Who it’s for
Nonprofits with a story to tell and a small team to tell it
Donorframe is for organizations that need their website to do real work (take gifts, sell tickets, run a store) and would rather have it set up and looked after than assemble it from parts.
A good fit
You’ll recognize yourself in one of these
Story-driven causes
A family foundation, a memorial fund, a cause with a name and a face. Your homepage should lead with why, then make it effortless to give. Impact numbers, testimonials, and a donation form that respects the story it sits beside.
Service-driven organizations
A food bank, a shelter, a community clinic. Visitors arrive needing hours, locations, and what to bring. The same blocks arrange themselves around what’s needed this week, with giving one step away rather than in the way.
Event-heavy calendars
A gala, a 5K, a monthly volunteer night. Ticket tiers, RSVPs with a waitlist, fundraisers with a goal, and check-in on the day, on your own domain, with the money going to your own account.
Built for the person who does everything
Most nonprofits don’t have a web person. They have a development director who is also the events lead who is also the one who answers the inbox. Donorframe is arranged for that person: one login, plain language, and nothing that requires a developer to change.
- Edit pages and post events without touching code
- Give a volunteer editor access without giving them the finances
- Refund a ticket or a gift from the same screen you see it on
What it looks like
Set up around one organization at a time
As an example: a family-founded nonprofit like Willowbrook Family Fund gets a site (pages, events, giving, and a small store) arranged around how the organization actually works, not a template it's left to configure alone. That's the level of setup every organization on Donorframe gets.
Donorframe is new, and deliberately so: organizations are taken on one at a time rather than rushed through to scale before the platform is ready. What that gets you: every gift and ticket lands in your own Stripe account from day one (the same non-custodial architecture larger platforms use), an audit trail of every change, and direct access to the engineers who built the platform, not a support queue.
Who it isn’t for, yet
- Organizations that need self-serve signup and a published price list today. Onboarding is personal, and pricing is worked out in conversation while we are this early.
- Large institutions with an existing CRM they need deeply integrated. Donorframe keeps its own donor records; it does not yet sync with Salesforce, Blackbaud, or similar.
- Peer-to-peer or team fundraising campaigns. Fundraisers on Donorframe belong to the organization, not to individual fundraisers.
- Stores that must collect sales tax automatically. Merch is designed for the occasional t-shirt run, and tax collection is the organization’s responsibility for now.
If one of those is you, get in touch anyway: it helps us know what to build next, and we will tell you plainly whether Donorframe fits.
Questions
Questions about fit
Is Donorframe built for organizations with a dedicated web team, or small ones without?
Small teams: the development director who's also the events lead who's also the one who answers the inbox. One login, plain language, and nothing that requires a developer to change.
Is there a minimum size to work with Donorframe?
There isn't a published minimum. Organizations are taken on one at a time based on fit, not size. If you're not sure, get in touch and we'll say plainly whether it's a good match.
We already use a CRM like Salesforce or Blackbaud. Does Donorframe work with it?
Not yet. Donorframe keeps its own donor records and doesn't sync with Salesforce, Blackbaud, or similar CRMs today.
Can individual supporters run their own fundraising campaigns on our site?
Not currently. Fundraisers on Donorframe belong to the organization, not to individual fundraisers, so it isn't built for peer-to-peer or team fundraising.