Donation pages made in your name, without asking.
A Shadow Donation Page is a third-party, off-domain giving page1 that was auto-generated2 without the nonprofit’s consent3, that accepts gifts on the org’s behalf4 while routing payouts through an intermediary5. Such pages can outrank or confuse results of the official donate page in search6.
Each numbered phrase is one check. The register shows which ones the evidence establishes for each platform. What a Shadow Donation Page is, in full.
The register
15 platforms · updated from the event log| Platform | 1Off-domain | 2Auto-generated | 3No consent | 4Takes gifts | 5Intermediary | 6Search-indexed | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Listed Platforms whose pages meet the definition. Each check says whether it rests on a dated evidence bundle or on our published research. | |||||||
| RoundUp.org | Bundle 22 Sep 2026 | ||||||
| Donate.gg | Bundle 10 Jul 2026 | ||||||
| GiveFreely | No bundle yet | ||||||
| Network for Good | No bundle yet | ||||||
| Pledge | No bundle yet | ||||||
| GoFundMe | Bundle 18 Sep 2026 | ||||||
| GreatNonprofits | No bundle yet | ||||||
| PayPal Giving Fund | Bundle 18 Sep 2026 | ||||||
| JustGiving | No bundle yet | ||||||
| Every.org | No bundle yet | ||||||
| Offline Platforms that have taken their pages down. They stay on the register with their record. | |||||||
| Giving Fountain | Bundle 17 Sep 2026 | ||||||
| Reformed Platforms that changed how they work so their pages no longer meet the definition. The change is logged with its date. | |||||||
| Charity Navigator | No bundle yet | ||||||
| Compared, not listed Platforms that list nonprofits but take gifts only with the nonprofit’s consent. They show the model works without shadow pages. | |||||||
| Meta / Facebook | No bundle yet | ||||||
| Tiltify | No bundle yet | ||||||
| America’s Charities | No bundle yet | ||||||
- Present, dated evidence
- Present, research only
- Absent
- Unresolved
- Not yet examined
- Reformed
Search the platform for your name, then claim it or have it removed.
Most of these platforms built a page for every organization in the IRS exempt-organization file, so a registered nonprofit is likely to have one on each platform marked present for check 2.
- Search each platform for your legal name and EIN. Open a platform in the register to see what we found and where its pages live.
- Decide whether to claim or remove. Claiming usually gets you payouts and donor data; removal takes your name off the platform. Each platform page carries the removal route where we have verified it.
- Check where the money went. Where check 5 is present, gifts made in your name sit with an intermediary fund until claimed, and the fund may regrant them elsewhere.
Latest in the log
Every capture, finding, regulatory action and platform change, dated and sourced.
Full event log- Correction Meta / Facebook
Moved to Compared, not listed
Meta’s fundraisers are started by users, not generated by Meta for every nonprofit, so check 2 is absent. The register now shows Meta as a comparison rather than a listed platform.
Source: Shadow Donation Directory, nonprofitnewsfeed.com (page 4950) - Capture Giving Fountain
Takedown captured
Whole Whale captured the offline homepage; the directory, listing pages and facets API returned 410 Gone.
Source: Takedown captures - Finding Giving Fountain
Registry recheck with dashed FEIN
The California registry search was re-run with the dashed FEIN 41-3218258 and both name spellings; it still returned no record.
Source: Registry recheck captures - Published Giving Fountain
Page 4950 marks it offline
The NNF directory entry was marked offline since 2026-09-21 and its CA FEIN citation was corrected to the dashed form.
Source: NNF Shadow Donation Directory - Capture RoundUp.org
Evidence bundle captured
Whole Whale captured listings, Terms, the for-nonprofits page, 78 sitemaps and screenshots by anonymous public GET, plus a separate SEO and geo-directory bundle.
Source: RoundUp evidence bundles
The six checks
A platform is listed when the evidence shows its pages meet the definition. Telling donors that the nonprofit has not claimed the page is a mitigation, not an exemption.
Method and evidence standard- 1
Is the page hosted by someone other than the nonprofit?
The page lives on the platform’s domain, not the nonprofit’s.
- 2
Did the platform create the page itself?
The platform built the page, typically from the IRS exempt-organization file, before anyone at the nonprofit touched it.
- 3
Did the nonprofit never opt in?
The page went live without the nonprofit authorizing it. A notice saying the nonprofit has not claimed the page does not change this: disclosure is a mitigation, not an exemption.
- 4
Does the page take donations in the nonprofit’s name?
A visitor can complete a donation on the page, addressed to the nonprofit.
- 5
Does the money pass through a fund the nonprofit does not control?
Gifts are received by an intermediary fund, sponsor, or donor-advised fund that can hold the money, and reassign it if the nonprofit never claims it.
- 6
Are the pages exposed to search engines?
The platform publishes its nonprofit pages to search engines, through a public sitemap and no noindex, so a donor searching for the nonprofit can land on the platform instead of the nonprofit’s own donate page.