Disclosure

Nonprofit Software Guide is a free, independent publication. Some of the links on this site are affiliate links. If you click one and later start a paid plan with that vendor, the vendor pays this site a commission. You pay nothing extra, and in some cases you pay less: where a vendor offers a reader discount through our link, we note it next to the link.

What that means in practice

• Links that route through this site's tracking (our /go/ links) may earn a commission.
• Affiliate relationships never decide a recommendation. Tools that pay us nothing are recommended by name throughout the site where they are the right answer, including Zeffy for zero-fee processing, Little Green Light and Eleo on the strictest budgets, and free library access to Candid for grant research.
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Our relationship with vendors

We want the software companies we cover to succeed. Good fundraising software makes nonprofits more effective, and the best way to evaluate any tool on this site is to take the vendor up on a demo or free trial and test it against your own data. When we recommend booking a demo, that is the recommendation: see it yourself before you decide.

Our other commercial interest

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