GoFundMe Named to TIME's List of 100 Most Influential Companies of 2025
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Building on the Company's 2021 TIME100 Recognition, GoFundMe Is Honored for Advancing Its Mission of Helping People Help Each Other
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SAN DIEGO — TIME has named GoFundMe to its prestigious list of the 100 Most Influential Companies of 2025 — an honor recognizing the company's leadership in transforming how people and organizations give and receive help around the world, its commitment to unlocking generosity at scale through innovation, and its role as a lifeline for communities in times of crisis, including earlier this year when devastating wildfires swept through Los Angeles. This marks GoFundMe's second inclusion on the TIME100 list, which highlights companies making an extraordinary impact around the world.
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'GoFundMe exists to help people help each other – and in moments of crisis, that purpose becomes even more vital,' said Tim Cadogan, GoFundMe CEO. 'This recognition by TIME is a tremendous testament to GoFundMe's global community of 200 million people and organizations. Whether they are starting a fundraiser for a friend or a nonprofit, helping a neighbor, or donating to support a cause or person that they care about, we are in awe of how our community shows up for each other, and we are completely focused on building innovative new tools that make it easier than ever for more people to help each other.'
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Over the past 15 years, GoFundMe has become the world's largest and most trusted platform for online giving, mobilizing more than $40 billion of help and now connecting a global network of more than 200 million people. This recognition from TIME comes at a pivotal moment in GoFundMe's evolution. Over the past year, the company has accelerated its vision to grow the charitable economy by launching new tools that make giving and receiving help easier, more accessible, and more impactful. These include GoFundMe Pro, the nonprofit software powering organizations with everything they need to fundraise everywhere, as well as GoFundMe Profiles, Live Fundraising, and a suite of AI-powered tools that have already been used nearly 40 million times. This honor also builds on GoFundMe CEO Tim Cadogan's inclusion on the TIME100 list of the most influential people of 2025.
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GoFundMe is a community-powered fundraising platform dedicated to helping people help each other. GoFundMe combines storytelling and fundraising to make it easy for people and nonprofits to share their stories, connect with supporters, and reach their fundraising goals. GoFundMe empowers individuals and organizations to make a meaningful difference for the causes and communities that matter most to them. GoFundMe has enabled more than $40 billion of help for communities across the globe.
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