Pat Duffy
Pat Duffy founded The Giving Block, a Shift4 company, with co-founder Alex Wilson, creating a new fundraising category they called “Crypto Philanthropy”. After building the leading crypto acceptance solution for nonprofits, Pat and his team developed the largest crypto giving platform for donors, raising over $200M for nonprofits and taking crypto and NFT donations mainstream. Today, The Giving Block is the platform helping thousands of the world’s leading charities, schools, healthcare systems, and faith-based organizations fundraise cryptocurrencies, stocks, and Donor-Advised Fund grants more effectively from modern philanthropists, including Save the Children, United Way Worldwide, Feeding America, and St. Jude. Pat was awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2022 in the area of Social Impact, alongside co-founder Alex Wilson, for their work at The Giving Block. He has also received honors for being one of the 100 Most Influential people in crypto, as well as The Kennedy Center’s Next 50 class of 2022. His company was acquired in 2022 by Shift4, a payments company doing over $250B in annual volume. Due to Pat’s unique expertise in Crypto Philanthropy, he has been featured in Time Magazine, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Associated Press, Coindesk, and CNBC, to name a few. His insights and the company’s ongoing research are further highlighted in The Giving Block’s 2025 Annual Report on Crypto Philanthropy.
