# How We Make Money

The Charityvest venture makes money in three ways:

1. **Admin fees.** The main way Charityvest creates revenue is by charging an administrative fee for assets in its investment accounts, like other donor-advised funds. The difference is, we offer a modern experience, while being more affordable, thanks to technology.
2. **Workplace giving programs**. We operate workplace giving programs for companies and charge a software-as-service fee to them for this service.
3. **Community Funds.** Our Community Funds collaborative giving tool is a paid offering, either via an optional tip prompt for donors to Community Funds, or a quarterly fee based on total grant value. 

Some donors have asked if we can really create an attractive business with our model and fee levels. **The key to our business lies in our technology,** which creates significant efficiencies relative to other DAFs. We don't have the considerable costs that other DAFs do. Thus, we can be more competitive on fees.