News – Sheridan Media
The Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce was recently alerted to an unauthorized GoFundMe page for its 501(c)3 nonprofit Foundation. It was found that the Foundation is one of 1.4 million nonprofit organizations from across the country that recently had a fundraising account created for it on GoFundMe without the nonprofits’ knowledge or permission. This GoFundMe page is not affiliated with the Chamber or its Foundation, and they are currently making efforts to remove it. According to Craig Bowman, president of Common Ground Consulting, ABC7 San Francisco reported that GoFundMe quietly created 1.4 million donation “placeholder” pages for 501(c)(3) nonprofits using public IRS data and PayPal Giving Fund information— without asking permission.
According to a media release from the Chamber, these pages look official, default to a 16.5% “tip” to GoFundMe, charge a 2.2% transaction fee plus $0.30 per donation and prevent nonprofits from capturing donor data. The Chamber’s Foundation isn’t the only Sheridan County nonprofit impacted by these new “placeholder” pages. To find out if your organization is listed, you can click here. If your nonprofit is listed, be sure to claim and unpublish the unauthorized page. Inform your board about the risk, and do some research on what the fiscal impact of this unauthorized page is and how much revenue is being diverted from your organization through these unofficial channels.
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