Nonprofits · ranked shortlist
Best Nonprofits software in 2026
20 approved nonprofits listings, ordered by published rating with the method stated below rather than assumed.
- Tools ranked
- 20
- Entry price range
- $1-$300
- Publish a $0 plan
- 10 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 nonprofits 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 nonprofits 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 $40 a month, with no free plan.
- 4 published tiers, topping out at $242.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 4 tiers
- Tags
- donor-management, crm, nonprofit, Cloud-Based
- #4
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
- #5
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
- #6
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
- #7
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
- #8
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
- #9
Donorbox
Online fundraising platform for nonprofits
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $150 a month.
- Billing
- freemium
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- Tags
- online-giving, fundraising-platform, nonprofit, payment-processing
- #10
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
- #11
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
- #12
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
- #13
Funraise
Nonprofit fundraising and donor management with revenue-based free tier
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Free, no paid tier is published at all.
- Its top tier is unpriced and sold by quote.
- Billing
- freemium
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- #14
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
- #15
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
- #16
Givebutter
Free nonprofit fundraising with donor management and campaign tools
- No rating on record, so it ranks below everything that has one.
- Publishes a $0 plan, with paid tiers from $29 a month.
- Billing
- freemium
- Published tiers
- 2 tiers
- #17
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.
- 3 published tiers, topping out at $599.
- Billing
- subscription
- Published tiers
- 3 tiers
- Tags
- online-giving, wordpress, nonprofit, donation-management
- #18
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
- #19
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
- #20B
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
What nonprofits 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 16 priced
- Dearest entry price
- $300Classy
- Publish a $0 plan
- 10of 20
Paid nonprofits plans in this set start anywhere from $1 a month for Canva for Nonprofits to $300 for Classy. The median entry price across the 16 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 GiveWP's at $599 a month, 2× 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.
10 of 20 publish a $0 plan, and 3 of those charge nothing at all. 9 tools have no free tier of any kind.
2 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.
How these vendors bill
The billing model each of the 20 nonprofits listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.
- subscription
- 12
- freemium
- 4
- free
- 2
Separately, 2 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 19 nonprofits 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 , 4 of 19
- Donor database , 3 of 19
- Donor management , 3 of 19
- Prospect research , 3 of 19
- Advanced features , 2 of 19
Named by fewer
- Automation , 2 of 19
- Custom reporting , 2 of 19
- Custom reports , 2 of 19
- Email campaigns , 2 of 19
- Event management , 2 of 19
Named by exactly one vendor: Access for verified 501(c)(3) nonprofits, Auctions and email campaigns, Currency switching, Drive, Google Workspace, SMS messaging and text-to-give. Those are differentiators rather than table stakes.
What “Nonprofits” 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
10 of 20 nonprofits 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.
Check which tier you actually land on
2 of 20 tools here publish three or more tiers, and the median vendor in this category ships 2 of them. The advertised price is the first rung, and the things teams tend to need, advanced analytics, donor database, donor management, are named in higher plans far more often than in entry ones. Price your shortlist at the tier that contains what you need, not at the tier on the pricing page's left edge.
The billing model matters more than the headline number
This category splits across 3 billing models: subscription on 12 listings, freemium on 4, 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.
Compare nonprofits tools directly
Every pairing below is a full comparison: the same checklist applied to both, so a gap in one is a gap in the other.
- Apptio Monetize vs Blackbaud Raiser's Edge
- Blackbaud Raiser's Edge vs Bloomerang
- Bloomerang vs Canva for Nonprofits
- Canva for Nonprofits vs Cause IQ
- Cause IQ vs Charity Navigator
- Charity Navigator vs Classy
- Classy vs Constant Contact
- Constant Contact vs Donorbox
Go straight to the numbers
- Apptio Monetizepricingalternatives
- Blackbaud Raiser's Edgepricingalternatives
- Bloomerangpricingalternatives
- Canva for Nonprofitspricingalternatives
- Cause IQpricingalternatives
- Charity Navigatorpricingalternatives
Questions people ask about nonprofits software
Answered from the listings on this page, and nowhere else.
- How is this nonprofits ranking decided?
- Mechanically. The 20 approved nonprofits 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.
- How much does nonprofits software cost?
- Across the 20 nonprofits 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 $599 a month (GiveWP). 10 of 20 also publish a $0 plan.
- What is the cheapest nonprofits 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 nonprofits software?
- Yes, 10 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 nonprofits software have?
- Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are advanced analytics (4 of 19 tools that publish plan detail), donor database (3) and donor management (3). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as access for verified 501(c)(3) nonprofits or auctions and email campaigns, 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 nonprofits software usually billed?
- subscription (12), freemium (4), 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. 2 of 20 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.
- What does nonprofits 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 nonprofits may overlap on very little.
- How many pricing tiers do nonprofits tools offer?
- 19 of 20 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 2 tiers. 2 of 20 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.
- How many nonprofits tools are listed on Softwr?
- 20 approved nonprofits listings appear on this page, including Apptio Monetize, Blackbaud Raiser's Edge, Bloomerang, Canva for Nonprofits. 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/nonprofits, which ranks the same set by published rating.
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