# DierenDonatie vs Mesenaatti.me

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, DierenDonatie delivers about €16.00 more of every €100 donated than Mesenaatti.me (€100.00 vs €84.00). On the headline numbers, DierenDonatie and Mesenaatti.me are closely matched — the better pick comes down to Credit card availability, language coverage, and where your donors are.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | DierenDonatie | Mesenaatti.me |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €100.00 | €84.00 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 15% |
| Payment processing fee | 0% + €0.00 | 0% + €1.00 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 38 | 57 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 1 |
| Data residency | EEA | EEA |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 2 | 1 |

## Choose DierenDonatie if

> Dutch animal shelters, wildlife-care centres, and animal-welfare foundations that need specific goods funded - food, equipment, or veterinary care - and value a CBF-accredited, transparent donation platform.

- Exclusively focused on animal-welfare causes in the Netherlands
- Recognised as one of the first CBF-accredited donation platforms (CBF-Erkend Donatieplatform)
- Product-fulfilment model: donors fund specific items the platform buys and ships to the foundation
- Flat per-project contribution (EUR 10 up to EUR 300, EUR 25 above) rather than a percentage cut of donations


## Choose Mesenaatti.me if

> Finnish artists, associations, nonprofits, and startups running reward-based or donation crowdfunding in euro who want a domestic platform that handles Finnish fundraising-permit requirements.

- Finland's largest home-grown crowdfunding platform, established since 2012.
- Supports both reward-based and donation-based crowdfunding.
- Handles the Finnish fundraising-permit requirements for donation campaigns.
- All-or-nothing model refunds backers in full if a campaign misses its target.