PayPal Charity Pricing
Summary
PayPal’s charity pricing offers reduced transaction fees for confirmed charities — the cross-referenced figure is 1.99% + $0.49 per transaction (down from the standard 2.99% + $0.49) for verified charities in the US. PayPal’s charity confirmation process uses IRS Pub 78 in the US and country-equivalent registries internationally. PayPal’s public charities page was bot-wall-blocked from this terminal; the figures above are taken from the cross-referenced directory files. The political/advocacy exclusion policy is not stated; advocacy eligibility is conditional.
Body
https://www.paypal.com/charities
PayPal operates a charity-confirmation process that grants reduced transaction fees to verified charities — the cross-referenced offer is 1.99% + $0.49 per transaction in the US (vs the standard 2.99% + $0.49), conditional on the organisation being a registered charity per PayPal’s confirmation process [source: paypal-nonprofits]. The confirmation process uses IRS Pub 78 in the US and country-equivalent charity registries internationally [source: paypal-nonprofits].
PayPal also operates the PayPal Giving Fund as a separate program: donors can route contributions through the Giving Fund, the receiving charity is credited, and PayPal waives the processing fee on donations routed this way. The Giving Fund has its own eligibility and disbursement terms [source: paypal-nonprofits].
The local scrape manifest records the page as “blocked” — PayPal’s bot wall returns a CAPTCHA-style interstitial to non-browser clients. The figures and eligibility above are taken from the cross-referenced directory files and should be treated as confidence: low; verify the current rate and political/advocacy exclusion policy directly with PayPal before relying on them for procurement planning [source: paypal-nonprofits].
Use it for
Using PayPal’s charity rate (~1.99% + $0.49) for donation processing on a verified charity’s PayPal account; understanding that PayPal’s bot wall blocked the local scrape — the current rate and political/advocacy exclusion need direct verification with PayPal before procurement planning.
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