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Account roles

What each role means, and which ones actually change your access.

See your roles

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.