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Jason Hausske Wants Generosity to Feel as Easy as Sharing a Playlist
The Boise founder spent decades learning how people buy. With Cauze, he is applying those lessons to a harder question: what makes people give, return, and bring their friends?
The Boston Foundation Built a $2.6 Billion Machine for Giving - Then Pointed It at Boston’s Hardest Problems
It looks after charitable money, but its real product is judgment: where Boston’s needs are sharpest, which local groups can respond, and how grants, research and policy can work together. In fiscal 2025, that judgment helped move $255 million through 12,472 grants.
Austin Community Foundation
Austin Community Foundation has turned one woman’s $30,000 bequest into a $669 million piece of civic infrastructure. Its real product is not charity paperwork - it is making local generosity easier to deploy, harder to waste and patient enough to outlive the donor.
Chariot
Chariot is a New York fintech building the payment infrastructure for charitable giving. Its flagship product, DAFpay, is the first donation option that lets people give directly from a donor-advised fund in a few clicks, and it now appears on the donation forms of more than 100,000 nonprofits. Chariot also helps charities receive, code, and reconcile grant payments through a single portal, tapping into the roughly $326 billion sitting in donor-advised fund accounts.
Salomon Serfati
Salomon Serfati is the co-founder and CEO of Chariot, the New York fintech building payment rails for the $326 billion donor-advised fund market. Its flagship product, DAFpay, turned the clunky multi-step process of donating from a DAF into a three-click checkout button now live on over 100,000 nonprofit donation forms, from the American Cancer Society to GoFundMe, and was named one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2025. A University of Pennsylvania computer scientist and former BlackRock engineer who opened a separate 10%-of-income charity account with his first paycheck, Serfati turned a personal tithing habit into financial infrastructure for giving.