Donate.gg has expanded the nonprofit catalog available to Pump.fun Charity Coins to include organizations in England and Wales. The October 12 announcement, posted at 19:21 UTC, told creators to select the United Kingdom and search by name or EIN. A follow-up said Scotland and Northern Ireland would be added later.
The change widens where creator fees can be directed; it does not turn a meme coin into a charity, make every British nonprofit selectable or send trading proceeds straight from a token contract to an organization. Pump.fun’s current Charity Coins disclaimer says the launch platform supplies the interface, while Donate.gg receives the routed creator fees, handles conversion and manages distribution.
That distinction matters because a Charity Coin label compresses several separate steps into two words. The coin generates eligible creator fees. A creator chooses a listed destination. Pump.fun routes fees to Donate.gg. Donate.gg may convert the asset and then facilitate delivery to the selected charity or, under its terms, potentially to an alternate charity with a similar purpose if the target cannot accept the donation.
England and Wales are live; the rest of the UK is still a plan
Donate.gg’s announcement describes current support for England and Wales and future support for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Those are not interchangeable claims. The UK government’s charity-register guide confirms that the Charity Commission register covers England and Wales, while Scotland and Northern Ireland maintain separate registers.
The official England and Wales service can be searched by charity name, registration number, registration date or operating area. Donate.gg used “EIN” in its search instruction, a term normally associated with U.S. tax identifiers. The announcement does not explain how that field maps to a Charity Commission number, so users should confirm the organization’s exact name and official registration record instead of treating a search-label match as proof.
The government also warns that the England and Wales register is not exhaustive. Organizations with income below £5,000 may not be registered, and excepted or exempt charities may be absent. Therefore, not finding a name in that register does not automatically prove the organization is illegitimate. It does mean the user needs a different authoritative record before relying on the identity.
No public source reviewed by Dev.Cooking supplies a complete list of newly selectable organizations or a count for the expansion. The announcement establishes the new geography, not the size of the catalog.
The money route starts with creator fees, not the token balance
Pump.fun describes Charity Coins as a Donate.gg API integration for routing creator fees from Pump-launched tokens. Its documentation says every fee sent through this route is denominated in SOL, even though the feature is available to coins paired with either SOL or USDC. Coins launched against other custom pair assets cannot add a charity.
That limitation now intersects with Pump.fun’s broader Custom Pairs system. A project can use a community token as its paired asset in some launches, but doing so makes the Charity Coins option unavailable under the current rules. “Created on Pump.fun” is not enough; the pair asset determines eligibility.
Once fees enter the donation route, Pump.fun says it does not process, custody or control them. Donate.gg is responsible for converting SOL into a form accepted by the charity and charges a service fee. Pump.fun says none of that Donate.gg service fee accrues to Pump.fun, but its disclaimer does not state the amount, exchange-rate spread or final sum a recipient will receive.
Donate.gg’s terms of service add another operational boundary. Donation Labs, the company behind the service, may convert a donation to fiat, another digital asset or another accepted form of value. If a target charity cannot or will not accept the donation, the terms authorize Donate.gg to choose an alternate organization with a similar charitable purpose. That clause does not show that any England or Wales donation has been redirected; it defines what the service may do if delivery to the selected target fails.
A UK destination is not UK access to Pump.fun
The geographic expansion concerns eligible nonprofit destinations, not who may use the launch platform. Pump.fun’s Charity Coins disclaimer says the feature does not expand or limit the jurisdictions where Pump.fun is accessible. The same document requires users to represent that they are not located in, organized in or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom.
The result is an unusual cross-border arrangement: an eligible Pump.fun creator elsewhere may be able to route creator fees toward an England or Wales charity, while the feature announcement does not open Pump.fun to UK users. Readers should not turn the phrase “select the United Kingdom” into a claim that UK residents can now create or trade Pump.fun coins.
The expansion also does not guarantee a tax deduction. Pump.fun disclaims any tax determination, and Donate.gg says it does not promise a desired tax benefit. Charity registration, platform eligibility and a user’s tax treatment are three different questions.
What evidence should a Charity Coin publish?
A creator can make the route easier to audit without exposing private donor information. The useful public record begins with the exact coin mint, the selected charity’s exact legal name and registration number, the creator-fee setting, the SOL transaction that reached Donate.gg’s infrastructure and any later receipt or distribution confirmation Donate.gg provides.
Each item proves something different. A Charity Coin setting shows an instruction. An onchain SOL transfer can show that value left a wallet or fee-routing account. A Donate.gg record can connect that transfer to processing. A charity acknowledgment is stronger evidence of receipt. None of those records, alone, proves how the organization ultimately spent the money.
Readers should also keep the token and charity risk assessments separate. A legitimate charity selection does not validate the token’s permissions, holder distribution, liquidity or promotion. Conversely, a volatile or abandoned coin does not establish that an already processed donation failed. Dev.Cooking’s holder-address evidence guide explains why wallet labels should not be converted into unsupported identity claims, and the meme-coin archive tracks other launch-platform changes.
Donate.gg’s England and Wales expansion is substantive because it enlarges the set of causes creators can select. The precise version of the news is narrower than the promotional shorthand: eligible Pump.fun creator fees can now be routed through a third-party processor toward additional nonprofit destinations. The token itself does not donate, and the announcement is not proof that any named charity has received funds.
Reporting and image notes
Original Dev.Cooking news analysis based on Donate.gg’s October 12 announcement, Pump.fun’s current Charity Coins disclaimer, Donate.gg’s June 2 terms and the UK government’s register guide, all reviewed October 13, 2026. The announcement time was decoded from the public X status identifier. The reporting separates current England and Wales support from planned Scotland and Northern Ireland support, and distinguishes token creation, creator-fee routing, third-party conversion and final charity receipt. No claim is made that a particular newly listed organization has received funds. Distinctive sentences were also spot-checked externally; no matching phrasing was found in those limited checks.
The cover is Roger A Smith’s real March 21, 2025 photograph of the Nowzad charity shop in Bideford, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0. It provides geographic charity-sector context only. The shop is not identified as a Donate.gg destination, Pump.fun participant or recipient of token creator fees. The image was auto-oriented, resized and converted to responsive WebP files without cropping or altering documentary content; the adaptation is shared under the same license. No endorsement is implied. Corrections: Hello@dev.cooking.