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Nonprofit Certification Policy

(Last updated on Sept 10, 2025)

About Our Directory

We believe that a wide array of charity choices is central to increasing overall charitable giving. As such, we provide donors with a large directory of charities to which PayPal Giving Fund may grant funds. All donations are made to PayPal Giving Fund, an IRS-registered 501(c)(3) public charity (Federal Tax ID: 45-0931286) and are subject to our donor terms of service.

The PayPal Giving Fund directory includes Participating Nonprofits (hereinafter "enrolled charities") that have opened a PayPal business account, confirmed their charity’s account with PayPal, and agreed to the PayPal Giving Fund Nonprofit User Agreement.

For certain partner programs, our directory may also include unenrolled charities that have not agreed to the PayPal Giving Fund Nonprofit User Agreement terms. We receive information about charities from the charities themselves and from public sources, including through our partnership with Candid, a 501(c)(3) public charity that collects, organizes, and presents information about nonprofits in an easy-to-understand, neutral format. Some charities opt out of Candid sharing their information with third parties, and we do not receive information about these organizations from Candid.

Inclusion within the PayPal Giving Fund directory requires:

Verification of the tax-exempt status of the charity in the United States through regular checks of Candid's database of charities in good standing with the IRS and other relevant regulators.

• Verification of the charity’s eligibility to benefit from PayPal Giving Fund’s grants through confirmation that it is a 501(c)(3) public charity or equivalent, rather than (for instance) a private non-operating foundation or ineligible supporting organization.
• Confirmation through Candid's database that the charity has not been identified by the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control as being subject to sanctions.
• Verification by PayPal that a charity has not previously breached PayPal's Acceptable Use Policy, rendering it ineligible to benefit from donations processed by PayPal.

Inclusion in our directory is not a guarantee of the charity’s compliance with the registration requirements of individual US states.

Further information on eligibility and how to enroll is available in the PayPal Help Center.

Removal of a Charity from our Directory

As a public charity itself, PayPal Giving Fund retains ultimate discretion over all donations it receives and reserves the right to conduct additional vetting of charities in our directory on an ongoing basis. For example, PayPal Giving Fund may investigate suspicious activity, and may remove any charity from its directory based on the outcome of such investigation. PayPal Giving Fund may remove any charity from its directory if it determines that the charity promotes violence, hate, or racial intolerance, or is engaged in money laundering or other illegal activities. As part of its ongoing review and monitoring process, PayPal Giving Fund removes charities from its directory that are found not to be in good standing with regulators in individual US states, such as California. PayPal Giving Fund also confirms through regular checks of Candid data that the above inclusion standards continue to be met, and PayPal Giving Fund removes charities that appear on OFAC lists or lose their charitable status from its directory.