GoFundMe
GoFundMe is a crowdfunding platform where people raise money for themselves or others.
Key facts
- Essential expenses
- Its 2025 review found essential-expense fundraising up 20%, Newsweek reportedsource
- Monthly bills
- Monthly bills were the second-fastest-growing category on the site, Newsweek reportedsource
- Medical campaigns
- A study of more than 437,000 medical campaigns found that in 2020 only 12% met their goals and 16% received nothing, Newsweek reportedsource
WYDE coverage of GoFundMe
WYDE Newsroom has published 2 articles about GoFundMe, from Oct 30, 2026 to Oct 31, 2026. GoFundMe is the subject of 2 stories. The most recent is Last Day to Apply: The $1 Million Creator Fund Closes Tonight.
Last Day to Apply: The $1 Million Creator Fund Closes Tonight
WYDE Weekly: EAT's $1 million clipping fund closes tonight at 11:59 p.m. Pacific. Plus 33 countries on stockpiling food, WFP's Gaza cuts, a prank that became a $605,350 GoFundMe, $200 million for Boston Children's and the $6.3 billion Binance hack.
Oct 31, 2026 · 8 min read · Subject of the story
PhilanthropyCreator's Fake Apple Pay Prank Backfires as Red Baron Worker's GoFundMe Tops $600,000
An Instagram account faked a $10 theft from a Michigan father of four stocking pizzas. Strangers have since given more than $600,000, Red Baron backed him, and the account is gone. Most fundraisers never see that.
Oct 30, 2026 · 4 min read · Subject of the story
Reported alongside GoFundMe
- Red Baron · in 2 stories with GoFundMe
- Binance · in 1 story with GoFundMe
- Boston Celtics · in 1 story with GoFundMe
- Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation · in 1 story with GoFundMe
- Boston Children's Hospital · in 1 story with GoFundMe
- Centre College · in 1 story with GoFundMe
- Higgsfield · in 1 story with GoFundMe
- Met Council · in 1 story with GoFundMe
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