How we vet every cause before it's listed
"100% of causes reviewed" is a number on our homepage — this page is what actually sits behind it: the checks a cause and its partner organization have to pass before they appear on the site, what you can check for yourself, and the checks we deliberately don't (yet) make.
Last updated: October 03, 2026
The five checks
Identity & legitimacy check
Before a cause is added, we confirm it corresponds to a real, identifiable organization or registered charitable activity — checking official registration where one exists, an official web presence, and independent references to the organization's work outside of anything it publishes about itself. We record the registry and registration number so they can be shown on the cause page.
Partner details confirmed
Every cause is carried out by a named partner organization. We confirm the partner's country, the year it was founded, where it's based, how it uses the funds and its track record, and we date that check. A partner's details only appear on the site once our team has verified them — nothing is shown as provisional.
Claim & description review
We write every cause description ourselves rather than accepting self-submitted copy, so figures and claims can be checked rather than taken on faith. Statistics are checked against UN agencies such as UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO and UNHCR, the World Bank, the OECD, and national statistics offices or government departments, and updated to the latest figure we can find. If a figure can't be confirmed from a reliable source, we remove it. Where a description quotes a statistic, the cause page names its source just below it.
Wallet address verification
Every receiving address on this site — one per cryptocurrency — is Global Relief Group's own verified wallet for that coin, never a self-submitted address from a cause. Once a donation is confirmed, our team converts it and sends it by bank transfer to the cause's partner organization within 24 hours. Because the same address is used across causes in that currency, matching a donation to the specific cause it was intended for relies on the donation record you submit (cause, amount, transaction ID), not on the blockchain address itself.
Periodic re-review
Listed causes are periodically re-checked against current reporting — situations like active conflicts, disaster response, or displacement crises change quickly, and a description that was accurate when written can go stale. Causes tied to a resolved or outdated situation are updated or removed, and when we re-confirm a partner's details, the verified date on its cause page changes.
What a cause page shows about its partner
Each cause page has a "Funds handled by" section, so you can see who will receive the funds before you give. It shows:
- The partner's name and its country
- Its official registration number and the registry that issued it, where one exists
- The year it was founded and where it's based
- What it does and how it uses the funds for this cause
- Its track record — what it has achieved, in figures where they're published
- How funds reach it: as a grant from Global Relief Group, typically by bank transfer
- "Verified by our team on" and the date of our most recent check
Example
The Harm Reduction Services Fund in Canada names PHS Community Services Society, founded in 1993 and based in Vancouver, with its Canada Revenue Agency charitable registration number, 891413791RR0001. Anyone can look that number up on the official charities register to confirm the organization is registered.
When there's no registration number
Most partners are charities or nonprofits with a registration number from a national registry — for example the Charity Commission for England and Wales, the US Internal Revenue Service, the Canada Revenue Agency, Norway's Brønnøysund Register Centre or France's Sirene register. Some partners don't have one, for good reasons:
- UN agencies and public programs. A World Food Programme country office or a government health program isn't a registered charity. The cause page labels it as a UN agency or government body instead.
- Organizations created by law. Some national Red Cross and Red Crescent societies are established by their own national law rather than a charity registration, and some organizations hold public-utility status granted by decree. We name the law or decree.
- Country offices of international charities. When a local office works under an international parent — such as a WaterAid, Save the Children or Norwegian Refugee Council country program — we show the parent organization's registration.
Where we haven't recorded a registration number for a partner, the cause page simply doesn't show one. We don't fill that line with anything we haven't confirmed.
What the verified date means
"Verified by our team on [date]" is the date we last confirmed that partner's details — that it's still operating, still working on this cause, and that its registration and description still hold. It isn't the date the cause was first listed.
Our country giving guides on Donate by Country are dated the same way: the date on each guide is the most recent date we verified a partner in that country.
One organization, more than one cause
There are 280 causes on the site and 269 partner organizations, because some partners run more than one listed cause. BRAC, for example, carries out three causes in Bangladesh, and St Mungo's carries out two homelessness causes in England. Each cause is still a separate listing with its own description, and your donation record says which one you chose.
Country guides say so when it happens — for example, "2 of our listed causes are currently handled by 1 organization" — so the number of causes and the number of organizations don't look like a mismatch.
What "reviewed" means here, specifically
To be concrete rather than just reassuring, review means we've checked:
- The organization or activity is real and identifiable, not a name we invented
- The partner's details shown on the cause page have been confirmed by our team, on the date shown
- The situation described (a conflict, a shortage, a gap in services) is corroborated by outside reporting, not just asserted
- Any statistic in the description comes from a named, reliable source
- Donations for the cause go to Global Relief Group's own verified wallets, not an address supplied by the cause
- The category and country tagging match what's actually being funded
What this review does not do
We do not audit each organization's internal financials the way a large-scale platform with dedicated compliance staff might, and we do not independently verify on-the-ground program outcomes after a donation is sent. On-chain traceability means anyone can verify that a confirmed donation reached the address we published — it does not, by itself, show when our team paid those funds out to the cause, or how the recipient organization subsequently used them. We'd rather state that limit plainly than imply a level of guarantee we can't back up.
Common questions
Can a charity pay to be listed?
No. Causes aren't listed because they paid or asked; they're listed because they passed the checks on this page. Applying is free for nonprofits, and the platform takes no fee from donations.
Can a charity write its own description?
No. Organizations can tell us about their work when they apply, but our team writes the description and checks every claim in it before it's published.
Why does every cause use the same wallet address for a coin?
Because every donation goes to Global Relief Group's own verified wallet, not to an address supplied by a cause. That way no listing can be changed to point your funds somewhere else. Your donation record — cause, amount and transaction ID — is what assigns your gift to the cause you chose.
Can I check that my donation arrived?
Yes. Once the transaction is confirmed, anyone can look up its transaction ID on a public block explorer for that coin's network and see that it reached the address we published. Our team also verifies it on-chain before emailing your receipt.
What happens if a partner stops working on a cause?
When a re-review finds that a partner has closed, stopped the work, or that the situation has changed, we update the cause or remove it from the site.
I think something on a cause page is wrong. What should I do?
Email support@donatecrypto.co with the cause name and what you think is wrong. We'll check it against the sources and correct or remove it if it doesn't hold up.