GM Cause creators, project owners & donors!
The first ever Causes Quadratic Funding Round has officially wrapped up and the results are in!
This pilot was not just another QF round - it was the debut of Causes, a new feature designed to make donating easier and more impactful. A Cause is a bundle of 5–50 verified projects; anyone can curate a mission‑aligned collection and donors support an entire ecosystem with one contribution. When you donate to a Cause your funds are converted into GIV on Polygon and a AI donation agent periodically distributes the pool to the most active and impactful projects inside the Cause.
Huge thanks to our round sponsors:
for seeding the $40,000 matching pool. Their support powered the Causes QF round and made the entire experiment possible.
This round was our chance to test the Causes feature and run it together with a QF Round on top of it. We also took a decision of extending the round by 1 more week, to give Donors, Cause Creators, and Project Owners more time to get involved, spreading the word and creating more impact, and we saw almost double of the donations in the last single week!
The Numbers
- Matching pool size: 40,000 USD in GIV on Polygon
- Round duration: September 10 → October 2, 2025 (extended from Sept 24)
- Causes in the round: 45
- Total Donations: 611
- Total USD Value of Donations: $4,596.06
- Unique donors: 232
- Largest total raised by a Cause: $436.73 for “Regenerating Ukraine: A Cause for Communities, Resilience & Climate”
- Broadest support: 34 donors supported “UNDP: Sustainable Energy for Resilient Communities” and “Touching Grass” Causes
- Tokens Donated: USDGLO, USDC, USDT, ETH, GIV, OP, POL, ARB & more!
- Eligible donation Networks: Arbitrum One, Base, OP Mainnet, Ethereum Mainnet, Polygon PoS, Celo.
The matching distribution can be found here:
The following mechanisms were used to ensure matching funds were allocated fairly according to genuine community support:
- Human Passport
- Using Passport’s Model Based API, each donor address was assigned a score based on on-chain activity. A score of 50 or higher was considered a pass for QF eligibility.
- Addresses who did not achieve a passing score through the API could verify their uniqueness using stamps. A Passport (stamps) score of 15 or higher also qualified the donor as QF-eligible.
- COCM
This round again used the Connection‑Oriented Cluster Match (COCM) algorithm to calculate final matching. COCM rewards donor diversity and penalizes tightly clustered or coordinated donation patterns.
That means:
- Causes supported by donors who gave to a broad range of causes received higher matching
- Causes that had donations mostly from overlapping or highly clustered wallets saw reduced matching
Learn more about COCM here: wtfiscocm.streamlit.app
Matching Distribution Chart
Below is a bar chart showing how the matching funds were distributed. Check out how all the Causes got ranked based on the received matching!
Top Causes by Final Matching Allocation
Here are 10 Causes that received the largest matching allocations:
UNDP: Sustainable Energy for Resilient Communities
Matching: 3000.00 USD
Match per unique donor: 88.24 USD
Public Nouns Grantees and Fam
Matching: 3000.00 USD
Match per unique donor: 107.14 USD
Greenpill Network: From local solutions to global impact
Matching: 2100.40 USD
Match per unique donor: 131.27 USD
Tree Planting
Matching: 1984.54 USD
Match per unique donor: 79.38 USD
Touching Grass
Matching: 1924.77 USD
Match per unique donor: 56.61 USD
Ethereum Education
Matching: 1830.47 USD
Match per unique donor: 76.27 USD
Giveth Galaxy
Matching: 1718.41 USD
Match per unique donor: 95.47 USD
Venezuela
Matching: 1619.31 USD
Match per unique donor: 101.21 USD
Open Source Public Goods
Matching: 1597.47 USD
Match per unique donor: 106.50 USD
ReFi DAO Network – Regeneration with Web3
Matching: 1509.40 USD
Match per unique donor: 125.78 USD
Cause & Donor Insights
- Regenerating Ukraine raised the largest total ($436.73) but received a comparatively modest $432.26 in matching, illustrating how COCM balances influence between dollar volume and donor diversity.
- UNDP: Sustainable Energy for Resilient Communities and Touching Grass had the broadest support, each with 34 unique donors.
- Voices of Impact: Projects featured on the Crypto Altruists Podcast achieved the highest match per donor, with each donor unlocking roughly $149.69 in matching.
- Other causes with impressive match‑per‑donor metrics include Web3 Safety and Security ($141.88) and Web3 Public Goods by Glo Dollar ($135.30).
- Causes with smaller donor bases but high match per donor show how small communities can still have outsized impact when those donors also support a diverse set of Causes, thanks to COCM.
What’s Next?
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Matching distribution: We’ll keep this thread open for 3 business days for feedback and questions. Then we’ll ratify the results on Snapshot. And after the vote passes, ****matching funds will then be processed shortly after and distributed to each Cause’s wallet.
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Project owners: Continue updating your individual projects! The donation agent redistributes Cause pools over time based on project activity, so keeping your project updated can increase the flow of funds.
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Future rounds:
- Apply now for GG24 Quadratic Funding!
- Giveth is hosting two domains this round:
- Developer Tooling & Infrastructure ($200K matching on Arbitrum)
- Interop Standards, Infra & Analytics ($100K+ on Polygon).
Applications are open until October 17, but the round starts October 14, so apply ASAP!
Thank You!
To everyone who created a Cause, donated, shared, or otherwise participated: thank you.
This pilot proved that bundling projects into thematic Causes can widen the circle of giving and amplify community impact. Let’s keep experimenting with new ways to fund public goods!
Feel free to tag @yegor in the comments if you have any questions or need assistance.
Feedback is welcome - let us know what worked for you and what could be improved so we can continue to make Giveth’s QF rounds, and Causes more fair, fun and impactful.
, we have been included in some causes, but it seem the funds will go directly to the cause wallet, so we don’t understand if we will get some amount from the matching amount of the cause.