DonorForge is a modern donor CRM for nonprofits that have outgrown spreadsheets but find enterprise CRMs too complex and too expensive. It is built by people who have sat on the other side of the desk.
Fundraising is one job. Most nonprofits run it across five or six tools that do not 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 bank deposit in QuickBooks. What slips between those tools is the cost — the expired recurring card nobody noticed, the pledge that aged into "unrecoverable," the thank-you that never went out.
DonorForge is one platform underneath all of it: donor records, one-time and recurring gifts, pledges with auto-chased installments, public campaign and team pages, grants from application to payout, event ticketing and seating, bookkeeping with bank reconciliation, and board-ready reports. We built it for organizations with budgets roughly between three hundred thousand and five million dollars a year, who deserve a real CRM without the legacy price tag.
Founder
Writes about product strategy
Daniel started DonorForge after watching too many small nonprofits run on spreadsheets and overpriced enterprise CRMs in equal measure. He writes about product strategy and where donor management software earns or loses an organization’s trust.
Director of Customer Success
Writes about fundraising operations
Yehuda spent five years running development at a mid-Atlantic synagogue before joining DonorForge. He writes about the operational side of fundraising: pledges, recurring giving, and year-end statements that actually reconcile.
Editorial Lead
Writes about retention & cultivation
Noah was a major-gifts officer at a 600-student day school before joining DonorForge. He writes about retention math and donor cultivation — the difference between a first gift and a fifth one.
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