Donate.gg
Donate.gg, operated by Donation Labs Inc., published crypto donation pages for 9,731 U.S. charities as of 2026-07-10, sourced from Candid/GuideStar data; 9,730 were flagged unverified in its own data. Between 2026-07-10 and 2026-07-13 it hid 7,675 pages from public view while keeping nearly all pages that held money live. Its sitemap listed one charity page when page 4950 checked it.
The checklist
What we have checked on Donate.gg, what we found, and what it rests on.
- 1. Off-domain Present
Pages were served at donate.gg/charities/<slug>.
Basis: Dated evidence bundle - 2. Auto-generated Present
The FAQ said charities were sourced from GuideStar, and 9,642 of about 10,987 pages share a createdAt date of 2026-03-03.
Basis: Dated evidence bundle - 3. No consent Present
Lung Cancer Foundation of America reported it never consented to its page, which collected $18,138.88 by 2026-07-10; the isVerified flag alone is not treated as proof, since at least one unverified charity is a consenting partner.
Basis: Dated evidence bundle - 4. Takes gifts Present
Live pages solicited crypto donations with the text that the donation goes directly to the organization.
Basis: Dated evidence bundle - 5. Intermediary Present
Donations collected for unenrolled charities were held by the platform, and its Terms allow redirection to an alternate charity; the open letter cites about $1.7M remaining in charity-associated wallets.
Basis: Dated evidence bundle - 6. Search-indexed Present
Exposure: the live LCFA page captured on 2026-07-10 and 2026-07-13 has no noindex meta tag, while pages hidden on 2026-07-13 carry noindex; page 4950 separately states pages appeared in search results for the nonprofit's own name, and its sitemap later listed one charity URL.
Basis: Dated evidence bundle
Event log
Everything that has happened on the record, newest first.
- Published
NNF Shadow Donation Directory published
WordPress page 4950 on nonprofitnewsfeed.com was published on 2026-07-23 with evidence dated 2026-07-21; this platform's row carries that date. The page revision history was not checked to confirm the row existed on day one.
Source: NNF Shadow Donation Directory (page 4950) - Capture
Page 4950 capture
Page 4950 dates its screenshots and sitemap column for this platform to 2026-07-21: a Feeding America page and a Google search, with Move for Hunger absent from the platform.
Source: NNF Shadow Donation Directory (page 4950) - Published
Whole Whale open letter
Whole Whale published an open letter to Donate.gg listing ten fixes, starting with requiring nonprofit opt-in before publication.
Source: Whole Whale open letter - Published
Second NNF article
Nonprofit News Feed published "Who Profits From a Pump.fun Charity Coin?".
Source: Nonprofit News Feed - Published
Law-firm client alert
Whiteford Law published a client alert on Donate.gg creating nearly 10,000 unauthorized nonprofit pages.
Source: Whiteford Law client alert - Published
NNF article published
Nonprofit News Feed published "$137M in Charity Memecoins: Nearly 10,000 Nonprofits Listed Without Consent".
Source: Nonprofit News Feed - Platform change
7,675 pages hidden from public view
A recrawl found the directory count had fallen from 9,731 to 2,058; hidden pages return "Charity not found" with HTTP 200 and no backend records were deleted. 1,962 of 1,964 funded unverified pages stayed live.
Source: Evidence addendum, 2026-07-13 - Capture
Baseline crawl
Whole Whale enumerated the platform's public charity listing endpoint: 9,731 live pages, 9,730 flagged unverified, 10,976 pages ever created.
Source: Evidence memorandum, 2026-07-10 - Platform change
Bulk page creation
9,642 of about 10,987 Donate.gg charity pages carry a createdAt date of 2026-03-03, per the platform's own API records.
Source: Donate.gg crawl README
If your organization is on Donate.gg
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Reply and corrections
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