Spotfund
US individuals and small nonprofits running time-sensitive personal or community causes who value next-business-day payouts and a simple, mobile-first, socially shareable giving flow.
A US-based online fundraising platform centered on fast, next-business-day payouts and a mobile-first donor experience for personal causes, nonprofits, and community projects.
- Funding model
- Optional tip
- Platform fee
- 0% + tip
- Payment processing fee
- 2.9% + kr0.30
- Recipient gets
- kr96.80 / kr100
- Data residency
- —
- Countries
- 0
- Languages
- 1
- Trustpilot
- 4.7 / 5
- Last updated
- 2026-06-08
Our overall editorial assessment. Full weights are published in the methodology.
The review
Spotfund is a US-based online fundraising platform operated by Spotfund Technologies, Inc. of New York. It is built for personal causes — medical bills, emergencies, memorials, and education — alongside nonprofit, community, sports, and small-business campaigns, with a consumer-facing, mobile-first design.
The platform positions itself around two core promises: keeping costs to organizers low and moving money quickly, advertising next-business-day payouts where many peers settle over several days. Donations are processed through a third-party payment gateway rather than on Spotfund's own servers, and the company references US privacy frameworks such as CalOPPA and CAN-SPAM in its policies.
Spotfund's strengths are payout speed and a streamlined giving flow optimized for sharing across social channels. Its footprint is US-centric, and the platform publishes limited detail about international availability, supported currencies, or interface languages on its own site. For US fundraisers running time-sensitive personal causes the speed-of-access focus is a genuine advantage; organizations needing European payment rails or EU data residency will find the platform less suited.
For nonprofits specifically, Spotfund layers on multi-campaign pages, recurring donations, branded tax receipts, event ticketing, QR-code donations, embeddable donation widgets, and automated disbursement and accounting tools, positioning it as more than a single-campaign consumer product.
What’s good, what’s not.
- ✓Next-business-day payouts, faster than many peers that settle over several days.
- ✓Mobile-first, consumer-friendly giving flow optimized for social sharing.
- ✓Supports personal causes, nonprofits, community, sports, and business campaigns.
- ✓Nonprofit toolkit includes recurring donations, branded tax receipts, and event ticketing.
- ✓Additional tools for QR-code donations, embeddable widgets, and automated disbursement.
- −US-centric; limited published detail on international availability, currencies, or interface languages.
- −Payment processor is not named on the platform's own site.
- −No stated EU data residency, which may not suit European organizations under GDPR.
- −Founding year and corporate background are not disclosed on the site.
Where each kr100 actually goes.
Fees vary by payment method. We default to Credit card because that’s the dominant method in Sweden.
0 countries · 1 languages · 0 payment methods.
Better-fit alternatives to Spotfund.
Our curated shortlist — the platforms we’d actively recommend instead of Spotfund for fundraising in Sweden, with the figures behind the call. For the full, neutral index of every side-by-side, see Compare with below.
WhyDonate lets more of each donation through than Spotfund — kr97.85 reaches the recipient per 100, against kr96.80.
4fund.com lets more of each donation through than Spotfund — kr100.00 reaches the recipient per 100, against kr96.80.
iRaiser lets more of each donation through than Spotfund — kr97.85 reaches the recipient per 100, against kr96.80.
See how Spotfund stacks up head-to-head.
Frequently asked questions
What does Spotfund charge?
Spotfund charges a 0% platform fee with an optional voluntary donor tip on top, plus 2.9% + kr0.30 in payment processing per donation.
Where is Spotfund based?
Spotfund was founded in — and is headquartered in —. Data residency is unspecified.
Which countries does Spotfund operate in?
Spotfund operates in 0 countries including major European markets and English-speaking markets.
Is Spotfund suitable for nonprofits?
Spotfund’s primary audience is individual fundraisers and groups; nonprofits can use the platform but may find specialized alternatives better suited.
Rankings are produced by a public editorial methodology — open to peer review. We disclose ownership, scoring weights, and every change.