- Starting price
- 0% platform fee · processing from 2.7% + $0.30
- Free tier
- Yes
- Platforms
- Web
- Developer
- GiveSendGo, LLC
- Launched
- 2015
- Updated
- Aug 9, 2026
The verdict
GiveSendGo is a flexible, mission-explicit option when a lawful fundraiser needs broad access and cannot surrender a percentage to a platform fee. The trade is responsibility: card fees still reduce each gift; tips support GiveSendGo; campaigns are public; anonymous donors remain identifiable to owners; contributions are generally voluntary and nonrefundable; the platform does not guarantee how recipients use money; KYC or compliance can delay payouts; personal campaigns are generally not tax-deductible; and GiveSendGo.com is not the separate 501(c)(3) GiveSendGo Charities. A government breach report records 92,000 people affected in 2022, while the current LLC privacy policy is still dated April 2022 and gives weak retention and rights detail. Verify the human and beneficiary outside the page, use a dedicated payment method and limited public identity, document budget and updates, understand tax and legal duties, and never donate money you cannot afford to lose.
Try GiveSendGo ↗Opens givesendgo.com
GiveSendGo is a for-profit Christian crowdfunding site operated by GiveSendGo, LLC. People create public pages for medical needs, memorials, emergencies, ministries, missions, adoptions, creative work, legal expenses, businesses, political campaigns, and other lawful purposes; supporters give by card, leave public encouragement, share pages, and may add a voluntary tip for the platform. Prayer is intentionally part of the experience through campaign prayer messages and the public prayer wall. The platform emphasizes sharing hope and preserving access to fundraising for causes other services may decline.
Its headline pricing is 0% platform fee. That statement is accurate within its definition and easy to misread as “no fee.” US credit and debit gifts carry 2.7% plus $0.30 processing, deducted from the gross donation. Non-USD fundraisers pay 3.5% plus $0.30, a non-USD gift to a US-dollar fundraiser can add 1%, and currency or bank costs may apply. GiveSendGo requests optional tips from donors to fund the service. Fundraisers keep eligible gifts whether or not they reach a goal and do not need a deadline.
Crowdfunding is not escrow, retail, or ordinary charity verification. The current terms say donations are voluntary rather than purchases, generally nonrefundable, and may support individuals, businesses, nonprofits, or political candidates. GiveSendGo does not represent that every gift is tax-deductible or warrant that funds will be used for a particular purpose. It can verify identity and banking, review compliance, delay or withhold transfers, suspend campaigns, return gifts, and share campaign-owner contact information in a dispute. The fundraiser owner is responsible for truth, lawful use, taxes, fulfillment, and communications.
We reviewed the live fee table, current terms effective July 14, 2025, privacy policy effective April 7, 2022, security disclosure page updated April 2025, payout and transfer help, tax and nonprofit guidance, GiveSendGo Charities policies updated June 2026, public campaign mechanics, and Indiana’s 2022 breach report on August 9, 2026. We did not create or fund a campaign, submit identity documents, enter payment data, test refunds or chargebacks, measure payout time, verify an individual campaign, request support, inspect payment processors, test deletion or 2FA, audit security, or provide legal, tax, accounting, investment, compliance, sanctions, political-finance, charitable-solicitation, pastoral, or financial advice. Fees, timing, eligibility, and law vary by country, payment, recipient, and campaign.
✓ The good
- No platform percentage - GiveSendGo does not deduct its own platform fee from the campaign balance, preserving more than percentage-fee competitors before processing
- Transparent base processing price - the US and non-USD fee formulas are published instead of hidden behind signup or a sales call
- No all-or-nothing goal - organizers can keep eligible donations even when the public target is not reached and can operate without a deadline
- Broad cause eligibility - personal, ministry, nonprofit, legal, business, political, and other lawful campaigns have a potential home subject to the terms
- Prayer is native - donors can pair money with prayer and encouragement rather than treating the relationship as a purely financial transaction
- Rolling transfer availability - after the initial delay, later gifts become available on a three-day rolling basis and can transfer manually or automatically
- Identity and compliance checks exist - recipient verification, bank validation, anti-fraud, AML, sanctions, and review can reduce some abuse even though they cannot guarantee a campaign
- Public terms distinguish tips - GiveSendGo tips have a 14-day refund rule separate from the campaign donation and processing flow
- Cause updates and sharing support accountability - a responsible organizer can publish progress, explain changes, acknowledge support, and preserve a public record
✗ Watch out
- 0% is not fee-free - processing, fixed per-gift charges, non-USD pricing, cross-currency surcharges, exchange, bank, tax, and tip choices can materially change net proceeds
- GiveSendGo does not guarantee use of funds - donors bear campaign-verification risk and ordinary donations are generally not refundable after transfer
- Anonymous is only public-facing - the terms and privacy policy say the fundraiser owner or recipient can see an anonymous donor’s name, email, and amount
- Personal gifts are usually not tax-deductible - the for-profit LLC is not a charity, and an EIN or nonprofit claim on a page does not prove deductibility
- Historic breach is material - Indiana’s official 2022 report lists a GiveSendGo notification affecting 519 state residents and 92,000 people total
- The LLC privacy policy is stale and weak - its April 2022 text lacks a modern data map, clear retention schedule, comprehensive rights, processors, transfers, and current security detail
- Payout is conditional - identity, bank, compliance, sanctions, fraud, dispute, legal order, campaign content, or documentation issues can delay or prevent access
- Public campaigns create exposure - stories, photos, names, comments, donor activity, politics, medical details, locations, and updates may be copied, indexed, cached, or weaponized
- Platform values do not eliminate discretion - detailed prohibited-use rules coexist with broad rights to suspend, cancel, remove, or restrict activity
Best for
- Verified personal or community needs whose organizers can publish an honest budget, beneficiary consent, updates, and off-platform contact verification
- Christian ministries and lawful causes that value prayer integration and GiveSendGo’s stated access principles more than a neutral platform identity
- Fundraisers that benefit from 0% platform pricing and can absorb normal card processing, fixed transaction costs, compliance, and payout timing
- Organizers with a dedicated bank account, bookkeeping, tax guidance, written beneficiary authority, and a plan for unused or excess funds
- Donors who can independently verify the organizer and recipient, understand the gift is generally final, and contribute only an affordable amount
Avoid if
- You need a guaranteed purchase, escrow, insured return, investment, loan repayment, enforceable reward, audited charity, or platform warranty about use of funds
- The beneficiary has not consented to publishing medical, legal, family, financial, location, child, victim, image, or crisis information
- Your campaign requires tax-deductible receipts but has not established a qualifying recipient and compliant receipting outside ordinary GiveSendGo.com personal crowdfunding
- You cannot complete identity and banking verification, wait through holds, document the source and use of funds, or meet tax and local fundraising law
- Public association with the campaign, organizer, donors, comments, platform, or cause could create safety, employment, legal, pastoral, or reputational harm you have not evaluated
What GiveSendGo is
GiveSendGo is an intermediary that hosts campaign pages, accepts gifts through payment services, supports public messages and prayer, verifies recipients, and transfers eligible proceeds. A campaign page is the organizer’s representation. GiveSendGo supplies rules and processing but is not automatically the fundraiser, beneficiary, fiduciary, escrow agent, retailer, investment adviser, church, charity, accountant, or guarantor.
GiveSendGo.com and GiveSendGo Charities are legally distinct. The `.com` platform is operated by a Delaware for-profit LLC. GiveSendGo Charities at givesendgo.org describes itself as an independent New Hampshire 501(c)(3), EIN 88-3776392, sharing a brand but not an entity. Its donor-advised or grant pathways can have different eligibility, discretion, fees, restrictions, and tax treatment. Never infer charitable deductibility from the name, prayer language, organizer’s faith, or an ordinary receipt; confirm the actual recipient and ask a qualified tax adviser.
Why organizers choose GiveSendGo: access, Christian identity, and a 0% platform fee travel together
GiveSendGo does not present itself as a generic clone with prayer added. Its public identity emphasizes sharing the hope of Jesus, praying with fundraisers, and protecting lawful access for causes that may be rejected elsewhere. That combination can matter to a family, ministry, legal-defense organizer, political campaign, or public advocate who expects a mainstream platform’s policy or payment ecosystem to be a poor fit. A zero platform percentage further reduces the direct cost of choosing the values-aligned option.
Access does not mean neutrality, immunity, or permanence. The terms prohibit categories including illegal activity, deception, violence-related support or promotion under specified rules, abortion, and gender-reassignment procedures for minors, while reserving broad enforcement discretion and imposing compliance duties on political and legal-defense activity. Banks, card networks, courts, regulators, sanctions rules, recipient verification, and local law remain relevant. Before sharing widely, obtain written confirmation for any unusual campaign and preserve a backup communication and lawful payment plan.
Campaign pages, prayer, and updates: tell enough truth without publishing a permanent dossier
Organizers set a story, goal, images, recipient, and public URL, then share it through their own community. Supporters can give, pray, leave encouragement, and revisit updates. The absence of an all-or-nothing goal fits real needs that continue even when a target is missed. Regular updates can explain treatment, repairs, legal milestones, mission activity, delivery, changing budgets, and final disposition of funds.
Use beneficiary-first disclosure. Obtain informed permission, especially for children, patients, defendants, abuse survivors, bereaved families, employees, and people in crisis. Publish the minimum facts needed to verify purpose; avoid medical records, diagnoses beyond consent, exact addresses, school, schedules, account numbers, legal strategy, immigration facts, accusations, minors’ full names, and graphic images. Explain who receives money, the budget, fees, alternatives, organizer relationship, changes, excess funds, refunds, tax status, and a contact channel. Once indexed or shared, deletion cannot recall screenshots and archives.
Verification, payouts, and refunds: available money is not the same as settled money
A recipient completes identity and bank verification. GiveSendGo says verification normally takes one to two business days after required steps and the first gift. The first donation becomes available after five days; later gifts become available on a three-day rolling basis. Manual transfers take platform and bank processing time, while automatic schedules can be weekly, biweekly, or monthly. Statuses and compliance review can add delay.
Plan working capital conservatively. Do not promise a vendor, surgery, travel date, legal bill, payroll, or delivery from the public total. Gifts can be pending, failed, disputed, refunded, held, charged back, sanctioned, or not yet transferable. The ordinary refund window largely closes once funds transfer—potentially as soon as the next day—after which the donor must ask the recipient. Keep a reserve, reconcile gross gifts, processing, tips, refunds, chargebacks, transfers, exchange, and bank receipts, and publish material changes rather than silently repurposing money.
Privacy, donor anonymity, and security: crowdfunding creates unusually sensitive relationship data
The platform can collect campaign stories and media, contact details, billing data, device and log information, social profile data, bank information, date of birth, address, tax identifiers, gender, and identity documents such as a driver license. The privacy policy also describes analytics and third parties. A donor can hide a name from the public page, but the fundraiser owner still receives identity, email, and amount. Public posts and stories can remain in caches or copies beyond platform control.
History changes the standard of care. Indiana’s 2022 breach report lists GiveSendGo with 92,000 people affected, including 519 Indiana residents. The current security page provides a responsible-disclosure email and scope but no SOC report, PCI responsibility map, encryption-at-rest statement, independent test, incident history, or modern control summary. The LLC privacy policy remains dated April 7, 2022 and even disclaims liability for unintended disclosure or breach. Use unique credentials and 2FA where available, a dedicated email and card, minimal public identity, no sensitive prayer detail, and assume campaign-owner access is disclosure—not anonymity.
Pricing
GiveSendGo platform fee
0%
The LLC does not deduct a platform percentage from campaign gifts. Optional donor tips support GiveSendGo separately, and payment processing still applies.
US credit/debit processing
2.7% + $0.30 per gift
Deducted from the gross donation. The fixed charge makes many tiny donations proportionally more expensive; a $5 gift loses a larger share than a $100 gift.
Non-USD fundraiser processing
3.5% + $0.30 per gift
Published base fee for fundraisers outside US-dollar processing. The fixed amount is displayed in dollars; verify settlement currency and local equivalent.
Non-USD gift to USD campaign
Additional 1% possible
The pricing page identifies an additional cross-currency charge, and issuer, network, exchange, receiving-bank, or withdrawal costs may be separate.
Optional GiveSendGo tip
Donor-selected
Supports the platform rather than the campaign. Terms allow a full or partial tip refund within 14 days; review the checkout allocation before submitting.
“0% platform fee” means GiveSendGo does not remove its own percentage from campaign gifts. It does not mean card networks and payment processing cost nothing. Compare the net deposit, not the slogan.
At 2.7% plus $0.30, a $10 US card gift has $0.57 in processing before other adjustments, while a $100 gift has $3.00. The fixed component makes donation bundling more efficient, but organizers should never pressure donors to give more.
Tips are a separate support stream for GiveSendGo. Donors should inspect checkout, distinguish campaign amount from tip, and choose intentionally. The tip refund rule is more generous than the ordinary campaign-gift rule.
International campaigns need a country-specific worksheet covering processing, cross-currency surcharge, exchange rate, card issuer, settlement, payout minimum, bank fee, tax, and local eligibility. Do a small transfer before a high-urgency launch.
For a campaign budget, show gross goal, expected processing, vendor or beneficiary amounts, contingency, tax or professional costs, platform tip treatment, and plan for excess or shortfall. Transparency is more trustworthy than claiming the campaign is simply free.
Where GiveSendGo falls behind
Replace the April 2022 LLC privacy policy with a current product data map covering fundraising, donations, identity verification, banks, AI, prayer, analytics, tracking, public content, owners, processors, retention, rights, transfers, minors, and deletion.
Publish a security trust center with the 2022 incident and remediation, current payment architecture, PCI roles, encryption, identity-document storage, MFA, access, testing, vulnerability response, incident notice, audit evidence, and data minimization.
Make donor anonymity language unavoidable at checkout: “hidden from the public; name, email, and amount visible to the campaign owner/recipient,” with a preview of every party receiving data.
Create a campaign-verification panel showing owner identity state, recipient relationship, bank verification, organization and tax-claim status, material edits, fundraiser history, risk warnings, and platform checks without implying guarantee.
Clarify refunds, chargebacks, holds, court orders, sanctions, owner disputes, beneficiary changes, death, incapacity, fraud reports, excess funds, failed campaigns, recurring gifts, and tip allocation with worked examples.
Separate GiveSendGo.com LLC and GiveSendGo Charities on every relevant tax, receipt, checkout, EIN, nonprofit, DAF, grant, tip, and campaign surface so users cannot infer one entity from the shared brand.
Publish country-by-country eligibility, payment methods, payout minimums, currencies, processing, exchange, transfer timing, identity documents, bank rules, tax reminders, political rules, and support escalation in one maintained table.
GiveSendGo vs. GoFundMe vs. Zeffy vs. direct church giving
GiveSendGo combines a 0% platform fee, Christian mission, prayer, and broad lawful-cause positioning. GoFundMe has greater public recognition, donor familiarity, scale, and a mature trust-and-safety brand, but its cause policies and platform identity may not fit every organizer; payment processing and verification still apply. Zeffy targets registered nonprofits and can cover processing through optional donor contributions, making it compelling for eligible organizations but not general personal crowdfunding. Direct church giving offers stronger local accountability and tax receipting when the church legally controls the fund, while it requires church approval, accounting, restricted-fund discipline, and a genuinely charitable purpose.
Select the legal and relational structure before the page builder. A personal emergency may fit crowdfunding, with no promise of deductibility. A verified charity should usually receive gifts directly through its own controlled account and receipt system. A church benevolence fund may protect recipient privacy and add accountable distribution. A political or legal-defense campaign needs specialized compliance. GiveSendGo is a channel, not the governance structure; the most trustworthy campaign pairs the channel with real-world identity, consent, bookkeeping, oversight, and updates.
The bottom line
GiveSendGo can be an excellent channel for a real need and a poor substitute for verification. Its strongest qualities are concrete: no platform percentage, published card fees, no all-or-nothing goal, rolling transfers, prayer, and willingness to host a broad range of lawful causes. Its limits are equally concrete. The donation is generally a final voluntary gift, not a purchase or protected investment. GiveSendGo does not promise that the recipient will use money as stated. “Anonymous” hides a donor only from the public, not the owner. The `.com` LLC is not GiveSendGo Charities and does not make a personal campaign tax-deductible. Processing, currency, delays, holds, chargebacks, taxes, and compliance remain. A government report documents a 2022 breach affecting 92,000 people, while the current LLC privacy policy is still from April 2022. Organizers should secure beneficiary consent, separate campaign banking, publish a plain budget, retain receipts, post honest updates, protect sensitive facts, and plan for excess or shortfall. Donors should verify the person through an independent channel, confirm the beneficiary and tax status, inspect the checkout split, use a limited payment method, and give only what they can release without guarantee. Prayer can accompany discernment; it should not replace it.
Alternatives to GiveSendGo
ZeffyA strong no-platform-fee and no-processing-fee option for eligible nonprofits, supported by optional donor contributions.GivebutterA modern nonprofit fundraising suite with campaigns, events, donor management, recurring gifts, and optional tip-supported pricing.A church benevolence fundCan add local verification, privacy, pastoral support, accounting, and eligible tax treatment when the church controls charitable decisions.Direct verified paymentSimple for known recipients and urgent needs, but supplies no campaign updates, platform dispute layer, or automatic tax status.Frequently asked questions
Does GiveSendGo really charge 0%?
It charges a 0% platform fee, but US card processing is 2.7% plus $0.30 per gift. Non-USD fundraiser processing is 3.5% plus $0.30, and some cross-currency gifts add 1%. Optional tips support GiveSendGo separately.
Are GiveSendGo donations tax-deductible?
Personal crowdfunding gifts generally are not. GiveSendGo.com is a for-profit LLC, not a 501(c)(3). A gift to a qualifying nonprofit may be deductible depending on the actual recipient and law, but GiveSendGo says it does not provide the formal tax receipt or guarantee deductibility. Ask the recipient and a tax adviser.
Is GiveSendGo Charities the same organization?
No. GiveSendGo Charities at givesendgo.org says it is an independent New Hampshire 501(c)(3), EIN 88-3776392, legally separate from GiveSendGo.com LLC despite sharing the brand. Its grants and donor-advised pathways have different rules.
Can an anonymous donor be identified?
Yes, by the campaign owner or recipient. Anonymous hides the donor’s identity from the public campaign display; the terms and privacy policy say the owner can still see name, email, and donation amount.
Can I get a refund?
Campaign gifts are generally voluntary and nonrefundable. GiveSendGo may refund the base gift before it transfers, which can occur quickly; after transfer, the donor normally must ask the recipient. Optional platform tips can be refunded fully or partly within 14 days under the terms.
How long do payouts take?
Verification is typically one to two business days after all steps and the first gift. The first gift becomes available after five days and later gifts on a three-day rolling basis. A transfer can then take platform processing plus bank time, and compliance or disputes can add delays.
Has GiveSendGo had a data breach?
Yes. Indiana’s 2022 official breach report lists GiveSendGo with 92,000 people affected in total, including 519 Indiana residents. The current security page describes responsible disclosure, but users should still minimize sensitive data and understand that public campaign content can spread independently.
Sources & further reading
- GiveSendGo official pricing and fees ↗
- GiveSendGo terms of service ↗
- GiveSendGo privacy policy ↗
- GiveSendGo responsible security disclosure policy ↗
- GiveSendGo transfer instructions ↗
- GiveSendGo transfer-status guide ↗
- GiveSendGo taxes and donations guide ↗
- GiveSendGo nonprofit-status guidance ↗
- GiveSendGo Charities policies and legal separation ↗
- Indiana Attorney General 2022 breach report ↗
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