Transparent Pricing Built for Nonprofits
Pricing
With GiveGrove’s GiveBack Guarantee, your organization keeps 100% of every dollar raised—and when donors leave an optional tip, we share our revenue with you.
GiveBack Guarantee™
¹Your organization shares in up to 10% of the tips.
²Choose how processing fees are handled: donor-required, donor-optional, or Org-absorbed.
³With the GiveBack Guarantee on, there are no platform fees. Ever.
The GiveBack Guarantee™
Every Donation. Every Event. Every Time. 🍋
Enabling optional tips from donors means your event does more than just raise money. When tipping is enabled, GiveGrove gives back a portion of the tips to your organization.
How It Works
When donors choose to leave an optional tip to support the platform, we share that generosity with you. Every time someone tips, we give up to 10% of that tip amount back to your organization.
No Subscriptions. No Deposits. No Risk.
Unlike other fundraising platforms that charge monthly fees, set minimums, or require deposits—all of GiveGrove’s features are completely free to use.
You can launch events instantly, experiment with new campaigns, and scale your impact without the hassle of complex billing schemes.
We don’t make money unless you do.
We believe in giving organizations the freedom and flexibility to explore new fundraising ideas. Adding new modules (voting, tickets, etc.) where it makes sense, while continuing to engage their donor base with trusted, tried and true events.
Whether you are deploying the GiveBack Guarantee or leveraging our Classic Model, we are proud to offer software without contracts, upfront costs, or subscriptions, so you can start building stronger, more profitable fundraisers today.
Credit Card Processing Fees, Made Easy.
Every donation is processed securely through our trusted payment partners, who charge a standard processing fee of 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction—just like every other fundraising platform.
That’s why we give you full control over how these processing fees are handled. You decide what works best for your donors and your mission:
✅ Require donors to cover processing fees.
The simplest, most common approach. This makes GiveGrove 100% free to use for your organization.
✅ Donors optionally cover processing fees.
Your organization automatically absorbs the rest. On average, Donors choose to cover fees 90% of the time!
✅ Absorb all processing fees.
Perfect for campaigns where donor experience comes first. Your organization pays the processing fees.
No matter what you choose, GiveGrove keeps it simple, transparent, and flexible, so you can focus on what matters most: growing your mission.
GiveGrove Classic Model—Credit Card Structure
With GiveGrove’s Classic Model, you have the power to customize your fundraiser—it’s entirely up to you and your team to decide whether you’d like to:
✅ Let donors cover fees
✅ Make fees required
✅ Absorb them yourself
Get The Full Squeeze
GiveGrove is your nonprofit’s go-to platform for effortless fundraising and donor management. Choose between GiveGrove Classic or GiveGrove GiveBack Guarantee™ to take your impact further.
| Cost Type | GiveGrove GiveBack Guarantee™ | GiveGrove Classic |
|---|---|---|
| Platform Fee | 0% | 4% of donations, capped at $4,000/event |
| Credit Card Processing | Covered by donor (2.9% + $0.30 per transaction) | 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction |
| Donor Fee Coverage Option | – | Yes—required, optional, or off |
| Upfront Fees | None | None |
| Contracts or Subscriptions | None | None |
Get The Full Squeeze
GiveGrove is your nonprofit’s go-to platform for effortless fundraising and donor management. Choose between GiveGrove Classic or GiveGrove GiveBack Guarantee™ to take your impact further.
Pricing Designed for Nonprofits Who Fundraise with Confidence
Whether you’re hosting a silent auction, gala, raffle, or peer-to-peer fundraiser, GiveGrove makes it easy to get started—and keeps costs aligned with your success.
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With the GiveGrove GiveBack Program, our platform software is completely free for organizations to use. Nonprofits can create a professional-looking event website, add auction items, accept donations, and more—at no cost.
At checkout, GiveGrove asks donors if they would like to leave a voluntary suggested tip. These tips help keep GiveGrove free for organizations. When a donor chooses to tip, GiveGrove shares a portion of that tip back with the host organization as a GiveBack.
You’ll see GiveBack amounts clearly listed per transaction in your event export. There’s nothing extra you need to do—GiveBack funds are automatically deposited into your bank account every two business days along with your regular payouts.
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With GiveGrove Classic , you don’t pay a dime until you raise money.
We charge 4% of donations that pass through the platform—and once your event hits $100,000 raised, we stop charging. That means the maximum fee you’ll ever pay is $4,000 per event.
You can ask (or require) donors to cover fees.
We have an average cover rate of 85–90%. This means you only pay a fraction of the cost.
Raised $10,000? Your total fee is $400, with donors covering fees? ~ $8 or less.
Raised $75,000? Your fee is $3,000. With donors covering fees? ~1,500
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A few minutes! Nonprofits can set up an event in GiveGrove as a demo event or a live event within a few minutes.
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Nothing to start! Pick a template and begin building your event right away, no account needed. When you're ready to save, create a free account and add your organization's name, your event name, and your start date and time. To go live and start taking bids and donations, just connect your organization's bank account. That's it!
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GiveGrove is free for organizations. Every event starts on our GiveBack model: we don't take a percentage of your donations, bids, or tickets. Instead, supporters can add an optional tip at checkout to help keep GiveGrove free, and we give 8% of every tip back to your organization as a GiveBack Reward. There are no contracts and no cost to create or demo an event, so you're never locked in if your team goes a different direction!
Prefer a flat fee? You can switch any event to our Classic model instead. Classic charges 4% of each transaction, capped at $4,000 per event. You can let donors choose to cover that fee, or require them to, so your event can still cost you nothing.
Credit card processing (2.9% + $0.30) is charged by our payment processor on every transaction, on either model. You can ask donors to cover it.
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You get the donors name, email, phone, what item they purchased or donated to, if they covered fees, and then the net amount they paid as well as the breakdown of fees and the net to your organization.
Last, we share with you when that transaction was paid out to your organization with a date and timestamp. -
Nothing! Donor information is yours and yours alone. We never use or sell donor data. You always have access to past events and any reports associated with your account.
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There are no contracts to use GiveGrove!
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Every event has a text blast feature where you can communicate with donors who have opted-in to receive communication from your organization.
You also have an export of everyone’s phone and email which you can use to upload to your email client or CRM as needed to communicate with guests! -
We’d love to chat! Feel free to reach out HERE to schedule some time to chat.
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We are on-call during your event. You can use the help button on every page of GiveGrove or reach out to us via email.
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After every event, you’ll receive an email that gives you an overview of how your event did with the total net to your organization, how many donors covered fees, and your actual cost to use the platform.
Frequently Asked Questions
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