Corporate Disclosure
How Pledgeling Technologies, Inc. operates as a company — our commitments, when they took effect, and where each one stands today.
Pledge commits to operating with the same integrity we ask of the causes we serve — strong governance over every dollar that moves through our systems, environmental responsibility built into how we run the company, and social practices that put nonprofits and their donors first.
This page is that commitment made specific: every claim below is dated, owned, and open to verification.
This page describes Pledge as a company. Donations moved by our customers and their donors are a separate matter, reported on Our Impact. We don’t count that activity toward our own commitments.
25M+
Donations facilitated at checkout
$250M+
Processed through the platform, lifetime
These are platform totals driven by our customers and their donors — shown here for scale, not counted as Pledge’s own ESG performance. See Scope above, and Our Impact for detail and methodology.
Each commitment has a reference code, an owner, and a date. Codes stay stable across versions so they can be cited directly in contracts and questionnaires.
Nonprofits never pay a platform fee to receive funds through Pledge
No setup, monthly, or migration fees, and no contract locking them in — they can leave at any time.
Owner: Company
Free the Fee — Pledge absorbs the card processing fee on every donation up to $1,000, so the full gift reaches the nonprofit
Gifts above $1,000 carry standard processing of 2.9% + 30¢.
Owner: Company
Complete a WCAG 2.1 AA audit of donation forms and fundraiser pages, and remediate findings
Conformance statement published on completion.
Owner: Product
Give every employee paid time off to volunteer, matched by a company donation to the organization they served
“Dollars for Doers” — Pledge also makes direct donations to nonprofits outside employee volunteering.
Owner: People
Donated funds are held and disbursed by the Pledgeling Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3)
Pledgeling Technologies never takes custody.
Owner: Legal
Maintain charitable solicitation registration in every state that requires it
Owner: Legal
Card data never enters Pledge systems — payments are processed by Stripe, a PCI DSS Level 1 service provider
Pledge validates annually under PCI DSS SAQ-A.
Owner: Engineering
Complete a Scope 1, 2, and material Scope 3 greenhouse gas inventory, covering our data center usage footprint
Baseline year set on completion.
Owner: Operations
While we have not yet completed our GHG inventory audit, our business model has a naturally low carbon footprint. We do not manufacture or ship anything. We operate a distributed workforce with minimal physical office footprint, which reduces our footprint both from physical space and from the emissions employees would otherwise generate commuting. What remains sits almost entirely in purchased cloud compute and employee home offices.
We do have a data center usage footprint, and Commitment E-01 sets a target of February 2027 to complete a formal Scope 1, 2, and material Scope 3 inventory covering it. Until that baseline exists, we make no carbon neutrality or net positive claim.
Cryptocurrency donations carry a materially higher energy cost per transaction than card or ACH giving, so Pledge purchases carbon offsets against crypto donations processed through the platform. This is a service standard we apply on customers’ behalf, distinct from Pledge’s own operating footprint described above.
Day to day, tax receipts and donor acknowledgements are electronic by default, and nonprofit disbursement defaults to ACH rather than paper checks. Environmental nonprofits raise on the platform, but that activity belongs to our customers and is reported on Our Impact rather than counted here.
Nonprofits never pay a platform fee on Pledge, and there are no setup, monthly, or migration fees and no contract to sign. Since 2022 we have also absorbed the card processing fee on every donation up to $1,000, so the full gift reaches the organization. Gifts above $1,000 carry standard card processing of 2.9% + 30¢. More detail on Free the Fee.
Cost is the barrier that keeps small and under-resourced organizations off commercial fundraising tools, and these terms apply to every organization on the platform rather than a subsidised tier. Because there’s no contract, a nonprofit can also leave Pledge at any time with no penalty — so retention has to be earned through the service itself, not a lock-in clause.
Donation forms are the surface donors actually touch, so they need to work for everyone. Commitment S-03 covers a formal WCAG 2.1 AA audit and remediation.
Pledge is a small, distributed company working across multiple countries, supported by an external advisory board. Accessibility and global diversity are named commitments in our company values, published on About Us.
Every person at Pledge names a cause they personally stand behind, listed publicly alongside their role. On company holidays — including Giving Tuesday, and each employee’s own hire-date anniversary — employees receive a charitable gift card to donate to a cause of their choice. It is a small thing, but it is the practice we actually run rather than a policy we describe.
Employees receive paid time off to volunteer, and Pledge matches their time with a company donation to the organization they served — our “Dollars for Doers” program (Commitment S-04). Separately, Pledge makes direct donations to nonprofits outside of employee volunteering, and we actively encourage staff to take the volunteer time available to them.
Pledge holds donated funds in transit, so governance isn’t peripheral for us. Donations are received by the Pledgeling Foundation, a registered 501(c)(3), and disbursed to verified recipients. Recipient organizations are checked against IRS records and screened against sanctions lists before receiving funds, and campaigns are monitored for fraud indicators.
Payment card data never enters Pledge’s systems. Donations are processed by Stripe, a PCI DSS Level 1 certified service provider, and Pledge validates annually under PCI DSS SAQ-A, the standard applicable to merchants who fully outsource card handling. Stripe’s own SOC 2 report covers the payment environment and can be made available on request.
For the data we do hold — donor records and nonprofit disbursement details — we comply with GDPR and CCPA. A Data Processing Agreement and subprocessor list are available on request. Full detail on fund handling, vetting, and state registration is on Trust & Safety.
Pledgeling Technologies, Inc. · ESG disclosure August 2026. This page describes Pledge’s own operations. Platform activity is reported on Our Impact.