Solana is the best argument in crypto for small donations, and one of the worst-served coins in charitable giving. Both of those are measurable, and the gap between them is the interesting part.
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.
Coin lists change without warning. This is a snapshot with a date on it.
The short answer
| Organisation | Also accepts | How they receive it |
|---|---|---|
| Electronic Frontier Foundation | BTC, ETH, LTC, ZEC, ADA, XRP, DOGE, DASH, ALGO, FIL, USDT, BUSD | Own published addresses |
One. That is not an abbreviated table — it is the result of the check.
We looked at the organisations that appear across the rest of this series and publish their own wallet addresses: the Tor Project, the Free Software Foundation, Riseup, the GrapheneOS Foundation, the Internet Archive and charity: water. None of them lists Solana. EFF is the exception, and it lists SOL alongside twelve other coins.
Solana is of course reachable at a large number of charities through donation processors, where it is one entry in a long dropdown and is sold for dollars within minutes. The coin list there belongs to the processor.
Why the gap exists
Solana is young by the standards of charity treasury policy. The organisations that self-custody tend to have added Bitcoin first, then whichever coins their own community asked for — which in practice meant Monero, Zcash and Litecoin for the privacy and software projects that make up most of this list.
Adding a chain is not free. It means a new wallet, new key management, a new line in the accounts and a new thing that can go wrong at audit. A charity with a small finance function adds a chain when there is a reason, and "a donor might one day send us SOL" has not yet been a strong enough one for most of them.
That is a description, not a criticism. But it does mean that if you hold SOL and want it to arrive as SOL, your options today are narrow.
What Solana is genuinely good at
The case for giving in SOL is arithmetic, and it is strong.
A Solana transfer settles in seconds and costs a fraction of a cent. On a congested chain a $10 donation can lose a meaningful share of itself to fees before it arrives — which is the quiet reason small crypto giving so often is not worth doing. Solana removes that objection almost entirely.
That makes it one of the better choices for the kind of donation people actually want to make casually: small, frequent, not agonised over. We went through the comparison in the best cryptocurrencies for small donations, and SOL does well in it.
What Solana is not is private. It is a fully transparent chain — anyone can follow a transaction from your wallet to the recipient forever. That is an advantage if you want your gift to be publicly checkable and a problem if you do not. Can you donate crypto anonymously covers the honest version of that trade-off.
One thing to check before sending SOL
Solana addresses are not chain-tagged the way some others are, and the common failure is not a missing tag but a wrong network: sending a Solana-native USDC to an Ethereum address, or the reverse.
If you are sending a token rather than SOL itself, confirm the network as well as the address. A USDC balance exists on several chains and they are not interchangeable. We wrote about recovering from this in what to do when you send crypto to the wrong address — the short version is that the answer is often "you cannot".
How to check any of this yourself
- Open the organisation's own domain. Not a directory, not a search summary, not this page.
- Find the coin list. If there isn't one, you are looking at a processor's dropdown.
- For tokens, confirm the network, not just the coin name.
- Look for a date. An undated crypto page is often years stale.
- If they claim a public ledger, open it and click through to a block explorer to confirm a transaction exists.
Where we stand
TraceGood accepts Solana, and USDC on Solana, 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 — and on a transparent chain like Solana that link is genuinely checkable by a stranger, which is the whole point.
Our checkout names the network explicitly before you send, so there is no inference required about which USDC is which.
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. Our About page carries the full position.
If you know of a charity publishing its own Solana address that we have missed, tell us — we would genuinely like this list to be longer, and we will check and add it.