iDonate

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iDonate is a United States, mobile-first fundraising platform built for nonprofit organisations rather than personal crowdfunding, operated by iDonate Inc., a Delaware corporation headquartered in Southlake, Texas. The product centres on conversion-focused giving tools, including pop-up forms, hosted donation pages, embeddable website forms, and recurring-gift prompts, designed to reduce donor drop-off.

Pricing is quote-based rather than publicly listed: each agreement combines a subscription price, a platform fee, and a per-transaction fee, all scaled to an organisation's overall digital revenue volume. The company markets this as having no tiers or feature gates, but exact figures require a sales conversation, so prospective customers cannot compare costs from the public site. Donations are processed via credit card, debit card, and ACH bank transfer.

iDonate's strength is enterprise-grade donor-data infrastructure: it advertises annual SOC 2 Type 2 audits, third-party penetration testing, and a zero-trust security posture, and states it operates in accordance with GDPR standards. The trade-off is opacity, because without published pricing smaller nonprofits cannot self-assess affordability, and the platform is oriented toward organisations with meaningful digital revenue. For mid-sized and larger US nonprofits prioritising data security and conversion optimisation this fits well; budget-conscious or very small organisations may prefer platforms with transparent published pricing.

Because the platform is business-to-business software rather than a public campaign marketplace, there is no open directory of live fundraisers; it is adopted by individual nonprofits to power their own giving pages. Buyers should also note the name collision with the unrelated Irish fundraising site iDonate.ie, which is a separate company.