Bitcoin Cash has one of the most donation-minded communities in crypto and one of the shortest lists of charities that actually hold a BCH wallet. If you have tried to find somewhere to send it, you will already know this.
Every organisation below was checked on 1 October 2026 by loading that organisation's own page. Not a directory, not a press release, not a search summary — and in this case that distinction produced a result worth the whole article.
Coin lists change without warning. This is a snapshot with a date on it.
The short answer
| Organisation | Also accepts | How they receive it |
|---|---|---|
| Riseup | BTC, ZEC, XMR, ETH | Own published addresses |
| charity: water | BTC, ETH, LTC, ZEC, FIL, DOGE | Own published addresses |
Two. That is the honest result of the check, and it is a smaller number than for Litecoin, Zcash or even Dogecoin.
Bitcoin Cash is of course reachable at a much larger number of charities through donation processors — organisations such as Lutheran World Relief, Animal Charity Evaluators and Dogs for Better Lives can all be sent BCH. But in those cases the coin list belongs to the processor, the coin is converted before the charity sees it, and the charity never touches Bitcoin Cash at all.
The correction, and how we nearly got it wrong
You will find a great many pages stating that the Electronic Frontier Foundation accepts Bitcoin Cash, usually through a named payment processor.
While researching this article, a search engine's own summary told us exactly that: that EFF accepts BCH via BitPay, alongside a list of other coins. It was confident and specific.
We then opened EFF's own page. It lists thirteen cryptocurrencies — Algorand, Binance, Bitcoin, Cardano, Dash, Dogecoin, Ethereum, Filecoin, Litecoin, Ripple, Solana, Tether and Zcash. Bitcoin Cash is not among them. No processor is named anywhere on the page; EFF publishes its own addresses and refers to "the addresses below".
So the summary was wrong, in a way that would have put a false claim about a named organisation into this article had we trusted it.
We are reporting that because it is the entire argument for how these pages should be written. The second-hand claim is faster, more confident and more available than the source — and it is the one that is wrong. The same risk applies to this page, which is why it carries the date we looked.
EFF also states something candid that is worth repeating: because of the nature of cryptocurrency transactions, it cannot offer donor gifts, tax acknowledgements or official membership to people who give at those addresses. That is a real limitation, stated plainly, and more charities should do it.
Why BCH does worse than its community size suggests
The gap between how many people want to donate Bitcoin Cash and how many charities hold it comes down to the same structural point that shapes every coin in this series.
Charities that accept crypto almost always do it through a processor and a custodian. That route reaches BCH perfectly well — but it means the charity's "acceptance" is a dropdown entry, not a wallet. The charities that hold their own wallets are overwhelmingly software and privacy projects that were already running their own infrastructure, and those projects tend to pick Bitcoin, Monero and Zcash rather than Bitcoin Cash.
Riseup is the clearest counter-example: a privacy and infrastructure collective publishing its own addresses for BTC, ZEC, XMR, ETH and BCH. charity: water remains the one humanitarian organisation we have found running its own wallets, and BCH is on its list.
How to check any of this yourself
- Open the organisation's own domain. Not a directory, not a search summary, not this page. We just demonstrated why.
- Find the coin list. If there isn't one, you are looking at a processor's dropdown.
- Look for an address or a processor name. That single detail tells you whether the charity receives the coin or a company does.
- Look for a date. An undated crypto page is often several years stale.
- If they claim a public ledger, open it and click through to a block explorer to confirm a transaction actually exists.
Where we stand
TraceGood accepts Bitcoin Cash, alongside more than thirty other coins and networks. Every confirmed donation appears on our public ledger with a link to the transaction on an independent block explorer, so a BCH gift is checkable by anyone rather than only by us.
We are a newly founded organisation whose registration as a non-profit association in Estonia is not yet complete, and donations to us are not tax-deductible anywhere — a limitation we would rather state here than have you discover later. Our About page carries the full position.
Run the five checks above on us. If something here is wrong, or an organisation's page has changed since we checked, tell us and we will correct it with a note saying what changed.