Unsolicited GoFundMe Pages Have Charities Scrambling

Unsolicited GoFundMe pages have charities scrambling

Of the 80 charities that participated in Big Give Gage in September, nine of the top 15 appear to have new GoFundMe pages.

Chamber warns members, nonprofits of unauthorized donation pages

The Greater Mount Airy Chamber of Commerce sent a warning to its members who operate nonprofit organizations that fundraising platform GoFundMe Pro has created donation pages without permission.

‘Take it down’: San Antonio priest demands GoFundMe remove church page from company’s website

A local priest is speaking out against GoFundMe. The popular online fundraising platform recently created more than 1.4 million donation pages for organizations that are registered nonprofits in the U.S. One of those pages lists St. Pius X Catholic Church, much to the chagrin of Father Pat O’Brien, who said he never asked for the page to go up. “It just isn’t fair. It’s dishonest and it’s creating a lot of extra work for us,” O’Brien said. When …

DEVELOPING: GoFundMe Backtracks After Backlash to Millions of Auto-Generated Nonprofit Donation Pages (news) | Using the Whole Whale - A Nonprofit Podcast

*****UPDATE: After we recorded this episode, GoFundMe announced they would reverse their stance on auto-generated nonprofit donation pages made without their consent making them opt-in instead of opt-out. Unclaimed Nonprofit Pages, they wrote in a public response, would be removed and de-indexed.*****   In this episode of Nonprofit Newsfeed, George Weiner, Chief Whaler of Whole Whale, and Nick Azulay, digital strategist at Whole Whale, dive into…

San Antonio Archdiocese, Catholic groups push back at auto-generated GoFundMe pages

(OSV News) — The Archdiocese of San Antonio is speaking out after the GoFundMe company — which provides a digital platform for online fundraising — created donation pages on its behalf without the archdiocese’s approval. In a bilingual statement issued Oct. 22, the archdiocese said some of its “parishes, schools, and ministries” had been impacted by the online fundraiser’s move, which in total saw some 1.4 million pages created for other nonprof…

Digital Generosity or Digital Overreach? The Archdiocese of San Antonio Pushes Back Against GoFundMe’s “Unapproved” Charity Pages - ZENIT

(ZENIT News / San Antonio, 10.24.2025).- When the Archdiocese of San Antonio discovered that hundreds of fundraising pages had been created in its name on GoFundMe—without its consent or participation—it didn’t take long to respond. In a bilingual statement issued on October 22, the archdiocese made one thing unmistakably clear: it does not, and will not, use GoFundMe to collect donations. The revelation came after GoFundMe admitted to creating …