# Little Phil vs Mesenaatti.me

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Little Phil delivers about 13.95 more of every 100 donated than Mesenaatti.me (A$97.95 vs €84.00 per 100). Mesenaatti.me stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Little Phil does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Little Phil | Mesenaatti.me |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | A$97.95 | €84.00 |
| Platform fee | 0% | 15% |
| Payment processing fee | 1.75% + A$0.30 | 0% + €1.00 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 51 | 57 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 1 |
| Data residency | Outside AU (SG/HK/US) | EEA |
| Languages | 1 | 1 |
| Payment methods supported | 4 | 1 |

## Choose Little Phil if

> Australian donors, companies, and nonprofits focused on impact transparency and modern giving options such as crypto, workplace giving, and Shopify post-checkout donations, where offshore data storage is not a blocker.

- Built-in impact-tracking so donors can see the effect of their giving first-hand.
- Nonprofits pay no commission on donations, per Little Phil's nonprofits page.
- Modern giving options: Apple Pay, Google Pay, cards, direct debit, internal credit, and cryptocurrency.
- Spans donor, nonprofit, and corporate giving, including workplace-giving programmes.


## 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.