How much money has Crystal Wilsey raised across all crowdfunding platforms including GiveSendGo and GoFundMe?
Executive summary
Reports disagree on how much Crystal Terese Wilsey’s online fundraisers have collected: multiple outlets say a GiveSendGo page tied to supporter Tom Hennessy has raised six-figure sums — figures reported range from “over $65K” and “over $67K” up to “more than $120K,” with several outlets specifically putting the total “over $100,000” or “over $90,000” [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. Coverage of any GoFundMe pages in the incident focuses on a separate fund for the Somali couple rather than additional sums for Wilsey [6].
1. Conflicting tallies: GiveSendGo totals vary widely in reporting
News outlets cite different snapshot totals for the GiveSendGo fundraiser supporting Wilsey: Atlanta Black Star reported “more than $65,000” [1], Scallywag & Vagabond said the page had raised “more than $67K” [2], Newsweek and Primetimer reported figures in the neighborhood of $40K–$100K at various update points, and multiple outlets — including Black Enterprise, MeidasTouch and Hindustan Times — described the campaign as having surpassed $100,000 or $120,000 [7] [4] [8] [3]. These discrepancies reflect different publication timestamps and possibly different snapshot moments of a rapidly changing total [4] [5].
2. Platforms named: GiveSendGo is the primary source of donations in reporting
All provided reporting that ties money to Wilsey points to a GiveSendGo page launched by someone identified as Tom Hennessy/Hennessey; that page is the repeatedly cited vehicle raising funds “for Crystal” [9] [7] [4]. Available sources do not mention a separate GoFundMe campaign raising money for Wilsey; the GoFundMe reporting concerns a fundraiser for the Somali couple’s legal fees and trauma recovery [6].
3. Range and timing explain the noise in the totals
Local and national outlets published at different times and showed rapidly changing figures: early pieces noted $18K–$40K [10] [11], mid-cycle stories reported $65K–$90K [1] [5], and later reports cited totals “over $100K” and “over $120K” [4] [3]. The pattern in the sources indicates journalists were citing the GiveSendGo tally at successive moments rather than a single reconciled number [4] [3].
4. What the sources say about actual disbursement and verification
Newsweek and other outlets note it is unclear whether Wilsey will actually receive the funds and that GiveSendGo had not publicly clarified disbursement at the time of reporting [7]. Several articles highlight that donation notes on the page contained explicitly racist messages and that the fundraiser has been amplified by partisan networks — contextual signals that complicate simple accounting [7] [8].
5. Separate GoFundMe is for the victims, not Wilsey
Reporting from Hindustan Times and others documents a GoFundMe launched to help the Somali couple with legal fees; that coverage does not attribute GoFundMe receipts to Wilsey herself and shows the public fundraising contest is happening on different platforms with different beneficiaries [6].
6. Why exact totals remain unsettled
The available coverage shows multiple snapshot totals without a single authoritative ledger: outlets relied on the GiveSendGo page’s publicly visible totals at times they wrote, and those totals climbed during the news cycle [2] [4] [3]. No single source in the provided set offers a final reconciled figure or GiveSendGo confirmation of net disbursement to Wilsey [7].
7. Bottom line for the question “How much across all crowdfunding platforms?”
Based on the provided reporting, the only consistently named fundraiser for Wilsey is the GiveSendGo page, and reported totals range from under $20K in earliest snapshots to reported totals exceeding $100K and $120K in later stories; outlets variably quote figures such as “more than $65K,” “more than $67K,” “more than $90K,” “over $100,000,” and “over $120K” [10] [1] [2] [5] [4] [3]. Available sources do not provide a single verified, final total across all platforms nor documentation that funds were disbursed to Wilsey [7].
Limitations and next steps: sources used here are the available news reports supplied; they disagree on snapshot amounts and none offers a definitive, audited total or a GiveSendGo statement confirming final disbursement to Wilsey [7]. To get a single authoritative number you would need either a current scrape of the GiveSendGo page, an official statement from GiveSendGo, or reporting that reconciles totals after the campaign closed — items not found in the current reporting set [7].