CrowdRise was an online fundraising platform for charities, nonprofits, and personal causes, founded around 2010 by Edward Norton and Robert Wolfe. It let individuals, event participants, and organizations create fundraising pages, run peer-to-peer campaigns, and collect donations for good. CrowdRise was acquired by GoFundMe in 2017 and subsequently merged into the GoFundMe platform; the crowdrise.com domain now 301-redirects to gofundme.com/c/crowdrise. This profile originated as a Union Square Ventures portfolio lead; no independent developer portal, documented API, SDKs, or discovery surface remains, so the record is retained for provenance only.
CrowdRise is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Crowdfunding, Fundraising, Non-Profit, and Charity.
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aid: crowdrise
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source:
- url: https://crowdrise.com
status: 301
note: declared website redirects to https://www.gofundme.com:443/c/crowdrise — a different registrable domain (crowdrise.com
-> gofundme.com), possible rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
generated: '2026-07-22'
method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/crowdrise.png
name: CrowdRise
description: CrowdRise was an online fundraising platform for charities, nonprofits, and personal causes, founded around 2010
by Edward Norton and Robert Wolfe. It let individuals, event participants, and organizations create fundraising pages, run
peer-to-peer campaigns, and collect donations for good. CrowdRise was acquired by GoFundMe in 2017 and subsequently merged
into the GoFundMe platform; the crowdrise.com domain now 301-redirects to gofundme.com/c/crowdrise. This profile originated
as a Union Square Ventures portfolio lead; no independent developer portal, documented API, SDKs, or discovery surface remains,
so the record is retained for provenance only.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/crowdrise/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- union-square-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: gofundme
x-acquired-year: 2017
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Crowdfunding
- Fundraising
- Non-Profit
- Charity
- Donations
- Payments
- Acquired
tags_raw:
- Company
- Crowdfunding
- Fundraising
- Nonprofit
- Charity
- Donations
- Payments
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: ParentCompany
url: https://apis.io/providers/gofundme/
name: GoFundMe
x-relationship: acquired
x-evidence: CrowdRise was acquired by GoFundMe in 2017 and subsequently merged into the GoFundMe platform; the crowdrise.
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/crowdrise-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://crowdrise.com
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-19'
status: backfilled
pass: local-v1
note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence
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