Spotfund
Pending Who receives the money is unclear. A fundraiser's page names the charity; its donate page says the gift benefits the person who created it.
Spotfund, a for-profit crowdfunding site, hosts an indexable page for each US charity, built from IRS records. The page has no donate button of its own. It invites any visitor to start a fundraiser for the charity, and those fundraisers take card gifts with a 19% tip to Spotfund preselected. Who receives the money from a fundraiser is unclear, so the entry is pending.
The checklist
What we have checked on Spotfund, what we found, and what it rests on.
- 1. Off-domain Yes
Charity pages sit at www.spotfund.com/organization/<id>.
Basis: Dated evidence bundle - 2. Auto-generated Yes
36 of 40 random tiny charities had a page, every one flagged as drawn from IRS records and none with a fundraiser. 270,715 of 271,718 sitemap organization URLs share a 48-minute timestamp on 2025-09-11, a batch import.
Basis: Dated evidence bundle - 3. No consent Unclear
Not established under the register's standard: Spotfund publishes no claim, verification or removal route a charity could use. The only nonprofit-facing tool found is a direct-deposit form.
Basis: Dated evidence bundle - 4. Takes gifts Unclear
Through user fundraisers only. Each charity page opens a fundraiser form with the charity filled in, and fundraisers take card gifts. On the one fundraiser walked, the page named the charity but the donate page said "Your donation will benefit" the person who created it.
Basis: Dated evidence bundle - 5. Intermediary Yes
Spotfund holds funds "in a non-operating bank account" and remits them less fees; a gift the charity does not claim within a year or refuses is "re-designated to a comparable nonprofit as determined by Spotfund Technologies."
Basis: Dated evidence bundle - 6. Search-indexed Yes
Every charity page carries "index, follow" and a self-canonical, 271,718 are in the sitemap, and Google estimates about 107,000 indexed. 0 of 15 sampled tiny-charity pages were found in Google.
Basis: Dated evidence bundle
Event log
Everything that has happened on the record, newest first.
No dated events recorded yet.
Request removal from Spotfund
Search Spotfund for your legal name and EIN first. If a page exists that you did not set up, send the request below. It takes about two minutes.
Where to send it
Email hello@spotfund.com
Spotfund's general address from its terms. Spotfund publishes no removal route, so this address is not confirmed to handle removal requests.
Spotfund publishes no way for a charity to claim, edit or remove its page.
What Spotfund asks for
- Your EIN
Under its terms, a gift a charity refuses is "re-designated to a comparable nonprofit as determined by Spotfund Technologies", not returned to the donor.
Checked 6 Oct 2026 against Spotfund’s own page
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