So $1.75 goes to GoFundMe and $48.25 that goes to the fundraiser recipient. The platform also makes money via tips, which are usually automatically added to your donation. These tips may go toward ...

Those tips are GoFundMe’s primary source of revenue and what allows it to be profitable, company officials say. But the tips, which can be adjusted from 0 to as high as 28 percent, are voluntary.

In October 2017, a couple created a GoFundMe page for a homeless veteran and concocted a heartwarming, but false story that ...