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

Top 10K · #1,114 English 24 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
Visit GoFundMe

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

Internet ArchiveKhan AcademymedRxivArchive of Our OwnWikimedia movementSignUpGeniusAmerican Cancer Societykickstarter.comIndiegogoJustGiving

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to GoFundMe

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to GoFundMe, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    JustGiving justgiving.com Top 10K English

    Online fundraising donations and ideas - JustGiving

    Fundraise or donate with JustGiving, the worlds leading online fundraising platform, helping charities to make more with GiftAid

  2. 02
    Indiegogo indiegogo.com Top 10K English

    American crowdfunding website

  3. 03
    kickstarter.com Top 10K English

    US-based crowdfunding platform

  4. 04
    American Cancer Society cancer.org Top 10K English

    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.

  5. 05
    American Heart Association heart.org Top 10K English

    US nonprofit funding cardiovascular medical research, educating consumers on healthy living, and fostering cardiac care

  6. 06
    SignUpGenius signupgenius.com Top 10K English

    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.

  7. 07
    Find a Grave findagrave.com Top 10K English

    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.

  8. 08
    Wikimedia movement wikimedia.org Top 1K English

    Wikimedia Error

    global social movement for free educational knowledge

  9. 09
    Archive of Our Own archiveofourown.org Top 10K English

    Request temporarily denied. | Archive of Our Own

    nonprofit online fanfiction repository operated by the Organization for Transformative Works

  10. 10
    Seeking Alpha seekingalpha.com Top 10K English

    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.

  11. 11
    medRxiv medrxiv.org Top 10K English

    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

  12. 12
    Khan Academy khanacademy.org Top 10K English

    Client Challenge

    non-profit educational organization

  13. 13
    Our World in Data ourworldindata.org Top 10K English

    Our World in Data

    Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.

  14. 14
    Crunchbase crunchbase.com Top 10K English

    Crunchbase | Private Company Data & Predictive Intelligence

    Discover private company data, funding insights, and AI-powered predictions with Crunchbase.

  15. 15
    NSF nsf.gov Top 10K English

    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.

  16. 16
    NerdWallet nerdwallet.com Top 10K English

    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.

  17. 17
    Internet Archive archive.org Top 1K English

    Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

    U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive

  18. 18
    DOI.org query endpoint doi.org Top 1K English

    Home Page

    API endpoint

  19. 19
    Fortune fortune.com Top 10K English

    Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News

    Unrivaled access, premier storytelling, and the best of business since 1930.

  20. 20
    American Civil Liberties Union aclu.org Top 10K English

    American Civil Liberties Union | The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.

    The ACLU dares to create a more perfect union — beyond one person, party, or side. Our mission is to realize this promise of the United States Constitution for all and expand the reach of its guarantees.

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
  • Next.js page source: /_next/static/
  • React implied by Next.js (page source: /_next/static/)
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
Email delivery
  • SparkPost TXT v=spf1 include:gofundme.com._nspf.vali.email include:%{i}._ip.%{h}._…
DNS hosting
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

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