Dollar Donation Club

What Dollar Donation Club does

Dollar Donation Club is an Austin, Texas-based collective philanthropy platform founded in 2020 that pools $1/month micro-contributions from individual consumers and routes them through its proprietary Impact Genomics vetting system into a curated portfolio of vetted environmental and humanitarian campaigns. Members join for $1/month via a self-serve website (dollardonationclub.com) and receive monthly progress trackers; additional one-time donations priced at $10 per campaign (trees, ocean plastic, education, seagrass, bees, food rescue) and cadence variants (monthly, weekly, daily) are offered alongside the core membership. The platform runs eight active campaigns spanning trees (Trees for the Future in Tanzania), river plastic cleanup (Plastic Fischer in India), coastal plastic (Cleanhub in India/Indonesia), marine robotics (ReefGen Grasshopper robots planting seagrass), education (Sarthak Foundation's Yellow Rooms in India), pollinator protection (World Bee Project in India), and food rescue (Sharing Excess in U.S./Canada), with cumulative disclosed impact of over 2.8M trees planted, 670K+ lbs ocean plastic removed, and 395K+ education days funded.

The organization operates under Dollar Donation Club Fund, a wholly owned subsidiary of Legacy Global Foundation Inc, a public 501(c)(3) charitable organization, with all member contributions flowing through this donor-advised fund structure for tax deductibility. It is structured as a nonprofit entity, not a venture-backed equity company; the only disclosed funding round in the data (January 2022, listing PivotNorth Capital and The London Fund) reports $0 raised. Distribution is community-led: members are acquired via organic social sharing (Instagram, Facebook), leaderboards, Impact Points, gamified badges, an 'Impact Family' sharing feature, and earned media coverage (Time Magazine, NPR, Forbes, Yahoo Finance, Business Insider, WIRED). The primary customer segment is individual mass-market consumers seeking accessible high-impact philanthropy; a secondary Business/Brand Members segment serves corporate giving, ESG, and employee engagement programs.

Dollar Donation Club's revenue mechanics are unconventional because contributions flow directly to the 501(c)(3) fund rather than to a conventional operating P&L. No formal revenue, ARR, GMV, headcount, valuation, or equity-investor disclosures are present in the input. Senior leadership team, ownership breakdown, certifications, and external AI/ML integrations are not disclosed.

Name

Dollar Donation Club

Legal name

Dollar Donation Club Fund

Website

https://dollardonationclub.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Dollar Donation Club is an Austin-based 501(c)(3) collective philanthropy platform that pools $1/month micro-contributions from individual consumers and routes them via a proprietary Impact Genomics vetting system into vetted environmental and humanitarian campaigns across eight projects.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Collective Philanthropy

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321), Grantmaking and Giving Services (8132)

SIC

Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) Sponsors (BPAGAKAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Federated Giving Organizations (e.g., United Way-type) (BPAGAKAG), Grantmaking & Philanthropic Funds (Institutional Donors) (BPADAOAB), Environmental & Climate Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAM)

Keywords

• Collective philanthropy
• Micro-donation platform
• Membership giving
• Vetted charitable campaigns
• Impact tracking

Headquarters

HQ city

Austin

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Membership Subscriptions: Members pay $1/month to join the collective philanthropy platform. 100% of contributions go to the Dollar Donation Club Fund, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Revenue is generated through member subscriptions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Dollar Donation Club operates a collective-philanthropist platform where individual members pay $1/month and pool their micro-donations into the Dollar Donation Club Fund, a 501(c)(3) Donor Advised Fund under Legacy Global Foundation Inc. Contributions are routed through a proprietary Impact Genomics vetting system that evaluates projects on effectiveness, transparency, measurability and innovation before funds are deployed across multiple vetted environmental and humanitarian campaigns worldwide.

Product overview

Dollar Donation Club operates as a collective philanthropy platform that pools micro-donations ($1/month from members) into a 'super-philanthropist' fund distributed across multiple vetted impact campaigns. The platform serves as the core product, while the campaign portfolio includes eight distinct projects spanning environmental restoration (Trees for the Future, Plastic Fischer, ReefGen seagrass robots, Cleanhub) and humanitarian initiatives (Yellow Rooms education, World Bee Project, Sharing Excess food rescue). Members join the platform to access all campaigns and track their collective impact through personalized donation trackers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Dollar Donation Club Platform Core subscription platform enabling individual members to contribute $1/month; pooled contributions are distributed by the Dollar Donation Club Fund to vetted high-impact environmental and humanitarian projects with monthly impact tracking.
• Trees for the Future Campaign Regenerative agroforestry program that helps smallholder farmers transition from monocropping to Forest Gardens, planting trees to end hunger, sequester carbon, and restore biodiversity.
• Plastic Fischer Campaign River-based plastic interception program in India that uses TrashBoom technology to capture ocean-bound plastic before it reaches the sea, employing local workers.
• Yellow Rooms Campaign (Sarthak Foundation) Education initiative in Lucknow, India that establishes safe Yellow Room learning spaces to provide schooling for children in extreme poverty.
• ReefGen Campaign Ocean restoration effort that deploys Grasshopper underwater robots to plant seagrass seeds at scale for marine ecosystem regeneration and carbon sequestration.
• World Bee Project Campaign Sustainable beekeeping program that empowers rural women in Tamil Nadu, India through hive provision, training, and tree planting to restore pollinator populations.
• Sharing Excess Campaign Food rescue and redistribution initiative that partners with farmers, wholesalers, and retailers to deliver surplus food to food-insecure families across the U.S. and Canada.
• Cleanhub Campaign Coastal plastic cleanup initiative that partners with local waste-collection hubs in India and Indonesia to remove ocean-bound plastic from coastal communities.

Quantifiable outcome

• $1 plants 2.8 trees and removes 64 lbs CO2 per year
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Trees for the FuturecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerForest Garden program helping monocrop farmers transition to regenerative agroforestry. $311,685 raised, 2,837,811 trees planted. Campaign Forest Garden #312 active in Tanzania.
• Plastic FischercoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRiver plastic cleanup using TrashBoom technology. $337,155 raised, 670,308 lbs ocean-bound plastic removed. Active in India.
• Sarthak Foundation (Yellow Rooms)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEducation program creating safe learning spaces for children in extreme poverty in India. $176,902 raised, 395,720 days of school funded. Active in Lucknow, India.
• ReefGencoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerUnderwater robot technology planting seagrass. $45,572 raised for Grasshopper robots, 6,365 seagrass seeds planted. Based in San Francisco, California.
• World Bee ProjectminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerWomen empowerment through sustainable beekeeping. $5,200 raised toward $30,000 goal, 540,723 bees protected. Active in Tamil Nadu, India.
• Sharing ExcessminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFood rescue and redistribution to fight hunger. 6,869 meals provided. Works with farmers, wholesalers, retailers across U.S. and Canada.
• CleanhubminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoastal plastic cleanup in India and Indonesia. $5,013 raised, 1,015 lbs plastic removed from coastal areas.
• Legacy Global Foundation InccoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPublic 501(c)(3) charitable organization that is the parent of Dollar Donation Club Fund. All contributions go through this entity for tax deductibility.
• Impact GenomicscoreTechnology or IntegrationProprietary vetting system powering DDC that guarantees highest impact per dollar. 'DDC is Powered by Impact Genomics - The world's best philanthropic vetting system.'

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• DonorsChoose: DonorsChoose is a crowdfunding platform for public-school classroom projects, pooling small donations from individuals to fund specific educational outcomes. It is highly comparable to DDC's Yellow Rooms/Sarthak education campaign in terms of micro-donation-driven education funding.
• Kiva: Kiva is a crowdfunded microfinance/philanthropy platform that pools small contributions from many lenders/donors to fund projects in developing countries. It is comparable to DDC's pooled micro-donation model and focus on environmental/poverty alleviation outcomes.
• GlobalGiving: GlobalGiving is a crowdfunding platform for vetted nonprofit projects worldwide, pooling donations from individuals and companies. It is the most direct comparable to Dollar Donation Club's model of vetting projects and channeling pooled donor funds to high-impact causes globally.
• Every.org: Every.org is a fee-free online giving platform that aggregates more than a million nonprofits and supports donor-covered processing fees, similar in spirit to DDC's no-friction, mass-market approach to philanthropic giving.

Broad incumbents

• GiveDirectly: GiveDirectly is a major digital philanthropy organization that channels donor funds directly to households in extreme poverty. It is comparable in mission (donor dollars → measurable poverty/environmental outcomes) and competes for the same 'high-impact giving' donor segment.
• GoFundMe: GoFundMe is the largest consumer-facing donation crowdfunding platform. While it focuses on personal/social causes rather than environmental impact, it competes for the same mass-market donor attention and recurring-giving mindshare as Dollar Donation Club.
• Charity: Water: charity: water is a major nonprofit that funds clean water projects worldwide with strong transparency, branding, and digital donor-engagement. It competes for the same mission-driven mass-market donor and uses similar transparency/impact-tracking storytelling that DDC leans on.
• Patreon: Patreon pioneered recurring micro-subscriptions from many supporters to a single recipient/cause. Although its primary use is creator funding, its subscription mechanics and member-recurring-revenue model directly parallel DDC's $1/month subscription pool.

Emerging players

• ioby: ioby is a crowdfunding platform specifically for community-led environmental and neighborhood improvement projects, pooling small donor contributions. It is comparable to DDC in being a niche, donor-pooled platform focused on local-to-global environmental impact.
• Cool Earth: Cool Earth is a nonprofit that partners with indigenous communities to protect rainforests, pooling small recurring donations from individuals to fund environmental outcomes. It overlaps with DDC's Trees for the Future and climate-mission positioning in the recurring-giving-for-environment segment.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/Dollar-Donation-Club-1259773994201462
• Instagraminstagram.com/dollardonationclub

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors2 records

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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