# Givio vs Mesenaatti.me

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Givio delivers about €16.00 more of every €100 donated than Mesenaatti.me (€100.00 vs €84.00). Mesenaatti.me stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Givio does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Givio | 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/) | 21 | 57 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 1 |
| Data residency | — | EEA |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 3 | 1 |

## Choose Givio if

> German nonprofits and associations that want to collect donations and tap an additional passive income stream through the linked Gooding charity-shopping service.

- Operated by a Stuttgart-based nonprofit limited company (Givio gGmbH).
- Donation collection combined with the Gooding charity-shopping channel for passive, shopping-based giving.
- Payments handled by established partners including Stripe, PayPal, and the Bank für Sozialwirtschaft.
- Focus on transparent, secure donation handling for German nonprofits.


## 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.