Insights from 16 nonprofits in the OpenAI Foundation's People-First AI Fund, and how much they turned out to have in common.
Read the paperSix nonprofits running five months of agentic fundraising in the open, with everything they learn published as they go.
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25 Aug 2026No supporter gets the same email twiceWhat personalized email actually runs on, what we capture, and what we're testing.
18 Aug 2026Your donor used AI to give to your causeA new Senate bill, a payments protocol, and what agentic giving means for consent.
12 Aug 2026Six nonprofits selected to pioneer agentic givingFive months of open experiments in agentic fundraising, published as we go.The pay rails are free and the agentic tools come with them, so 100% of every gift reaches your cause. Free to start, with a clear monthly cap on every premium action and no subscription.
Donors cover the fee by default.
A $100 card gift costs about $4.60 on Whitelabel, all in, and the donor is asked to cover it, so your cause keeps the full $100. Your CRM, email and AI agent come with it. Here is each platform on the same gift, from its own published pricing, checked on 28 September 2026.
| Platform | Fees | On a $100 gift | CRM and email | At checkout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5% + interchangeCard costs at cost, about 1.1% | $4.60Donor adds $4.82, you keep $100.00 | Built in, with SMS and the AI agent. It syncs to your CRM if you keep one | The donor covers it, ticked by default | |
| 4% + 2.2% + 30¢1,2,3,4,5Last published rate. It now quotes about 1%, after donors pay on top | $6.50About $6.93 more from each donor asked | Your own CRM and marketing tools, such as Salesforce and HubSpot | Its AI asks some donors to cover it | |
| 2.95% + 2.2% + 30¢6,5,7 | $5.45 | A paid add-on, priced by quote | Optional, where you switch it on |
A quoted cost of about 1% is not the price of a gift. Fundraise Up gives that figure as the charity's average share once donors have paid the fees on top, and it has not published its own rate since September 2026. At its last published rate a $100 gift still costs about $6.50; the donor pays it instead of the charity. We publish our rate on this page, and the checkout shows the donor exactly what covering it adds.1,2
Our 3.5% has no fixed charge on top, so a small gift keeps more of itself. On a $10 gift, the 30¢ most platforms add is 3% on its own.
Every figure is the platform's own published price for a one-time US card gift, before anything the donor chooses to add. Where a platform passes Stripe's fees through, we used Stripe's nonprofit rate of 2.2% + 30¢, as Donorbox and Fundraise Up document it. Stripe does not publish that rate itself, and a charity on Stripe's standard 2.9% + 30¢ pays 70¢ more on every $100.21 Subscriptions start at the entry price each company publishes and rise with the size of your database. Prices change, so check each source before you budget.
You pay per gift. That's it. No monthly subscription, no setup fees, no annual contract. The platform grows with you, not ahead of you.
At checkout the donor is asked to cover all fees by default, so 100% of the gift reaches you. It's optional, and if they decline it comes from the gift.
Payments run on a licensed PCI-DSS Level 1 facilitator. Card details are tokenized on entry and never touch your site or ours. SOC 2 Type II controls.
See the full breakdown at /fee-structure.
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