What Evergive does

Evergive is a private, for-profit financial technology platform founded in 2013 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California, that targets the UK charity sector and individual philanthropists. The company's core product is a donation platform designed to convert one-time charitable gifts into permanent, compounding funding streams for beneficiary charities. Rather than routing contributions to immediate spending, Evergive invests donations with the aim of generating compound returns, delivering sustained monthly income to charities and freeing trustees from continuous year-on-year fundraising campaigns.

The underlying mechanism is a subscription/recurring donation model where individual donors set up ongoing contributions that are pooled and deployed to generate long-term reserves for selected charities. The platform is distributed through a direct-to-consumer self-serve website for donors and a direct outreach channel ([email protected]) for onboarding charity partners. Go-to-market relies on organic social channels (LinkedIn, X, Instagram), an email newsletter, and content marketing—most notably a long-form founder whitepaper titled 'Lasting Causes Deserve Lasting Capital' that positions Evergive as the financial backbone of civil society and draws analogies to historic foundation endowments such as the Wellcome Trust and Lilly Endowment.

The business is at an early commercial stage: the company self-describes as 'a small team' within an 11–50 headcount band, has raised approximately $1.5 million across two disclosed funding rounds (2013 and 2014), and its website indicates an active relaunch. Founder Ismael Dainehine, who claims to have helped raise over $200 million for charities over the prior decade, leads the company with Mary Minno as VP of Marketing. No revenue, AUM, customer logos, or pricing/fee structure are publicly disclosed, and no app, API, integrations, certifications, patents, or acquisitions are reported.

Name

Evergive

Legal name

Evergive

Website

https://evergive.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Evergive is a private fintech donation platform that converts recurring donor contributions into permanent, compounding funding streams for UK charities. It serves individual philanthropists and nonprofit trustees seeking to build lasting reserves rather than relying on continuous fundraising campaigns.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Charitable Donation Platform

NAICS

Grantmaking and Giving Services (8132), Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321), Voluntary Health Organizations (813212)

SIC

Finance Services (6199), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) Sponsors (BPAGAKAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Creator Monetization Tools (Subscriptions, Tips, Merch) (BPAMALAH), Creator Tipping, Donations & Micro-Payments (MPACAFAB), Federated Giving Organizations (e.g., United Way-type) (BPAGAKAG)

Keywords

• Charitable donation platform
• Recurring giving
• Donation compounding
• Charity endowment
• Philanthropy technology

Headquarters

HQ city

Palo Alto

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Donation Subscription Service: Evergive appears to operate a recurring donation subscription model where donors set up regular donations that are then invested to generate permanent funding streams for selected charities. The platform transforms these ongoing donations into compound returns rather than one-time expenditures.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Evergive operates a digital donation platform that transforms one-time charitable gifts into permanent, compounding funding streams for partner charities. Donors set up recurring contributions that are invested to generate long-term returns, providing charities with reliable monthly income rather than cyclical campaign revenue. The product is designed to enable charities to build financial reserves across decades and to give donors a compounding alternative to one-off giving.

Product overview

Evergive is a single, unified donation platform that converts one-time charitable contributions into permanent funding reserves for charities. The platform operates on the principle that donations should compound over time rather than be spent immediately, helping charities build financial resilience against inflation and economic instability. The core product enables donors to contribute to charities that then receive sustained, long-term income rather than cyclical fundraising revenue.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Evergive Platform A digital donation platform that lets individual donors set up recurring contributions which are invested to generate permanent, compounding funding streams for selected charities, helping organizations build long-term reserves instead of relying on the traditional give-spend-repeat fundraising cycle.

Quantifiable outcome

• In 2022/23, the Charity Commission removed 4,146 organisations from the UK register, highlighting the urgency of financial resilience in the sector.
• +2 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• UK CharitiescoreOthersEvergive partners with UK charities to receive donations through its platform. The platform transforms one-time and recurring donations into permanent funding streams for partner charities. Charities can reach out directly via [email protected] or through contact forms to inquire about partnering.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Daffy: Daffy is a digital-first donor-advised fund platform that lets individuals contribute, invest, and grant to charities over time. It is the closest direct peer to Evergive in both product model (pooled, invested charitable giving for retail donors) and target customer (modern philanthropically-minded individuals).
• PayPal Giving Fund: PayPal Giving Fund is a donor-advised fund that pools donations, invests them, and grants to verified charities. It is directly comparable to Evergive in the mechanism of pooled, invested, charity-directed giving, with the distinction that PayPal Giving Fund operates at massive scale under the PayPal brand.
• Donorbox: Donorbox is a recurring donation and fundraising platform for nonprofits, offering subscription-based giving tooling. It addresses the same charity-side customer (organisations seeking sustainable recurring revenue) but is positioned as a tooling layer rather than an investment/endowment layer.
• Funraise: Funraise is a digital fundraising platform for nonprofits with recurring donation, donor CRM, and campaign capabilities. It targets the same nonprofit buyer that Evergive ultimately serves, though without Evergive's endowment/investment layer.
• Give Lively: Give Lively is a free digital fundraising platform built for nonprofits, providing donation pages, recurring giving, and event tools. It is a direct peer in serving the same UK/US nonprofit fundraising market with a digital-first model.

Broad incumbents

• National Philanthropic Trust: NPT is one of the largest independent donor-advised fund sponsors in the US, administering billions in charitable assets. It represents the incumbent institutional form of the same pooled-invested-distributed giving architecture that Evergive is attempting to make accessible to smaller donors.
• Fidelity Charitable: Fidelity Charitable is the largest DAF sponsor in the US with tens of billions in AUM. It competes for the same end-customer (donors seeking structured, tax-advantaged, invested charitable giving) and dwarfs Evergive on scale, brand, and distribution.
• Schwab Charitable: Schwab Charitable is a major donor-advised fund sponsor with multi-billion AUM. It targets the same donor persona as Evergive (individuals building long-term, tax-efficient philanthropic plans) but with established scale and brand trust.

Emerging players

• Wealthsimple Giving: Wealthsimple's giving feature allows retail clients to donate, invest, and grant to charities from within the Wealthsimple app. It is an emerging digital-first giving product with partial overlap to Evergive's model, bundled into a broader wealth management platform.
• Pledge: Pledge (formerly Pledge 1%) is a platform for companies and individuals to make charitable commitments and disburse donations to nonprofits. It overlaps with Evergive in the 'modernised, structured giving' category but is more oriented to corporate giving programs than to individual donor endowment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/evergiveapp
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/evergive-app
• Instagraminstagram.com/evergive_app
• Facebookfacebook.com/evergive

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors1 record

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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