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.
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Bloomerang
First 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.
Who is it for?
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.
Highlights
- Bloomerang is one of the most highly rated nonprofit CRMs out there, and is used by thousands of organizations.
- Among many support options, Bloomerang offers data and consulting services that can help you migrate your data and manage it with ease.
Price
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
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.
Who is it for?
CauseVox is designed for nonprofits and charitable organizations as opposed to individuals.
Highlights
- In addition to donation pages and fundraising tools, CauseVox offers some CRM functions, helping nonprofits track and manage their donors and donations.
- CauseVox integrates with a variety of other nonprofit and marketing tools like Kindful, Bloomerang, Mail Chimp, and Constant Contact.
Price
CauseVox offers three pricing tiers:
- Basic: 0% platform fees with CauseVox’s tipping feature, this
- Standard: $155/month when billed annually, $200 for month to month
- Plus: $275/month when billed annually, $315 for month to month
Each tier also includes a 2.2% + $0.30 processing fee per transaction.
CharityAuctionsToday
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.
Who is it for?
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.
Highlights
- Auction Success Managers can answer questions about any feature on our platform and help you set up your fundraising page for success. Our dedicated team is just a call or email away throughout your fundraiser.
- Our auction marketplace allows you to share your auction with a public audience, to expand your reach and help you reach more donors.
- Use our Auction Inventory Catalog to offer your guests a shot at amazing travel packages. These risk-free auction items help you raise more without any upfront costs, and won’t cost you a thing if they don’t sell.
Price
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.
- Our Flex plan will cost you 5% of your total proceeds. If you don’t raise anything, you don’t pay anything.
- Our Pre-Paid plan costs a subscription fee of $297-$1,500 per year and platform fees of 0%-3%
Read more about Why You Should Choose CharityAuctionsToday
Classy
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.
Who is it for?
Classy is designed to serve nonprofit organizations as opposed to individuals or businesses.
Highlights
- Donors to your cause can use a self-serve dashboard, branded with your organization’s logo and colors, to adjust recurring giving and update payment details. It can also automatically generate end-of-year giving statements on your behalf.
- Classy offers integrations with a number of fundraising tools like CRMs, email marketing tools, and data and analytics platforms.
Price
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
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.
Who is it for?
DonorBox primarily serves nonprofit organizations as opposed to individuals or businesses looking to raise on behalf of a cause or themselves.
Highlights
- A donor portal allows donors to give with one click, manage their giving, and download and print receipts.
- DonorBox’s donor management tools can help you keep track of donor information and retention.
Price
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
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.
Who is it for?
Double the Donation is designed for larger nonprofits and organizations like schools.
Highlights
- Double the Donation offers integrations with many other fundraising and nonprofit softwares in order to make it as easy as possible for donors to check if there’s a match they can take advantage of.
Price
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
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.
Who is it for?
Fundraise Up is designed to help medium to large nonprofits that process many payments each year.
Highlights
- Fundraise Up’s virtual terminal feature allows you to input and process donations taken in person or over the phone.
- Fundraise Up allows you to fundraise anywhere in the world, with more than 135 currencies and languages provided.
Price
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
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.
Who is it for?
Givebutter is designed for nonprofits, schools, clubs, and even startups.
Highlights
- Givebutter offers marketing and engagement tools to help you organize email, text, and letter communications.
- Givebutter also provides a text-to-donate feature to help you reach people where they are.
Price
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
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.
Who is it for?
As a subscription service, OneCause is best suited to organizations looking to raise funds every year than one-off events or one-time funds.
Highlights
- This fundraising site can help you organize runs, walks, rides, awareness days, and even memorial and tribute fundraising events.
- OneCause’s Personal Fundraising pages help you leverage your donors and volunteers. Under your organization’s fundraising umbrella, individual supporters can launch their own page to boost your cause.
Price
OneCause is a subscription-based platform that starts at $495.
Qgiv
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
Who is it for?
Qgiv serves nonprofits, not-for-profits, and charitable organizations.
Highlights
- Due to their relationship, Qgiv offers strong integration with Bloomerang tools, as well as other third-party integrations.
- Qgiv focuses on donor experience, so you can show donors the impact of their donations, highlight specific givers, and overall improve your relationship with them.
Price
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.
Final Thoughts
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.
