# GoFundraise vs Mesenaatti.me

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, GoFundraise delivers about 14.22 more of every 100 donated than Mesenaatti.me (A$98.22 vs €84.00 per 100). Mesenaatti.me stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while GoFundraise does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | GoFundraise | Mesenaatti.me |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | A$98.22 | €84.00 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 15% |
| Payment processing fee | 1.4% + A$0.38 | 0% + €1.00 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 73 | 57 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 1 |
| Data residency | Australia | EEA |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 2 | 1 |

## Choose GoFundraise if

> Australian individuals, charities, and event organisers running personal or peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns who want Australian-hosted, PCI-secure infrastructure and DGR-aware tax receipting.

- Established Australian platform for donation and peer-to-peer fundraising.
- Strong event-based and community-fundraising tooling with multi-beneficiary support.
- Payments via Visa, Mastercard, American Express, PayPal, and Stripe.
- All data encrypted at rest and hosted in Australia, with PCI-secure infrastructure and third-party penetration testing.


## 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.