What is Givebutter? 🤩

Givebutter is the #1 rated, all-in-one nonprofit fundraising platform that helps changemakers raise more, pay less, and give better.

Instead of juggling multiple outdated, expensive tools, Givebutter brings together all of the fundraising, marketing, and donor management features you need under one roof. Even butter — thanks to optional donor tips, Givebutter’s core fundraising features are free!

Raise more with top-rated fundraising tools 💰

Givebutter’s free fundraising tools make giving easy, free, and fun for you and your supporters.

Browse Givebutter’s campaign options and set up modern, easily embeddable donation forms and website widgets that your supporters will love. You can also create engaging fundraising pages, events, and auctions with ease.
Add your logo and brand color to all your forms, pages, and events, so your supporters know they’ve landed in the right place to support your cause.
Tell your story, set fundraising goals, and engage your donors with a social media-style supporter wall on any fundraising page or event.
Seamlessly sell tickets, accept donations, and check in attendees at in-person events with Givebutter’s free mobile app. Then, wow your audience and bring in more donations on the spot with live display, text-to-donate, and scan-to-donate features.
Reach a broader audience through hybrid and virtual events with seamless livestreaming.
Take your campaigns to the next level by enabling peer-to-peer and team fundraising.
Allow your donors to give securely using their preferred payment method, choosing from a wide variety of convenient methods such as Venmo, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal, ACH, debit/credit cards, donor-advised funds, and more.
Create sustainable and predictable revenue for your cause with monthly, quarterly, and annual recurring donations.

Track your progress with a built-in, free nonprofit CRM 📚

With Givebutter, all your supporter data can be streamlined in one place. Givebutter offers unlimited contacts, email logging, data cleansing, de-duplication, tagging, custom fields, timelines, stats, segments, and more.

Access any supporter’s information and history in an instant using their contact profile.
Manage all your online and offline donations, as well as any necessary changes, in one place.
Manage all your in-person, virtual, and hybrid event tickets with our easy-to-use tools.
Take meaningful actions based on each supporter’s unique history with your organization.
Filter, sort, search, segment, and export all your data to get the results and reports you need.
Keep your data clean and organized using our data validation and de-duplication tools.
Import contacts, transactions, and recurring donors from other systems (or start from scratch).
Enjoy peace of mind knowing contacts are automatically created and their timelines updated based on activities such as donations, ticket purchases, and communications.

Take your donor stewardship to new heights ✉️

If you've ever struggled to send targeted messages to your supporters based on their donation history, then you will love Givebutter’s free donor engagement and marketing tools:

Send unlimited personalized emails and campaign updates using Canva right inside our message editor.
Prepare, personalize, and send direct mail campaigns straight to donor mailboxes (*Note that creating and printing your letters and labels is 100% free, but there is a flat-rate fee if you’d like us to handle printing, posting, and sending.).
Use custom tags, smart segments, merge fields, and more to personalize your messages with ease.
Let our automations send custom donation receipts, event tickets, event reminders, “support my cause” reminders, and more.
Measure open, bounce, and unsubscribe rates to improve your messages over time.

Is it really free? 🤑

Yes! Givebutter’s core fundraising, marketing, and CRM features are free to use.

Givebutter’s core features are free thanks to 100% optional tips we receive from donors. If (and only if) you prefer to hide donor tips at checkout, a small platform fee applies instead based on the campaign type you’re using:

1% for donation forms
3% for fundraising pages
5% for events and auctions

Additionally, all online pledge transactions made through Givebutter have a 1.5% platform fee applied.

What about processing fees? 💳

All digital transactions on Givebutter incur a standard payment processing fee. This fee is charged by our secure payment processors and allows funds to be deposited securely into your account, regardless of the payment method your donors choose.

2.9% + 30¢ for all debit/credit card and digital wallet transactions (Venmo, Apple Pay, etc.)
1.9% + 30¢ for verified nonprofits accepting ACH payments
Offline donations are not charged any processing fees

More than 95% of donors on Givebutter cover fees when asked, resulting in an average campaign fee of less than 1%. Learn more about Givebutter pricing →