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Confirmed Charity Terms and Conditions
Confirmed Charity Terms and Conditions
Last updated on March 17, 2025
Contracting Party and Scope of these Terms
On submission of your application for confirmed charity status for your account with PayPal, you agree to these terms and conditions (“Terms”), which will become effective upon receipt of confirmed charity status approval for your account with PayPal.
In these Terms, we use the terms “PayPal” or “we” to refer to PayPal, Inc. These Terms govern the rights and obligations of obtaining and maintaining an account with PayPal with confirmed charity status and supplement the PayPal User Agreement which governs your use of your account with PayPal and the PayPal services.
We may terminate, cancel, suspend, amend, or otherwise modify these Terms at any time consistent with the PayPal User Agreement, subject to applicable law. By continuing to maintain the confirmed charity status of your account after any changes to these Terms become effective, you agree to abide and be bound by those changes.
Confirmed Charity Status Requirements
To receive confirmed charity status for your account with PayPal, your organization must be a valid US 501(c)(3) or equivalent and you must provide acceptable proof that the primary user of the PayPal account is authorized to operate the PayPal account on the organization’s behalf.
Failure to maintain these requirements, and any other violation of these Terms or the PayPal User Agreement, may result in termination of the confirmed charity status of your account, the termination of these Terms, and the termination of all rights and benefits set forth in these Terms.
Confirmed Charity Status Benefits
Upon receipt of confirmed charity status for your account with PayPal, your account may be charged the applicable transaction fees at the charity transaction rates detailed in the PayPal Fees page for the relevant Payment Type(s). Not all Payment Types are eligible for charity transaction pricing. As further described above, we reserve the right to terminate your confirmed charity status benefits, including your charity transaction pricing, if you breach these Terms, the PayPal User Agreement, or your account loses confirmed charity status.
If eligible, your account will be enrolled in PayPal Giving Fund as described under the PayPal User Agreement section “PayPal Giving Fund”; and will be eligible to receive payments from certain grant makers as described in the “Payments from Grant Makers” section below.
Payments with Third-Party Wallets and Applications
PayPal enables charities to accept certain payments through third-party wallets. PayPal enables charities enrolled with PayPal Giving Fund to benefit from donation payments made through certain PayPal mobile applications and through other mobile applications with which PayPal Giving Fund partners for purposes of soliciting donations to PayPal Giving Fund. The third parties that provide these wallets and/or the operating systems on which the applications are supported may require that we share your information with them. To the extent you use any such functionality, you grant PayPal permission to share the name and EIN associated with your account, your website URL, and your confirmed charity status with PayPal with the providers of these third-party wallets and applications.
Payments from Grant Makers
PayPal has partnered with certain grant makers, including but not limited to donor advised fund sponsors (“DAFs”) or community foundations (each, a Grant Maker), to facilitate the granting of funds from the Grant Maker. As a charity with an account with confirmed charity status, you are eligible to receive payments from Grant Makers. You acknowledge that we make no promise and there is no guarantee that you will receive any payments from any Grant Maker. There is no fee to you for receiving grants from Grant Makers.