A donor, volunteer, grant, and impact engineering practice. PCI-aware donation flows, WCAG 2.2 & Section 508-aware accessibility, and reporting your funders actually accept. Shipped from NY + Delhi on a six-week cadence.
We build eight shapes of nonprofit software, and each one is an operational system your staff lives in daily, not a brochure with a donate button. You already know where nonprofit software fails. The donation form loses a recurring giver at the card step. The volunteer roster lives in four spreadsheets. The grant report eats two weeks of program-staff time. These eight builds cover most of what nonprofit teams bring us.
Donor records, giving history, pledges, and segmentation in one system of record. Tax acknowledgments go out the moment a gift settles, not batched in January.
Give development one source of truth →Shift scheduling, hour logging, background-check status, and a self-serve portal volunteers actually use. Your coordinators run programs, not sign-up sheets.
Cut coordinator admin hours →Every grant's deadlines, budget lines, deliverables, and reporting requirements in one workflow. The audit trail makes renewals easy instead of archaeological.
Stop losing grants to admin →Member accounts, dues billing, and gated resources on an accessible, mobile-first portal. Renewal becomes a card-on-file event, not a mail-merge campaign.
Make renewals self-serve →Campaign pages, peer-to-peer fundraising, and recurring giving on PCI-aware donation flows. Fewer fields, saved payment methods, instant receipts.
Raise more per visitor →Program outcomes, cost-per-outcome, and cohort views from live data. Board-ready and funder-ready, without rebuilding the same deck every quarter.
Show funders the numbers →Custom CRM builds that unify donors, volunteers, members, and program participants in one model. Built for relationships that don't fit an off-the-shelf schema.
Unify four contact lists into one →Registration, ticketing, attendance, and program delivery on web and mobile. Check-in works offline in a church basement or a disaster zone.
Run programs from a phone →We build accessibility and compliance into the architecture from day one. For a nonprofit, both are funding issues, not polish. An honest note first: certifications are statuses your organization earns from an auditor. No development partner can hand them to you.
What a partner does control is whether the architecture makes compliance cheap. For you that matters twice over. Many grants gate funding on accessibility. A donation form that mishandles card data is an existential risk, not a bug.
Card data never touches your servers. Hosted payment fields and tokenized flows keep your footprint at the smallest PCI SSC self-assessment scope a giving product allows.
We test color contrast, keyboard navigation, focus states, and screen-reader landmarks against the W3C WAI guidelines on every component. Not audited after launch, built in from the start.
Many federal grants and public contracts require Section 508 conformance. We build to that bar from day one, so accessibility review is a checkbox, not a blocker.
Donor and beneficiary data minimized, consent recorded, deletion workflows built in. Aligned with EU data-protection law for organizations with supporters abroad.
Acknowledgment letters, year-end giving summaries, and recurring-gift receipts go out automatically. Every template is referenced against IRS charitable-organization guidance.
Giving rails built against Stripe's documentation and PayPal Giving Fund. Recurring gifts, saved payment methods, and webhook-driven receipting, all on primary docs.
Four failure patterns show up in almost every nonprofit stack we inherit. Each has a structural fix, and each fix pays back in staff hours the same quarter it ships.
Long forms, no saved payment methods, a redirect to a page that looks nothing like your brand. We rebuild giving as a short, hosted-field flow with wallet payments and one-tap recurring upgrades. Call it checkout-grade conversion discipline, applied to generosity.
The same person is a donor in one spreadsheet, a volunteer in another, a gala attendee in a third. We model constituents once: one record, many roles. Development sees the whole relationship, and nobody gets three conflicting emails in a week.
When outcome data lives in intake forms, attendance sheets, and memory, every funder report is a two-week excavation. We wire data capture into daily workflows so the quarterly report becomes a filtered export. That pattern cut authoring time from 14 days to 2 in our Edmonton archetype.
An inaccessible portal fails the reviewer's check before your program is ever evaluated. Retrofitting contrast, keyboard paths, and screen-reader structure costs more than building them in. So every surface ships baselined to WCAG from the first component.
An MVP runs $30,000 to $80,000 over 10-16 weeks. That is the donor CRM, volunteer portal, or grant tracker that replaces the spreadsheets. Most nonprofit platforms are SaaS-shaped, so the honest ranges follow build stage. A multi-program platform with tenanting for chapters and observability runs $80,000 to $200,000 over 16-26 weeks. Federated organizations needing SSO, RBAC, and audit logs run $200,000 to $500,000. Enterprise NGO builds cross $500,000 to $1M+.
Most organizations who call us land in the first band. The biggest budget saver is build-vs-buy discipline: buy auth and billing, build only the workflow that is actually yours. The full stage-by-stage math lives in our SaaS development cost guide.
| stage | timeline | market range |
|---|---|---|
| MVP / single program | 10-16 weeks | $30K-$80K |
| Multi-program platform | 16-26 weeks | $80K-$200K |
| Federated / chapters | 24-40 weeks | $200K-$500K |
| Enterprise NGO | 32-52 weeks | $500K-$1M+ |
Every quote arrives in writing within 48 hours of the intro call, itemized by build shape. It is ready language for a board memo or grant budget line.
$70K to $340K ARR in 18 months.
Existing-customer expansion outpaced churn.
Submitted-RFP win rate, up from 7%.
Up from 32 post-rebuild.
It's the closest published pattern to nonprofit reality: an organization whose funding is gated by accessibility review and formal applications. The build ran fourteen weeks across five workstreams. A WCAG 2.1 AA rebuild eliminated procurement-stage accessibility blockers. Audit-trail surfaces gave reviewers something they could verify. And a pre-authored response library cut application authoring from 14 days to 2.
Swap "RFP" for "grant application" and the mechanics transfer directly. Read the full Edmonton gov-tech archetype. If your revenue engine is merch and store-based giving instead, that context lives on our nonprofit ecommerce page.
The cadence is the contract. Every build runs in six-week cycles with a demo every Friday. It is a rhythm boards and funders can be shown, not just promised.
A 30-minute call on your programs, funding model, and current tools. Written scope lands inside 48 hours: build shapes, timeline, fixed fee.
Weeks one to two: the constituent data model, giving and reporting flows, and a clickable prototype. Accessibility is baked into every component from the first screen.
Weeks two to five: senior engineers on a staging environment you can click from day three. Payment sandboxes wired early, receipt automation tested against real gift scenarios.
Week six: production cutover with data migrated from the old spreadsheets, staff trained, monitoring live, and a go-live checklist your team co-signs.
The next cycle is scoped from live data: donation conversion, volunteer retention, report-generation time. Not from a wishlist written before the platform existed.
Nonprofit budgets reward proven, low-maintenance primitives. We reach for typed languages, relational databases, and managed services with generous free tiers. Running cost stays a rounding error in your program budget.
115 people across two HQs and three satellites since 2017. The engineers on the call are the engineers on the build.
US mornings overlap Delhi evenings, so a blocker raised at your staff meeting is often resolved before the next one.
You see working software weekly, and so can your board. A slipping build has nowhere to hide by week two.
Our cost guides print real ranges before you book a call, and every scope arrives itemized in writing within 48 hours. Clutch 4.9, Upwork Top Rated Plus.
Our ERP and client portals run our own 115-person business daily. We know what software people depend on every morning has to feel like.
One nameable outcome, scoped and priced as a fixed fee: a donor CRM, a volunteer portal, a fundraising platform. Fits a board approval or a capacity-building grant.
A standing senior pod running successive six-week cycles. New features, accessibility upkeep, and reporting improvements are scoped from live platform data each cycle.
Senior engineers embedded alongside your team. You direct and we ship. We document everything so the knowledge stays when we leave.
Not sure which shape? Start from the stage math in the SaaS development cost guide. The ranges there map one-to-one onto these engagement shapes.
The stage-gated plan for going from written scope to live users without over-building. It is the discipline grant-funded budgets need most.
Building a color system that passes contrast requirements by construction. It is the foundation of accessibility-gated funding applications.
The honest math on hiring versus engaging a build partner, for teams where every salary line competes with program spend.
Nonprofit platforms follow SaaS cost stages. An MVP, meaning a donor CRM, volunteer portal, or grant tracker, runs $30,000 to $80,000 over 10-16 weeks. A multi-program platform runs $80,000 to $200,000. Federated organizations with chapters, SSO, and audit logs run $200,000 to $500,000. Enterprise NGO builds cross $500,000 to $1M+. Most organizations land in the first band. Every engagement starts with a written, itemized scope inside 48 hours.
A donation-flow rebuild or volunteer portal fits inside one six-week cycle. A full donor management or grant-tracking MVP runs 10-16 weeks, usually two cycles including data migration from your existing tools. Multi-program platforms run 16-40 weeks. The constant: a demo every Friday and a staging environment your staff can click from the first week of build.
Yes, and it is one of the main reasons nonprofits come to us. Many federal grants gate funding on WCAG or Section 508 conformance. A failed accessibility check ends the review before your program is evaluated. We build WCAG 2.2-aware and Section 508-aware from the first component: contrast, keyboard navigation, focus states, and screen-reader structure tested continuously. Formal conformance assessment remains your auditor's call. Our job is making it easy to pass.
Configure first, build second. We will tell you when custom is the wrong spend. Off-the-shelf donor tools work until your constituent model stops fitting their schema: one person as donor, volunteer, member, and participant; chapters with different workflows; outcome data no CRM field maps to. That is when custom pays for itself. Usually one workflow first, integrating with the tools that still work.
By architecture, not paperwork. Card entry lives in hosted payment fields from Stripe or PayPal, so raw card numbers never touch infrastructure you own. Your servers see tokens. That keeps you at the smallest PCI self-assessment footprint a giving product allows. The processors carry the certifications. Our job is keeping your side of the shared-responsibility line clean, with webhook-driven receipting and reconciliation.
Yes. Fixed-fee scopes are our default shape, and they are exactly what a grant budget line or board approval needs: a written number, an itemized deliverable list, and a timeline within 48 hours of the intro call. Larger platforms stage into phases that match funding cycles. The donor CRM this fiscal year, the impact dashboard next, without rework between phases.
Yes, with a defined handover either way. Launch includes monitoring, documentation, and staff training. Many organizations continue on a product retainer: six-week cycles scoped from live data like donation conversion and volunteer retention. Teams taking it in-house get documented architecture and a pairing transition window, so the platform doesn't depend on us to keep running.
Both, with different disciplines. For small organizations the danger is over-building: we scope to the one workflow that buys back the most staff hours and buy commodity layers instead of building them. For large NGOs the danger is under-architecting: chapters, roles, audit trails, and data residency have to be structural. Since 2017 we have shipped for 2,000+ brands across 55+ countries. The first job on every call is telling you which stage you are at.
A 30-minute call on your programs, funding model, and current tools. You leave knowing which build shape fits and what it costs. The written scope follows within 48 hours, board-memo ready.
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