Granted by Pledgeling Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity
Every eligible nonprofit, paid and accounted for
Pledge moves charitable funds from your program to verified nonprofits. Every eligible organization gets paid — by check or ACH, with nothing required of them, while verification, exception handling, reconciliation and reporting sit with us.
No setup fees · No platform subscription · Funds granted by a 501(c)(3)
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More money delivered. Less work getting it there
Every part of disbursement is built around one question: did the funds reach an eligible nonprofit without your team touching it?
Reach any eligible 501(c)(3)
Every US 501(c)(3) in good standing is already in our database — not just the ones who have signed up with us. You aren’t limited to an enrolled subset, and no organization has to do anything before it can receive your funds.
Eligibility checked every day
We check the IRS Business Master File and Automatic Revocation list daily. If an organization loses its status prior to disbursement, it stops being payable before funds move — and you don’t have to monitor it, flag it or act on it.
We own the exceptions
Returns, notifications of change, address failures, stale-dated checks and reissues are handled by our operations team and corrected at source, so the same failure doesn’t recur next cycle. Your team doesn’t manage a remediation queue.
No signup. No portal. Just paid.
Most platforms require a nonprofit to register and submit banking details before it can receive anything. Organizations that never get round to it simply don’t get their money, and the funds sit unclaimed.
Pledge works the other way. Every eligible organization is paid from the first cycle — by check where we don’t hold banking details, by ACH where we do. We mail thousands of checks every month, and that’s deliberate. Electronic payment is where most organizations end up, not a condition of being paid.
Platforms that require signup
- Nonprofit must register first Required
- Time to first payment until they enroll
- If they never enroll Unclaimed
- Who you can reach enrolled organizations
Pledge
- Nonprofit must register first No
- Time to first payment first cycle
- If they never enroll Paid by check
- Who you can reach any eligible 501(c)(3)
Nobody misses a payment while you switch
There’s no switchover date and no gap. Every organization keeps getting paid from the first cycle, whatever method they’re on.
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Send us your list
We match your organizations against our database and tell you how many we can already pay electronically.
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Everyone gets paid
From the first cycle, every eligible organization receives funds — by ACH where we hold details, by check where we don’t.
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ACH grows on its own
Each check carries a prompt to add banking details, so the electronic share rises cycle after cycle without you chasing it.
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Nothing lands on you
Returns, address changes, reissues and organization questions are handled by our team, not yours.
Ineligible organizations stop being paid
You don’t monitor IRS status, and you don’t have to act on it. It happens underneath the program.
Across a population of tens of thousands, revocations, mergers and status changes happen constantly. We check the IRS files daily, and an organization that loses its status comes off the payable list before the next disbursement. If its status is restored, payments resume. Nothing reaches your desk either way.
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Daily
IRS files refreshed
Business Master File and Auto-Revocation list imported
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Automatic
Status change detected
An organization appears on the Auto-Revocation list
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Before next run
Removed from the payable list
No funds are disbursed to that organization
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Ongoing
Our team follows up
We contact the organization and work the remediation
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Automatic
Reinstated
Status restored, payments resume on the next run
What enterprise disbursement actually requires
The parts that decide whether a program runs itself or quietly consumes a team.
Any eligible 501(c)(3)
Reach every qualifying organization, not only the subset that has signed up with a platform.
Check and ACH, both first-class
No enrollment requirement. Organizations are paid by whichever method works, and move to ACH over time.
Daily IRS monitoring
Business Master File and Auto-Revocation checks every day, so ineligible organizations stop being payable.
Exception handling absorbed
Returns, address failures, stale-dated items and reissues are worked by our team, not yours.
Reconciliation end to end
Every dollar traceable from funding through to settlement, per organization, per cycle.
Reporting and attribution
Region, brand, program or any attribute you send, carried on every transaction and available to roll up.
The structure behind the payment
Funds are granted by Pledgeling Foundation, our affiliated 501(c)(3) public charity. For companies running customer-facing giving programs, that removes work and risk that would otherwise sit with you.
Registrations sit with us
The foundation carries the charitable solicitation and commercial fundraiser registrations, along with renewals and reporting.
Funded in aggregate
Contributions are funded to the foundation in batch rather than tying each customer transaction to an individual charitable gift — a materially simpler position under state commercial co-venture rules.
Independently audited
Audited each year, with a public Form 990 available to your finance and compliance teams.
Undelivered funds stay charitable
Amounts that can’t reach an organization remain charitable assets and are reported back each cycle rather than sitting in commercial limbo.
Partner Success Stories
150+
countries reached
CNN consolidated global donation infrastructure onto Pledge
Multiple vendors replaced with a single platform
$50M+
processed
Evite Donations, powered by Pledge
Real-time totals displayed to donors
Best App of the Year
Shopify
The first donation integration built for the Shopify platform
Thousands of merchants giving back at checkout
Recognized by the largest software provider in the sector
Pledge was named a launch partner for Blackbaud Integrated Payments, and Blackbaud’s Startup of the Year in 2025.
2025
Blackbaud Startup of the Year
The integrity of our disbursement process really sets us apart. We’ve built from the ground up a secure, compliant system that has disbursed over $260M to nonprofits operating in nearly every country in the world, and we keep optimizing it against changing charity, data privacy and regulatory requirements. Donors can track every dollar from gift to impact, while nonprofits receive funds seamlessly and securely.
FAQs
See what your disbursement would look like
We can match your recipient list against our records and show you day-one electronic coverage before you commit to anything.
No setup fees · No platform subscription