Fee Schedule & Comparison
At most Donor-Advised Fund (DAF) providers, you get charged based on assets held in your DAF. Depending on your DAF provider these fees can reach as high as 5%+ annually.
We think your donated assets should make their way to organizations, rather than sitting in a DAF racking up fees.
Instead of charging annual fees based on assets in your DAF, we charge a one time fee on total contributions, and do not charge fees on idle DAF assets.
If you’re looking for information on investment portfolio fees, check out the investment portfolios page.
No Minimums
Major providers often require a minimum fee of $500, plus a minimum donation of $5,000 or even $25,000 to open a DAF. At Endaoment, there is no required DAF initial donation size, and no charge for opening a DAF!
Donations and grant recommendations have no minimum size!
Tiered Inbound Fee
When you initially make a donation of any asset into your DAF you’ll pay a one time fee based on the total amount of the donation. The fee is tiered as follows:
| Balance Range | Donation Fee |
|---|---|
| 250,000 | 0.50% |
| 500,000 | 0.40% |
| 1,000,000 | 0.30% |
| 10,000,000 | 0.20% |
| 100,000,000 | 0.10% |
| $100,000,000+ | 0.05% |
This works based on “fill the bucket” logic, ensuring fairness across different contribution levels.
1.0% Outbound Fee
Once a grant recommendation is approved by Endaoment, 1.0% of the total granted amount is used to support our work before funds are sent to the nonprofit.
Why Endaoment is the Better Choice
- Lower Fees: Across all gift sizes and timeframes, Endaoment keeps fees low, meaning more money stays in your DAF for giving.
- Bigger Savings Over Time: On a $100 million gift over 10 years, Endaoment’s fees are just 0.65%, compared to 1.06% at NPT and 2.47% at Goldman Sachs.
- Simple, One-Time Fees: No ongoing asset management fees that chip away at your idle balance—just a straightforward, one-time fee when you donate.
In short, with Endaoment, your donations go further.
We think the current industry standard goes against the original spirit of DAFs by keeping money in the fund instead of granting directly to nonprofits in need. That’s why we chose to earn the majority of our fee-based revenue when you deploy your DAF capital into the organizations & communities you care about.
Partner Fees
At Endaoment, we work with a number of partners to help connect us to a variety of impact oriented organizations and allow receipt of a variety of assets. Occasionally these partners have pre-existing relationships with these organizations and charges additional fees, like fees on donations received or associated with subscription services.
In 2Q23, we penned an agreement with the US 501c3,GlobalGiving, which enables us to add over 3,500 international organizations to our list of charitable endpoints. GlobalGiving retains 5% of donations raised by their partner organizations through Endaoment in order to sustain their own operations and provide services like fundraising workshops, community building, and disaster response.
Also in 2Q23, our technology provider, Endaoment.tech, penned an agreement with The Giving Block (TGB) to enable nonprofits on TGB’s platform to receive donations made via Endaoment’s platform to their existing wallet set up. TGB has independent agreements with each of their supported organizations, and each is associated with its own fee level.
While all pricing information is available in app as donations are made, please see here for specifics of the many ways you can give using Stripe.
All GlobalGiving and The Giving Block supported organizations within our application are marked for transparency purposes.
In 1Q24 Endaoment began offering traditional non-blockchain assets in its portfolios. In addition to any fees charged by Endaoment, these portfolios are subject to additional fees charged by our brokerage partners. All fees charged are displayed in each portfolio’s page and inside transaction summaries to provide you transparency and assistance when making decisions about new allocations. These fees are presented as an all-in expense ratio, with no hidden fees.