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The money donated is used by the non-profit to purchase products that are then given away to needy kids. This is donation whichever way you look at it.

Amazon will let you do this but people generally specify who they want the product to go to which makes it a gift purchased for friends/family. So it qualifies as a purchase there.

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PayPal does not let you ship items to addresses that are not the billing address. General policy, in their TOS, no surprises. OP is also not a registered non profit, though the real issue doesn't really have anything to do with the charitable nature of it.

I do it all the time. You can add a "gift address" in Paypal.

Right, but you as the BUYER would have to do that. The seller cannot. So in this case OP would have to send you some random person's address - also extremely sketchy and worth freezing the account.

"used by the non-profit" <- I'm sorry, maybe I'm confused, but as far as I know there are no "non-profits" involved here; which entity are you speaking of here?

By non-profit, I meant an organisation/website/person looking to arrange a charitable donation and not a registered non-profit as per relevant local laws.

I agree it was a bad choice of words, though.

That's the problem here though: this for-profit business is upset that they aren't allowed to operate under the rules that non-profits do.

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