Ireland retains its status as the most generous country on GoFundMe for the fourth consecutive year, according to the crowdfunding platform.
Five million donations have raised a quarter of a billion euro.
Charitable and community causes are the beneficiaries, and so too is GoFundMe which charges fees for use of the service of 2.9% plus 25c per transaction, and gives donors the option to tip the firm.
Galway stands out as the most giving county in Ireland, closely followed by Limerick and Cork, based on the number of donations per capita.
The top five charities to benefit from GoFundMe campaigns are Irish Cancer Society, Pieta, Irish Red Cross, Women's Aid, and The Alzheimer Society of Ireland.
GoFundMe CEO, Tim Cadogan, said the company has a team of experts working to ensure that fundraising campaigns are legitimate.
"Trust is incredibly important to what we do because it's people giving to one another," Mr Cadogan told Morning Ireland. "We have a very expert team who have been doing this for over a decade so they are using their knowledge and judgement and technology to look for any anomalies.
"Every euro, every dollar, every pound goes through our third party financial partners to verify a second time that the money is going to the right place and only then is the money released to the beneficiaries.
And then finally, we have the GoFundMe Giving Guarantee and that means if there is any problem, you will get your donation refunded."
He said there has been a 20% improvement in the effectiveness of crowd-funders thanks to GoFundMe's fundraising tools.
The CEO said the company does have a subsequent verification to ensure the money raised is spent appropriately, "but ultimately it is up to the individuals and organisations to do with the money what they said they were going to do".
The most common words used in the title of Irish GoFundMe campaigns this year are: help, family, cancer, home, fundraiser, fight, fund, life, support and treatment.
"Ireland is the only one of the 19 countries that we operate in, in which community oriented fundraising is the leader," Mr Cadogan said.
Dr Gemma Donnelly-Cox, Co-Director of the Centre for Social Innovation at Trinity College Business School, highlighted some of the reasons why Ireland is known for its generosity.
"Coming together swiftly to assist those around you 'meitheal' is core to Irish identity and sense of community. The quality of being 'first off the blocks' to give time and money, to respond to need, is reflected in how GoFundMe is used here," she said.
"This spirit of community and rapid response underscores the unique generosity of Ireland on the GoFundMe platform," she added.
