Your donor record is in one tool. The gift is in another. The pledge is in a third. None of them know about the others.
Fundraising is one job. Most nonprofits run it across five or six tools that don't know about each other. The donor record in one. The gift in another. The pledge in a third. The recurring card in a fourth. The dinner's card reader in a fifth. The bank deposit in QuickBooks. Saturday afternoon goes to reconciling all of it.
The cost is not the software bill. It's what slips between the tools. The donor whose recurring card expired and nobody noticed. The pledge that aged into "unrecoverable" because no one was chasing it. The dinner where the runner couldn't take a card because the reader wouldn't pair with a volunteer's phone. The thank-you that never went out because the gift came through the form, not the CRM. The board that doesn't trust the numbers because nobody can show how they tie.
DonorForge is one platform underneath all of it. Donor records with family relationships. One-time donations, recurring gifts, and pledges with auto-chased installments. Public campaign pages and team-fundraising sites. Grants from application to payout. Event ticketing and seat-by-seat reservations. Messaging, tasks, and donor pipelines with automations. Bookkeeping with Plaid bank reconciliation and board-ready reports. Tap-to-pay handheld terminals for the lobby, the dinner, and the door.
The premise is that fundraising is one job, not a stack of disconnected tools. The donor record, the gift, the campaign that produced it, the pledge it satisfied, the receipt that thanked them, the ledger entry that closed it — all live in one row, in one system, on one bill. Numbers are exact. Empty states explain the next step. Pledges remind themselves. Reports the board asks for are already built.
DonorForge is built for nonprofits with budgets between three hundred thousand and five million dollars a year. Each vertical gets the features the work actually requires.
Hebcal-aware yahrzeits, High Holiday seating, and pledges that bill the way a shul actually runs.
Annual fund, alumni cohorts, parent giving by current grade, and capital pyramids in one record.
Cash donors, in-kind donors, and volunteer hours on a single record. No triple thank-yous.
Sponsor-a-pet recurring giving, in-kind logging, and adoption-fee accounting.
Subscriber-to-donor cultivation, gala management, and patron moves your box office cannot draw.
A real free tier and a modern CRM for the two-person dev team running a million-dollar mission.
Start free. Keep your rate. Every paid plan includes a 14-day trial; early adopters keep the introductory rate when prices rise.
Three plans, three boundaries. The free tier is for orgs running lean on tooling. The middle tier carries the org through the growth years. The top tier adds dedicated support and custom integrations once you outgrow the rest.
For growing nonprofits managing active campaigns.
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For professional fundraising organizations.
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Unlimited scale with dedicated support and custom integrations.
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Every quote on this page is from a current customer, captured with their explicit permission, and dated. We refresh annually so what you read here is what they would say today.
We spent two months evaluating Bloomerang and Little Green Light before someone in our regional shul listserv mentioned DonorForge. The High Holiday seating tool alone would have justified the switch. Pledge tracking with bill-pay reminders has cut our outstanding pledge balance by about 40% since June.
Our previous setup was PayPal donations, a Mailchimp list, and a Google Sheet. We migrated to DonorForge in a single weekend. Sponsor-a-pet recurring donations are up 3x because the donor self-management portal works the way donors actually expect.
Year-end statements used to take our bookkeeper a full week of CSV juggling between the giving platform and QuickBooks. With DonorForge it took two hours, including the family rollups for HHD pledges. We will not be going back.
Three previous CRMs tried to sell us "alumni cohorts" as an add-on module. DonorForge ships it on the entry plan. Our parent-giving rollups by current grade now match what our development chair has been hand-building in a spreadsheet for six years.
We juggle three audiences: monetary donors, in-kind donors, and volunteers. The same grocery store used to get three thank-you letters from three different staff members. Putting them all on one record cleaned that up the first week.
Our box office could never tell us which subscribers were also donors. DonorForge stitched the records together on import and surfaced about 60 high-value patrons we had been treating as just ticket buyers. Two of them have since written four-figure checks.
I am a one-person development team. The legacy CRMs all seemed designed for a five-person office. DonorForge is the first system that did not assume I had a data administrator on staff. I set it up in an afternoon.
If you have read this far, you already know whether the work you do calls for a system like this.
Most CRM evaluations end the same way: the team picks the best of a tired field, signs a year-long contract, and quietly resents the choice for the next eleven months. We built DonorForge so that conversation can go differently. Sign up free. Run a real campaign. If it does not earn its place by month two, leave. Your data exports cleanly.
We will not run a four-week sales cycle. We will not require a discovery call. The trial is a real trial: every paid feature, fourteen days, no card. The free tier after that is genuinely free and will stay free for organizations that fit it.
Yours,
Daniel Ortega
Founder, DonorForge
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