Conduit fundraising

Raise together.
Deliver seamlessly.

GoodChange conduit fundraising is built for the coordination era. Every earmarked contribution is collected in the conduit and forwarded to its recipient's own account — an account-to-account transfer, with no delays.

The conduit route A donor's earmarked contribution flows into the conduit's account, then transfers account-to-account into the recipient's own account. Donor one checkout Conduit account earmarked, then forwarded Recipient's account COLLECTED ACCOUNT-TO-ACCOUNT TRANSFER

Contributions are collected in the conduit, then forwarded to each recipient's own account by an account-to-account transfer — fast, with no delays.

How it works

One fundraiser. Every dollar accounted for.

Build a conduit fundraiser for a single recipient or a full slate. Donors give once; the platform handles earmarking, delivery, and reporting.

Build your slate

Set up a fundraising page for one recipient or a full slate — live in about 30 minutes. One-time, monthly, and Spare Change round-up giving are all supported.

Donors give once

A single checkout, earmarked per recipient. Donors can choose to cover transaction fees at checkout — and usually do. No platform tips are ever added on top.

Forwarded to the recipient

Each earmarked contribution is collected in the conduit and forwarded to the recipient's own account — an account-to-account transfer, with no delays. The raising entity stays in full control of the fundraiser and keeps full ownership of the donor relationship.

The numbers

Why pay more?

When donors cover the fee at checkout, the effective rate a campaign actually pays drops well below the sticker rate. Here's one audited campaign, with its basis published in full.

Legacy pass-through platform 3.96% effective fee rate paid
VS
GoodChange 1.00% effective fee rate paid

77.3% of the campaign's donors chose to cover the transaction fee at checkout · zero donor-regret refunds

Where these numbers come from — and what they are and aren't

All figures are from the Hallie Shoffner for Arkansas Senate campaign audit: one campaign's real results, not a randomized comparison. The 1.00% effective rate reflects that 77.3% of that campaign's donors chose to cover transaction fees at checkout. Standard transaction fees still apply whenever a donor doesn't cover them, and donor fee-cover rates vary by campaign.

For transparency: legacy pass-through platforms publish base processing fees of about 3.95% — essentially the same as the 3.96% effective rate observed in this audit. The difference isn't a hidden rate on their side; it's a structural feature on ours. Donor fee-cover is built into every GoodChange checkout.

Ownership & control

Your fundraiser. Your donors. Your data.

No platform tips

Donors are never asked to tip the platform. The checkout asks one optional question: whether they'd like to cover the transaction fee for the campaign.

No data sales

Donor data is never sold. The full donor relationship stays with the raising entity — contact records, giving history, all of it.

Full brand control — with a custom site

Want your fundraiser to look and read entirely like your campaign, end to end? A fully custom-branded site is available for $250/month.

Built for every ballot line

Left-leaning and Democratic campaigns, plus nonpartisan races — judicial, municipal, school board — from city council to Congress.

Coordination-era infrastructure

Structure you can state in plain terms.

The rules around coordinated fundraising have changed. GoodChange's conduit model was built for how campaigns raise now — and its structure is simple and fast.

Conduit-forwarded

Every earmarked contribution is collected in the conduit's account and forwarded to its recipient — an account-to-account transfer, fast, with no delays.

Raising entity in control

The entity running the fundraiser controls it end to end — the slate, the page, the messaging, and the donor relationship that comes out of it.

Clean reporting

Because every earmark is explicit and forwarded to a named recipient, reporting reflects exactly what happened: who gave, to whom, and when it arrived.

Speed & scale

Live before your next finance call.

~30 min

From signup to a live, fully branded fundraiser.

Account to account

Earmarked contributions forwarded to each recipient's own account — fast, with no delays.

3 plans

Start with the essentials and scale up as you grow — GoodChange meets your campaign where it is, from Standard to Growth to Pro.

Get started

Take the conduit route.

Start your fundraiser