Every cause deserves a voice —
and a fighting chance.
Penyzen exists to make the wall between people who care and people in need as thin as technology allows. We're not here to process transactions. We're here to help a neighborhood rebuild, a student walk at graduation, a family breathe again — and to make sure every dollar given in kindness arrives exactly where it was promised.
Our promise: 100% to your cause
Most platforms take a cut. We took a position.
0% platform fee — permanent
Penyzen never charges campaigns a platform fee. Not introductory, not conditional. It is the founding rule of the platform.
We run on generosity, too
Penyzen is funded by optional tips from donors who choose to support our work at checkout. If you don't tip, you owe us nothing — and your donation is untouched either way.
No hidden fees. No surprises.
Complete fee transparency: what a donor gives and what a campaign receives are shown plainly, every time. Today, Penyzen even absorbs the card-processing cost on donations — so $50 given is $50 received.
Trust isn't a feature here. It's the product.
Generosity only flows where trust already exists. So we built the trust infrastructure first, and the platform around it.
Verified organizers
Campaign organizers verify their identity with a government-issued ID through Stripe Identity before they can receive a payout. Anonymous money doesn't leave this platform.
Verified organizations
Nonprofits are checked against the IRS registry by EIN, and every organization's verification is reviewed by a person — not rubber-stamped by a script.
Your money never sits with us
Donations travel directly from donor to organizer through Stripe, a PCI-DSS Level 1 payment processor. Card details never touch Penyzen's servers, and Penyzen never holds your funds. All data is encrypted in transit and at rest.
Accountability, built in
Campaigns carry live progress meters, milestone goals, and organizer updates — so donors see what their giving is doing, not just where it went. A compliance-first foundation (sanctions screening, fraud review) runs underneath everything.
Giving, the way people actually want to give
Give things, not just money
Our item registries let campaigns list exactly what they need — a wheelchair, school supplies, a winter coat — and let you pledge the real item, coordinate directly with the organizer, and see it arrive. Some generosity doesn't fit in a payment form.
Give from a Donor-Advised Fund
Donors with DAF accounts can grant to verified charity campaigns directly through the platform — the full grant amount, with no card fees at all.
Give your way
Donate publicly or anonymously, attach a message of support, and give from any device — the donation flow is mobile-first and friction-free, because a moment of compassion should never be lost to a clunky form.
Built for organizations, too
Team accounts with real roles
Organizations get shared accounts with owner, admin, and member roles, IRS-verified badges that travel with every campaign, and a shared payout account — fundraising as a team, with accountability as a team.
An API that respects your systems
Verified organizations can connect Penyzen to their own tools with secure API keys — syncing campaigns, donations, and donor activity into the systems they already run, instead of another data silo.
Who we are
Penyzen is built by a dedicated team of professionals who have spent years around giving — as organizers, as donors, as the neighbors watching a community rally around someone they love. We know what it feels like to need help and not know who to ask. We know what it feels like to want to help and not know whom to trust. We were there too — and every line of this platform is written from that memory.
That experience taught us what touches people's hearts isn't a feature or a fee — it's the certainty that kindness will land where it was aimed. So we grow the way trust grows: one campaign that delivered, one donor who came back, one supporter who told a friend.
If you've ever wanted to help and hesitated — wondering where the money really goes — we built this for you.