Industry-leading technology, with more advanced security features than Venmo, Mint, Rocket Money, Plaid, & Yodelee

Chariot provides secure donation facilitation services to DAF account holders who seek to initiate grant requests right when they are inspired to give online - a nonprofit’s website, a peer-to-peer bike ride, a crisis response campaign, etc.

The DAFpay technology has similar capabilities as “aggregators” (as they are commonly referred to in the financial services industry) like Plaid, Stripe, and Yodelee (which are powering tools like Venmo, Mint, Rocket Money, etc.). With these applications, someone can access their account within a different platform.

These actions are only triggered by the individual with the account. One very common example of this is when someone receives a Venmo request. If they choose to pay the request via their connected bank account, the platform is triggering that specific action in their account on their behalf. Many nonprofits use Plaid or Stripe to perform the same kind of outside trigger for ACH / Bank transfer donations within their donation forms.

Critically, and unlike services such as Plaid and Yodlee, Chariot does not stress providers’ servers or aggregate market data. Each donation request made by a donor via DAFpay is a stand-alone, ad hoc request and DAFpay operates solely as a secure pass-through platform. A donor’s login credentials are passed through to each DAF provider to complete a user action and are not stored by Chariot. This is a security measure that is above and beyond what other market leaders practice.