# Mesenaatti.me vs Snowball Fundraising

## What the data says.

Paying by Credit card, Snowball Fundraising delivers about 12.80 more of every 100 donated than Mesenaatti.me ($96.80 vs €84.00 per 100). Mesenaatti.me stores donor data inside the EEA — a practical advantage for GDPR-sensitive campaigns — while Snowball Fundraising does not.

## Side-by-side.

| Metric | Mesenaatti.me | Snowball Fundraising |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Recipient gets | €84.00 | $96.80 |
| Platform fee | 15% | 0% |
| Payment processing fee | 0% + €1.00 | 2.9% + $0.30 |
| Trustpilot | — (0) | — (0) |
| Domain Rating (by Ahrefs — https://ahrefs.com/) | 57 | 59 |
| Country coverage | 1 | 1 |
| Data residency | EEA | US |
| Languages | 1 | 0 |
| Payment methods supported | 1 | 1 |

## 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.


## Choose Snowball Fundraising if

> Small and mid-sized US nonprofits that want donation forms, text-to-give, online auctions and event ticketing in one platform with US-based bilingual support, fundraising domestically in US dollars.

- All-in-one toolkit: donation forms, text-to-give and text-to-bid, online auctions, event ticketing, recurring gifts and donor CRM.
- Free Starter tier available, with paid annual plans that remove the platform fee and speed payouts to 1-2 days.
- Used by more than 15,000 US nonprofits, with US-based bilingual (English/Spanish) support.
- Payments processed by Stripe; the company states no hidden platform fees beyond the chosen plan and processing.