Donation & Fundraising Platforms Market Share & Usage Statistics (2026)
GiveWP runs on 31,478 live websites, 28.0% of the 112,434 sites we detect using donation & fundraising platforms. Below, all 54 tools we detect in this category, ranked by live websites, with market share and 30-day adoption momentum.
Data updated Aug 19, 2026
- #1
GiveWP
GiveWP is a donation and fundraising plugin for WordPress, now sold as "Give" by Liquid Web's Nexcess after the 2026 consolidation of its StellarWP portfolio.
Live websites31,478Market Share28%Top CountryUnited States - #2
Patreon
Patreon is a membership platform where supporters pay creators a recurring amount.
Live websites21,307Market Share18.95%Top CountryUnited States - #3
Donorbox
Donorbox is a donation form that nonprofits embed in their own website as a widget or an iframe.
Live websites6,565Market Share5.84%Top CountryUnited States 
Ko-fi
Ko-fi lets supporters send a creator a one-off tip or a monthly membership, hosted on ko-fi.com.
Live websites6,393Market Share5.69%Top CountryUnited States
Buy me a coffee
Buy Me a Coffee takes one-off tips and memberships on the creator's behalf at buymeacoffee.com.
Live websites5,806Market Share5.16%Top CountryUnited States
Donations & Fundraising Market Data
Adoption and 30-day momentum across 54 donations & fundraising technologies, measured from our live detection crawl.
Biggest Movers
Expert Insight: Donation & Fundraising Platforms Market Share & Momentum
Nearly a third of this category is a hyperlink to a creator page, not a donation system.
GiveWP leads with about 28% of the 112,000 domains here. Patreon at 19%, Ko-fi at 5.7% and Buy Me a Coffee at 5.2% are matched on an outbound link to the vendor, which puts roughly 30% of the table on a signal closer to a social profile than to installed fundraising software. What remains is a nonprofit market led by GiveWP, Donorbox and Fundraise Up, and the largest vendor in that market is barely present.
Two markets in one table, and one is measured by a link
GiveWP about 28%, Patreon 19%, Donorbox 5.8%, Ko-fi 5.7%, Buy Me a Coffee 5.2%, Fundraise Up 4.5%. GiveWP is a WordPress plugin and we match its script. Patreon, Ko-fi and Buy Me a Coffee are matched on a link to the vendor's domain, so a personal blog with a support button in its footer counts the same as a site taking donations. Those three are creator monetisation; the rest is nonprofit fundraising, and the buyers are different people. The overlap now measures it: about 10% of Ko-fi domains also carry Patreon, against 0.09% carrying GiveWP and 0.18% carrying Donorbox. Two markets, two orders of magnitude apart.
Four of the six biggest gainers are new signatures, Blackbaud included
Blackbaud Online Giving, Blackbaud BBOX, Double the Donation and RevRaise each added essentially their whole footprint inside the window. Blackbaud is the largest vendor in nonprofit software and it shows up with about 1,200 domains across two rows, which measures when we started matching it rather than how big it is. The largest real movement in the quarter is Patreon at about 607 and Qgiv at 427.
Turnover of 2.7% is low, and the link is why
GiveWP shed roughly 864 domains over 30 days on a base of 31,000, about 2.7%. Patreon, the largest of the link-detected entries, is slower still at about 2.4%, because a support button costs nothing to leave in a footer after the creator stops posting. Ko-fi and Buy Me a Coffee run above GiveWP at 3.2% and 3.7%, so the link is not uniformly stickier than a plugin. Dropped means the link or the script stopped appearing in our crawl, not that a campaign ended. Visitor identification, where every leading signal is a request the browser has to make, turns over at 7.3% on the same window.
The processors are invisible, and so are the big platforms
A charity taking cards through a hosted donation page leaves nothing on its own domain, so the money layer does not appear here at all. Blackbaud and the hosted nonprofit CRM end of the market are absent or nearly so for the same reason. What this table measures well is the self-hosted and embedded end: WordPress plugins, embeddable widgets and outbound support links. That is a real segment and a large one, but it is not where most charitable giving is processed.
Market Share
- GiveWP28%
- Patreon18.95%
- Donorbox5.84%
- Ko-fi5.69%
- Buy me a coffee5.16%
Fundraise Up4.48%- …Others31.9%
Donations & Fundraising
FAQ.
What is Donations & Fundraising software?
Donations & Fundraising covers the tools a site can load or configure to handle this part of its stack. We detect one of the 54 donations & fundraising tools in this category on 112,434 live sites. A detection means we found the technology on the site, which is not the same as a paid account.
What are the most popular donations & fundraising platforms?
Across 112,434 detected sites, the most widely found donations & fundraising tools are: GiveWP (28% share, 31,478 sites), Patreon (18.95% share, 21,307 sites), Donorbox (5.84% share, 6,565 sites). Others we see regularly include Ko-fi and Buy me a coffee.
Which donations & fundraising tool has the largest market share?
GiveWP is the most widely detected donations & fundraising tool at 28% share, on 31,478 sites. The largest share of those sites belongs to Non-profit Organizations companies, and to businesses in the 1-10 employee band.
Which industries use donations & fundraising software the most?
The industries with the most detected sites in this category are Non-profit Organizations, Civic and Social Organizations, Non-profit Organization Management, Religious Institutions, Individual and Family Services. Industry mix follows where these tools get installed, so a category carried by website builders or agency templates will lean toward the verticals those platforms serve rather than the vendor's target buyer.
Which countries have the highest adoption of donations & fundraising tools?
We detect the most donations & fundraising sites in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, India, Australia. Country here is the company's registered location in our enriched data rather than where the site is served from, so read it as a ranking of markets rather than a measure of any single one.
How do I choose the right donations & fundraising platform?
Start from your own size, industry and primary use case rather than from share. GiveWP, Patreon and Donorbox are the three we detect most often in this category, which tells you what is common, not what fits you. Compare their integrations, pricing tiers and support commitments against the workflow you actually run, and check each vendor's own documentation for current capabilities.
How many companies use donations & fundraising software?
TechnologyChecker.io detects donations & fundraising tools on 112,434 live sites. That is a count of sites carrying the technology, not a count of paying customers, and a site running two tools in this category is counted under each. We crawl 2 billion+ URLs across 29.9M live business domains each sweep.
What is the source of this data?
TechnologyChecker.io's web crawling and technology detection platform. We've logged 2.12 billion total detections over 20+ years, covering 40,000+ technologies across the 29.9M live business domains we successfully crawl each sweep. Detection methods include JavaScript analysis, HTTP headers, HTML patterns, DNS records, and certificate transparency logs.