Grapevine

We are an all-in-one payments and community management solution for Giving Circles. With Grapevine, circles can launch in just a few minutes, collect donations, nominate and vote on nonprofits, invite new members, crowdfund, get expert advice, create reports, and more.

Giving Circles bring people together around a common cause, community, motivation, or goal. They have two key elements: 1) a group of donors pools their recurring donations, 2) the group decides together where to donate the money.

In 5 years we hope to have facilitated $1Bn in donations and will have helped grow the Giving Circle industry from 1.6K circles nationally to nearly 6K. We plan to do this by making it easier and cheaper for existing circles to manage and grow their operations, and by making it simple for new circles to launch in just a few minutes and grow and succeed with our all-in-one solution. We hope to take the giving circle model into whole new communities with our light touch solution.

Invest $500+ for Three $5 donation gift cards that can be donated to any of the 1.1M U.S. nonprofits on Grapevine
$1,000+ Access to a pop-up Giving Circle experience with other supporters. Listed on our wall of community supports
$5,000+ Get an expert designed and facilitated one-time Giving Circle experience for you and your community (e.g. employees, clients, friends/family, etc.)
$10,000+ Get access to at least two subject matter experts (phone call and email) on the cause area/s of your choice to advise you on your giving and impact strategy
$25,000+ Get to join our team and investors giving circle to celebrate key milestones and move major gifts to nonprofits together
Invest $500+ for Three $5 donation gift cards that can be donated to any of the 1.1M U.S. nonprofits on Grapevine
$1,000+ Access to a pop-up Giving Circle experience with other supporters. Listed on our wall of community supports
$5,000+ Get an expert designed and facilitated one-time Giving Circle experience for you and your community (e.g. employees, clients, friends/family, etc.)
$10,000+ Get access to at least two subject matter experts (phone call and email) on the cause area/s of your choice to advise you on your giving and impact strategy
$25,000+ Get to join our team and investors giving circle to celebrate key milestones and move major gifts to nonprofits together

Emily Rasmussen
Co-founder & CEO
10 years of microfinance, crowdfunding and nonprofit fundraising experience. MBA from Harvard Business School.

Arrel Gray
CTO
Former Co-founder & CTO of Wonderschool, an Andreessen-Horowitz-backed company (raised >$20M led by a16z), also Soldsie (acquired) and 17FEET (acquired by Google)

Emily Schaefer
Content & Community Manager
Previously at JPMorgan Chase and Teachers Pay Teachers — where she ran communications for their 5M+ educator community.

Jessan Hutchison-Quillian
Co-founder & Senior Advisor
Co-founded Google’s Giving Week, led their giving platform, and launched their Donate button in search results.

Chloe Moon
Technical Advisor
Built Grapevine's v1 platform! Led front-end development for Google's donation platform and the Google for Nonprofits program.