Nonprofit & Fundraising · ranked shortlist
Best Nonprofit & Fundraising software for Small Practices in 2026
20 approved nonprofit & fundraising listings, ordered by published rating with the method stated below rather than assumed. Small practices buy once and keep it for years, so the ceiling of the price ladder matters as much as the rung you start on.
- Tools ranked
- 20
- Entry price range
- $1-$300
- Publish a $0 plan
- 8 of 20
How this ranking is derived
The sort key
Published rating, highest first. Ties break on the number of ratings behind the score, then on product name so the order never depends on what the API happened to return first. That is the whole rule, there is no weighting, no score of our own, and nothing paid: no sponsored slot runs on these pages.
Where the ratings come from
No listing in this set carries a rating, so the order falls back to name. Those scores are aggregated from public sources rather than collected here, Softwr hosts no reviews of its own, which is also why no rating on this page is marked up as ours in structured data.
What the pool is
Approved nonprofit & fundraising listings, capped at 20 per page; 20 came back for this one. It is not the whole market, and a tool being absent means we hold no record of it rather than that it failed a test. The unranked full set is on the nonprofit & fundraising category page.
The ranking
Each entry lists why it sits where it sits, drawn from its own published rating and pricing.
- #1
Apptio Monetize
Highest rated hereCloud-based fundraising and grant management
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $120 a month.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- fundraising-platform, grant-management, nonprofit, analytics
- #2
Blackbaud Raiser's Edge
Enterprise-grade donor management system
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $200 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $500.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- donor-management, crm, nonprofit, Enterprise
- #3
Bloomerang
Donor relationship management for nonprofits
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $60 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $150.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- donor-management, crm, nonprofit, Cloud-Based
- #4B
Bloomerang Volunteer
Volunteer management for nonprofits
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $75 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $125.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- volunteer-management, nonprofit, community-engagement, bloomerang
- #5
Canva for Nonprofits
Design tool for nonprofit marketing
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $1 a month.
- Billing
- freemium
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- design, marketing, nonprofit, communications
- #6
Cause IQ
Integrated fundraising and CRM platform
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $95 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $200.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- crm, fundraising-platform, nonprofit, event-management
- #7
Charity Navigator
Nonprofit intelligence and rating platform
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Billing
- free
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- nonprofit-intelligence, ratings, fundraising, Free
- #8
Classy
Platform for modern nonprofit fundraising
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $300 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- Model not published
- Tags
- fundraising-platform, online-giving, nonprofit, peer-to-peer
- #9
Constant Contact
Email marketing and event management
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $45 a month.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- email-marketing, crm, nonprofit, event-management
- #10
Donorbox
Online fundraising platform for nonprofits
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Billing
- freemium
- Tags
- online-giving, fundraising-platform, nonprofit, payment-processing
- #11
DonorPerfect
Comprehensive donor management software
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $80 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $175.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- donor-management, crm, nonprofit, accounting
- #12
EveryAction
Integrated CRM and digital marketing for nonprofits
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $90 a month.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- crm, digital-marketing, nonprofit, fundraising
- #13
Facebook Fundraisers
Integrated fundraising on Facebook
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- Model not published
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- social-fundraising, online-giving, nonprofit, Free
- #14F
Funraise
Nonprofit fundraising and donor management with revenue-based free tier
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Billing
- freemium
- #15
Galaxy Digital
Digital marketing platform for nonprofits
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $99 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $299.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- digital-marketing, email-marketing, social-media, nonprofit
- #16
Get Connected
Volunteer management and community engagement
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $80 a month, with no free plan.
- 2 published tiers, topping out at $160.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- volunteer-management, nonprofit, community-engagement, scheduling
- #17G
Givebutter
Free nonprofit fundraising with donor management and campaign tools
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Billing
- subscription
- #18
GiveWP
WordPress donation plugin for nonprofits
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Paid from $199 a month, with no free plan.
- Billing
- subscription
- Tags
- online-giving, wordpress, nonprofit, donation-management
- #19
Google Nonprofit Tools
Free Google tools for nonprofits
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Billing
- free
- Published tiers
- 1 tier
- Tags
- productivity, marketing, nonprofit, Free
- #20
GuideStar
Nonprofit profile and intelligence platform
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $300 a month.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- nonprofit-intelligence, profile-management, fundraising, transparency
What nonprofit & fundraising software costs
Counted from the published pricing of the 20 listings on this page. A tool counts as free only where it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence or a starting price of zero.
- Cheapest paid plan
- $1Canva for Nonprofits
- Median entry price
- $92.50across 14 priced
- Dearest entry price
- $300Classy
- Publish a $0 plan
- 8of 20
Paid nonprofit & fundraising plans in this set start anywhere from $1 a month for Canva for Nonprofits to $300 for Classy. The median entry price across the 14 tools that publish one is $92.50, half of them start below that figure and half above it.
Entry price is not the ceiling. The dearest published tier anywhere in this category is Blackbaud Raiser's Edge's at $500 a month, 1.7× the highest entry price on the page. Read the top of each ladder as well as the bottom, because that is where you land after two years of growth.
8 of 20 publish a $0 plan, and 3 of those charge nothing at all. 9 tools have no free tier of any kind.
1 of 20 keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote, which in practice means the number you end up paying at the top end is not on this page or on theirs.
Canva for Nonprofits pricingClassy pricingBlackbaud Raiser's Edge plans
How these vendors bill
The billing model each of the 20 nonprofit & fundraising listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.
- subscription
- 13
- freemium
- 3
- free
- 2
Separately, 1 of 20 publish at least one tier with no price attached. Those are sold by quote, so the top of the ladder is negotiable, and unknowable, until you talk to sales.
What comes as standard, and what you pay extra for
Every capability named in a published pricing tier by any of the 15 nonprofit & fundraising tools here that break their plans down, counted once per vendor. This measures what vendors choose to advertise as a selling point, not everything the software does, an absence below is silence, not a missing feature.
Named most often
- Advanced analytics , 5 of 15
- Donor management , 3 of 15
- Mobile app , 3 of 15
- Prospect research , 3 of 15
- Advanced features , 2 of 15
Named by fewer
- Automation , 2 of 15
- Custom reporting , 2 of 15
- Donor database , 2 of 15
- Email marketing , 2 of 15
- Event management , 2 of 15
Named by exactly one vendor: Access for verified 501(c)(3) nonprofits, Basic donor database, Campaign management, Donor verification, Gmail, Premium templates. Those are differentiators rather than table stakes.
What “Nonprofit & Fundraising” covers in practice
The subject tags that recur across these 20 listings, with the number of tools carrying each. A category label is a filing decision; this is the closer read of what is actually filed under it.
- nonprofit16
- crm6
- Free4
- fundraising4
- fundraising-platform4
- online-giving4
- donor-management3
- Enterprise3
- community-engagement2
- digital-marketing2
- email-marketing2
- event-management2
Carried by a single tool: accounting, automation, communications, google, integrated, multi-channel, peer-to-peer, profile-management. If one of those is the reason you are here, the category page is the wrong lens, go straight to that product.
How to choose between them
Four things the numbers above should change about your shortlist.
Start with the free tiers if there are enough of them
8 of 20 nonprofit & fundraising tools here publish a $0 plan, which is enough to run a real trial without a purchase order. A free tier is worth more than a free trial when you are evaluating: a trial expires on the vendor's schedule, a free plan expires when you outgrow it. The thing to check before you commit is which of the capabilities below sit above the free line, starting with advanced analytics, the single most frequently named capability in this category's published tiers.
Read the spread before you read the features
$1 to $300 is a $299 spread on entry price alone, and a spread that wide is never about polish, it is about who the vendor built for. Tools at the bottom of this ladder are priced for one person or a small team; tools near $300 are priced for a department with a procurement process. Decide which of those you are before you compare capability, or you will shortlist four tools that were never competing for the same buyer.
The billing model matters more than the headline number
This category splits across 3 billing models: subscription on 13 listings, freemium on 3, and 1 other arrangement across the rest. A per-user price and a flat subscription at the same headline figure are not the same purchase, the first one grows with headcount and the second does not. Multiply by your real team size before you compare two numbers side by side.
Questions people ask about nonprofit & fundraising software
Answered from the listings on this page, and nowhere else.
- How is this nonprofit & fundraising ranking decided?
- Mechanically. The 20 approved nonprofit & fundraising listings on this page are sorted by their published rating, highest first, with the number of ratings behind each score as the tie-break and the product name as a final tie-break so the order is stable. Those ratings are aggregated from public sources, not collected from Softwr readers, this site hosts no reviews, so the order is a summary of what is already published elsewhere, not a verdict of our own. Nothing on this page is paid placement.
- Is this list re-ordered for small practices?
- No, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. The catalogue records no data about which team sizes or roles each tool suits, so the ranking is the same published-rating order as the unsegmented list. What the small practices framing changes is which of the figures below matter most. Small practices buy once and keep it for years, so the ceiling of the price ladder matters as much as the rung you start on.
- How much does nonprofit & fundraising software cost?
- Across the 20 nonprofit & fundraising tools listed here, paid plans start between $1 and $300 a month, with a median entry price of $92.50. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $500 a month (Blackbaud Raiser's Edge). 8 of 20 also publish a $0 plan.
- What is the cheapest nonprofit & fundraising software?
- 3 of the 20 tools listed here cost nothing at all. Among the ones that charge, Canva for Nonprofits has the lowest published entry price at $1 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.
- Is there free nonprofit & fundraising software?
- Yes, 8 of 20 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. 3 of them are free outright, with no paid tier above. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.
- What features should nonprofit & fundraising software have?
- Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are advanced analytics (5 of 15 tools that publish plan detail), donor management (3) and mobile app (3). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as access for verified 501(c)(3) nonprofits or basic donor database, is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.
- How is nonprofit & fundraising software usually billed?
- subscription (13), freemium (3), free (2), counted across the 20 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not. 1 of 20 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.
- What does nonprofit & fundraising software actually cover?
- The 20 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are nonprofit (16), crm (6), free (4), fundraising (4), fundraising-platform (4). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under nonprofit & fundraising may overlap on very little.
- How many nonprofit & fundraising tools are listed on Softwr?
- 20 approved nonprofit & fundraising listings appear on this page, including Apptio Monetize, Blackbaud Raiser's Edge, Bloomerang, Bloomerang Volunteer. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/nonprofit-fundraising, which ranks the same set by published rating.
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