For small nonprofits (under ~$2M budget)
A donor & volunteer CRM at a flat price. Unlimited records. Yes, really.
Stop choosing between spreadsheets, the Salesforce install nobody finished configuring, and donor CRMs that charge you more every time your mailing list grows. Donorbase is contacts, gifts, receipts and volunteer shifts — $39/mo, flat, forever.
Sound familiar?
“The functionality is impressively limited.”— r/nonprofit, on a $119–299/mo donor CRM
“We sunk $3k into Salesforce and it’s still not set up two years later.”— r/nonprofit
“Is my one-man-band data situation normal?”— r/nonprofit
Small nonprofits are paying $1,400–$3,600 a year for CRMs priced by record count — a tax on growing your donor list. A 65-comment shopping thread in r/nonprofit found no good answer.
What Donorbase does
Donors, gifts & households
Clean donor records with giving history, household linking, and notes your successor will actually understand.
Year-end receipts in one click
IRS-compliant annual giving statements generated and emailed in a batch. January stops being awful.
Volunteer shifts that recur
Recurring shift schedules with automatic reminder emails — the museum-with-400-volunteers problem, solved.
CSV import from anything
Bring your spreadsheet, your Bloomerang export, your half-dead Salesforce. Mapped imports, no consultant.
Reports a board understands
Giving by month, donor retention, top donors, lapsed donors — one page each, exportable.
Honest pricing, decided up front
Waitlist members can reserve founder pricing: $29/mo — locked in for as long as you stay subscribed. That's $10/mo off, forever, for backing this before it exists.
No card required to reserve. No per-seat surprises later. If Donorbase doesn't launch, you've spent nothing and you'll get a straight answer about why.
You're on the list. One more thing —
Want to reserve founder pricing ($29/mo instead of $39/mo, locked for life)? It costs nothing now and just tells me you'd genuinely pay — which decides what gets built first.
You're in. Thank you.
I'll only email you with real progress or a launch date. If you have opinions about what Donorbase must get right, reply to the confirmation — I read everything.
Who's building this?
I'm Aaron — a solo developer. I found thread after thread of people describing this exact problem, and I'd rather prove demand honestly (this page) than build in a vacuum. Toolshed Software's whole model: small tools, flat prices, no per-seat games, no venture pressure to raise prices on you later.
Fair questions
- Is this a real product?
- It's in active development. This waitlist decides what ships first — enough interest and Donorbase gets finished and launched; not enough and I'll email you an honest "it's not happening" instead of pretending. Your signup is the vote.
- What will it cost at launch?
- $39 per month, flat — unlimited records & users — the price is on this page because hiding pricing until launch is how you end up with HoneyBook math. Founder reservations keep $29/mo for life.
- What happens to my email?
- It sits in a database with a timestamp and where you came from. You'll get at most a handful of progress emails and one launch email. No sharing, no selling, one-click unsubscribe.