Alternatives and competitors
Sites like GoFundMe
The 20 closest donation crowdfunding alternatives to GoFundMe, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 24 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to GoFundMe? The closest matches are JustGiving, Indiegogo and kickstarter.com. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About GoFundMe
GoFundMe gofundme.com
GoFundMe | The #1 Crowdfunding and Fundraising Platform
Start your fundraiser in minutes with tools to help you succeed. GoFundMe is the global leader in crowdfunding, trusted by 100+ million people.
Wikidata: crowdfunding platform
Summary by Claude
Donation-based crowdfunding site where individuals and nonprofits create online fundraisers for medical bills, funerals, emergencies and other causes, share them, and receive donations to a bank account.
- Who it’s for
- Individuals, families and nonprofits raising money, and donors
- Business model
- Transaction fees and optional donor tips
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to GoFundMe’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to GoFundMe
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to GoFundMe, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Online fundraising donations and ideas - JustGiving
Fundraise or donate with JustGiving, the worlds leading online fundraising platform, helping charities to make more with GiftAid
Very close cos 0.930 - 02
American crowdfunding website
Very close cos 0.922 - 03
US-based crowdfunding platform
Very close cos 0.895 - 04
End Cancer As We Know It | American Cancer Society
Dedicated to helping people who face cancer. Learn about cancer research, patient services, early detection, treatment and education at cancer.org.
Close cos 0.892 - 05
Deine Plattform für Petitionen · Change.org
Mehr als 500.000.000 Menschen setzen sich in ihrem Umfeld für Veränderungen ein. Mach mit.
Close cos 0.893 - 06
US nonprofit funding cardiovascular medical research, educating consumers on healthy living, and fostering cardiac care
Close cos 0.890 - 07
The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.
Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.
Close cos 0.891 - 08
SignUpGenius: Free Sign Up Sheets, Fundraisers & Online Payments
Create free sign up sheets, collect dues, run fundraisers, sell tickets, and more. Every way your group organizes and collects, in one place. Free to start.
Close cos 0.886 - 09
Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records
The World’s largest gravesite collection. Contribute, create and discover gravesites from all over the world. Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records.
Close cos 0.886 - 10
Wikimedia Error
global social movement for free educational knowledge
Close cos 0.888 - 11
Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc
Close cos 0.884 - 12
Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own
nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works
Close cos 0.885 - 13
Seeking Alpha | Stock Market Analysis & Tools for Investors
Join Seeking Alpha, the largest investing community in the world. Get stock market news and analysis, investing ideas, earnings calls, charts and portfolio analysis tools.
Close cos 0.884 - 14
medRxiv.org - the preprint server for Health Sciences
medRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by openRxiv, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scientific communication
Close cos 0.883 - 15
Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
Close cos 0.883 - 16
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Close cos 0.882 - 17
Crunchbase | Private Company Data & Predictive Intelligence
Discover private company data, funding insights, and AI-powered predictions with Crunchbase.
Close cos 0.877 - 18 Close cos 0.876
- 19
NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation
NSF is an independent federal agency that supports science and engineering in all 50 states and U.S. territories.
Close cos 0.880 - 20
NerdWallet: Finance smarter
NerdWallet makes it easy to find the right financial product for you. Our Nerds do all the research so you don’t have to.
Close cos 0.881
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to gofundme.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones GoFundMe uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What GoFundMe is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 include:gofundme.com._nspf.vali.email include:%{i}._ip.%{h}._…
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:gofundme.com._nspf.vali.email include:%{i}._ip.%{h}._…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=ae6ed1d46523448a905b9d8781b1f2d9
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=7e70d91b569f8a0590a7b1b4c2933dade452811dee08d86cf…
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/enterprise.js
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: w2ukaQEMbxNaQGhR6PU3XMVWk6rv_gALxIwqKz1Rti2ZKBgii7cqdA==
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Video
- Wistia page source: fast.wistia.net
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms75016599
- Email delivery
- SparkPost TXT v=spf1 include:gofundme.com._nspf.vali.email include:%{i}._ip.%{h}._…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1860.awsdns-40.co.uk
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=b23a174f3ecb4906444742af94b4c61d1948b6ba9…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=VWhGR6I4xDAzdl50
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=pDoSyXtzAVxSEb/lQ90Pfrgh87LFeL3vh9cAmjY…
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=IqTb0UBeilINf10w5raSTQ
- DocuSign TXT docusign=852fdcf3-d757-4993-acd7-50a6a836365f
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=MK_ZKmss4D_DdzGOsssHxxBOK6hJc6LGycFvN…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: GIdvoXEWAacQdvns1qHKxS_am1-4tQdidcoJUFj2aOY
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=stk03ifpht9yaex2dibsxivrr9yor2
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-QetyqJL9vMGOTwGXZe04zDzf
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_uRWfBI2AbJeSqiNLFUItq5
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what GoFundMe adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 16/20
- Atlassian 11/20
- Apple Business 11/20
- Cloudflare · not on gofundme.com 10/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on gofundme.com 9/20
- Stripe 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- Google Workspace 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on gofundme.com 8/20
- Canva 6/20
- OneTrust 6/20
- Adobe 5/20
- Amazon Route 53 5/20
- Zendesk 5/20
- DocuSign 5/20