Endaoment

Endaoment is a blockchain-based nonprofit community foundation and donor-advised fund (DAF) provider. Its core business is accepting donations of almost any asset—cash, stocks, crypto, real estate, and more—converting them into USDC, and enabling donors to recommend grants to over 1.8 million IRS-qualified nonprofits. The platform runs entirely on smart contracts deployed on Base (an Ethereum layer-2 network), with all transactions recorded on a public ledger.

Its key differentiator is radical transparency: every contribution, grant, and fee is publicly verifiable on-chain, while donor identities remain anonymous. This serves as an immutable general ledger that auditors reconcile against, complementing traditional nonprofit accounting. Other strengths include fast distribution (most grants delivered within 48 hours), a low 1.5% donation fee, and a Universal Impact Pool that algorithmically matches every grant.

The market pain point Endaoment addresses is the opacity and slowness of traditional charitable giving—donors often cannot track how funds are used, and grants can take weeks to settle. By putting the movement of money on public infrastructure, Endaoment makes giving verifiable and efficient.

In the past six months (March–September 2026), Endaoment has: integrated a Nouns DAO streaming mechanism into its Universal Impact Pool, showing live funding progress on-chain (announced June 2026); continued operating on Base; and as of August 2026, reported that approximately 84% of all impact generated to date has already been paid out as grants, demonstrating high throughput. No major negative developments were identified in reliable sources during this period.