Donations Claim 100% to Charities, But Delivery Depends on Registration

Despite promises that 100 percent of donations go to the selected charities, the gifts are delivered<br />only if the groups register accounts on both PayPal and the Giving Fund site, the lawsuit says.<br />A federal class action lawsuit filed on Tuesday said<br />that Ms. Kass and thousands of other donors have been misled by PayPal Giving Fund, and that their gifts never reached the intended charities.<br />PayPal Redirects Charitable Contributions Without Consent, Lawsuit Says -<br />By MATTHEW HAAGMARCH 1, 2017<br />When Terry Kass received an email from PayPal in late December encouraging her to donate to charities<br />through its Giving Fund platform, she searched its website for ones she could help.<br />“We are fully prepared to defend ourselves in this matter.”<br />Ms. Kass said she decided to contribute to groups through the Giving Fund site because in a Dec. 30 email it said it would waive the usual transactional fees<br />and give an additional 1 percent to the selected charities for gifts made by year’s end.<br />The company has a policy of redirecting contributions to other organizations if the intended charity does not register an account with the site, Ms. Kass said, adding<br />that neither donors nor intended charities are informed of any switch.<br />She learned that 10 of the 13 groups — all of which had profile pages on the PayPal site<br />that included biographical information and mission statements — were also unaware of donations through the site, she said.