Where your money goes
OpenCharities is transparent giving infrastructure. Donors give through our Foundation. NGOs keep their own accounts and use our cockpit to show donors where the money went; companies commit an amount and a theme through us and get the routing and the report back. Pick your route below.
Choose your route
Your gift, step by step
Three steps, from the moment you give to the moment an initiative gets funded.
You give to the Foundation
Your gift goes to the OpenCharities Foundation. You can share a preference for which initiative you would like to support. That preference is a wish, not an instruction: the Foundation decides where money is allocated.
The Foundation pools and allocates
Gifts are received into the Foundation and allocated in monthly cycles. The board decides which initiatives receive funding, guided by the preferences donors have shared. Other than transaction costs, 100% goes to the Foundation.
An initiative gets funded
The Foundation funds the chosen initiatives so they can do the work. As the pilot moves real money, the flow from the Foundation to each initiative becomes traceable, so you can follow where funding goes.
We use our network the other way around
Most platforms hand you a fundraising page and ask you to bring the donors. We are building the opposite: a fund that goes looking for people with good ideas and backs them.
Every other platform
OpenCharities
We use our network the other way around
Most platforms hand you a fundraising page and ask you to bring the donors. We are building the opposite: a fund that goes looking for people with good ideas and backs them.
Every other platform
OpenCharities
How initiatives are chosen
Funding decisions sit with the Foundation board. We hold a high bar, and we are honest that the full selection criteria are not published.
Strict, board-decided selection
The board reviews initiatives and decides which ones the Foundation funds. The bar is deliberately high. We weigh the strength of the idea, the people behind it, and the impact it can create.
Guided by donor preferences
When you give, you can tell us which initiative you would like to support. The board takes those preferences into account, while keeping the final allocation decision with the Foundation.
We do not publish the full criteria, and we will not pretend a decision is automatic when it is a judgement call. As the fund grows, we will keep sharing how the work is going.
Proof you can follow (coming soon)
We want you to be able to follow the money, not just take our word for it. The Foundation is building its own multi-signature wallet on Stellar, with board members as signers and no third-party custodian, and the plan is to make each allocation to an initiative traceable in that record. This part is still being built: nothing is live yet and there is no money-moved record to show. Once the pilot moves real funds, this is where you will be able to follow what went where.
On-chain proof arrives with the pilot. Nothing to show here yet.
Want to follow the money with us?
Join the waitlist and we will let you know when the fund opens and allocations start moving.
The fund opens with the pilot · 2026
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