Donations

This page is for version v2026-10-01. For other versions, use one of these documentation indexes: - v2026-04-01 (default): https://docs.givechariot.com/v2026-04-01/llms.txt

A Donation is a single gift you’ve received. Every gift shows up here — whether it came through DAFpay, a connected giving platform, the mail, or was recorded by hand.

Each Donation carries:

• Amounts. Gross, net, fee, and the individual gift portion when a donation is part of a larger disbursement.
• Attribution. The primary donor and, if applicable, a joint donor.
• Initiation. Where the donor started the gift — the platform name, the platform’s identifier, the URL they gave from, and any metadata the platform passed along.
• Settlement. How the funds are moving to your account.
• Payment status. Where the donation is in its journey to your account.
• Reconciliation handles. An external_id you can set to link the donation back to your own systems, and a metadata map for anything else.

A donation can point at the Source that sent it, and can roll up into a deposit once the funds arrive.

See The Donation object for the full schema.