The Average Crypto Gift on The Giving Block Reached $11,019 in 2025

The Giving Block published its 2026 Annual Report on March 4, 2026, and one number is doing most of the talking. The average crypto gift processed on the platform in 2025 was $11,019 across 22,343 donations, a figure the report describes as "far outpacing traditional online giving benchmarks." The total volume crossed $100 million across roughly twenty-two thousand gifts. Online stock giving on the same platform grew 127% year over year, with an average gift of $51,250. The Giving Block itself reads these numbers as a major-donor story, advising that crypto donors should be stewarded like major donors. The numbers also say something else.

The size of the crypto average reflects what gets given rather than how generous the donor is. A cash donor is giving from a checking account and an income statement, while an asset donor is giving from an appreciated security or a digital wallet, which means the transfer mechanism, the tax treatment, and the underlying source of capital are all materially different. The average gift size is large because the source of capital is large, and the figure says nothing about how committed the donor is to the mission.

That distinction matters because fundraising programs are typically designed for cash donors, with major-gift cultivation built as an upmarket extension of the same playbook. Asset-based giving responds to wallet integration, brokerage integration, and tax-aware structuring at the moment of transfer rather than to upmarket cash playbooks. The nonprofits that keep treating asset donors as cash donors with bigger checks are losing a category they did not realize was a category.

For nonprofit and foundation professionals, the operational implication is a stewardship redesign before it is a fundraising redesign. The eleven-thousand-dollar crypto donor and the fifty-thousand-dollar stock donor have asset-management questions, custody questions, and timing questions that a major-gift officer trained on cash gifts will not anticipate. The donor who sends a stablecoin transfer does not need a printed annual report. The donor who transfers an appreciated security in December needs a written acknowledgment in hand before filing, because the IRS makes the deadline the earlier of the date the return is filed or its due date, including extensions, and the acknowledgment for property must describe the gift without stating its value.

For corporate giving and CSR leaders, the asset-donor cohort is a constituency positioned to influence the company's program design, because the same employees holding appreciated securities and digital wallets at home are the employees evaluating the workplace giving rail at work. A workplace program that cannot accept assets is a program that signals which kind of donor the employer thinks the employee is. Asset-capable employees notice the signal.

For digital and crypto-native giving leaders, the report establishes that the asset-donor cohort has crossed from anecdote into category. The eleven-thousand-dollar average gift is large enough to require a real cultivation workflow, and the report's own gift-size bands, with 21% of donation volume in the band above $100,000, show where that workflow earns its keep. The nonprofits that build that workflow first will own the relationship with the cohort, because the donor is choosing the rail before they choose the organization.

For donors and family-office advisors, the eleven-thousand-dollar average crypto gift is a portfolio signal before it is a giving signal, which means the advisor who is not tracking which assets a client holds in digital form is not positioned to have the stewardship conversation at the moment the client wants to have it. Asset-based giving from an appreciated digital position is a tax event with a charitable wrapper, so the timing, the custody question, and the transfer method all belong inside the wealth-planning conversation rather than after it. The advisor who builds the workflow first will find that clients stop asking whether to give from appreciated assets and start asking which organizations have the infrastructure to receive them cleanly.

For NGOs and international organizations, meaning nonprofits that work outside government, many of them across country borders, the asset-giving rails that produced the eleven-thousand-dollar average gift already reach beyond the United States, with the report recording the United Kingdom at 10% of crypto donation volume against 88% from the United States, which means the organization that operates across borders can receive a crypto transfer without routing it through a local-currency wire. The organizations that build the technical reception capacity first will find that the asset-donor cohort routes gifts toward them not only because of the mission but because of the friction they remove.

"The eleven-thousand-dollar average is a story about infrastructure rather than generosity, and the nonprofits that keep treating asset donors as upmarket cash donors are losing a category they did not realize was a category."

EILEEN HERNANDEZ, THE STRATEGIC STEWARD

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This finding connects to DIA Protocol Pillar 3, Technological Value Proposition. The eleven-thousand-dollar crypto donor and the fifty-thousand-dollar stock donor differ in what they hold, and the technology that makes their gift possible is the same technology that determines whether the stewardship relationship continues.