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Perhaps you’re researching fundraising platforms and you’ve realized that you don’t need general crowdfunding platforms like GoFundMe or Kickstarter. You’re looking for fundraising platforms for nonprofits: fundraising websites designed specifically for mission-driven organizations.
We can help you understand your options. We’ve compiled a list of some of the best fundraising websites for nonprofits. These are some of the most popular and offer a broad range of tools and functions to help nonprofits reach their goals. They also span a range of prices: we understand that your budget is an important factor in your decision making.
Below we’ve listed online fundraising platforms for nonprofits in alphabetical order, called out some highlights of each, and provided some information on pricing. Please note that these sites’ prices and plans change frequently. While we strive to provide accurate information, your best bet is to get quotes directly from each site that interests you.
Comparing auction platforms? Take a look at how we stack up against OneCause, Givebutter, Galabid, BiddingforGood (Frontstream Panorama), and Charitybuzz, as well as seven other platforms.
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ToggleFirst and foremost, Bloomerang is a Customer Relationship Manager, or CRM, built for nonprofits. This fundraising website can help nonprofits to organize their immense donor databases, automate communications, and find insights in who your donors are and when and how they prefer to give to your cause.
Besides this tool, Bloomerang also offers volunteer management, payment processing, and online giving management. Bloomerang can also help you automate marketing and communications operations, and it offers an app to help you stay organized while you’re on the move.
Bloomerang is designed for nonprofit organizations with at least 1,000 contacts (AKA records or donors). Any less than that and you probably don’t need a CRM at all. Larger organizations with robust donor lists and marketing needs will get the most out of a system like Bloomerang.
Bloomerang starts at $125 per month for 1,000 contacts.This includes unlimited users, unlimited giving pages, email marketing, and wealth screening, to name just a few features.
CauseVox offers nonprofits donation pages, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer fundraising, pledges, and event ticketing. This platform was founded in 2010 to help nonprofits raise funds efficiently. Designed by developers who wanted to help the causes they were passionate about, CauseVox is built to help nonprofits and charities.
CauseVox is designed for nonprofits and charitable organizations as opposed to individuals.
CauseVox offers three pricing tiers:
Each tier also includes a 2.2% + $0.30 processing fee per transaction.
CharityAuctionsToday has nearly 20 years of experience helping nonprofits and charities to raise more with less, expand their reach, and host successful fundraisers year after year. With fundraising auctions, event management, ticket sales, donation features, and raffles, our platform can help make your live, virtual, or hybrid event a success.
We strive to ensure not only that our platform is the easiest to use, but that it offers the fundraising tools that will provide the most value for the organizations we serve. Most importantly, we have people dedicated to helping you reach your goals.
We serve charitable causes and nonprofits that have limited resources. The clubs, service organizations, churches, schools, and small nonprofits that power our communities can use our platform to power their fundraising.
CharityAuctionsToday offers two types of plans designed to offer the most impact for SMB nonprofits. Both plans include processing fees of 3% + $0.30 per transaction.
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Classy is a nonprofit fundraising site that can help your organization make direct appeals, organize fundraiser events and ticketing, leverage peer-to-peer fundraising, and manage recurring donations.
Classy is designed to serve nonprofit organizations as opposed to individuals or businesses.
Classy starts at $299 per month. Although this is higher than other fundraising sites for nonprofits, the scalability of its services makes it a powerful tool.
DonorBox can help your organization hold events, create donation forms and pages, and host peer-to-peer and crowdfunding campaigns. With nonprofit membership programs, a live kiosk option, and donor portals, DonorBox can be a one stop shop for nonprofits’ fundraising initiatives.
DonorBox primarily serves nonprofit organizations as opposed to individuals or businesses looking to raise on behalf of a cause or themselves.
DonorBox starts at $0 per month and a platform fee of 1.75%-2.95% depending on which solutions you wish to use (event management and peer-to-peer tools are only available at 2.95%, for example). DonorBox’s other plans include the Pro Plan at $139 per month with a 1.5% platform fee, and the Premium Plan with customizable pricing depending on your needs and a 1.5% platform fee. All three of DonorBox’s pricing tiers also include payment processing fees.
Double the Donation is a donation matching service that automates gift matching request emails and makes it as simple as possible for donors to fill out match forms.
Double the Donation based its model on the idea that most donors don’t know their employers might match their donations. Their platform can help you make the most of each donation by connecting the dots between your donors and their match opportunities.
Double the Donation is designed for larger nonprofits and organizations like schools.
Double the Donation starts at $199 per year, a tier best for nonprofits with less than 1,000 donors that will allow you to host a donation page on their site. To embed their plugin you’ll need the $399 per year plan, and $1,999 for API access.
Fundraise Up is a fundraising platform for nonprofits that offers donation forms, campaign pages, analytics, and UI to streamline your nonprofit’s website, to name just a few features. Fundraise Up was founded on the premise that many nonprofits’ donation forms were clunky and difficult to use, and could benefit from some of the features of for-profit checkout systems.
Fundraise Up is designed to help medium to large nonprofits that process many payments each year.
Fundraise Up is a usage-based fundraising site. Its Quick Start, self-serve, option costs 4% per transaction, in addition to processing fees for Stripe or PayPal. Fundraise Up’s Enterprise solution, designed for organizations processing upwards of $300,000/year, lists no price but offers a dedicated success team.
Givebutter is an all-in-one fundraising site that offers donor management and CRM, fundraising pages and donation forms, event management, and auctions. Though Givebutter claims to be “free,” their platform is supported by optional donor tips, like many fundraising sites.
Givebutter is designed for nonprofits, schools, clubs, and even startups.
Givebutter claims to be free for the organizations that use it. In fact, Givebutter’s platform fees are covered by optional “tips” from the people who donate to their customers on the platform. If you want to turn off the request for (again, optional) tips for your supporters, you will then pay a platform fee of 1-5%, depending on what features you’re using. This is in addition to standard payment processing fees.
OneCause offers fundraising pages, event fundraising features, mobile campaigns, and peer-to-peer solutions. With text-2-give solutions, donation forms, and personal fundraising pages, OneCause offers a versatile suite of tools.
As a subscription service, OneCause is best suited to organizations looking to raise funds every year than one-off events or one-time funds.
OneCause is a subscription-based platform that starts at $495.
Qgiv was recently acquired by Bloomerang and operates in partnership with them. To Bloomerang’s nonprofit CRM services Qgiv adds donation forms, auctions, event registration, peer-to-peer fundraising, and more
Qgiv serves nonprofits, not-for-profits, and charitable organizations.
Qgiv starts at $25 per month, which includes donation forms, event registration, and reporting. Text fundraising is an additional $159/month, peer-to-peer an additional $259/month, and auctions an additional $259/month. Processing fees apply to all plans.
It can be difficult to decide which fundraising site for nonprofits will best suit your organization’s needs. Hopefully, we’ve provided some insights that can help you make the right call. Whether you’re looking for a CRM or event ticketing, there are fundraising sites designed and built with your needs in mind.
Stay tuned for our piece identifying some of the top general fundraising platforms, as well as the best platforms for school fundraising. And if you’re interested in comparing and contrasting auction sites, take a look at our breakdown.
DOWNLOAD The Auction Profit Blueprint
The 4 tools BIG organizations use every time to skyrocket auction profits!
The Step-By-Step Guide to stop leaving thousands on the table.