# Doneerveilig vs Mesenaatti.me

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Doneerveilig delivers about €8.34 more of every €100 donated than Mesenaatti.me (€92.34 vs €84.00). Mesenaatti.me stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Doneerveilig does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Doneerveilig | Mesenaatti.me |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €92.34 | €84.00 |
| Platform fee | 6.7% | 15% |
| Payment processing fee | 0% + €0.00 | 0% + €1.00 |
| Trustpilot | 2.9 (44) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 21 | 57 |
| Country coverage | 0 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | EEA |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 2 | 1 |

## Choose Doneerveilig if

> Dutch and Belgian individuals running personal fundraising campaigns who prioritise a security-focused, PSD2-compliant platform with escrow handling and a simple, quick setup.

- Security-focused framing: PSD2 compliance supervised by De Nederlandsche Bank, escrow handling, and SSL.
- Donations held on a third-party escrow account (derdengeldenrekening) before payout.
- Quick, simple campaign setup aimed at individual causes.
- Account verification via a one-cent micro-transfer.


## 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.