# Funraise vs Mesenaatti.me

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Funraise delivers about 7.50 more of every 100 donated than Mesenaatti.me (£91.50 vs €84.00 per 100). Mesenaatti.me stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Funraise does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Funraise | Mesenaatti.me |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | £91.50 | €84.00 |
| Platform fee | 5% | 15% |
| Payment processing fee | 2.9% + £0.60 | 0% + €1.00 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 79 | 57 |
| Country coverage | 0 | 1 |
| Data residency | US | EEA |
| Languages | 0 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 5 | 1 |

## Choose Funraise if

> Small and mid-size US nonprofits, especially those under about a million dollars in revenue, that want donation forms, recurring giving, peer-to-peer, events, and a donor CRM in one connected platform.

- All-in-one suite: donation forms, recurring giving, peer-to-peer, events, auctions, and donor CRM.
- Unusually broad donor payment options: cards, ACH, PayPal, Venmo, Apple Pay, DAFpay, stock, and crypto.
- Built by nonprofit veterans, with workflows tuned to sector needs.
- Optional donor cost-coverage so organizations keep more of each donation.


## 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.