Donor management for nonprofits that close their books on time.
DonorForge is the system of record for organizations that take stewardship seriously. Donors, donations, recurring gifts, pledges, grants, campaigns, and bookkeeping reconciliation. One ledger, one truth.
The product is built around three premises. First, every dollar should land in a row an auditor would recognize: dated, attributed, fund-tagged, reconciled. Second, the donor record is a relationship, not a transaction. Households roll up. Yahrzeits, life events, and giving anniversaries become reasons to write, not reports to file. Third, the work should be visible to a board on a single page at quarter-end, without an analyst to assemble it.
The result is a CRM that feels closer to a printed ledger than to a SaaS dashboard. Numbers are exact. Empty states explain the next step. Pledges remind themselves. Year-end statements take an afternoon, not a week.
This is what a record looks like in the product. Tabular numerals, fund codes, margin notes, no chrome.
Run your own →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.
1 users
For professional fundraising organizations.
5 users
Unlimited scale with dedicated support and custom integrations.
Unlimited users
14-day free trial. Secure payments. PCI Service Provider Level 1 processor. Cancel anytime.
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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