Stripe for nonprofits

Maximize impact with reliable funding solutions

Make donating hassle-free, build sustainable funding streams, and focus more resources on driving impact. Contact our sales team to learn about specialized nonprofit pricing.

The opportunity

Turn occasional donors into lifelong supporters

Donation experiences help shape donor loyalty. With modern payment tools, you can deepen connections with your supporters.

Let donors give on their terms

Supporters are increasingly giving via mobile, social media, and events. Meet donors wherever they are, whenever they are inspired to give, with payment solutions for every case.

Maximize every donation opportunity

The right payments infrastructure can help you make giving easy, recover failed payments, and build sustainable support with recurring donations.

Why Stripe

Financial infrastructure for purpose-driven work

Stripe powers payments for millions of organizations worldwide, from small community groups to global foundations. Last year, Stripe processed $300M+ in donations on GivingTuesday alone.

11.9%

average revenue growth for businesses that switch to the Optimized Checkout Suite

56%

average subscription payments recovered by Stripe Billing in 2024

38%

average reduction in fraud with Stripe Radar, powered by AI trained on billions of transactions

99.999%+

uptime maintained by the Stripe API, including during peak days like GivingTuesday and Black Friday through Cyber Monday

Use cases

Payment solutions designed for nonprofit needs

With Stripe’s nonprofit payment processing, you can maximize your impact—whether you’re a nonprofit building relationships with donors or a platform serving nonprofit needs. Create easy donation experiences, reduce payment failures, and get insights into your data.

Payments
Payments

Build donation forms that convert

Turn more visitors into donors with customizable forms, mobile-friendly checkout, and payment optimizations that increase completion rates.

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Billing
Billing

Make recurring donations simple and reliable

Create monthly giving programs with flexible schedules that work for your donors, easy management tools, and automatic recovery of failed payments.

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Connect
Connect

Power your nonprofit platform

Help organizations raise more funds on your platform with easy onboarding, automatic donation splitting, and visibility into fundraising data.

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Terminal
Terminal

Accept in-person donations

Collect in-person donations in 24 countries and counting using precertified card readers, or card reader alternatives like Tap to Pay.

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Customer spotlight

Fundraise Up doubles online donation revenue with Stripe

Fundraise Up partnered with Stripe to build payment tools that could handle the unique challenges of nonprofit fundraising. The platform now helps organizations process more than $1M in donations daily with fewer declined payments and more recurring supporters.

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Fundraise Up doubles online donation revenue for nonprofits with payment methods on Stripe

Case studies

Join thousands of mission-driven organizations worldwide

Donation platforms

Donorbox processes over $1B in donations, helping small nonprofits compete with larger organizations through better technology.

Environmental and conservation

Eventgroove integrated Stripe Climate into its event platform with no engineering resources, enabling 76,000+ organizations to power eco-friendly fundraisers and purchase carbon removal.

Humanitarian and disaster relief

Canadian Red Cross increased recurring donor revenue by 24%, enabling digital wallet payments while retaining 99% of existing monthly donors during its migration.

Health and patient services

Stand Up To Cancer increased recurring donors by 30% and processed donations at scale during televised fundraising events that reached millions across the US and Canada.

Education and research foundations

World History Encyclopedia launched a multilingual payment system in just 2 days with Stripe Checkout, supporting 10 currencies and boosting conversion by 5%.

Partners

Extend your impact with our partner ecosystem

From fundraising and nonprofit platforms to CRM systems, marketing tools, and data services—connect with specialized partners that understand the unique needs of mission-driven organizations.

Industry recognition

A leader in digital payments and billing

Q1 2025 The Forrester Wave™ Recurring Billing Solutions: A Leader

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2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Recurring Billing Applications: A Leader ¹

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2024 The Forrester Wave™ Merchant Payment Providers: Stripe received the highest score in the Innovation criterion of the evaluated partners

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2024 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled SaaS Sales and Use Tax Automation Software for Small and Midmarket: A Leader

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Insights into online giving behavior

Learn what data from millions of donations processed across 500 nonprofits tells us about what compels people to donate in this report co-created by Fundraise Up and Stripe.

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See how Stripe can help your organization raise more funds with less effort through better donation experiences and specialized nonprofit pricing.

Professional services

Discover how Stripe’s integration experts can help you launch new donation systems quickly and effectively.

¹ Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Recurring Billing Applications, Mark Lewis, Robert Anderson, 6 August 2024.