A role describes how you use CharitMe — it is not a permission you have to apply for. Every account can donate to campaigns and start its own fundraiser from the moment it is created. You never need to request a role to raise money.
Roles anyone can hold
These describe what you are doing on CharitMe. They do not unlock or restrict anything.
Default
Donor
The default for every account. Can give to campaigns and manage their own giving history.
Permissions include:
Donate to any live campaign
View and export own donation history
Request a refund on own donation
Control own public giving visibility
Open to every account
Organizer
Runs fundraisers. Today this is a label — any signed-in account can already create and manage campaigns.
Permissions include:
Create and publish campaigns
Edit and post updates to own campaigns
Connect Stripe and receive payouts
Message and thank own donors
Open to every account
Beneficiary
Someone a campaign raises money for, who is not necessarily the organizer. Currently descriptive only.
Permissions include:
Be named as the recipient of a campaign
Confirm the beneficiary relationship
Open to every account
Nonprofit
A registered organization. Note: tax-deductibility is NOT granted by this role — it comes from per-campaign verification.
Permissions include:
Issue tax-deductible receipts
Hold a verified nonprofit profile with EIN
Show a verified-nonprofit badge
Open to every account
Staff roles
Assigned by CharitMe, and the only roles that genuinely restrict what you can open. They cannot be requested.
Admin
Trust-and-safety and support staff. This role genuinely gates access.
Permissions include:
Open the admin consoleenforced
Review campaigns, reports and payoutsenforced
Run cron endpoints without CRON_SECRETenforced
Assigned by CharitMe
Super Admin
Full platform control, including granting roles to other people. This role genuinely gates access.
Permissions include:
Everything an Admin can doenforced
Assign and revoke rolesenforced
Edit platform-wide settings and bannersenforced
Assigned by CharitMe
Tax-deductible giving is per campaign, not per role
Holding the Nonprofit role does not by itself make donations to your campaigns tax-deductible. Deductibility comes from verifying an individual campaign, so a verified organization can still run a campaign that is not deductible. Look for the verified badge on the campaign itself, and see the Transparency Center for exactly where each donation goes.
You can see the roles on your own account on your profile page. Questions about a role assignment go to our support team.