can I give to a local food bank or shelter online through GiveSendGo? You can give to any fundraiser on GiveSendGo, including ones run by local pantries, shelters, and community groups. Search by the fundraiser's title, the recipient's name, or the creator's name, or search the organization's name plus "GiveSendGo" on Google if the site search doesn't surface it. GiveSendGo hosts the fundraiser rather than running the organization, so what a gift funds is described on that fundraiser's own page. ### Why isn't our fundraiser showing up in the Community category? Usually one of four reasons: it's unpublished, it's set to private, it was published very recently (GiveSendGo search can take up to 48 hours), or it hasn't yet been published for 5 days and raised $100 USD or the equivalent in online gifts. That last one is the bar for appearing in a category listing, and offline gifts don't count toward it. Until then, the direct link works for anyone you send it to. ### Can we run more than one fundraiser? Yes. One account can run more than one fundraiser, so a building fund and an ongoing program don't have to share a page. --- # Competitive fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/competitive # Competitive Fundraisers ## Team fundraising for a club, a squad, or one athlete Competing costs money long before anyone plays, and it arrives as a stack of separate bills: league and club fees, a tournament entry, mats and uniforms, ice time, a coach's travel, and hotel rooms for a weekend three states away. Team fundraising on GiveSendGo is how a club, a squad, or one family asks the people around them to cover it, whether that's a cheer program raising for nationals, a gymnastics team replacing equipment, or one travel baseball family getting through a season. You don't need to be a nonprofit, you don't need an EIN, and no booster organization has to sign off. Anyone can start a fundraiser. Log in, click Start a GiveSendGo, pick the recipient's country, set a goal, and write what you're raising for. Be specific about what the money covers. A fundraiser has to be transparent about how the funds will be used, and a real breakdown ("$180 per athlete for the state entry fee, $2,400 for two vans") is also what makes people give. ## Who receives the money when the athlete is a minor This is the part most families get wrong, so read it before you set anything up. > The recipient must be **18 or older**, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. If their country isn't supported, a trusted adult in a supported country can be named as recipient and pass the funds along. Every recipient completes identity verification before any transfer. **The recipient's country can't be changed after the fundraiser is created.** A 16-year-old gymnast cannot be her own recipient. A parent, a guardian, or the club has to be. If the club or booster group is receiving the money, whoever fills out the bank details chooses the **Business** account type, which takes the legal business name plus the organization's own bank details, so the funds land in the club's account rather than a coach's personal one. A person still stands behind it. An authorized representative, 18 or older, completes that form and provides: - A bank account in the fundraiser's country, and in the US make it a checking account, since transfers go out as checking transactions and savings accounts can be rejected. - A tax ID, a government-issued photo ID with a date of birth, a phone number, and a residential address rather than a PO box. Verification runs through the payment partner and isn't waived for anyone. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ## What GiveSendGo charges > **GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut.** There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** Gift US (2.7% + 30¢) Non-US (3.5% + 30¢) $25 $24.03 $23.83 $50 $48.35 $47.95 $100 **$97.00** **$96.20** $250 $242.95 $240.95 Two different optional amounts get called the tip. Every giver sees a suggested tip to GiveSendGo at checkout that they can set to any amount, including zero. Separately, you can send GiveSendGo a percentage of what you raise, and if you set that at creation it's added on top of each gift and shown to your givers at checkout, so some read it as a platform fee. Change or remove it anytime in your fundraiser Settings. The teams and athletes listed further up this page are raising right now. **[Back one of them](#fundraisers)** ## Getting the money before the entry deadline Sports run on deadlines, so start earlier than feels necessary. > Your **first** gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a **rolling 3-day** basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within **2 to 3 business days**. Non-USD transfers can take longer. You can set transfers to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly, or request them manually from the **Transfers** tab whenever funds are available. A manual transfer sends your whole available balance, and after one is approved you wait 24 hours before requesting another. Minimum transfer amounts vary by country. Verification of the recipient's ID and bank setup typically completes in 1 to 2 business days, but it doesn't start until the first gift arrives, so that clock begins after your first giver, not the day you publish. ## What makes a team fundraiser work A team fundraiser moves when every family shares it rather than just the coach, and when updates keep coming while people are still giving, because an update is what brings a giver back a second time. One account can run more than one fundraiser, so a club can run one per athlete and keep each total separate. A new fundraiser can take up to 48 hours to appear in GiveSendGo's search, and it joins a category listing like this one once it has been published 5 days and raised $100 USD in online gifts. Your own link works the minute you publish, so send it to the parent group first. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ### Can a sports team or club raise money on GiveSendGo? Yes. Anyone can start a fundraiser, and basketball, football, baseball and hockey teams, cheer and gymnastics programs, clubs, and individual athletes all do. You don't need a nonprofit, an EIN, or a booster organization to publish one. ### Is there a team fundraising site that doesn't take a percentage of what we raise? GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut and there's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: 2.7% + 30¢ per gift for US fundraisers, 3.5% + 30¢ outside the US. The only other deduction is a percentage you choose to send GiveSendGo yourself, which is off unless you set it. ### My daughter is 16. Can she receive the money herself? No. The recipient must be 18 or older, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. A parent, a guardian, or the club has to be named as recipient instead. Every recipient completes identity verification before any transfer. ### Can the money go into the club's bank account instead of a person's? Yes. Whoever completes the recipient's bank details chooses the **Business** account type, entering the legal organization name and the organization's own bank details, so funds land in the club's account. That person still verifies as an authorized representative, so they must be 18 or older and hold a government-issued photo ID. ### What does GiveSendGo take from what our team raises? Nothing. GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut and there's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: 2.7% + 30¢ per gift for US fundraisers, 3.5% + 30¢ outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, $97 reaches you. ### How fast can we get the money out for a tournament fee? Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer, and minimum transfer amounts vary by country. Recipient verification typically completes in 1 to 2 business days once ID, bank details, and the first gift are all in. ### Can one account run a separate fundraiser for each athlete? Yes. One account can run more than one fundraiser. ### Is money we raise for fees and travel taxable? In most cases funds raised are treated as personal gifts rather than taxable income, as long as nothing is given in exchange, and GiveSendGo doesn't issue 1099s to recipients or report gifts to the IRS. If the fundraiser involves a business or gives givers something in return, the IRS may treat it differently. That's a question for a tax professional. ### Are gifts to our team tax-deductible for the people who give? ### Can we keep a fundraiser for a young athlete out of public search? Yes. You can set your fundraiser to **private**: it stays out of GiveSendGo search results and category listings, so only people you send the link to will find it. Your name still shows to anyone who opens it. GiveSendGo is a public platform, and creator and recipient names always display. --- # Creative fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/creative # Creative Fundraisers ## What people raise for in Creative Creative fundraisers are for the work that has no budget behind it yet, whether that's an album that needs studio time, a documentary that needs one more shoot, a first novel, a stage run, or a podcast that has outgrown a laptop microphone. The people who give are usually the ones already waiting for it: the mailing list, the room at the last show, the friends who have heard the rough mixes. You aren't starting cold, and that changes what your page has to do. It only has to give the people who already believe in the work one place to put money and one place to watch it get made. Say plainly what the money covers, because a short breakdown does more work than a long pitch: studio days, mixing, mastering, artwork, festival fees, the printing bill. When givers can see where the money goes, they give more readily. Then write the reason behind the work in your own words. You're not filling in a grant application, so don't wait for perfect language. ## How to start an online fundraiser for a creative project Setup runs about ten minutes, and there's nothing to apply for. Create an account, open My Fundraisers, and click Start a GiveSendGo. From there you'll pick the recipient's country, set a goal, choose a category, write your title and story, and add a photo or a short video before you publish. Your title can run up to 50 characters and your story anywhere from 200 to 10,000, so there's room to write properly. If a blank page is what's stopping you, MICA, GiveSendGo's AI writing assistant, will draft a story from a short description and you can edit it from there. What tends to separate a fundraiser that moves from one that stalls: - A goal that matches the real budget rather than a round number. - A breakdown of what the money covers, item by item. - Photos that look like the work, or a short video where you speak straight to the camera. - A direct ask, written in your own words. - Updates as things happen, and sharing that keeps going after the first post. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ## What it costs to run one GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut. There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** On the gifts you're most likely to see, that works out like this: Gift US (2.7% + 30¢) Non-US (3.5% + 30¢) $25 $24.03 $23.83 $50 $48.35 $47.95 $100 **$97.00** **$96.20** $250 $242.95 $240.95 Non-USD fundraisers may also see currency exchange fees set by the payment processor. One more setting to know about before you publish. When you create a fundraiser you can pledge a percentage of what you raise to GiveSendGo, and if you set it, that amount is added on top of each gift and shown to your givers at checkout, so some read it as a platform fee. It's editable any time in your fundraiser Settings, and it only applies to gifts that come in after you change it. ## When the money reaches you Your **first** gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a **rolling 3-day** basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within **2 to 3 business days**. Non-USD transfers can take longer. Request a transfer from your fundraiser's Transfers tab whenever funds are available, or switch to scheduled transfers that go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. A manual transfer sends your whole available balance, and once one is approved you wait 24 hours before requesting another. There's no extra fee for taking several smaller transfers instead of one large one. If you're in the US, connect a checking account rather than a savings account, because US transfers go out as checking transactions and a savings account can be rejected by the bank. ## Who receives the money The recipient must be **18 or older**, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. That can be you. Every recipient completes identity verification before any transfer, which begins once the ID is uploaded and the first gift has come in, and typically finishes 1 to 2 business days after that. Four things to settle before you publish: - You don't need a nonprofit or an EIN. Anyone can start a fundraiser. - Choose the country carefully, because **the recipient's country can't be changed after the fundraiser is created.** - Pick the Business bank account type if the money should land in a band's or a production company's account rather than a personal one. - Upload the ID early, since verification has to clear first. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ## After the first gifts come in Post updates as the work moves, whether that's the studio booked, the edit locked, or the proof copy finally in your hands. Thank the people who gave, in a comment reply or in an update, and set a custom thank-you message so everyone hears something back. Share the fundraiser more than once, and ask the friends closest to the work first, because early support is what tells everyone else this is real. If you came here to support somebody else's work instead, the projects listed above are open now. [**Support a project listed on this page**](#fundraisers) ### How do I start a fundraiser for a creative project online? Create a GiveSendGo account, then go to My Fundraisers and click Start a GiveSendGo. You'll pick the recipient's country, set a goal, choose a category, write your title and story, add a photo or video, then publish or save it for later. Setup takes about ten minutes. ### Can I raise money for my own album, film, or book? Yes. You can be your own recipient as long as you're 18 or older, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. There's nothing to apply for and no nonprofit status involved. What GiveSendGo does require is that you're transparent about how the funds will be used, and fundraisers that mislead givers aren't allowed. ### What does GiveSendGo charge? GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut. There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: 2.7% + 30¢ per gift for US fundraisers, 3.5% + 30¢ outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, $97 reaches you. Non-USD fundraisers may also see currency exchange fees set by the payment processor. ### When can I actually get the money? Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer. You can request manually from the Transfers tab, or set scheduled transfers weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. ### Do I need a nonprofit or an EIN? No. Anyone can start a fundraiser. ### Can the money go to my band's or production company's bank account? Yes. When the recipient sets up bank details they can choose the Business account type, entering the legal business name and the business's own bank details, so funds land in the organization's account rather than a personal one. The person filling that out is still an individual, 18 or older, who completes identity verification as the authorized representative. ### Is money I raise for a creative project taxable income? In most cases no. Funds raised are generally treated as personal gifts rather than taxable income, as long as nothing is given in exchange for the gift, and GiveSendGo doesn't issue 1099s to recipients or report gifts to the IRS. If your fundraiser involves a business, or you're giving givers something in return, the IRS may treat it differently. That's a question for a tax professional, not for us. ### Is a gift to my project tax-deductible for the person giving? ### Which category should I choose, and why isn't my fundraiser listed in Creative yet? Pick the closest match. Category doesn't affect how well a fundraiser can do, and you can change it later. A fundraiser appears in its category listing once it has been published for 5 days and has raised $100 USD or the equivalent in online gifts. Offline gifts don't count toward that. Newly published fundraisers can also take up to 48 hours to show up in GiveSendGo search. Until then the direct link works fine, signed in or not. ### Can I run more than one fundraiser? Yes. One account can run more than one fundraiser, so the record and the tour don't have to share a page. --- # Current events fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/current_events # Current Events Fundraisers ## What this category is for Some needs arrive because of something that just happened, whether that's a storm, a fire, a factory closing, an accident, or a legal case that pulls a family into the news. Fundraisers here are ordinary fundraisers with an urgent clock on them, and the same rules apply here as everywhere else on GiveSendGo. This page sets those rules out plainly, with no comment on any one case. ## What can be raised for, and what can't Nearly anything can be raised for here: medical bills, funerals and memorials, emergencies, family and personal needs, faith and ministry work, missions, education, community causes, and legal defense, including for difficult or controversial situations others turn away. The list of what isn't allowed is short: - Fundraisers that promote or glorify violence. - Fundraisers that raise money for illegal activity. - Fundraisers for abortion procedures, or for gender-transition surgeries for minors. - Fundraisers that impersonate someone or mislead givers. Every fundraiser also has to be transparent about how the funds will be used. GiveSendGo follows the laws of every country it works in, along with the rules of its payment partners, so a fundraiser can meet GiveSendGo's own guidelines and still not be one it can host or process. That's a real limit, and it's better to know before you start. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ## Legal defense fundraisers Anyone can start a legal defense fundraiser on behalf of someone else. If the case involves violent or weapons-related charges, such as assault, reckless endangerment, weapons or firearm charges, domestic violence, or homicide, funds can't go to the creator or the defendant directly. A licensed US attorney or law firm actively on the case has to be named as the recipient. Fundraisers for a US electoral candidate run in the **Political Campaign** category instead. That category asks each giver for more under FEC rules: occupation, employer, employer address, and residential address. GiveSendGo does not enforce the per-giver limits those rules set. That compliance stays with the creator. ## Why a fundraiser gets paused, removed, or refunded Before any funds transfer, the recipient completes identity verification and proves who they are. GiveSendGo's trust and safety team also checks that the recipient's relationship to the person being helped is appropriate, and that what the fundraiser says about itself is consistent and transparent. That verification runs through the payment partner, which makes it a standard financial-industry requirement, and it isn't waived for anyone. After that, GiveSendGo keeps watching for irregular or misleading activity, and any fundraiser can be put on hold for review. A gift can also be refunded without the giver asking for it, and there are four documented reasons: - The creator closed the fundraiser and returned every undistributed gift. - The gift failed a review check. - The giver disputed the charge with their bank. - A Political Campaign fundraiser didn't meet a regulatory or verification requirement. Anyone can report a fundraiser through Contact Us with the link and a specific description of the concern, and every report is reviewed against the Terms of Service by a real person. GiveSendGo doesn't share the outcome or give a timeline, and it doesn't act on outrage or popularity alone. How many people are upset about a fundraiser is not one of the inputs. ## How giving here is protected Every gift runs through a PCI Level 1 certified processor, the highest tier in the payments industry, which means third-party audits every year, regular scans for weak points, and monitoring that never stops. Card details are encrypted in transit and never stored on GiveSendGo's own servers, and the details GiveSendGo collects to run an account and send receipts are never sold or passed to anyone else. Real GiveSendGo emails come only from @givesendgo.com or @givesendgo.info, and GiveSendGo has no partners who offer to boost a fundraiser's visibility for a fee. That matters most when a fundraiser is getting attention. If something claiming to be from GiveSendGo asks for financial details anywhere else, check with support before you act on it. The fundraisers listed above are live right now. **[Back one of them](#fundraisers)** ## What it costs > **GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut.** There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** Gift US (2.7% + 30¢) Non-US (3.5% + 30¢) $25 $24.03 $23.83 $50 $48.35 $47.95 $100 **$97.00** **$96.20** $250 $242.95 $240.95 Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received, every gift after that on a rolling 3-day basis, and a requested transfer typically reaches the bank within 2 to 3 business days. The recipient must be **18 or older**, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. **The recipient's country can't be changed after the fundraiser is created.** **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ### What can someone fundraise for on GiveSendGo? Nearly anything: medical bills, funerals and memorials, emergencies, family and personal needs, faith and ministry work, missions, education, community causes, and legal defense, including for controversial or difficult situations others turn away. The category doesn't affect how well a fundraiser can do, and it's editable later. ### What isn't allowed on GiveSendGo? Fundraisers that promote or glorify violence, raise money for illegal activity, raise money for abortion procedures or gender-transition surgeries for minors, or impersonate someone or mislead givers. Fundraisers also have to be transparent about how funds will be used. ### Can a fundraiser that follows the rules still be turned down? Yes, occasionally. GiveSendGo follows the laws of every country it works in and the rules of its payment partners, so a fundraiser can meet GiveSendGo's own guidelines and still not be one it can host or process. ### Can someone raise money for legal defense? Yes, and anyone can start one on behalf of someone else. If the case involves violent or weapons-related charges, such as assault, reckless endangerment, weapons or firearm charges, domestic violence, or homicide, the funds can't go to the creator or the defendant directly. A licensed US attorney or law firm actively on the case must be named as the recipient. ### Can I fundraise for a political candidate? Yes, through the **Political Campaign** category, for US electoral candidates only, federal or state office. That category requires extra giver fields under FEC rules: occupation, employer, employer address, and residential address. GiveSendGo does not enforce the per-giver limits those rules set. That compliance is the fundraiser creator's responsibility. ### Will GiveSendGo remove a fundraiser because people are upset about it? No. Every report is reviewed against the Terms of Service by a real person, and GiveSendGo doesn't act on outrage or popularity alone. It also doesn't share the outcome of a report or give a timeline for one. ### Why would a gift be refunded when nobody asked for one? There are four documented reasons: the creator closed the fundraiser and returned every undistributed gift, the gift failed a review check, the giver disputed the charge with their bank, or a Political Campaign fundraiser didn't meet a regulatory or verification requirement. ### Is it safe to put card details into a fundraiser here? Every gift runs through a PCI Level 1 certified processor, the highest tier in the payments industry, with third-party audits every year, regular scans for weak points, and monitoring that never stops. Card details are encrypted in transit and never stored on GiveSendGo's own servers, and the details GiveSendGo collects to run an account and send receipts are never sold or passed to anyone else. Real GiveSendGo email comes only from @givesendgo.com or @givesendgo.info, and GiveSendGo has no partners who offer to boost a fundraiser's visibility for a fee. ### How do I report a fundraiser? Contact Us with the fundraiser link and a specific description of your concern. ### How does GiveSendGo check that a fundraiser is legitimate? Before any funds transfer, the recipient completes identity verification and proves who they are. The trust and safety team also checks that the recipient's relationship to the person being helped is appropriate, and that what the fundraiser says about itself is consistent and transparent. Identity verification runs through the payment partner, which makes it a standard financial-industry requirement, and it isn't waived for anyone. After that, GiveSendGo keeps watching for irregular or misleading activity, and any fundraiser can be put on hold for review. ### Are gifts to a fundraiser here tax-deductible? --- # Education fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/education # Education Fundraisers ## What people raise for in this category Education fundraisers on GiveSendGo run from a single tuition balance to a school's whole budget gap. In this category you'll find a classical Christian school or homeschool co-op closing a shortfall, a seminary or Bible college student covering fees for a program they've been accepted into, and a parent facing a preschool or special-education bill no financial aid applies to. You'll also find a college student with a gap between the aid letter and the invoice, and a teenager whose school offered a trip with a payment deadline attached. Anyone can start a fundraiser here. Education is one of the things GiveSendGo explicitly hosts, and you don't need a nonprofit or an EIN to do it. Every fundraiser listed above names its creator and its recipient, so you can see who a gift reaches before you send it. [**Give to a student or a school listed on this page**](#fundraisers) ## How to raise money for school fees The most common mistake in this category is a goal set for the full amount. A fundraiser asking for four years of tuition reads as impossible. Someone asking for this semester's balance reads as finishable, and people give toward what looks achievable. So build the ask around the gap: - **Set the goal to the actual gap:** the semester balance, the program fee, or the part aid didn't reach, rather than the full published cost of the degree. - **Say exactly what the money covers,** and show the arithmetic if you have it. A specific breakdown of the cost sits on the help desk's short list of what makes a fundraiser work. - **Write the story in the student's own voice** where you can, or have MICA, GiveSendGo's AI writing assistant, draft one from a short description and edit from there. - **Send it to the people who already know the student:** family, the church or small group, the school's own parent list, coaches, neighbors, and whoever wrote the recommendation letters. A page nobody has seen raises nothing. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ## Schools, PTAs, homeschool groups, and scholarship funds The schools and programs that do well here bring their own people: a parent list, a congregation, an alumni base, a giving-day push. GiveSendGo gives that list one link and one page to give through, and it doesn't take a percentage of what comes in. One account can run more than one fundraiser, so a school can keep an annual fund open and still run a separate ask for a specific class, trip, or family. You can start a scholarship fund the same way, today, with no nonprofit status and no EIN. GiveSendGo won't administer one for you, so it doesn't select recipients, disburse to a school, or verify anyone's nonprofit status. If tax-deductible giving is the point, **GiveSendGo Charities** is the path. It's a registered 501(c)(3) running a Donor-Advised Fund program (3% administration fee, no minimum) and a Fund a Grant program, which is a tax-deductible gift to a specific eligible fundraiser. Not every fundraiser is eligible for either program. If your school is already a verified 501(c)(3), say so yourself on the page. GiveSendGo doesn't display or verify nonprofit status for you, and the official receipt can't be edited to add it, so put your status, your legal name, and your EIN in the fundraiser story and in a custom thank-you message. ## If the student is under 18, a parent has to receive the funds This one catches people off guard. The recipient on a fundraiser must be 18 or older, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there, which means a 16-year-old raising for a school trip can't be their own recipient. A parent, guardian, or the sending organization has to be. An organization can be the recipient too. Whoever completes verification is always a person acting as legal representative, but that person can choose the **Business** bank account type and enter the school's legal name and its own bank details, so the money lands in the school's account rather than a personal one. ## What it costs, and when the money reaches the school or the student GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut. There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** At checkout your givers see an optional tip to GiveSendGo they can set to any amount, including $0. Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in the bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer, and minimum transfer amounts vary by country. Two things worth knowing before a tuition deadline: - **Verification runs on its own clock.** Review starts once the recipient has uploaded ID and the fundraiser has received its first gift, whichever comes later, and it typically finishes 1 to 2 business days after that. It can't be waived for anyone, and it doesn't begin until that first gift lands, so publish earlier than feels necessary. - **Getting the money out is your call.** Request a transfer from the Transfers tab whenever funds are available, or set transfers to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. In the US, use a checking account, since transfers are sent as checking transactions and a savings account may be rejected by the bank. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ### How do I raise money for tuition? Start a fundraiser, set the goal to the actual gap rather than the full price, and say exactly what the money covers: the semester balance, the program fee, the part aid didn't reach. Our help desk's own list of what works is short. It wants a realistic goal, a specific breakdown of what the money covers, a clear story with a direct ask, strong photos or a short video, regular updates, and steady sharing rather than one post. Whoever the funds are for has to be 18 or older to be named as the recipient. ### Can a school, PTA, or homeschool group run a fundraiser? Do we need to be a nonprofit? Yes, and no. Anyone can start a fundraiser on GiveSendGo, with no nonprofit status and no EIN required. For the money to land in the school's own account, the person completing recipient verification chooses the **Business** bank account type and enters the legal business name plus the school's bank details. That person still has to be an authorized adult who completes identity verification themselves. ### Is it free for a school to use GiveSendGo? GiveSendGo charges $0 in platform fees, and no cut of what you raise goes to us. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: 2.7% + 30¢ per gift for US fundraisers, 3.5% + 30¢ outside the US. Your givers see an optional tip to GiveSendGo at checkout, adjustable to any amount including $0. Separately, if you set a percentage to GiveSendGo when you created the fundraiser, that's added on top of each gift and shown to your givers at checkout. It's editable anytime in fundraiser Settings. ### Can a student under 18 raise money for their own tuition or school trip? They can be the reason for the fundraiser, but not the recipient. Recipients must be 18 or older, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. For a minor, a parent, guardian, or the sending school has to be named as recipient and complete identity verification. That's a standard financial-industry requirement and it can't be waived. ### How do I start a scholarship fund? You can create a fundraiser for it today. No nonprofit status or EIN is required, and one account can run more than one fundraiser. What GiveSendGo doesn't do is administer a scholarship for you: select recipients, disburse to a school, or verify anyone's nonprofit status. If tax-deductible giving matters, **GiveSendGo Charities** is the path: a registered 501(c)(3) offering a Donor-Advised Fund program (3% administration fee, no minimum) and a Fund a Grant program (a tax-deductible gift to a specific eligible fundraiser). Not every fundraiser is eligible for either program. ### Are gifts to a tuition fundraiser tax-deductible? Nothing given on GiveSendGo is tax-deductible unless it goes through **GiveSendGo Charities**, the 501(c)(3). That includes the Giver Army, which is Charities' recurring giving program. The one exception is a recipient that is itself a verified 501(c)(3). GiveSendGo itself is not a 501(c)(3), does not verify any recipient's tax status, and does not issue tax receipts for a personal fundraiser. When the recipient is a nonprofit, the receipt comes from them, not from us. A gift to an individual student's fundraiser is not deductible just because the need sounds charitable. ### We're a verified 501(c)(3) school. How do we show that to givers? Say it yourself, on the page. GiveSendGo doesn't display or verify nonprofit status for you, and the official GiveSendGo receipt can't be edited to add it. Put your 501(c)(3) status, your legal name, and your EIN in the fundraiser story and in a custom thank-you message. ### When does the money reach the school or the student? Verification review begins once the recipient's ID is uploaded and the first gift has arrived, whichever comes later, and typically completes in 1 to 2 business days. The first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received, and gifts after that on a rolling 3-day basis. A requested transfer typically reaches the bank within 2 to 3 business days, then your bank's own posting schedule applies. Non-USD transfers can take longer, and minimum transfer amounts vary by country. ### Can we keep a family's tuition fundraiser out of public search? Yes. Set the fundraiser to **private** and it stays out of GiveSendGo search results and category listings, so only people you send the link to will find it. The creator's and recipient's names still show to anyone who opens that link. GiveSendGo is a public platform, and a fully anonymous fundraiser isn't possible. ### Our school fundraiser isn't showing up in this category. Why? Either it's unpublished, it's set to private, it was published within the last 48 hours (search takes that long to catch up), or it hasn't met the category-listing threshold yet of published for 5 days and $100 USD or equivalent raised in online gifts. Offline gifts don't count toward that threshold. --- # Emergency fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/emergency # Emergency Fundraisers ## After a fire, a crash, or a storm An emergency fundraiser can help cover the costs that come when life turns upside down, costs that don't wait for an insurance check: somewhere to sleep, clothes, a car, a hospital bill, and the rest of what it takes to put a household back together. Emergencies are common reasons people raise funds on GiveSendGo. The page you create is a fundraiser, the person who sets it up is the fundraiser creator, and whoever's bank account receives the money is the recipient. Those last two don't have to be the same person. So if the family it happened to can't face any of this yet, you can set the fundraiser up and name them as the recipient, and the money goes straight to their account. ## How to ask for donations after a house fire Say what happened and name what the money covers this week, plainly and in your own words, then ask directly. Our help desk names these key elements: a realistic goal, a specific breakdown of the costs, your own story with a direct ask, photos or a short video, updates as things change, and sharing it more than once instead of posting once. - **Sign up** with your legal name, your email, a password, and a phone number to verify. - **Pick the recipient's country first**, because it's locked once the fundraiser is created and the only fix is starting over with a new one. - **Set a goal and choose the Emergency category**, then write your title and the story. - **Add a photo** of what you're describing, and publish. - **Add the recipient's details** so the money can move: a bank account in the fundraiser's country, a valid tax ID, a government-issued photo ID with date of birth, a phone number, and a residential address that isn't a PO box. [**Start a GiveSendGo**](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup) ## What people give is a gift There's nothing to repay, no interest, and no application to qualify for. Nothing in signing up or in adding a recipient asks about your credit, and you don't need a nonprofit or an EIN either. Anyone can start a fundraiser. ## What it costs GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut. There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** On a $25 gift, $24.03 reaches you. Outside the US, that $100 gift lands at $96.20, and non-USD fundraisers can also pick up currency exchange fees set by the processor. GiveSendGo runs on the optional tip at checkout. Every giver sees a suggested amount they can set to anything, including $0, and it covers our operating costs and mission outreach. So no percentage of what you raise after an emergency comes to us. Before you publish, check your optional giving settings. If you set a percentage to GiveSendGo while creating the fundraiser, that amount is added on top of each gift and shown to the people giving at checkout, and some of them read it as a platform fee. You can edit it anytime from your fundraiser's Settings. ## When the money reaches you, and what has to be in place first Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer. Request a transfer yourself from the Transfers tab whenever funds are available, or set them to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. A manual transfer sends your whole available balance, and you wait 24 hours after one is approved before requesting another. In the US, use a checking account, because transfers are sent as checking transactions and a savings account may be rejected by the bank. - **The recipient gets verified before any money moves.** They need to be 18 or older, live in the fundraiser's country, and provide a bank account there, a valid tax ID, a government-issued photo ID with date of birth, a phone number, and a residential address that isn't a PO box. - **Review starts** once that ID is uploaded and the fundraiser has received its first gift, and it usually finishes 1 to 2 business days after that. - **Nobody is exempt**, because identity verification through the payment partner is a standard financial-industry requirement. - **The transfer status tells you where things stand.** Processing means it was accepted and is moving. Paused means something needs review, and it resumes once that's resolved. Transferred means it's with your bank, which posts it on its own schedule. [**Start a GiveSendGo**](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup) ## If you came here to help a family Plenty of people come to a category like this one to give rather than to raise, and the fundraisers listed above are the real ones. A fundraiser only appears in a category listing after it has been published 5 days and raised $100 or more in online gifts, so nothing here went up an hour ago. You can leave a comment with your gift, and it stays on the page beside it. Card details run through a PCI Level 1 certified processor, the top tier in the payments industry, and are never stored on GiveSendGo's own servers. Your name and email are never sold or passed to anyone else. [**Support a family on this page**](#fundraisers) ### How do I ask for donations after a house fire? Say what happened and what the money covers this week, plainly, and then ask directly. Our help desk's short list is a realistic goal, a specific breakdown of the costs, the story in your own words with a direct ask, photos or a short video, updates as things change, and sharing it more than once instead of posting once. To start it, log in, go to My Fundraisers, click Start a GiveSendGo, pick the recipient's country, set a goal, choose a category, write your title and story, add a photo, and publish. ### Can I start a fundraiser for someone else after an accident? Yes. Anyone can start a fundraiser, including on someone else's behalf. The recipient is whoever's bank account receives the money, and that doesn't have to be the creator. They must be 18 or older, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there, and they complete identity verification before any transfer. Pick the country carefully, because it can't be changed after the fundraiser is created. ### Is this a loan? Do I pay it back? No, what people give is a gift. There's nothing to repay and no interest, and nothing in setting up a fundraiser asks about your credit. You don't need a nonprofit or an EIN either. ### What does GiveSendGo charge? Nothing at all. GiveSendGo charges $0 in platform fees, and what's deducted is the payment processor's fee: 2.7% + 30¢ per gift for US fundraisers, 3.5% + 30¢ outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, $97 reaches you. ### When does the money reach me? Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer. ### Do I need a bank account? Yes, the recipient needs a bank account in the fundraiser's own country, along with a valid tax ID, a government-issued photo ID with date of birth, a phone number, and a residential address that isn't a PO box. In the US, use a checking account. Transfers are sent as checking transactions and a savings account may be rejected by the bank. ### Can I raise for more than one thing at once? One account can run more than one fundraiser. Each fundraiser has its own recipient, and each recipient completes their own identity verification. ### Do I owe taxes on money I raise? In most cases, no. Funds raised are treated as personal gifts rather than taxable income, as long as nothing is given in exchange, and GiveSendGo doesn't issue 1099s or report gifts to the IRS. If a business, a political cause, or rewards for givers are involved, the IRS may treat it differently, and that's a question for a tax professional. ### Is a gift to an emergency fundraiser tax-deductible? ### Can I keep the fundraiser out of search? You can set your fundraiser to private: it stays out of GiveSendGo search results and category listings, so only people you send the link to will find it. Your name still shows to anyone who opens it. A newly published public fundraiser can take up to 48 hours to appear in search. --- # Evangelism fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/evangelism # Evangelism Fundraisers ## What an evangelism fundraiser is here This category is for a person or a small team funding the work of sharing the gospel, rather than a congregation's building or budget. In practice that's a street preacher covering printing and travel, an apologetics ministry buying studio equipment, or a youth camp covering this year's costs. It's also the podcaster whose audience asked where they could give, the person accepted onto full-time ministry staff with a monthly number to reach, and the outreach team funding a festival or a pop-up event. No church has to stand behind it. You don't need nonprofit status or an EIN to start. Anyone can start a fundraiser, and one account can run more than one, so the annual camp and the equipment fund don't have to share a page. ## Fundraising for ministries: setting the page up Nothing in the setup assumes a board, a bookkeeper, or a communications team, and the path runs in this order. - Log in, open **My Fundraisers**, and click **Start a GiveSendGo**. Pick the recipient's country first, because it's locked at creation and it decides which bank accounts can receive transfers. - Set a goal, choose the **Evangelism** category, and write the story around the work itself: what you do, who it reaches, and what this money pays for. MICA, GiveSendGo's AI writing assistant, can draft it from a short description if you'd rather edit than write. - Add a photo or a short video, then publish. - Add the recipient and upload their ID. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ## Nonprofit status, receipts, and what to tell your supporters Your supporters will ask, so here is the precise answer. So if your ministry does hold verified 501(c)(3) status, say it yourself: state the status, your legal name, and your EIN in the fundraiser story and in a custom thank-you message. The official GiveSendGo donation receipt can't be edited to add it. And if you're not incorporated, say that plainly too, because supporters who know your work would rather read a straight answer than guess. When a supporter needs the deduction to be certain, GiveSendGo Charities is a registered 501(c)(3) with two programs. A Donor-Advised Fund needs setup and carries a 3% administration fee. Fund a Grant is a tax-deductible gift to a specific eligible fundraiser. Not every fundraiser is eligible for either one. ## What it costs, and when it reaches you GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut. There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** A $25 gift lands at $24.03, and a $250 gift at $242.95. Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received, and every gift after that on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Request transfers from the Transfers tab whenever funds are available, or set them to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. The statuses on that tab are worth reading rather than guessing at. Processing means the money is accepted and moving. Paused means it needs information or a review, and you'll get an email before it resumes on its own. Transferred means it has reached your bank, where the bank's own posting schedule of 1 to 2 business days decides when it appears. ## Who receives the money, and what gets checked The recipient must be 18 or older, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. If your ministry is an incorporated entity, whoever completes the recipient form can choose the **Business** bank-account type and enter the legal business name and the ministry's own bank details, so funds land in the ministry's account. Either way an authorized adult completes identity verification before any transfer, and that requirement isn't waived for anyone. Before funds move, the trust and safety team also checks that the recipient's relationship to whoever the money is for is appropriate, and that the fundraiser's information is consistent and transparent. Monitoring continues after that. Supporters who have never used the platform usually ask what happens to their card details, and the answer is short. Every gift runs through a PCI Level 1 certified processor, the highest tier in the payments industry, and card details are never stored on GiveSendGo's servers. If anyone offers to boost your fundraiser's reach for a fee, they don't work with GiveSendGo. ## Running it as a standing support page Ongoing support behaves differently from a single ask, and a few choices make a ministry page hold up for years. - Let supporters choose monthly at checkout. They manage the payment method or cancel it themselves from My Impact, and cancelling stops future charges immediately. - Name what the money pays for, line by line. Faith and ministry work are explicitly things you can raise for here, and every fundraiser is expected to be transparent about how funds will be used. - Ask directly, with strong photos or a short personal video, and post updates while people are still giving rather than only when a goal is hit. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** If you opt in when you add your phone number, someone from GiveSendGo can call and pray with you. And if you'd rather support somebody else's work today, the ministries listed above are each raising money for their specific calling. **[Give to a ministry on this page](#fundraisers)** ### How do I raise money for my ministry online? Start a fundraiser and name the work, the need, and the number. Log in, click Start a GiveSendGo, pick the recipient's country (locked once you create it), set a goal, choose the Evangelism category, write your title and story, add a photo or short video, and publish. Then add the recipient and upload their ID. GiveSendGo charges no platform fee, so what's deducted is the payment processor's 2.7% + 30¢ per gift in the US, 3.5% + 30¢ outside it. You can run the page as a one-time ask or let supporters give monthly. ### Do I need to be a nonprofit, or have a church behind me? No. Anyone can start a fundraiser. There's no 501(c)(3) requirement, no EIN requirement, and no denominational or church sponsorship requirement. An independent evangelist with no board and a ministry that has been running for forty years go through the same steps. ### Are gifts to my ministry tax-deductible? ### My ministry is a verified 501(c)(3). How do givers know? You tell them. GiveSendGo doesn't display or verify nonprofit status, so state it in your fundraiser story and in a custom thank-you message with your organization's legal name and your EIN. The official GiveSendGo donation receipt can't be edited to add that information. ### What does GiveSendGo charge? GiveSendGo charges $0 in platform fees. No cut of what you raise goes to GiveSendGo. The payment processor's fee is 2.7% + 30¢ per gift for US fundraisers and 3.5% + 30¢ outside the US, so a $100 gift to a US fundraiser leaves $97. Two separate optional things also exist and shouldn't be confused. Givers see a suggested tip to GiveSendGo at checkout, fully adjustable, including to $0. And when you create the fundraiser you can set a percentage of what you raise to go to GiveSendGo. If you set it, that amount is added on top of each gift and shown to your givers at checkout, and it's editable anytime in your fundraiser's Settings. ### Can supporters give monthly instead of once? Yes. At checkout a giver chooses a single donation or a monthly subscription. They manage the payment method or cancel it themselves from My Impact â My Donations, and cancelling stops future charges immediately. ### When does the money reach me? Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days, and non-USD transfers can take longer. You can request transfers manually from the Transfers tab or set them to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. Verification review starts once the recipient has uploaded ID **and** the fundraiser has received its first donation, whichever comes later, and typically completes in 1 to 2 business days after that. ### Can I run more than one fundraiser for different parts of the ministry? Yes. One account can run more than one fundraiser. The camp, the studio, and a monthly support page can each be their own page with its own goal and its own story, which is usually clearer for givers than one page trying to hold everything. ### Is money I raise for ministry work taxable income for me? In most cases, no. Funds raised are treated as personal gifts rather than taxable income, as long as nothing is given in exchange for the gift, and GiveSendGo doesn't issue 1099s to recipients or report donations to the IRS. If your fundraiser involves a business, a political cause, or rewards for givers, the IRS may treat it differently, and that's a question for a tax professional rather than for us. ### What does the Bible say about supporting ministry work financially? Paul's letters describe churches and individuals sending money to people doing the work. Philippians 4:15-16 names the church at Philippi as the one that partnered with him and sent help more than once, and 3 John 5-8 calls supporting traveling workers "a faithful thing you do," ending with the reason: so that we may be fellow workers for the truth. That's the frame most people raising ministry support already work from, which is partnership rather than charity. --- # Event fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/event # Event Fundraisers ## Fundraising for an event: a wedding, a reunion, or a gathering Some things are worth getting everybody in one room for, and most of them cost more than one household can carry. That's true of a wedding, a family reunion that pulls four states together, a class reunion or a church banquet, and a retreat nobody can afford the venue for. Fundraising for an event on GiveSendGo is how the people who want to be there help pay for the room they'll be sitting in. You don't need a nonprofit and you don't need an EIN. Anyone can start a fundraiser. Log in, click Start a GiveSendGo, pick the recipient's country, set a goal, write what the gathering is and what the money covers, add a photo, and share the link. Be specific, because a fundraiser has to be transparent about how the funds will be used, and "$22 a plate for 90 people" gets further than a round number. **Work out three things before you publish:** - The real total, line by line: the venue, the food, the chairs, the deposit due first. - Who the recipient will be, since one person or organization receives the money. - When that deposit is due, because it sets how early you publish. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ## Who receives the money when a group is organizing > The recipient must be **18 or older**, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. If their country isn't supported, a trusted adult in a supported country can be named as recipient and pass the funds along. Every recipient completes identity verification before any transfer. **The recipient's country can't be changed after the fundraiser is created.** For a committee, a church, or a reunion group, the funds don't have to sit in somebody's personal account. Whoever fills out the recipient's bank details can choose the **Business** account type, which takes the legal organization name and the organization's own bank details, so the money lands in the group's account. One person still stands behind it. An authorized representative, 18 or older, completes that form with a government-issued photo ID, a tax ID, and a bank account in the fundraiser's country. In the US, make it a checking account, since savings accounts can be rejected. ## What GiveSendGo charges > **GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut.** There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** Gift US (2.7% + 30¢) Non-US (3.5% + 30¢) $25 $24.03 $23.83 $50 $48.35 $47.95 $100 **$97.00** **$96.20** $250 $242.95 $240.95 Two different optional amounts get called the tip. Every giver sees a suggested tip to GiveSendGo at checkout that they can set to any amount, including zero. Separately, you can send GiveSendGo a percentage of what you raise, and if you set that at creation it's added on top of each gift and shown to your givers at checkout, so some read it as a platform fee. That one is editable anytime in Settings. The gatherings listed further up this page are raising right now. **[Back one of them](#fundraisers)** ## Having the money in hand by the date Deposits come due long before the day itself, so publish earlier than the math suggests. > Your **first** gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a **rolling 3-day** basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within **2 to 3 business days**. Non-USD transfers can take longer. You can set transfers to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly, or request them manually from the **Transfers** tab. A manual transfer sends your whole available balance, and after one is approved you wait 24 hours before requesting another. Minimum transfer amounts vary by country. Verification of the recipient's ID and bank setup typically finishes in 1 to 2 business days, but it doesn't begin until the first gift lands, so that clock starts with your first giver rather than the day you publish. ## Keeping a wedding or a family gathering out of public search Not every celebration belongs in a public feed. > You can set your fundraiser to **private**: it stays out of GiveSendGo search results and category listings, so only people you send the link to will find it. Your name still shows to anyone who opens it. GiveSendGo is a public platform, so creator and recipient names always display. Private keeps the fundraiser out of search. It doesn't hide who set it up. ## What makes an event fundraiser work Post updates while people are still giving, because an update brings a giver back a second time. Share the link more than once instead of counting on one post. One account can run more than one fundraiser, so a committee that does this every other year can start fresh each time. A public fundraiser can take up to 48 hours to appear in GiveSendGo's search, and it joins a category listing here once it has been published 5 days and raised $100 USD in online gifts. Your own link works right away, so send it to the guest list yourself. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ### Can I raise money for a wedding on GiveSendGo? Yes. Anyone can start a fundraiser, and a wedding is a normal reason to run one. Say what the money covers. A fundraiser has to be transparent about how funds will be used. ### Can we raise money for a family reunion, a class reunion, or a retreat? Yes. Reunions, retreats, banquets, conferences, and anniversary celebrations all work the same way as any other fundraiser. No nonprofit status and no EIN are needed to publish one. ### What does GiveSendGo charge? Nothing. GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut and there's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: 2.7% + 30¢ per gift for US fundraisers, 3.5% + 30¢ outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, $97 reaches you. ### Who gets the money if a committee is organizing the event? One named recipient does, and they must be 18 or older, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. For a group, that person can choose the **Business** bank account type, which takes the legal organization name plus the organization's own bank details, so the funds land in the group's account rather than a personal one. They complete identity verification before any transfer. ### How soon can we get the money out to pay a deposit? Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer, and minimum transfer amounts vary by country. ### Are gifts toward our event tax-deductible for the people who give? ### Can we keep a wedding fundraiser off public search? Yes. You can set your fundraiser to **private**: it stays out of GiveSendGo search results and category listings, so only people you send the link to will find it. Your name still shows to anyone who opens it. GiveSendGo is a public platform, and creator and recipient names always display. ### Is the money we raise for an event taxable income? In most cases funds raised are treated as personal gifts rather than taxable income, as long as nothing is given in exchange for the gift, and GiveSendGo doesn't issue 1099s to recipients or report gifts to the IRS. If the event involves a business or gives givers something in return, the IRS may treat it differently. Take that one to a tax professional. --- # Family fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/family # Family Fundraisers ## What families raise money for here The Family category holds the needs that don't fit a sharper label. The category you pick doesn't change how well a fundraiser can do. Most fundraisers land here because of a bill nobody planned for: rent or a mortgage payment that can't be covered this month, a car that finally died, funeral costs after a sudden death, the medical bills insurance left behind, or the cost of a household that just grew by one. Anyone can start a fundraiser on GiveSendGo. You don't need a nonprofit, an EIN, or anyone's permission. When you set one up, you pick the recipient's country, set a goal, choose a category, write your story, add a photo or a short video, and publish. If writing the story is the part that stalls you, MICA, GiveSendGo's AI writing assistant, can draft one from a short description and you can edit it from there. ## An ordinary bill is a real reason to ask Most fundraisers in this category aren't built on one dramatic day, and there's no diagnosis or lawsuit behind them, just a month where money's tight or there's an unexpected expense. Creators here often feel like a burden and spend more words apologizing for asking than being honest about what they need, but that gets it backwards. Name the bill, say what it covers, and say what changes once it's paid. Our help desk names the same key elements every time: a realistic goal, a specific breakdown of what the money covers, a clear personal story with a direct ask, strong photos or a short personal video, regular updates, and steady sharing rather than a single post. > "We kind of felt a little guilty. Do we really need to start a GiveSendGo? We need the help, but it feels like a bit of a big ask. My buddy said, 'You start the campaign, and we'll get you taken care of.'" > > — Brennen H., who raised for a move to Alaska ## How to raise money for medical bills Medical bills are one of the most common things families raise for here. They're also easy to get stuck on when writing, because the overall total is frightening while the smaller pieces are what people can actually cover. Four things to get down before you publish: - **List what's owed, piece by piece.** Name the hospital balance that's still open, the specialist your insurance denied, the prescription, and the drive to treatment, because each line gives someone a specific thing to pay for. - **Set the goal to the number in front of you** rather than the whole projected cost of the year, so the page shows real progress instead of a gap that never closes. You can always increase the goal later as you hit smaller milestones. - **Name who receives the money.** The fundraiser creator who sets a fundraiser up and the recipient whose bank account receives it don't have to be the same person, which matters when the patient is in no shape to be typing. - **Keep the page updated as things change.** Regular updates and steady sharing sit on the help desk's short list of what makes a fundraiser work, so plan to post more than once. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ## Write the list before you publish A fundraiser doesn't reach anyone on its own, and the people most likely to give are the ones who already know you. So write out who you'll send it to before you publish. Make that list longer than the handful you'd think of first: extended family, your church or small group, coworkers, neighbors, old friends, and any parent or school group you're part of. Then send it as a plain text message rather than one broadcast post, because a link addressed to one person gets opened. "I set this up for my mom's hospital bills, would you take a look?" is enough. ## What it costs, and when the money reaches your bank GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut. There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** GiveSendGo runs on the optional tip at checkout, so no percentage of what a family raises comes to us. Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer. The rest of the mechanics, in one place: - **Who can receive it:** the recipient must be 18 or older, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. If their country isn't supported, a trusted adult in a supported country can be named as recipient and pass the funds along. - **Verification comes before any money moves.** Every recipient completes identity verification before any transfer, and review starts once their ID is uploaded and the first gift has arrived, whichever comes later. It usually finishes 1 to 2 business days after that, and it isn't waived for anyone. - **Choose the country carefully at the start,** because the recipient's country can't be changed after the fundraiser is created. - **Getting the money out:** request a transfer from the Transfers tab whenever funds are available, or set transfers to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. In the US, use a checking account, since transfers are sent as checking transactions and a savings account may be rejected by the bank. Minimum transfer amounts vary by country. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ## If you came here to give rather than to ask Every fundraiser listed above names its creator and its recipient, so you know who your gift reaches before you send it. Card details run through a PCI Level 1 certified processor, the highest tier in the payments industry, and they're never stored on GiveSendGo's servers. A receipt reaches you by email as soon as the gift goes through. [**Support a family listed on this page**](#fundraisers) ### How do I raise money for medical bills my family can't cover? Start a fundraiser and name the bills. Medical costs are one of the most common things people raise for on GiveSendGo, and you don't need a nonprofit or an EIN to do it. List what's owed and what each piece covers: the remaining hospital balance, the specialist your insurance denied, the drive to treatment. A specific breakdown of where the money goes is one of the things the help desk names as making a fundraiser work. ### Can I start a fundraiser for myself or my own household? Yes. Anyone can start a fundraiser, for themselves or on behalf of someone else. Family and personal needs are one of the categories GiveSendGo explicitly hosts, alongside medical bills, funerals and memorials, emergencies, education, and legal defense. Whoever the money is for has to be named as the recipient and complete identity verification before funds can transfer. ### How much of what we raise actually reaches us? GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut, and there's no platform fee. The payment processor's fee is 2.7% + 30¢ per gift for US fundraisers and 3.5% + 30¢ outside the US, so $97 of a $100 gift reaches a US fundraiser. Two other things affect the number: at checkout your givers see an optional tip to GiveSendGo they can set to any amount including $0, and if you set a creator percentage to GiveSendGo when you created the fundraiser, that amount is added on top of each gift and shown to your givers at checkout. That percentage is editable anytime in your fundraiser Settings. ### How soon can we get the money out? Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. After that, gifts become available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer it typically reaches your bank within 2 to 3 business days, and your bank's own posting schedule decides when it shows in the account. Non-USD transfers can take longer. You can also set transfers to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly instead of requesting each one. ### Is the money we raise taxable income? In most cases, no. Funds raised are treated as personal gifts rather than taxable income, as long as nothing is given in exchange for the gift. GiveSendGo doesn't issue 1099s to recipients or report gifts to the IRS. If a fundraiser involves a business, a political cause, or rewards for givers, the IRS may treat it differently, and that's a question for a tax professional. ### Are gifts to our family fundraiser tax-deductible for the person giving? ### Can we keep our fundraiser out of search so only the people we send it to see it? You can set your fundraiser to **private**: it stays out of GiveSendGo search results and category listings, so only people you send the link to will find it. Your name still shows to anyone who opens it. GiveSendGo is a public platform, and the creator's and recipient's names always display on the page. ### Who can receive the money? The recipient must be 18 or older, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. They'll also provide a valid tax ID for that country, a government-issued photo ID with date of birth, a phone number, and a residential address, with no PO boxes. If the recipient's country isn't supported, a trusted adult in a supported country can be named instead, receive the funds, and pass them along. ### Our fundraiser isn't showing up in this category yet. Why? A few reasons: it's still unpublished, it's set to private, it was published very recently (search can take up to 48 hours), or it hasn't yet met the category-listing threshold of published for 5 days and $100 USD or equivalent raised in online gifts. Offline gifts don't count toward that threshold. ### How do I find one specific family's fundraiser? Search GiveSendGo.com by the fundraiser title, the recipient's name, or the creator's name. If site search doesn't surface it, search "\[name\] GiveSendGo" on Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo. A fundraiser set to private won't appear in search at all. You'll need the direct link from the family. --- # First responders fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/first_responders # First Responders Fundraisers ## What people raise for here The needs here start with an injury or a death in the line of duty, and they run on through the surgery that comes after years of the job wearing a body down, a cancer diagnosis, or a family going through a hard stretch that has nothing to do with the job at all. On the department side they look different: gear, a K-9, a wellness fund, an anniversary, or a legal fund. The fundraiser doesn't have to be about one bad day. A long, grinding one counts, and so does the ordinary kind of hardship that would be filed under medical or family if the person weren't a paramedic, a deputy, or a firefighter. The category you pick doesn't change how a fundraiser performs, and you can edit it later. ## Almost nobody in this category raises for themselves These fundraisers get started by the person standing next to the responder: a colleague, a spouse, a union rep, someone on the same shift. That's normal here, and it's allowed: anyone can start a fundraiser on behalf of someone else, and you don't need a nonprofit or an EIN to do it. What you do need is a recipient. The recipient must be 18 or older, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. Every recipient completes identity verification before any transfer. The recipient's country can't be changed after the fundraiser is created, so pick it carefully. If the person you're raising for can't be the recipient (a minor, for instance), a parent, guardian, or the organization has to stand in. The writing and the sharing can come from you, but the ID and the bank details have to come from them. ## How to raise money for a first responder or a veteran The mechanics don't change with the story. Raising for a firefighter after a line-of-duty injury, for a retired paramedic facing a diagnosis, or for a combat veteran whose family needs a roof runs through the same short setup. - **Say what happened and what the money covers**, because a realistic goal, a specific breakdown, a direct ask, and a good photo or short video are what separate a fundraiser that works from one that stalls. - **Name the recipient and let them finish their half**: the photo ID, the bank account, and a valid tax ID in that country. - **Watch the verification clock**, since review starts once the ID is uploaded and the first gift has arrived, and it usually finishes 1 to 2 business days after that. - **Then work the network you already have**: the shift, the house, the local, or the department's own list. That is where this category's fundraisers get their reach. - **Expect up to 48 hours before it shows up in GiveSendGo's own search**, so send the direct link to the shift and the family's own list rather than telling people to search. - **Set it to private if the family would rather it stayed quiet:** it stays out of GiveSendGo search results and category listings, so only people you send the link to will find it. Your name still shows to anyone who opens it. [**Start a GiveSendGo**](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup) ## What it costs, and when the money reaches the family GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut. There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** Outside the US, that $100 gift lands at $96.20. We can charge nothing because of the optional tip at checkout: every giver sees a suggested tip to GiveSendGo, adjustable to any amount including $0, and that's what funds our operating costs. One separate setting to know about. A percentage to GiveSendGo set when the fundraiser was created is added on top of each gift and shown to the people giving at checkout, and it's editable anytime in fundraiser Settings. Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer. Transfers can be requested from the Transfers tab whenever funds are available, or set to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. After that, the bank's own posting schedule decides when the money shows up. ## If a department or an association is the one raising Funds can land in an organization's own account. The person completing verification is always an individual, 18 or older, with a government-issued photo ID, acting as the legal representative. They select the Business bank account type with the legal business name and the organization's bank details. And one account can run more than one fundraiser, so the gear fund this year and the K-9 next year live in the same place. Volunteer companies, county fire chiefs associations, and constables' associations already raise here for anniversaries, wellness programs, gear, and legal funds. Reach is what this category runs on, and our help desk puts consistent sharing and regular updates ahead of a single announcement. [**Start a GiveSendGo**](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup) ## If you came here to give Plenty of people here are giving rather than raising funds. Every fundraiser listed above has been published at least 5 days and has taken $100 or more in online gifts, which is what it takes to be listed here, and offline gifts don't count toward that. Before any money moves, the recipient completes identity verification and the trust and safety team checks the fundraiser over. [**Support a first responder's fundraiser on this page**](#fundraisers) ### Can I start a fundraiser for a coworker, a firefighter, or a deputy? Yes. Anyone can start a fundraiser on behalf of someone else, and most fundraisers in this category work exactly that way: a colleague, a spouse, or someone on the same shift writes it. You don't need a nonprofit or an EIN to start one. ### How do I help someone who won't ask for help themselves? Start it for them and name them as the recipient. They'll need to complete the recipient side themselves, since identity verification runs through the payment partner and can't be waived for anyone. The writing, the sharing, and the asking can come from you. Say plainly what happened, what the money covers, and who's organizing it. ### Who has to receive the money? The recipient must be 18 or older, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. If their country isn't supported, a trusted adult in a supported country can be named as recipient and pass the funds along. Every recipient completes identity verification before any transfer. The recipient's country can't be changed after the fundraiser is created. They'll also need a valid tax ID in that country, a government-issued photo ID with date of birth, a phone number, and a residential address, with no PO boxes. ### Can a department, association, or volunteer company raise money here? Yes. Whoever completes verification is always a person, 18 or older, with a government-issued photo ID, acting as the organization's legal representative, and that person chooses the Business bank account type, entering the legal business name and the organization's own bank details, so funds land in the organization's account rather than a personal one. One account can run more than one fundraiser, so the next need doesn't mean starting over. ### What does GiveSendGo charge? Nothing. GiveSendGo charges $0 in platform fees, and no cut of what's raised goes to GiveSendGo. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: 2.7% + $0.30 per gift for US fundraisers, 3.5% + $0.30 outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, $97.00 reaches the fundraiser. Separately, if a percentage to GiveSendGo was set when the fundraiser was created, that amount is added on top of each gift and shown to givers at checkout. It's editable anytime in fundraiser Settings. ### When does the money reach the family? Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer. After that, the bank's own posting schedule decides when it shows up. ### Can we raise money for an officer's legal defense? Yes. Legal defense is one of the things GiveSendGo explicitly welcomes, including fundraisers other platforms turn away, as long as they follow our Terms of Service. One rule applies to a specific class of case: if the charges are violent or weapons-related, the funds can't go to the creator or the defendant. A licensed US attorney or law firm actively on the case has to be named as the recipient. ### Is money raised for a responder's family taxable income for them? In most cases, no. Funds raised are generally treated as personal gifts rather than taxable income, as long as nothing is given in exchange for the donation, and GiveSendGo doesn't issue 1099s to recipients or report donations to the IRS. A fundraiser involving a business, a political cause, or rewards for givers may be treated differently by the IRS. That's a question for a tax professional. ### Can we keep the fundraiser out of public search? You can set your fundraiser to private: it stays out of GiveSendGo search results and category listings, so only people you send the link to will find it. Your name still shows to anyone who opens it. Creator and recipient names always display, and a fully anonymous fundraiser isn't possible on GiveSendGo. A newly published public fundraiser can take up to 48 hours to appear in GiveSendGo's own search. ### Are gifts to a fundraiser for an officer or a veteran tax-deductible? Nothing given on GiveSendGo is tax-deductible unless it goes through **GiveSendGo Charities**, the 501(c)(3). That includes the Giver Army, which is Charities' recurring giving program. The one exception is a recipient that is itself a verified 501(c)(3). GiveSendGo itself is not a 501(c)(3), does not verify any recipient's tax status, and does not issue tax receipts for a personal fundraiser. When the recipient is a nonprofit, the receipt comes from them, not from us. That is true even when a department, union, or benevolent association is the recipient. --- # Legal fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/legal # Legal Fundraisers ## What people raise for here Legal trouble arrives with a number attached, whether that's a retainer, a filing fee, a second round of representation, or an appeal. The fundraisers in this category cover custody and divorce fights, wrongful charges, civil disputes between neighbors or family, wrongful termination, immigration matters, and criminal defense. Most are started by someone standing next to the person the money is for, usually a spouse, a sibling, or a longtime friend writing plainly about what happened and what the money pays for. You don't need a dramatic story to start one, because the facts you already have are the ones that do the work: what the matter is, what stage it's at, and what the money covers. ## Legal defense is welcome here GiveSendGo welcomes many fundraisers that other platforms turn away, including legal defense fundraisers, as long as they follow our Terms of Service. Being part of a difficult or controversial situation doesn't disqualify someone from asking for help. The limits are the same for everyone, and the rules for legal fundraisers are simple: no fundraiser can promote or glorify violence, none can raise money for illegal activity, and every one of them has to be transparent about how the funds will be used. One rule applies to legal cases specifically, and you should know about it before you start. If the case involves violent or weapons-related charges (assault, reckless endangerment, weapons or firearm charges, domestic violence, homicide), the funds can't go to the creator or the defendant directly. A licensed US attorney or law firm actively on the case has to be named as the recipient. If no licensed attorney is willing to take that role, GiveSendGo can't release the funds, so have that conversation early. ## How to raise money for legal fees You don't need a nonprofit, an EIN, or a lawyer already on retainer to set one up. A few of the decisions stick once you publish, though, so read these first. - **Pick the recipient's country first**, because it's locked once the fundraiser is created, and getting it wrong means starting over with a new one. - **State the matter, the stage it's at, and what the money covers.** A realistic goal, a specific breakdown, and a clear story with a direct ask are what the help desk names as the difference between a fundraiser that works and one that stalls. - **Name who receives the money**, either yourself or someone else, as long as that person is 18 or older, lives in the fundraiser's country, and has a bank account there. - **Send the link to the people who already know the situation, then keep sending it.** Our help desk puts consistent sharing and regular updates ahead of a single announcement. [**Start a GiveSendGo**](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup) ## What it costs, and when the money moves GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut. There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** A $250 gift lands at $242.95, and outside the US that $100 gift lands at $96.20. We can charge nothing because of the optional tip at checkout: every giver sees a suggested tip to GiveSendGo, adjustable to any amount including $0, and that's what funds our operating costs. One separate setting to know about: an optional percentage to GiveSendGo set while creating the fundraiser is added on top of each gift and shown to the people giving at checkout, and it's editable anytime from your fundraiser's Settings. Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer. You can request one yourself from the Transfers tab whenever funds are available, or set transfers to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. - **Verification comes first, and nobody is exempt**, because it runs through the payment partner as a standard financial-industry requirement and finishes 1 to 2 business days after the recipient's ID and the first gift are both in. - **In the US, connect a checking account**, since transfers are sent as checking transactions and a savings account may be rejected by the bank. [**Start a GiveSendGo**](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup) ## What private does, and what still shows You can set your fundraiser to private: it stays out of GiveSendGo search results and category listings, so only people you send the link to will find it. Your name still shows to anyone who opens it. Private controls who can _find_ the page. It does not hide who you are. Creator and recipient names always display on a GiveSendGo fundraiser, and a fully anonymous fundraiser isn't possible. If your case is active and you're weighing what a public fundraiser could mean for it, that's a conversation for your attorney. GiveSendGo can tell you exactly how the platform works. It can't tell you how a fundraiser interacts with your case. ## If you came here to give Plenty of people come here to give rather than to raise. You came to help someone through a legal fight, and every fundraiser listed above has been published at least 5 days and has taken $100 or more in online gifts, which is what it takes to be listed here. When you give, you can leave a comment, and it stays on the page beside your gift. [**Support a legal fundraiser on this page**](#fundraisers) ### Is it illegal to start a fundraiser for myself? No. Anyone can start a fundraiser on GiveSendGo, for yourself or on behalf of someone else. You don't need a nonprofit or an EIN. What every fundraiser does have to do is be transparent about how the funds will be used, and stay inside the Terms of Service: nothing that promotes or glorifies violence, and nothing that raises money for illegal activity. ### Can I raise money for legal fees on GiveSendGo? Yes. Legal defense is one of the things GiveSendGo explicitly welcomes, including fundraisers other platforms turn away, as long as they follow our Terms of Service. That covers attorney fees and a retainer, filing fees, an appeal, a civil suit, or a custody fight. ### What is a legal defense fund? It's money raised to pay for someone's legal costs: usually an attorney's retainer first, then whatever the case takes after that. On GiveSendGo it's a fundraiser like any other: you name the matter, say what the money covers, name who receives it, and share the link with the people who already know your situation. ### How do I raise money for legal fees? It takes four steps. Create the fundraiser and state the matter, the stage it's at, and what the money pays for. Name the recipient, whether that's yourself or someone else. The recipient then completes verification by uploading a government-issued photo ID and connecting a bank account, and review starts once the ID is in and the first gift has arrived. Last, send the link to the people who know your situation, and keep sending it rather than leaving it on one post. ### Do I need a lawyer already lined up before I start? You don't need one to start raising. There's one exception on the release side: if the case involves violent or weapons-related charges, a licensed US attorney or law firm actively on the case must be named as the recipient, and GiveSendGo can't release funds without one. ### Can I keep my fundraiser private? You can set it to private, which keeps it out of GiveSendGo search results and category listings, so only people you send the link to will find it. Your name still shows to anyone who opens it. Creator and recipient names always display, and a fully anonymous fundraiser isn't possible on GiveSendGo. ### How do I legally accept donations as an individual? The recipient must be 18 or older, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. If their country isn't supported, a trusted adult in a supported country can be named as recipient and pass the funds along. Every recipient completes identity verification before any transfer. The recipient's country can't be changed after the fundraiser is created. They'll also need a valid tax ID in that country, a government-issued photo ID with date of birth, a phone number, and a residential address, with no PO boxes. Verification runs through the payment partner as a standard financial-industry requirement and can't be waived for anyone. ### Is money I raise for legal fees taxable income? In most cases, no. Funds raised are generally treated as personal gifts rather than taxable income, as long as nothing is given in exchange for the donation, and GiveSendGo doesn't issue 1099s to recipients or report donations to the IRS. If a fundraiser involves a business, a political cause, or rewards for givers, the IRS may treat it differently. That's a question for a tax professional. ### Could a public fundraiser affect my case? Ask your attorney. Whether a public fundraiser creates any exposure around discovery or a subpoena, or affects anything about how your case is handled, is not something GiveSendGo can answer. ### What does GiveSendGo charge? Nothing. There's no platform fee, and no cut of what you raise goes to GiveSendGo. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: 2.7% + 30¢ per gift in the US, 3.5% + 30¢ outside it. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, $97.00 reaches you. Separately, if you set a percentage to GiveSendGo when you created the fundraiser, that amount is added on top of each gift and shown to your givers at checkout. It's editable anytime in your fundraiser Settings. ### Are gifts to a legal defense fundraiser tax-deductible? Nothing given on GiveSendGo is tax-deductible unless it goes through **GiveSendGo Charities**, the 501(c)(3). That includes the Giver Army, which is Charities' recurring giving program. The one exception is a recipient that is itself a verified 501(c)(3). GiveSendGo itself is not a 501(c)(3), does not verify any recipient's tax status, and does not issue tax receipts for a personal fundraiser. When the recipient is a nonprofit, the receipt comes from them, not from us. A legal defense fundraiser is a personal fundraiser, so gifts to it are not deductible. --- # Medical fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/medical # Medical Fundraisers ## Raising money for medical bills A medical fundraiser covers what insurance didn't: the hospital bills, a surgery, travel to a specialty hospital, the therapy that got denied, and the paychecks nobody is earning while all of it happens. Medical bills are one of the most common reasons people raise money on GiveSendGo. The page you create is a fundraiser, the person who sets it up is the fundraiser creator, and whoever's bank account receives the money is the recipient. Those last two don't have to be the same person, and in this category that matters, because the patient is often in no condition to be typing. A spouse, a sibling, or a friend can build it instead. ## How to raise money for medical bills Anyone can start a fundraiser, for themselves or for someone else, with no nonprofit status and no EIN required. If writing it is the part that's stopping you, MICA, GiveSendGo's AI writing assistant, can draft a first version from a short description and you edit from there. - **Pick the recipient's country first**, because it's locked once the fundraiser is created and the only fix is starting over with a new one. - **Set a goal and choose the Medical category**, then write the title and the story in your own words and add a photo or a short video. - **Use the specifics you already have**, since those are what carry a medical fundraiser: the diagnosis, the hospital, and what next month looks like. - **Publish it, or save it** and come back once you know more. - **Give people a breakdown of what the money covers,** so they can see how their generosity is actually making a difference. Our help desk points to these key elements: a realistic goal, that breakdown, a direct ask, strong photos or a short video, regular updates, and steady sharing rather than a single post. [**Start a GiveSendGo**](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup) ## Who starts it and who receives the money The fundraiser creator sets the fundraiser up, and the recipient is whoever's bank account the money lands in. Keeping the two roles separate is what lets a family fundraise for a patient who is mid-treatment or recovering. The rules on the recipient are worth reading before you create anything, because one of them can't be undone. - **The recipient must be 18 or older**, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. A patient under 18 can't be their own recipient, so a parent or guardian takes that role. - **If the recipient's country isn't supported**, a trusted adult who lives in a supported country can be named instead, receive the funds, and pass them along. - **One account can run more than one fundraiser**, and each one has its own recipient and its own verification. ## What it costs GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut. There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** A $250 gift lands at $242.95. Outside the US, that $100 gift lands at $96.20, and non-USD fundraisers can also pick up currency exchange fees set by the processor. GiveSendGo runs on the optional tip at checkout. Every giver sees a suggested tip they can set to any amount, including $0, and that covers our operating costs and mission outreach. So none of what you raise toward a hospital bill comes to us as a platform fee. Before you publish, check your optional giving settings. If you set a percentage to GiveSendGo while creating the fundraiser, that amount is added on top of each gift and shown to the people giving at checkout, and some of them read it as a platform fee. You can edit it anytime from your fundraiser's Settings. ## When the money reaches you, and what verification involves Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer. Request transfers yourself from the Transfers tab whenever funds are available, or set them to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. In the US, use a checking account, because transfers are sent as checking transactions and a savings account may be rejected by the bank. Before any of that money moves, the recipient goes through identity verification, which works like this: - **They provide** a bank account in the fundraiser's country, a valid tax ID, a government-issued photo ID with date of birth, a phone number, and a residential address that isn't a PO box. - **Review starts** once the ID is uploaded and the fundraiser has received its first gift, whichever comes later, and usually finishes 1 to 2 business days from that point. - **Three things get checked:** the fundraiser's content, the recipient's identity, and the recipient's bank setup. The trust and safety team also confirms the recipient's relationship to the patient makes sense. - **Nobody is exempt**, because identity verification through the payment partner is a standard financial-industry requirement. [**Start a GiveSendGo**](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup) ## If you came here to give If you came to help someone else through a hospital stretch, the fundraisers listed above are real ones in this category. A fundraiser only appears here once it has been published 5 days and raised $100 or more in online gifts. You can leave a comment with your gift, and it stays on the page beside it. Card details run through a PCI Level 1 certified processor, the top tier in the payments industry, and are never stored on GiveSendGo's own servers. Your name and email are never sold or passed to anyone else. [**Support a medical fundraiser on this page**](#fundraisers) ### How do I raise money for medical bills? Log in, go to My Fundraisers, and click Start a GiveSendGo. Pick the recipient's country (locked once you create it), set a goal, choose a category, write your title and story, add a photo or video, then publish or save it for later. You don't need a nonprofit or an EIN. ### Can I start a fundraiser for someone else's medical bills? Yes. Anyone can start a fundraiser, including on someone else's behalf. The recipient is whoever's bank account receives the money, and that doesn't have to be the creator. They must be 18 or older, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there, and they complete identity verification before any transfer. That country can't be changed after the fundraiser is created. ### Can I raise money for my own medical bills? Yes, and you can be both the creator and the recipient. Anyone can start a fundraiser, with no nonprofit status and no EIN required. ### What do I write in a medical fundraiser? Include a realistic goal, a specific breakdown of what the money covers, the story in your own words with a direct ask, and strong photos or a short personal video. Then post updates as things change and share it more than once. That short list is what our help desk names as the difference between a fundraiser that works and one that stalls. If drafting it is the part that's stopping you, MICA can write a first version from a short description and you edit from there. ### How much does GiveSendGo take from what I raise? Nothing at all. GiveSendGo charges $0 in platform fees, and what's deducted is the payment processor's fee: 2.7% + 30¢ per gift for US fundraisers, 3.5% + 30¢ outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, $97 reaches you. ### When does the money actually reach me? Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer. ### Do I need a nonprofit or an EIN? No, anyone can start a fundraiser. If you _are_ a verified 501(c)(3), GiveSendGo doesn't display or verify that for you. Say it yourself in your fundraiser story and in a custom thank-you message with your legal name and EIN. The standard GiveSendGo receipt can't be edited to add it. ### Is a gift to a medical fundraiser tax-deductible? ### Do I owe taxes on money raised for medical bills? In most cases, no. Funds raised are treated as personal gifts rather than taxable income, as long as nothing is given in exchange, and GiveSendGo doesn't issue 1099s or report gifts to the IRS. If a business, a political cause, or rewards for givers are involved, the IRS may treat it differently, and that's a question for a tax professional. ### Can I keep the fundraiser out of search? You can set your fundraiser to private: it stays out of GiveSendGo search results and category listings, so only people you send the link to will find it. Your name still shows to anyone who opens it. A newly published public fundraiser can take up to 48 hours to appear in search. --- # Memorial fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/memorial # Memorial Fundraisers ## What a memorial fund is A memorial fund is money raised after someone dies, so the family isn't carrying the funeral costs alone in the same week they're planning the service. Usually that means the funeral home's bill, burial or cremation, a headstone, and the paychecks nobody is earning while all of it happens. Funerals and memorials are common reasons people raise funds on GiveSendGo. The page you create is a fundraiser, the person who sets it up is the fundraiser creator, and whoever's bank account receives the money is the recipient. Those last two don't have to be the same person. So if you're the friend who can still function this week, build the page and name the family as the recipient. The money goes to their account, not through yours. ## How to start a memorial fund You don't need the service date, a final number from the funeral home, a nonprofit, or an EIN. Nothing in the setup asks for any of it, and anyone can start a fundraiser, including on someone else's behalf. - **Pick the recipient's country first**, because it's locked once the fundraiser is created, and the recipient has to live there and have a bank account there. - **Set a goal and choose the Memorial category.** A realistic number does more work than an ambitious one. - **Write the title and the story in your own words**, then add a photo or a short video. - **Publish it now, or save it** and come back when you can find the words. - **Add the recipient's details** so the money can move: a bank account in the fundraiser's country, a valid tax ID, a government-issued photo ID with date of birth, a phone number, and a residential address that isn't a PO box. - **Share it more than once.** Our help desk lists these key elements every time: consistent sharing, updates as things change, and a specific breakdown of what the money covers. [**Start a GiveSendGo**](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup) ## What it costs GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut. There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** On a $50 gift, $48.35 reaches you. Outside the US, a $100 gift lands at $96.20, and non-USD fundraisers can also pick up currency exchange fees set by the processor. GiveSendGo runs on the optional tip at checkout. Every giver sees a suggested tip they can set to any amount, including $0, and that covers our operating costs and mission outreach. So no percentage of what a family raises comes to us. Before you publish, check your optional giving settings. If you set a percentage to GiveSendGo while creating the fundraiser, that amount is added on top of each gift and shown to the people giving at checkout, and some of them read it as a platform fee. You can edit it anytime from your fundraiser's Settings. ## When the money reaches the family Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer. You can request a transfer yourself from the Transfers tab whenever funds are available, or set them to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. Before any of that, though, the recipient has to be verified. - **Review starts later than you'd expect.** It begins once the recipient has uploaded their ID and the fundraiser has received its first gift, whichever comes later, and it usually finishes 1 to 2 business days from there. - **Three things get checked:** the fundraiser's content, the recipient's identity, and the recipient's bank setup. - **Nobody is exempt**, because identity verification through the payment partner is a standard financial-industry requirement. - **The status says where a transfer stands.** Processing means it was accepted and is moving. Paused means something needs review, and it resumes once that's resolved. Transferred means it's with your bank, which posts it on its own schedule. ## What a memorial fundraiser can cover, and what isn't allowed Nearly anything a family actually needs when facing a loss is allowed here, including the hard situations other platforms turn away, and the category you choose doesn't affect how well a fundraiser can do. The limits are short and published: - A fundraiser can't promote or glorify violence, and it can't raise money for illegal activity. - Abortion procedures and gender-transition surgeries for minors aren't allowed. - Nobody can impersonate someone else or mislead the people giving. - Every fundraiser has to be transparent about how the money will be used. GiveSendGo also follows the laws of every country it operates in and its payment partners' rules, so occasionally a fundraiser that meets our guidelines still can't be processed. [**Start a GiveSendGo**](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup) ## If you came here to give Plenty of people open this page to help a family they will never meet rather than to start something. The fundraisers listed above are real ones in this category, and each one appears here only after it has been published 5 days and raised $100 or more in online gifts. When you give, you can leave a comment with your gift, and it stays on the page beside it. Recipients who opt in can also get a prayer call from GiveSendGo. Card details run through a PCI Level 1 certified processor, the top tier in the payments industry, and are never stored on GiveSendGo's own servers. Your name and email are never sold or passed to anyone else. [**Support a memorial fundraiser on this page**](#fundraisers) ### What is a memorial fund? A memorial fund is money raised after a death to cover what the family is facing: the funeral home, burial or cremation, a headstone, a marker, and often lost income. On GiveSendGo it's a fundraiser in the Memorial category, started by a fundraiser creator and transferred to a named recipient's bank account. ### How do I start a memorial fund? Log in, go to My Fundraisers, and click Start a GiveSendGo. You'll pick the recipient's country (it's locked once you create the fundraiser, so pick carefully), set a goal, choose a category, write your title and story, add a photo or video, then publish now or save it for later. You don't need a nonprofit or an EIN. Anyone can start one. ### How do I ask people for help with funeral expenses? Say what happened and what the money covers, plainly, in your own words, and then ask directly. A realistic goal and a specific breakdown of the costs do more than a long story. Add a photo or a short video, post updates as the week takes shape, and share it more than once. Consistent sharing rather than a single post is what the help desk names as the difference between a fundraiser that works and one that stalls. ### Can I raise money for cremation costs? Yes, funerals and memorials are one of the categories people raise for here, and that covers cremation, burial, a headstone, and final expenses. GiveSendGo hosts the fundraiser, and the money comes from the people you share it with. ### Does GiveSendGo take a cut? No, GiveSendGo charges $0 in platform fees. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: 2.7% + 30¢ per gift for US fundraisers, 3.5% + 30¢ outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, $97 reaches you. ### When does the money reach the family? The first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once a transfer is requested, it typically lands in the bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer. ### Can the money go straight to the family instead of to me? Yes, the recipient is whoever's bank account receives the funds, and it doesn't have to be the creator. The recipient must be 18 or older, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. Every recipient completes identity verification before any transfer. A church or an organization can receive funds using a Business bank account type, but an authorized person still completes that verification. The recipient's country can't be changed after the fundraiser is created. ### Is a gift to a memorial fundraiser tax-deductible? ### Does the family owe taxes on what's raised? In most cases, no. Funds raised are treated as personal gifts rather than taxable income, as long as nothing is given in exchange, and GiveSendGo doesn't issue 1099s or report gifts to the IRS. If a business, a political cause, or rewards for givers are involved, the IRS may treat it differently, and that's a question for a tax professional. ### Can I keep the fundraiser out of search? You can set your fundraiser to private: it stays out of GiveSendGo search results and category listings, so only people you send the link to will find it. Your name still shows to anyone who opens it. A newly published public fundraiser can take up to 48 hours to appear in search. --- # Mission fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/mission # Mission Fundraisers ## Who raises money in this category Four kinds of people do most of the fundraising here. There's the student who got accepted onto a summer team and was handed a deposit date and a total, and the parent doing the paperwork while their teenager does the asking. There's the person accepted into an apprenticeship or a training school who has to reach a monthly support number before the sending organization will release them to the field. And there's the family already serving who needs to cover what came up this month, whether that's a seven-seat vehicle, a repair, or a budget line that fell short. You don't need nonprofit status or an EIN to start. Anyone can start a fundraiser, and one account can run more than one, which is how people split an upfront lump sum and ongoing monthly support into two pages. ## Mission trip fundraising, start to finish Most people arrive here with a number and a date somebody else set, so what helps most is the order of operations. - Log in, open **My Fundraisers**, and click **Start a GiveSendGo**. Pick the recipient's country before anything else, because it's locked once the fundraiser is created and it sets which bank accounts can receive the money. - Set the goal at the real total, choose the **Mission** category, and write the trip's own facts into the story: where, when, what it costs, and what the money covers. MICA, GiveSendGo's AI writing assistant, can draft that story from a short description if a blank box is what's slowing you down. - Add a photo or a short video, then publish. - Add the recipient and upload their ID the same day. Verification review doesn't begin until the ID is in and the first gift has landed, whichever comes later, and it typically takes 1 to 2 business days from there. - Share it consistently rather than in one announcement, because a fundraiser page reaches the people you actually send it to. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ## If the traveler is under 18, a parent has to be the recipient The recipient must be **18 or older**, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. That catches families off guard every summer, because a seventeen-year-old raising for a trip cannot be their own recipient. A parent or the sending organization has to be. Every recipient completes identity verification before any transfer, using a government-issued photo ID, a tax ID in that country, a phone number, and a residential address. The recipient's country is locked once the fundraiser is created and can't be changed afterward. If the recipient's country isn't supported, a trusted adult in a supported country can be named instead, receive the funds, and pass them along. None of this changes who tells the story, so your teenager can write every word of the page and do all the asking while a parent's name sits on the recipient form. ## What it costs, and when it reaches you GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut. There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** A $25 gift lands at $24.03, and a $50 gift at $48.35. Timing matters here more than in most categories, because the deposit date is usually somebody else's. Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received, and every gift after that on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer. So upload the recipient's ID the day you publish, not the week the deposit is due. You can request each transfer yourself from the Transfers tab, or set them to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. A manual transfer sends the whole available balance, and you wait 24 hours after one is approved before requesting another. ## Givers can set up monthly support At checkout a giver chooses a single donation or a monthly subscription, so the people who support you can keep giving every month rather than once. If your sending organization wants to see sustained monthly support before they release you, that's the mechanism. Givers manage the payment method or cancel from My Impact themselves, and cancelling stops future charges immediately. ## What tends to fill a mission trip fundraiser The trips that get funded have a page that answers a giver's questions before the giver has to ask. - **Break the cost out inside the story:** flights, lodging, in-country costs, and the deposit that's due first. - **Put the trip's own facts near the top,** meaning the country, the dates, and the team you're going with. - **Tell one clear personal story with a direct ask,** in the traveler's own voice. - **Use strong photos, or a short video** shot on a phone. - **Post updates** while people are still giving, not only after the trip. - **Share it** with real people one at a time rather than in a single post. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** If you opt in when you add your phone number, someone from GiveSendGo can call and pray with you. And if you're here to back somebody else's trip, the fundraisers listed above belong to real travelers with dates already on the calendar. **[Give to a mission fundraiser on this page](#fundraisers)** ### How do I raise money for a mission trip? Start a fundraiser and let the trip's own facts carry it: where, when, what it costs, and what the money covers. Log in, click Start a GiveSendGo, pick the recipient's country (locked once you create it), set a goal, choose the Mission category, write your title and story, add a photo or short video, and publish. Then add the recipient and upload their ID. If the traveler is under 18, the recipient has to be a parent or the sending organization, not the student. GiveSendGo charges no platform fee, so what's deducted is the payment processor's 2.7% + 30¢ per gift in the US, 3.5% + 30¢ outside it. ### My teenager is going on a mission trip. Whose name goes on the fundraiser? The recipient has to be 18 or older, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. So for a minor's trip, a parent or the sending organization is named as recipient and completes identity verification. Your teenager can still write the story and do the asking. The requirement is about who receives the money, not who tells the story. Say so plainly on the page, because givers who know your family expect a parent to be the one handling the money. ### How do missionaries make money? Most people serving in the field are funded by people who choose to give, not paid by a platform. On GiveSendGo, gifts go to your fundraiser, become available on a set schedule (your first gift 5 days after it's received, then every gift after that on a rolling 3-day basis), and transfer to the recipient's bank account when you request it. In most cases money raised this way is treated as personal gifts rather than taxable income, as long as nothing is given in exchange for the gift, and GiveSendGo doesn't issue 1099s to recipients or report donations to the IRS. If your fundraiser involves a business, a political cause, or rewards for givers, that changes and needs a tax professional. ### Can I raise monthly support instead of one lump sum? Yes. Givers choose a single donation or a monthly subscription when they give, and they manage or cancel it themselves. One account can also run more than one fundraiser, which is how people keep an upfront launch total and an ongoing monthly page separate. ### What does GiveSendGo charge on money raised for a mission trip? Nothing. GiveSendGo charges $0 in platform fees. The payment processor's fee is 2.7% + 30¢ per gift for US fundraisers and 3.5% + 30¢ outside the US, so a $100 gift to a US fundraiser leaves $97. Separately, when you create the fundraiser you can choose to set a percentage of what you raise to go to GiveSendGo. If you set it, that amount is added on top of each gift and shown to your givers at checkout, and it's editable anytime in your fundraiser's Settings. Givers also see an optional, fully adjustable tip to GiveSendGo at checkout, which they can set to $0. ### Will the money reach me before the deposit deadline? Plan it backwards from the deadline. Verification review begins once the recipient's ID is uploaded and the first donation has landed, whichever is later, then typically takes 1 to 2 business days. Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received, and each one after that on a rolling 3-day basis. A requested transfer typically reaches your bank in 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers take longer. Nothing here is instant, so upload the ID the day you publish. ### Are gifts to my mission trip tax-deductible? If your sending organization is a verified 501(c)(3) and is the recipient, say that yourself in the fundraiser story and in a custom thank-you message with the organization's legal name and EIN. The official GiveSendGo receipt can't be edited to add it. ### What does the Bible say about supporting missionaries financially? Paul's letters describe churches and individuals sending money to people doing the work. Philippians 4:15-16 names the church at Philippi as the one that partnered with him and sent help more than once, and 3 John 5-8 calls supporting traveling workers "a faithful thing you do," ending with the reason: so that we may be fellow workers for the truth. That's the frame most people raising support already work from, which is partnership rather than charity. --- # Nonprofit fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/non_profit # Non-Profit Fundraisers ## What organizations raise for here The fundraisers in this category belong to organizations, and to the people still building one. Some are covering an operating gap that no grant cycle will close in time, and others are funding a launch, a building, a posting overseas, or a program cost an insurer denied. The person who starts it is usually the founder, the executive director, or the volunteer who ended up holding the fundraising, rather than a development department. You don't have to be finished to start. Anyone can start a fundraiser, and no nonprofit status or EIN is required. Registered 501(c)(3)s, organizations mid-formation with the paperwork filed, and ministries still run out of a home office all raise here. And one account can run more than one fundraiser, so this year's mission trip and next year's building fund don't need two separate homes. ## Nonprofit fundraising, step by step Nonprofit fundraising here works the way it does for an individual: no nonprofit status to prove first, no EIN, and no minimum size. What changes for an organization is who stands behind the money and where it lands, so settle these before you publish. - **Pick the fundraiser's country first**, because it's locked at creation and it decides the currency and which bank accounts can receive a transfer. - **Write the ask the way your board would want it written**, with a realistic goal, a breakdown of what the money covers, and a photo or a short video. - **Have your legal representative ready to verify**, since whoever completes it is always a person, 18 or older, with a government-issued photo ID. - **Say your 501(c)(3) status out loud in the fundraiser itself**, because GiveSendGo doesn't display or verify it for you. - **Expect up to 48 hours before it appears in GiveSendGo's own search**, so send the link to your own list instead of telling people to look for it. - **Keep sharing it and posting updates**, because steady sharing does more than one big announcement. [**Start a GiveSendGo**](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup) ## Tax-deductible giving, stated exactly If your organization is a verified 501(c)(3), you are the one who tells your givers, because GiveSendGo doesn't display or verify nonprofit status for you. Say it in your fundraiser story, and say it again in a custom thank-you message that states your 501(c)(3) status, your organization's legal name, and your EIN. The official GiveSendGo donation receipt can't be edited to add that. GiveSendGo does check an EIN in one place: when a fundraiser's funds go to a business bank account during verification. That's bank verification, not 501(c)(3) verification. ## What it costs GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut. There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** A $250 gift lands at $242.95, and outside the US that $100 gift lands at $96.20. Non-USD fundraisers may also incur currency exchange fees set by the processor. We can charge nothing because of the optional tip at checkout: every giver sees a suggested tip to GiveSendGo, adjustable to any amount including $0, and that's what funds our operating costs. No percentage of what your organization raises comes to us. One setting to know about, because givers see it: if you set a percentage of funds raised to go to GiveSendGo when you created the fundraiser, that amount is added on top of each gift and shown to your givers at checkout. It's editable anytime from fundraiser Settings and applies only to future donations. ## Getting the money into the organization's account Funds can land in the organization's own account rather than a personal one. The person who completes verification is always an individual, 18 or older, with a government-issued photo ID, acting as the organization's legal representative. That person selects the **Business** bank account type and enters the legal business name and the organization's own bank details. Identity verification runs through the payment partner as a standard financial-industry requirement, and it isn't waived for anyone. Review starts once the ID is uploaded and the fundraiser has received its first gift, whichever comes later. Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer. You can also set transfers to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly from the Transfers tab. A manual request sends the whole available balance, and you wait 24 hours after one is approved before asking for another. [**Start a GiveSendGo**](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup) ## If you came here to give You may not be raising money for an organization at all. You're here to give to one, and every fundraiser listed above has been published for at least 5 days and has taken $100 or more in online gifts, because that's what it takes to be listed on this page. Before any money moves, the recipient completes identity verification and the trust and safety team checks the fundraiser over. You can also give monthly rather than once, by choosing a subscription instead of a single gift, and you can change the payment method or cancel it yourself from My Impact. [**Support a nonprofit fundraiser on this page**](#fundraisers) ### Are donations through GiveSendGo tax-deductible? ### Is GiveSendGo a 501(c)(3)? No. GiveSendGo is not a 501(c)(3), and the receipt givers get is not a tax receipt. A separate registered 501(c)(3), GiveSendGo Charities, exists for tax-deductible giving. ### Is there a way to give through GiveSendGo that's tax-deductible for certain? Yes. GiveSendGo Charities is a registered 501(c)(3), and it offers two paths: a Donor-Advised Fund program, which lets the giver recommend how funds are distributed over time and carries a 3% administration fee with no minimum donation, and a Fund a Grant program, a tax-deductible gift to a specific eligible fundraiser with no minimum and no long-term setup. Not every fundraiser is eligible for either program. ### How do I stop donating to a charity or cancel a recurring donation? Log in and go to My Impact â My Donations, filter to Subscription, and open the donation card. You can update the payment method there (future charges use the new one, past charges don't change), or cancel by typing STOP to confirm. Cancelling stops all future charges immediately. ### Do I need to be a registered nonprofit, or have an EIN, to start a fundraiser? No. Anyone can start a fundraiser. There's no nonprofit status or EIN requirement to raise money on GiveSendGo. Status only affects whether gifts to you are deductible, and that depends on your own verified status, not on GiveSendGo. ### We're a verified 501(c)(3). How do our givers know that? You tell them. GiveSendGo doesn't display or verify your nonprofit status for you. State it in your fundraiser story, and set a custom thank-you message that gives your 501(c)(3) status, your organization's legal name, and your EIN. The official GiveSendGo donation receipt can't be edited to include it. ### What does it cost to raise money for a nonprofit here? GiveSendGo charges $0 in platform fees. No cut of what you raise goes to GiveSendGo. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: 2.7% + $0.30 per gift for US-based fundraisers, 3.5% + $0.30 for non-US ones. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, $97.00 reaches the fundraiser. Non-USD fundraisers may also incur currency exchange fees set by the processor. ### Can the money go straight into our organization's bank account? Yes. The person who completes verification is always an individual, 18 or older, with a government-issued photo ID, acting as the organization's legal representative, and they choose the Business bank account type, entering the legal business name and the organization's own bank details. A real person always stands behind the organization. One account can run more than one fundraiser, so the next need doesn't mean setting the organization up again from scratch. ### When does the money reach us? Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received. Every gift after that becomes available on a rolling 3-day basis. Once you request a transfer, it typically lands in your bank within 2 to 3 business days. Non-USD transfers can take longer. You can request transfers manually from the Transfers tab whenever funds are available, or set them to go out weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. The minimum transfer amount varies by country, so check the current figure at givesendgo.com/Pricing-and-Fees. ### How do I know a fundraiser I'm giving to is legitimate? Before any funds transfer, the recipient completes identity verification, and GiveSendGo's trust and safety team checks that the recipient's relationship to the person the money is for is appropriate and that the fundraiser's information is consistent and transparent. After that, ongoing monitoring watches for irregular or misleading activity, and any fundraiser can be placed on hold for review. If something looks wrong to you, use Contact Us with the fundraiser link and a specific description. Every report is reviewed against the Terms of Service by a real person. --- # Political fundraisers Source: https://www.givesendgo.com/campaigns/political # Political Fundraisers ## What the Political Campaign category is for This category holds fundraisers run for a US electoral candidate, federal or state office. It works like every other fundraiser on GiveSendGo, with one difference that shows up at checkout: FEC rules require more from each giver, so the form also asks for occupation, employer, employer address, and residential address. GiveSendGo collects those fields and does not enforce the per-giver contribution limits those rules set, so that compliance stays with the fundraiser creator. That's worth knowing before the first gift arrives. Plenty of political fundraisers aren't candidacies, and those belong elsewhere on GiveSendGo. Someone who lost a job over what they believe is raising for a personal need, and someone facing a case that turned into a public argument is raising for legal costs. Both are welcome here. Pick the category that matches the need, and know it's editable later if you pick the wrong one. ## Where we stand, and why Our position is published on the GiveSendGo homepage, under the heading We Love Freedom: > Even if we do not agree with you, we will defend your right to fundraise for the causes and people you love. A platform that removes fundraisers once they turn unpopular has made popularity the rule, and popularity is the first thing a person in trouble loses. So the standard here is the Terms of Service, applied the same way to everyone, whether or not we agree with the person asking. That is why nearly anything can be raised for on GiveSendGo: medical bills, funerals and memorials, emergencies, family and personal needs, faith and ministry work, missions, education, community causes, and legal defense, including the difficult and controversial situations other platforms turn away. Being part of one of those situations doesn't disqualify anyone from asking for help. ## Legal defense fundraisers Someone facing charges or a lawsuit needs help most at the moment they are least popular, and the bills arrive on their own schedule. An attorney asks for a retainer before the work starts, filings cost money, and a case can run for years after the week anyone was paying attention to it. That is the situation our position was written for, so legal defense fundraisers are welcome here as long as they follow the Terms of Service. One rule applies to legal cases specifically, and it decides who receives the money. If the case involves violent or weapons-related charges, such as assault, reckless endangerment, weapons or firearm charges, domestic violence, or homicide, funds can't go to the creator or the defendant directly. A licensed US attorney or law firm actively on the case has to be named as the recipient. Our Legal category page covers the practical side of raising for legal costs in full. ## What isn't allowed The limits are short, they're published, and they apply to everyone: - Fundraisers that promote or glorify violence. - Fundraisers that raise money for illegal activity. - Fundraisers for abortion procedures, or for gender-transition surgeries for minors. - Fundraisers that impersonate someone or mislead givers. Every fundraiser also has to be transparent about how the funds will be used. GiveSendGo follows the laws of every country it operates in, along with the rules of its payment partners, so a fundraiser can meet our own guidelines and still not be one we can host or process. **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ## How review actually works Anyone can report a fundraiser by sending us the link with a specific description of the concern, and every report is reviewed against the Terms of Service by a real person. We don't share the outcome or give a timeline, and we don't act on outrage or popularity. How many people are upset about a fundraiser is not one of the inputs. Before any funds transfer, the recipient completes identity verification and proves who they are. Our trust and safety team also checks that the recipient's relationship to the person being helped is appropriate, and that what the fundraiser says about itself is consistent and transparent. That verification runs through our payment partner as a standard financial-industry requirement, so it isn't waived for anyone. One consequence is specific to this category: a gift can be refunded without the giver asking for it when a Political Campaign fundraiser hasn't met a regulatory or verification requirement. The fundraisers listed above are live right now. **[Support a fundraiser on this page](#fundraisers)** ## What it costs, and when the money moves > **GiveSendGo doesn't take a cut.** There's no platform fee. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: **2.7% + 30¢** per gift for US fundraisers, **3.5% + 30¢** outside the US. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, **$97 reaches you.** Gift US (2.7% + 30¢) Non-US (3.5% + 30¢) $25 $24.03 $23.83 $50 $48.35 $47.95 $100 **$97.00** **$96.20** $250 $242.95 $240.95 Your first gift becomes available 5 days after it's received, every gift after that on a rolling 3-day basis, and a requested transfer typically reaches the bank within 2 to 3 business days. The recipient must be **18 or older**, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. **The recipient's country can't be changed after the fundraiser is created.** **[Start a GiveSendGo](https://www.givesendgo.com/signup)** ### Can I fundraise for a political candidate on GiveSendGo? Yes, through the **Political Campaign** category, for US electoral candidates only, at federal or state office. That category requires extra giver fields under FEC rules: occupation, employer, employer address, and residential address. GiveSendGo does not enforce the per-giver contribution limits those rules set, and that compliance is the fundraiser creator's responsibility. ### How do I raise money for a Political Campaign? Create the fundraiser, pick the recipient's country first because it's locked at creation, set a goal, and write what the money pays for. Name the recipient, who has to be 18 or older, live in the fundraiser's country, and have a bank account there. Our help desk names what separates a fundraiser that works from one that stalls: a realistic goal, a specific breakdown of the costs, a clear story with a direct ask, regular updates, and consistent sharing rather than a single announcement. ### Why does GiveSendGo allow fundraisers other platforms remove? Because we said we would, and it's on our homepage: "Even if we do not agree with you, we will defend your right to fundraise for the causes and people you love." Legal defense and other difficult or controversial situations are welcome here as long as the fundraiser follows the Terms of Service. Being part of a hard situation doesn't disqualify someone from asking for help. ### Does GiveSendGo take a fundraiser down when it becomes unpopular? No. Reports are reviewed against the Terms of Service by a real person, and how many people are upset about a fundraiser isn't one of the inputs. To report one, send us the fundraiser link with a specific description of your concern. We don't share the outcome of a report or give a timeline for one. ### Can someone raise money for legal defense here? Yes, and anyone can start one on behalf of someone else. If the case involves violent or weapons-related charges, such as assault, reckless endangerment, weapons or firearm charges, domestic violence, or homicide, the funds can't go to the creator or the defendant directly. A licensed US attorney or law firm actively on the case must be named as the recipient. ### Can someone raise money after losing a job over their beliefs? Yes. Nearly anything can be raised for on GiveSendGo, family and personal needs included, and being part of a controversial situation doesn't disqualify someone. That fundraiser isn't a Political Campaign fundraiser, though, since this category is only for US electoral candidates. Pick the category that matches the need. The category doesn't affect how well a fundraiser can do, and it's editable later. ### Are political donations tax deductible? ### Is money raised on a political fundraiser taxable income? In most cases funds raised are treated as personal gifts rather than taxable income, as long as nothing is given in exchange for the donation, and GiveSendGo doesn't issue 1099s to recipients or report donations to the IRS. Where a fundraiser involves a political cause, a business, or rewards for givers, the IRS may treat it differently. That one is a question for a tax professional. ### Can I give to a political fundraiser anonymously? Not fully. You can check "Hide My Name from Public View" and appear as "Anonymous Giver" on the page, or display a custom name instead, but the creator and recipient still see your real name and email in their Donations tab so they can send receipts and thank-yous. On a Political Campaign fundraiser the FEC fields are required as well: occupation, employer, employer address, and residential address. Creator and recipient names always display on a GiveSendGo fundraiser. ### What does GiveSendGo charge? Nothing. There's no platform fee, and no cut of what you raise goes to GiveSendGo. What's deducted is the payment processor's fee: 2.7% + 30¢ per gift in the US, 3.5% + 30¢ outside it. On a $100 gift to a US fundraiser, $97.00 reaches you. Separately, if you set a percentage to GiveSendGo when you created the fundraiser, that amount is added on top of each gift and shown to your givers at checkout, and it's editable anytime in your fundraiser Settings. ---