5 Major Charities That Accept Crypto Donations
Crypto is everywhere these days, and most people have understood that it has real value and utility. This includes companies and organizations all across the world that have adopted these assets for their own benefit. We have reached the point where several major charities, related to very different fields and needs, are accepting donations in cryptocurrencies.Indeed, according to The Giving Block, **"crypto donations surpassed $100M in 2025, marking a major milestone for nonprofit fundraising."**Crypto users also tend to send more money than other donors —luckily for these institutions. Let's explore some of the most remarkable ones and how you can support them.
Save The Children
Over 100 years ago, the British women Eglantyne Jebb and her sister Dorothy Buxton created Save The Children: a charity to aid children in need. First, as a response to the famine in Germany and Austria-Hungary after World War I, and then to defend children's rights around the world in the face of any kind of crisis. Eglantyne and Dorothy have already passed away, but their humanitarian work remains.
Save The Children has helped thousands of children in need globally. That includes events like the Russian Famine of 1921, the Second World War in 1939, the Korean War in 1950, the Hungarian Revolution in 1956, the Vietnam War in 1955, and numerous natural disasters and disease outbreaks. The NGO, of course, receives donations to make all of this possible. Indeed, it was the first international charity to accept Bitcoin (BTC) —since 2013.
To date, it also accepts Ether (ETH) and USD Coin (USDC). You can donate anonymously or provide your personal data for tax purposes. In 2025, they also co-launched the Bitcoin Humanitarian Alliance, along with The Human Rights Foundation. They’re aiming to build a global network of advocates for financial freedom.
Médecins Sans Frontières
During the aftermath of the Biafran famine and the Nigerian Civil War in 1971, a small group of French doctors and journalists decided to create an organization to provide medical care to those in need of it, no matter their national origin, race, religion, creed, or political affiliation. That’s how Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF — Doctors Without Borders) was born.
MSF staff and volunteers have been present in all kinds of crises around the world. Besides medical attention and vaccinations, they’ve created nutrition and clean water programs for victims of armed conflicts and calamities like the Soviet-Afghan War in 1979, the 1983 famine in Ethiopia, the earthquake of El Salvador in 1986, the Liberian Civil War in 1990, the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, and the Indian Ocean earthquake in 2004.
This NGO has accepted crypto donations since at least 2021, but that’s not the most interesting part. In 2024, they released a program called “Stake2Care,” in which ETH holders can stake their tokens on the DeFi protocol Lido and give away their rewards to MSF. Therefore, donors don’t even need to share their existing capital, but only their earnings.
GiveDirectly
A giving circle by a group of students at MIT and Harvard turned into a full-fledged NGO in 2012, and it’s been active ever since. GiveDirectly was built to fight against poverty worldwide, especially by providing unconditional transfers to people in need. They currently operate in several African countries, the Bahamas, Turkey, and the US.
Among its initiatives, we can highlight the Universal Basic Income program, which offers monthly payments to people in extreme poverty. It started in Kenya in 2016, and it’s expanded to Malawi and Mozambique since then. They also provided COVID-19 support during the pandemic and have a mission in Rwanda to decrease poverty, in partnership with the local government.
GiveDirectly has accepted donations in cryptocurrency since 2014, and they were one of the recipients of the Pineapple Fund in 2017. Today, you can donate over one thousand different tokens via the Endaoment platform, from the most popular like Bitcoin, Ether, or USDC, to the most obscure Shiba-themed memecoins.
The Water Project
Clean water is needed for mere survival and much more, but sadly, not every community has easy access to it. That’s why Peter Chasse and a group of Canadian students founded The Water Project in 2006, to help in the provision of clean water to the most impoverished regions in sub-Saharan Africa (which comprises up to 49 countries).
The organization not only distributes water, but helps these communities build their own drinking water systems and monitors them to ensure they continue to function over time. They even select the best technology for it, from wells and rainwater catchment to sand dams and solar pumps. So far, they’ve installed around 2,810 water points in at least five countries, and are in progress to install more.
The Water Project has accepted crypto donations since 2014. Currently, they receive over 100 tokens, and you can calculate your own tax figures with their tools. It’s also possible to make a general donation or select a specific project to support, and get reports from it. So far, the crypto community has sent them over $12 million in total.
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
If you know a bit of Bitcoin and cypherpunk history, this one isn’t exactly a surprise on this list. In 1990, in the midst of a hostile environment against the freedoms of an emerging online space, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was born. Founded by the activists Mitch Kapor, John Gilmore, and John Perry Barlow, this nonprofit was created to protect digital rights and provide legal defense for individuals and institutions involved in new technologies.
Since then, the EFF has defended encryption, challenged government surveillance, fought for free expression online, opposed attempts to weaken digital privacy, supported security researchers, and participated in major court cases involving Internet freedoms. Its work has included advocacy during debates over the Clipper Chip, challenges related to NSA surveillance programs revealed in 2013, defense of user privacy rights, and initiatives that promote secure communications and digital civil liberties around the world.
They have accepted crypto since 2011, with an interruption due to legal uncertainty until 2013. From then on, you can send them crypto without issues, and now the donations are available in at least 13 tokens. The transactions are done without intermediary platforms, directly to their crypto addresses.
Bonus: Kivach
In case you didn’t know, as vast and useful as the open-source software could be, they lack funding most of the time. GitHub, the largest and most popular code repository, hosts around 420 million open-source projects of all kinds and shapes, whose developers are likely in need of financial support. This is why Kivach was created on Obyte.
Through Kivach, anyone can donate crypto to any GitHub repository, and recipients can choose to pass along part of those funds to other projects they depend on, support, or admire. As a result, one contribution can travel through multiple layers of development, helping a broader group of creators.
The platform works with public repos and uses easy attestations to connect GitHub profiles with Obyte wallet addresses (for recipients). Donations can be made with GBYTE and many other supported tokens, including USDC, ETH, WBTC, and BNB. Funds sent to repositories remain safely reserved until the owner claims them and decides how to distribute them.
We have a whole series about projects you can discover and support, if you’re interested. In any case, we can see how crypto donations have grown from an experimental concept into a fundraising option used by major nonprofits worldwide. This way, you can choose to support them at any time of the day, from any part of the globe.
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