GiveLively
A free fundraising platform that directs all donor contributions directly to nonprofit missions without taking a cut.
- Also known as
- givelively
Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is GiveLively?
Give Lively is a free-to-nonprofits fundraising platform offering donation pages, text-to-give, event ticketing, and peer-to-peer fundraising capabilities, funded by philanthropists rather than charging nonprofits platform fees.
GiveLively pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Completely free to nonprofits. Third-party payment processor fees range from 1.99% + $0.25 to 2.9% + $0.30. Optional donor tips accepted.
Nonprofit Membership
FreeComplete access to all fundraising platform features at no cost to the nonprofit
- Customizable donation pages and widgets
- Text-to-donate
- Event ticketing with custom pricing tiers
- Peer-to-peer fundraising
- Team fundraising
- Recurring and one-time donations
- Anonymous giving and dedications
- All major payment methods (cards, bank transfers, digital wallets, PayPal, Venmo)
- Native Salesforce integration
- Zapier integration to 6000+ apps
- Double the Donation corporate matching
- Donor portal with tax summaries
- Real-time donation progress tracking
- Data exports (CSV) and reports
- Bank-level encryption and PCI compliance
- Email and chat support
What GiveLively does
The capabilities that matter for donor management fundraising, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Deployment model
- Cloud saas campaigns
- Peer to peer p2p team leaderboards
- ✓
- Text to give SMS donation processing
- ✓
- Donor fee cover and tipping model
- ✓
- Silent auction mobile bidding and outbid alerts
- ✗
- Recurring monthly donor management portal
- ✓
- Physical event ticketing and table seating chart
- ✓
- Thermometer progress bar and livestream overlays
- ✓
- Digital wallet support apple pay google pay
- ✓
- Native salesforce npsp two way sync
- ✓
- SOC2 type ii
- ✗
- PCI DSS payment gateway compliance
- ✓
- Pricing model
- Free with donor tips
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (12)
Independently observed- Salesforce
- Zapier
- Google Tag Manager
- Double the Donation
- PayPal
- Stripe
- Shift4
- DAFpay by Chariot
- Venmo
- Charity Navigator
- Apple Pay
- Google Pay
GiveLively alternatives
Other donor management fundraising we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- ZeffyCompletely free fundraising and donor management suite for nonprofits that retains 100% of contributions with no platform or transaction feeslow · 37%
- QgivA unified platform for nonprofits to manage donations, events, and donor relationshipslow · 20%
- iDonateDonation platform for nonprofits that provides customizable, embeddable forms with donor analytics and CRM integration.low · 41%
Compare GiveLively
Side by side against other donor management fundraising, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for GiveLively, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 80 | 0.08 | 6.7 | ✓ |
| Price level | 100 | 0.05 | 5.2 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 96 | 0.05 | 4.7 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 100 | 0.04 | 4.1 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.07 | 3.7 | ✓ |
| Security posture | 15 | 0.07 | 1.1 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Soc2 type ii: No · Pricing model: free_with_donor_tips · Deployment model: cloud_saas_campaigns · Donor fee cover and tipping model: Yes · Pci dss payment gateway compliance: Yes · Peer to peer p2p team leaderboards: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-24 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 6,012 | mediumsource · 2026-08-24 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-24 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-24 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Pci | Yes | highsource · 2026-08-24 · 75% |