Managing donations is an important part of nonprofit fundraising. Your donation data will provide insights into donors' giving abilities as well as make handling finances and accounting easy for your organization. Choose from our list of top donation management software options and start elevating your nonprofit growth today!
Are you tired of spreadsheets that don’t work? it’s time for an upgrade – to manage and track donations to your nonprofit!
This article will walk you through 10 great donation management software choices–and the best part is, they’re all FREE.
Use this list to choose the best software to upgrade your nonprofit from the stone age of spreadsheets into the dazzling world of automated, easy-to-use, and effective donation management software.
Here’s what we’ll dig into –
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Donation management also called donor management or donation tracking is the process of organizing and tracking any and all donations that your organization receives.
Essentially, donation management software allows you to keep up with information that will help grow your nonprofit and improve your relationships with donors.
For example, Donorbox lets you securely and effectively collect, store, and manage donor and donation data. You can check and segment these records as well as pull necessary reports. You will also have the ability to integrate with some leading CRM tools for more data effectiveness.
Keeping all the information above stored in a secure, easy-to-access place is of vital importance to your nonprofit for a few reasons.
If your donors need reminders (and government-compliant tax receipts) about how much they’ve given, when they gave, and how much of their donation was tax-deductible, you need to be able to provide that information.
When you’re getting ready to reach out to donors to ask for repeat donations, it’s critical to know information about the last time they were solicited.
You’d also want to personalize your appeals by suggesting donation amounts that suit their giving ability. This makes your donors feel comfortable and they might even end up giving more.
Also, segmenting the donation and donor data means you’re reaching out at the right frequency and with the correct impact information.
On Donorbox, you can easily apply some basic as well as advanced filters to segment the donation and donor data. This helps you create donor groups for more effective solicitation.
Do most of your donors give online? Do they prefer to give at events?
If you can review the donation data you’ve gathered for trends, you can plan your next campaign with solid strategies in place.
Giving preferences is important when you’re planning a campaign. Choose software that will help you add offline donations and donors as well. This way, you can easily add filters and find out how many of your event attendees gave offline via cash; and how many preferred to donate online.
You can also find out which online payment methods were most popular among your donors and more such information. This will help include newer trends in your fundraising strategies. With Donorbox, you’ll have all this information at hand, as and when you need it!
Donorbox has comprehensive, easy-to-use tools to help you manage each step of the donation process.
With attractive, branded donation forms that pull in more donations for your organization to powerful donor and donation management tools, Donorbox helps you reach–and surpass!–your loftiest fundraising goal.
Donorbox also integrates seamlessly with leading CRM tools such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Blackbaud RE NXT, and thousands of other apps through Zapier. These integrations ensure easy sync-up of the donor, donation, and campaign data between two platforms. Know more about these integrations here.
Explore all Donorbox features on the website.
Sign up for free and start using all the features of Donorbox including donor and donation management. There’s a nominal platform fee of 1.75% as well as the processing fees of Stripe or PayPal. However, you’ll have the option to ask donors to cover these fees. Integrations will have add-on fees. Learn about the pricing here.
Nonprofits, churches, PTAs, universities, charities, political and art-based organizations, and more.
It is suitable for any organization – of any size – and individuals looking to fundraise and manage donor data. The features are highly user-friendly for all.
Funraise offers a suite of donation management tools to help you track important information, in addition to fundraising tools.
Funraise has a free plan but for advanced features and integrations, they offer an Enterprise plan starting at $2500 per year.
Nonprofits of any size looking to get a handle on their donation management.
Givebutter’s donation management tools come with several helpful perks and integrations. Like others on this list, this too is a fundraising tool with donation and donor management included for better fundraising efficiency.
With optional tips, their platform is free to use. If the “tips” option is turned off, they have platform fees starting at 1%. Processing fees are included in both cases.
Small to medium nonprofits starting out with donation management.
Snowball Fundraising provides strong analytical tools to help nonprofits reach their fundraising goals and manage donations.
They do have a free plan including processing fees. But most of their advanced tools are available under their paid plans starting at $55/month.
Smaller nonprofits that want powerful online tools to track their fundraising progress.
We didn’t want to leave our churches out! Although any of the other software choices on this list would work great for churches, Tithe.ly offers tools crafted specifically for churches to streamline their tithing and donor information gathering.
You can sign up for free. There will be some processing fees for donations. Add-ons and advanced features require additional plans starting at $19/month.
Churches of any size that want to grow their church through valuable insights about their tithing.
GivingFuel provides solid tools to collect, organize, and export donations and donor information.
Their starter plan is available for free with credit card processing fees. Their advanced plans offer 3 months of free trial and then it will be charged starting at $59/month.
Nonprofits of any size that need a simple tool to collect and organize donor information.
Anedot offers some basic donation management features to help you get the most out of accepting donations.
You can get started for free. There will be processing costs per donation.
Smaller nonprofits looking for basic donation management.
RallyUp provides solid fundraising tools and some great donation management options to personalize donor outreach.
You can get started with fundraising for free but donor profiles and other advanced features come at a price starting at $25/month.
Midsize nonprofits willing to pay an affordable price per month to manage donors and donations.
RhinoNP offers a one-stop shop for smaller charitable organizations with tools to collect donations and store donor data.
It’s free for organizations with fewer than 25 users a month.
Small nonprofits or groups that have a few repeat donors and don’t need comprehensive tools or integrations with outside CRM.
Donately offers fundraising tools for any size nonprofit to manage donations with ease.
Their free plan comes with a 4% platform fee. The paid plans start at $15/month.
Nonprofits that need basic donor and donation management to understand their donor data.
We’ve presented you with 10 of the best free donation management software choices currently on the market. These tools all have one important goal: to make your life as a nonprofit fundraiser easier.
No more grumbling over spreadsheets and old-school donation management! It’s time to move into the future with streamlined tools and fascinating data that can help you sharpen your fundraising strategy.
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Along with helping you manage your donations, Donorbox also ensures that your fundraising efforts are boosted with powerful features like Recurring Donations, Text-to-Give, Crowdfunding, Peer-to-Peer, QuickDonate, Events, Memberships, and more. Sign up for free to get started now!
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Lindsey spent years wearing many hats in the nonprofit world. Whether she was helping arts nonprofits with their messaging and content, planning a fundraising gala, writing an NEA grant proposal, or running a membership program with over 400 members, she learned how to navigate – and appreciate! – the fast-paced world of fundraising. Now, she loves sharing those hard-earned lessons with the Donorbox community.
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