GiveNow vs Snowball Fundraising

Small to medium-sized Australian charities, not-for-profits, and community groups that want a low-overhead, no-lock-in donation platform with local Australian data storage and an optional donor-covers-cost model.

• ✓Purpose-built for small to medium-sized Australian charities and not-for-profits.
• ✓Operated by Our Community, a long-running Australian social enterprise (since 2001).
• ✓Percentage-based pricing with no subscription, lock-in, or upfront cost.
• ✓Optional donor-covers-cost model, which the platform reports most donors choose.

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.