Conduit fundraising

Raise together.
Deliver direct.

GoodChange conduit fundraising is built for the coordination era: every earmarked contribution delivers directly to its recipient, with the raising entity in full control. Funds never pass through an intermediary account.

The direct route A donor's contribution travels along a direct line to the recipient's bank account. A dimmed detour through an intermediary holding account is shown crossed out and bypassed. INTERMEDIARY HOLDING ACCOUNT SKIPPED Donor one checkout Recipient's account DIRECT DELIVERY

Payouts direct to the recipient's own bank account — often within 1–2 business days via Stripe.

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.

Direct delivery

Each contribution routes directly to the recipient's own account. 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 enough to publish on this page.

Direct to recipient

Every earmarked contribution delivers directly to the recipient. Funds never pass through an intermediary account between donor and recipient.

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 delivery is direct and earmarks are explicit, 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.

1–2 days

Typical payout window, direct to the org's bank via Stripe.

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 direct route.

Start your fundraiser