10/22/2025

Protect Your Brand’s Online Reputation

What you need to know about the unauthorized GoFundMe pages

In the past week, GoFundMe has been under fire after creating 1.4 million nonprofit fundraising pages and accepting donations, unbeknownst to the actual nonprofit organizations. They used publicly available information, including from the nonprofits' websites, along [with] partner data to create the unauthorized GoFundMe pages.

GoFundMe released a statement on Oct. 21 backpedaling on some aspects of the pages rollout after receiving backlash, including no longer using a nonprofit’s logo without consent and allowing nonprofits to block their donation page from being discovered by search engines.

The problem with unauthorized pages

Nonprofit organizations have numerous concerns about these unauthorized GoFundMe pages. First, multiple giving platforms can create confusion for your donors. Next, it complicates your ability to collect their gifts. More importantly, because organizations were not consulted or notified about the creation of the pages, many may not even be aware if donations are coming in or how to get the funds.

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