Published: June, 2025 

Overview 

GoFundMe Giving Fund is a non-profit organization organized exclusively for the purpose of encouraging philanthropy and charitable giving by receiving charitable contributions, providing support and assistance to encourage the making of charitable contributions, and making grants and providing support and assistance to organizations which are organized and operated exclusively for religious, charitable, scientific, testing for public safety, literary, or educational purposes, or to foster national or international amateur sports competition, or for the prevention of cruelty to children or animals and which are tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3). 

This Privacy Policy explains how and why GoFundMe Giving Fund collects, stores, uses, and shares your Personal data. Reading it will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. 

The GoFundMe Giving Fund has engaged GoFundMe, Inc. (“Gofundme” ), an independent third party, to provide all administrative, technical, and operational services it needs to offer and support the GoFundMe Giving Fund, including the technology to enable DAF accounts, as well as all related contributions and distributions. When you set up a DAF account with the GoFundMe Giving Fund or interact with the GoFundMe Giving Fund’s websites, all your account holder information is shared with GoFundMe and its partners to ensure the program is operated efficiently and that all DAF accounts are properly supported and managed in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. Please visit the GoFundMe Privacy Notice to learn how GoFundMe processes your information and what privacy rights and choices you might have when using the service. 

Definitions 

“Personal Data” in this statement means information about you, including your identity, finances, and online behavior. 

“GoFundMe Giving Fund” or “we” in this statement means GoFundMe Giving Fund, a Donor Advised Fund (“DAF” ) recognized by the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS” ) under Section 501(c)(3) of the Code as a tax-exempt public charity (Federal Tax ID: 85-2071964). 

“You” in this statement means an Accountholder, as defined in the GoFundMe Giving Fund User Agreement and Program Guidelines.

Understanding Your Privacy Rights and Choices 

You have rights and choices when it comes to how your Personal Data is collected, stored, used, and shared. Some Personal Data is required for our services to function. You can control how Personal Data is collected or shared and how we communicate with you. 

Your choices about how we communicate with you differ depending on the purpose of the message and how it is delivered. Some messages are considered optional, and some are necessary for us to provide our services. Depending on the situation, we use email, phone, and paper mail to communicate with you. 

You also have choices regarding disclosures we make that are considered optional. If you indicate that you would like to allow optional disclosures, third parties may contact you for various reasons. For example, donors may be offered a choice about whether we share their contact information with the charities they support. 

The Personal Data We Collect 

We may collect your Personal Data when you use our services, such as when you set up an account with us, contribute to your DAF account or for non-profit organizations, receive a grant from us or on our behalf, or as otherwise required to access or use our services. 

Here are the kinds of Personal Data that we may collect when you use our services: 

1. Information that identifies you, for example: 

• First and last name 
• Address 
• Phone number 
• Email 

2. Financial account details, including your credit card or bank information. 3. Information inferred based on your Personal Data, for example fraud and risk assessments. 

Where Personal Data Comes From 

We may collect personal information about you from various sources, for example from:

• You, when you use GoFundMe Giving Fund DAF account, or respond to our surveys;
• GoFundMe, which acts as our technology partner, 
• Service providers, such as companies that help us manage risk and fraud, manage contributions and disbursements, deliver services to you, and market our services; and
• Card networks and payment vendors and processors.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from people who are not allowed to use our sites and services, such as children under the age of 18. If we obtain actual knowledge that we have collected Personal Information from someone not allowed to use our services, we will promptly delete it, unless we’re legally required to keep it. Please contact us at the email below if you believe that we have mistakenly or unintentionally collected information from someone not allowed to use our services. 

Tracking technologies like cookies 

GoFundMe or its authorized service providers may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect Personal Data whenever you use our services or visit our website. The information collected with these technologies may help personalize your experience on the website, measure the effect of our ads, prevent fraud and enhance the security of our sites and service. 

You can disable or decline some cookies for our sites and services. But, since some parts of our service rely on cookies to work, those services could become difficult or impossible to use. Some web browsers have an optional setting called “Do Not Track” (DNT) that lets you opt out of being tracked by advertisers and some third parties. Because many of our services won’t function without tracking data, our website does not respond to the DNT settings. 

If you want to know more about how GoFundMe-hosted websites use cookies, read its Cookie Statement. To learn how to opt out of this kind of tracking technology, visit About Ads. 

Why We Collect Personal Data 

We collect Personal Data for many reasons, including to improve your experience and to run our business. Specific reasons why we collect your Personal Data include: 

1. Run our sites and provide better services, such as setting up of DAF accounts, receiving and managing contributions and donations, showing you donation and/or grant information, and providing donation receipts. 
2. Manage and improve our business. For example, we do user research to improve our products’ performance and abilities. 
3. Contact you to provide you services or when you need us, such as answering a question you sent to our customer service team. 
4. Protect our business and our customers from risk and fraud, including fraud that involves our partners. 
5. Send you marketing information about our services. We may use Personal Data to market about our partners and nonprofit organizations. 
6. Comply with laws and enforce our agreements with you and other people who use our services.

Why We Disclose Personal Data 

We may disclose Personal Data with: 

1. GoFundMe and GoFundMe-affiliated companies; 
2. Service providers that help us with processing payments, marketing, research, compliance, audits, corporate governance, communications, and security; 
3. Card networks and payment processors; 
4. Credit reporting and collections agencies; 
5. Courts, governments, regulators, and law enforcement that require us or GoFundMe to respond or to comply with laws or card association rules; 
6. People involved in a transaction or donation, such as other users or participating non-profits and their service providers; 
7. GoFundMe Giving Fund partners; and 
8. Others: 

• At your direction or with your consent, 
• In the event of a reorganization, merger, or sale of GoFundMe or our non-profit entity, 
• To investigate or enforce violations of our User Agreement, and 
• To prevent physical harm or illegal activity. 

How we Protect your Personal Data 

Helping to keep your Personal Data safe against loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, and alteration is our top priority. To protect your Personal Data, we and our website host use technical, physical, and administrative security measures that include: 

• Firewalls, 
• data encryption, and 
• physical access controls at our data centers. 

If you stop using our services or close your GFGF account, we may keep your Personal Data and other information as required by law and according to our data retention policy. If we do, we’ll continue to handle it as we describe in this Statement. 

How This Statement Changes over Time 

We’ll make changes to this Privacy Statement from time to time. This helps us stay up to date with changes to our business and the most current laws. After a new version is published, we’ll collect, store, use, and protect your Personal Data as we outline in that revised statement.

If the new version reduces your rights or increases your responsibilities, we’ll post it on the GoFundMe Giving Fund website before it becomes effective. We may notify you about these changes through email or other communications. 

Contact Us If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement or your Personal Data, please visit the Help Center.