I looked up GoFundMe alternatives and Fundly looks promising. I'm not sure if it will work with your bank (it may not work with PayPal), but it looks like it'll let withdraw the donations at any time. The downside is Fundly charges a "4.9% fee from each donation that you receive and a credit card processing fee of 2.9% + $.30 from each donation.". Source: over 2 years ago

Someone start a fund on Fundly and fuck gofundme. Source: over 2 years ago

I have shares in a couple of companies on seedinvest, and there are some other companies like this I've seen but not tried. Source: about 1 year ago

Http://seedinvest.com is a crowd-sourced private equity platform. I put $2k into 10 different companies several years ago through their autoinvest feature (you may be noticing a trend), and so far 2 of them have IPO'd at something like 8x the valuation I paid for. Meanwhile, at least one has been restructured like 8 times down to like 0.1% my original investment. The past is not a predictor of the future. ... Source: over 2 years ago