How Kiandria Demone Is Holding GiveSendGo Accountable for Hate Fundraisers

GiveSendGo became the platform of choice for Shiloh Hendrix after a viral video showed her yelling the N-word at a five-year-old Black autistic boy on a playground in Rochester, Minnesota. She chased the child, hurled slurs, and sparked immediate outrage online. As backlash mounted, Hendrix launched a fundraiser on the far-right Christian crowdfunding site, claiming she needed money to relocate and protect her family.

Her campaign took off. Within weeks, it raised over $750,000—outpacing fundraisers for actual victims. But the support didn’t come from everyday donors. Far-right groups and white supremacists flooded her campaign with praise and cash. Many treated it as retaliation for the $500,000 raised for Karmelo Anthony, a Black teen facing criminal charges. In their eyes, Hendrix wasn’t just a fundraiser—she was a symbol.

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GiveSendGo Refuses to Back Down

GiveSendGo has a long record of supporting controversial causes. They hosted fundraisers for Kyle Rittenhouse, the Capitol rioters, and others connected to hate groups. Unsurprisingly, they refused to remove Hendrix’s fundraiser.

.@jacobawells, CFO of GiveSendGo, says controversial fundraising campaigns deserve a chance and that people have a right to give money to people of their choosing. The company has hosted fundraising efforts by Shiloh Hendrix, who used a racial slur toward a child.

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Jacob Wells, the site’s co-founder, defended the platform. He claimed they simply protect free speech and don’t control where the money goes. But critics weren’t buying it. They pointed out that GiveSendGo consistently provides cover for racism, extremism, and violence—then hides behind the First Amendment. Even a basic Google search prominently displays Shiloh Hendrix’s fundraiser on the platform, showcasing how actively GiveSendGo promotes these campaigns rather than passively hosting them.

With the platform taking a percentage of donations, this suggests a profit model rooted in polarization. Despite branding itself as a Christian site, GiveSendGo’s amplification of hate-adjacent campaigns reveals a deeply unethical business strategy that undermines both unity and moral accountability.

GiveSendGo’s refusal to act sparked national backlash. It also renewed questions about how much responsibility crowdfunding platforms should bear when their tools help hate go viral.

Kiandria Demone Is Fighting the Platform’s Profit Model

Digital creator and activist Kiandria Demone launched a grassroots campaign to expose who really processes the payments behind Hendrix’s campaign.

@kiandriaisback

I’ve been disgusted watching a yt woman raise $1M after calling a Black kid the N word. But I didn’t just want to cyber bully, I wanted to take action. I opened the site, dug into the HTML source code, and read through the scripts line by line. I’m a web developer. I knew what to look for. I found keywords, traced the checkout flow, and confirmed the processor: Block Inc. Now we can file complaints to cut off funding at the source. I keep telling y’all to stop playing with Black women in tech. #fyp#foryoupage#shilohhendrix#blackwomenoftiktok

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Using her coding skills, Demone traced the source code on GiveSendGo’s checkout page. She discovered keywords linked to Block Inc., the parent company of Square. That company has strict policies against hate-fueled fundraising. When Demone publicized her findings, others joined her. Coders, organizers, and regular users began reporting the fundraiser to Square, Stripe, and federal agencies like the FTC and CFPB.

Demone’s action didn’t stop there. She urged the public to hold tech companies accountable while pushing for action beyond just GiveSendGo. Her message was clear—any platform profiting from racism deserves to be named, shamed, and boycotted.

Despite the threats she received—including death threats—Demone didn’t back down. She showed what digital resistance looks like when led by people who understand both tech and justice.

Want to help hold hate-funded platforms accountable?

Follow and support Kiandria Demone’s work by sharing her videos, tagging payment processors, and filing complaints. Digital resistance works when we do it together. Being racist should never be profitable.