What Givingforce does

GivingForce Limited is a UK-based private enterprise SaaS company founded in 2009 and headquartered in London that operates a modular corporate giving platform for large multinational employers. The platform consolidates six interconnected modules — payroll giving, employee volunteering, company matching, grants management, impact reporting, and charity payments — supported by a proprietary Global Charity Database of 70,000+ vetted charities across 76+ countries and the CauseCheck due diligence service performing AML screening, sanctions checks, and ongoing monitoring. Integrated delivery operations span the UK (London headquarters), India (Pune engineering hub), Bulgaria (Sofia), and France, with cumulative donation flow of £500M+ processed through the GivingForce Foundation payment entity.

Name

Givingforce

Legal name

GivingForce Limited

Website

https://givingforce.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

GivingForce is an enterprise SaaS platform that enables multinational employers to run corporate giving programmes, including payroll giving, employee volunteering, company matching, charity grants, payment processing, and ESG impact reporting, serving HR, CSR, and finance teams via a single integrated system.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Corporate Giving / CSR Software

NAICS

Financial Transactions Processing, Reserve, and Clearinghouse Activities (52232)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Payroll Software & Payroll-as-a-Service (SaaS) (BPACAIAB)

Keywords

• Corporate giving software
• Payroll giving platform
• Employee volunteering software
• Charity grants management
• ESG impact reporting

Headquarters

HQ city

Harrow

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscription: Enterprise software platform with multiple modules (Payroll Giving, Employee Volunteering, Company Matching, Grants Management, Impact Reporting) offered as subscription. Impact reporting included as standard in GF.Essentials Package.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

GivingForce provides an enterprise SaaS platform that consolidates payroll giving, employee volunteering, company matching, charity grants, charity payments, and ESG impact reporting into a single integrated system. It is complemented by a Global Charity Database of 70,000+ vetted charities across 76+ countries and the CauseCheck due diligence service for charity vetting. The platform is sold to large multinational employers' HR, CSR/ESG, and Finance teams.

Product overview

GivingForce is an enterprise corporate giving platform offering a modular architecture with six interconnected modules: Payroll Giving, Employee Volunteering, Company Matching, Grants Management, Impact Reporting, and Charity Payments. The platform is complemented by a Global Charity Database (70,000+ vetted charities) and the CauseCheck due diligence service. All modules can work standalone or together as a complete giving ecosystem, with GF.Essentials serving as an entry-level package for organizations starting their corporate giving programmes.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• CauseCheck: Enterprise-grade due diligence service for charity vetting, AML screening, and ongoing monitoring.
• GivingForce Foundation
• GF.Essentials
• Global Charity Database

Products and services

• Payroll Giving

Quantifiable outcome

• 6x Higher Employee Engagement - industry-leading participation rates, multiples above 12% industry average
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Global BankcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 2 July 2025A global financial leader partnered with GivingForce in a five-year strategic partnership to embed social impact across its operations. The bank aims to leverage GivingForce's all-in-one platform covering employee giving, volunteering, grants, and real-time impact reporting. Goals include increasing employee engagement by 20%, cutting grant admin by 30%, and delivering measurable, transparent results at scale.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Benevity: Benevity is the leading enterprise corporate giving and employee volunteering platform, serving many of the same large multinational employers that GivingForce targets. It competes head-to-head on payroll giving, matching, volunteering, and ESG reporting, making it the closest direct peer.
• YourCause (Blackbaud): YourCause, owned by Blackbaud, provides enterprise volunteering, giving, and grants management software to corporations. It overlaps directly with GivingForce's employee volunteering, matching, and grants modules and serves similar enterprise CSR/HR buyers.
• Bonterra: Bonterra (formerly Whole Whale / Network for Good) offers CSR, impact, and fundraising software to enterprises and nonprofits. It competes directly with GivingForce in employee giving, volunteering, and impact reporting for mid-market and enterprise customers.
• Bright Funds: Bright Funds provides a corporate giving and employee engagement platform covering donations, matching, volunteering, and reporting. It targets similar HR and CSR buyers and overlaps with GivingForce's payroll giving, matching, and ESG reporting modules.

Broad incumbents

• Salesforce.org / Salesforce Philanthropy Cloud: Salesforce's Philanthropy Cloud offers employee giving, volunteering, and grants capabilities integrated into the broader Salesforce CRM ecosystem. As a large incumbent with extensive enterprise reach, it competes with GivingForce for global enterprise CSR/HR buyers, though as part of a much wider portfolio.
• Blackbaud: Blackbaud is a large incumbent in nonprofit and social impact software, with enterprise CSR capabilities via YourCause. It competes in grants management, impact reporting, and giving workflows, but its portfolio extends far beyond corporate giving.
• Workday: Workday is a broad enterprise HCM and finance platform whose payroll and people analytics systems integrate with corporate giving workflows. While not a pure CSR vendor, it competes indirectly for the HR buyer budget that funds GivingForce deployments.

Emerging players

• Goodera: Goodera is an employee volunteering and corporate giving platform with strong presence in India and growing global coverage. It overlaps with GivingForce on volunteering, matching, and impact reporting and pursues a similar multinational enterprise buyer.
• Submittable: Submittable provides grants management and application review software to foundations, corporations, and nonprofits. It overlaps with GivingForce's Grants Management module and could be bundled or compete in the corporate grants workflow.
• Millie: Millie is a newer employee giving and CSR engagement platform focused on mid-market employers. It addresses overlapping use cases in payroll giving, matching, and volunteering, representing a fast-following competitor in the same buyer category.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/givingforce
• Xx.com/givingforce

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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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