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GoFundMe, the global leader in online fundraising, today announced the launch of its smart fundraising coach, an AI-powered assistant designed to help people create, share, and manage fundraisers with greater ease, confidence, and success. With this launch, the GoFundMe platform now provides personalized coaching guidance to help fundraisers connect to the support they need, leveraging intelligence from millions of fundraisers on the GoFundMe platform.

GoFundMe, the global leader in online fundraising, announced that Steve Froehlich will join the company as its new Chief Customer Growth Officer, a role focused on driving success across GoFundMe’s community of more than 200 million people and organizations. Froehlich will play a key role in advancing the company’s ambitious goal to grow charitable giving beyond 2% of U.S. GDP, a threshold that has remained unchanged for decades. His team will directly support the fundraising success of the thousands of nonprofit organizations using GoFundMe Pro, while helping both nonprofits and individual fundraisers unlock the full value of GoFundMe’s innovative fundraising tools.

GoFundMe today released its 2025 Year in Help report, offering a sweeping look at how individuals and nonprofits came together on the platform to support one another through crisis, milestones, and moments of opportunity. In a year marked by natural disasters and growing everyday needs, the power of help united communities like never before: with 2.5 donations made every second on average, people across the globe came to GoFundMe to lift up others, support nonprofits, and strengthen communities.

Watch Duty, the nonprofit changing how people receive real-time disaster alerts, and GoFundMe, the global leader in online fundraising, today announced a two-part partnership that links Watch Duty’s trusted information with GoFundMe’s trusted giving platform.

GoFundMe, the global leader in online fundraising, today announced the launch of Giving Funds, a new product designed to make charitable giving simpler, more accessible, and more impactful. Built on the company’s trusted platform and community of 200 million, Giving Funds bring the power of donor-advised funds (DAFs) to a broader audience, helping people at all giving levels participate in philanthropy and support causes they believe in. Giving Funds provide users with a centralized place to plan, invest and grow their funds, track progress, and manage all aspects of charitable giving, on one simple annual tax receipt. GoFundMe is launching this new charitable tool in partnership with GoFundMe Giving Fund, an independent 501(c)(3) public charity and DAF sponsor.

TIME has named GoFundMe to its prestigious list of the 100 Most Influential Companies of 2025 — an honor recognizing the company’s leadership in transforming how people and organizations give and receive help around the world, its commitment to unlocking generosity at scale through innovation, and its role as a lifeline for communities in times of crisis, including earlier this year when devastating wildfires swept through Los Angeles. This marks GoFundMe’s second inclusion on the TIME100 list, which highlights companies making an extraordinary impact around the world.

Today, GoFundMe announced it has surpassed $40 billion raised globally, celebrating a major milestone in its mission to help people help each other. Reflecting its increasing investment in the nonprofit space, the company is also unveiling GoFundMe Pro – the next evolution in nonprofit fundraising, combining GoFundMe’s unmatched scale and intelligence with the powerful nonprofit software tools of Classy, which GoFundMe acquired in 2022.

TIME has named Tim Cadogan, CEO of GoFundMe, to its prestigious list of the 100 Most Influential People of 2025. This honor recognizes Tim’s visionary leadership in transforming how people help each other – leveraging innovation to supercharge mutual support, generosity, and human connection in the digital age.

Today, GoFundMe unveiled its 2024 Year in Help report, celebrating the generosity of individuals and nonprofits worldwide who helped each other throughout the year. With an average of two donations made every second, the report showcases the most generous places globally, significant moments that drove unprecedented help, and trends shaping the future of giving.

GoFundMe is launching GoFundMe Profiles, a new tool designed to empower people everywhere to champion the causes and nonprofits that they support. This new tool serves as a customizable space for individuals to express their values, display a snapshot of the impact they have had through sharing and fundraising, and inspire others to help. Little Miss Flint, Patriotic Kenny, Good News Movement, and other well-known influencers with a collective 10 million+ followers launched their own GoFundMe Profiles today, calling on their followers to join them in giving forward to people and causes they care about.

Today GoFundMe and Meta are announcing innovative new sharing features to drive more donations to nonprofits. Through this first-of-its-kind collaboration, donors and nonprofits can more easily share the causes they care about with their social networks. Starting today, nonprofits using GoFundMe’s software company, Classy, will have access to this enhanced sharing experience on Instagram. In the coming weeks, the new Instagram sharing features will be available on GoFundMe for fundraisers supporting nonprofits, with similar functionality following soon on Facebook.

GoFundMe, the trusted leader in online fundraising, today announced its expansion into Puerto Rico. The platform now delivers a fully localized fundraising experience to those on the island, allowing individuals and nonprofit organizations to create fundraisers, accept donations, and withdraw funds to their bank accounts. This expansion is part of the company’s broader effort to safely deliver even more help from its global community, which together with its nonprofit platform, has raised more than $30 billion since 2010.

GoFundMe, the trusted leader in online fundraising, today announced the addition of DAFpay as a payment method, enabling direct, easy, and secure payments to qualified GoFundMe fundraisers directly from donor-advised funds (DAFs). As a result of the partnership between GoFundMe and Chariot, donors now have the option to support over 1 million U.S. charities on GoFundMe and make a direct impact with their DAF dollars.

GoFundMe today announced its expansion into Mexico, one of the largest economies in Latin America. Mexico becomes the 20th country fully supported on the GoFundMe platform and is the company's first international expansion in nearly six years.

GoFundMe, the trusted leader in online fundraising, announced today that J Allard is joining the company as Chief Product and Technology Officer. Allard will be responsible for scaling GoFundMe’s technology infrastructure and overseeing the product, design and engineering teams. He will join the company’s executive team, reporting to and partnering closely with CEO Tim Cadogan. Allard will focus on developing the future of online fundraising and advancing the vision of GoFundMe to become the most helpful place on earth.

GoFundMe, the trusted leader in online fundraising, announced today that Greg Mrva is joining the company as Chief Financial Officer. Greg has over 25 years of experience building finance, strategy and operating teams at leading technology companies and leading investment banking teams advising global technology businesses. He will be responsible for leading GoFundMe’s finance, accounting, business operations and corporate development functions which includes Classy, a leading software platform for nonprofits. Greg will join the company’s executive team and will report to CEO Tim Cadogan. He will play an instrumental role in advancing the company’s vision of becoming the most helpful place on earth.

GoFundMe, the trusted leader in online fundraising, announced today that Margaret Richardson has joined the company as its Chief Corporate Affairs Officer. She will be responsible for building and leading GoFundMe’s corporate affairs team consisting of government relations, public policy, and corporate communications. Richardson will join the company’s executive team, reporting to and working closely with CEO Tim Cadogan.

GoFundMe, the trusted leader in online fundraising, announced the completion of its previously announced acquisition of Classy, the leading nonprofit fundraising software company. Classy will continue to operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of GoFundMe.

GoFundMe, the trusted leader in online fundraising, announced today it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Classy, a leading modern nonprofit fundraising software company. The addition of Classy accelerates opportunities to service the nearly $500 billion U.S. philanthropic market as GoFundMe aims to be the most helpful place in the world.

GoFundMe, the largest global fundraising platform, announced today that Jeneen Minter has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer. Minter joins with decades of financial and operational leadership experience and a successful track record with both private and public companies. She will be responsible for leading GoFundMe’s finance, accounting and business intelligence functions as the company looks to expand into new international markets, build new products, and enhance its existing offering. Minter will join the company’s executive team, reporting to and working closely with CEO Tim Cadogan to set the company strategy.

GoFundMe, the largest global fundraising platform based in Redwood City, California, announced today the addition of three new members to its Board of Directors. These new members will add their experience and expertise in technology and financial services to a notable group of executives currently providing guidance and strategic insight to GoFundMe’s leadership team.

GoFundMe, the world’s leading fundraising platform, today released new data about the state of giving in New York City. The findings, which combine new internal GoFundMe data with the results of a survey* conducted by Perksy among 1,000 New Yorkers in April 2021, demonstrate the kindness and resilience of the nation’s largest city.