A CRM for nonprofits
Track donors, volunteers, and grants in a CRM that's flat-priced, never per seat, cloud or self-hosted. No AI you do not need, and your supporter data stays under your control.
The daily friction.
- Per-seat pricing is brutal on a fixed budget when staff, board members, and volunteers all need access.
- Per-seat and creeping license fees compete every year with program spending that should go to the mission.
- Your donor and supporter data is sensitive and ought to live on infrastructure you control, not a vendor's cloud.
How nonprofits run it day to day.
Track donors and giving history
Keep a record for each donor with gift history and contact notes, so renewal and thank-you outreach starts from real context.
Coordinate volunteers
Maintain volunteer records with skills and availability, and track who is signed up for which event or program.
Manage a grant pipeline
Move grant opportunities through stages (researching, applied, awarded, reporting) with deadlines and notes on each.
Segment outreach without extra fees
Tag supporters by program, campaign, or giving level so appeals reach the right people, with every staff member added at no per-seat cost.
Then bend it to exactly how you work.
The role setup is a head start, not a cage. Rename pipeline stages, add the fields your team actually fills in, build the views you check every morning, and wire up automations for the busywork. You own the source, so nothing is off-limits.
- Custom fields and record types
- Rename or add pipeline stages
- Saved views, filters, and automations
Questions, answered.
- No. It's flat-priced, cloud or self-hosted, and lets you add staff, board members, and volunteer coordinators without any per-seat charge.
- It's flat and never creeps with headcount. Cloud is $29/month (or $290/year). Prefer to own the source outright? A one-time $399 license means the cost never comes back at all.
- Yes. Self-host it and donor and supporter records live in your own Postgres database on infrastructure you control. Prefer the cloud plan? It's still your data, hosted for you, never sold or shared.
- Nanobox has none by design. You avoid both the markup and the concern of a model touching sensitive supporter data, and you keep full control.
Do we pay per staff member or board member?
How does Nanobox's pricing help a fixed budget?
Is our donor data kept private and under our control?
Do we need the AI features other nonprofit CRMs push?
Per-seat pricing punishes mission budgets
Nonprofits run on fixed, hard-won budgets, and they have an unusually wide circle of people who need access to the same records: program staff, a development director, board members who want visibility, and the volunteer coordinators running events. A per-seat CRM turns that breadth into a problem: every board member or coordinator you add is another monthly charge competing with money that should go to the mission. Worse, per-seat costs come back and grow every single year as the org adds people, so a tool you budgeted for once never stops asking for more.
Nanobox is flat-priced with no per-seat fee: Cloud is $29/month (or $290/year), a predictable line item that never grows with headcount. Prefer to own the source outright? A one-time $399 license adds staff, board members, and volunteer coordinators alike for free, and the cost never returns at all. For an organization that has to justify every line item to a board, either option is an easy story to tell.
Donor data is a trust, so keep it under your control
The people in a nonprofit's database (donors, volunteers, grantors) have entrusted the organization with their information, often including giving history that's genuinely sensitive. Nanobox keeps all of it in a Postgres database that's yours, self-host it for full control, or let us run it in the cloud without handing it to anyone else, which makes the stewardship promise easy to honor. You keep donor records with full giving history for thoughtful renewal and thank-you outreach, volunteer records with skills and availability, and a grant pipeline that tracks each opportunity from research through reporting deadlines so nothing slips. Tag supporters by program, campaign, or giving level to segment appeals without paying for a marketing add-on.
There are deliberately no AI features, so there's no markup on a tight budget and no model touching sensitive supporter data, which is one less thing to explain to a cautious board. Cloud is a flat $29/month (or $290/year), never per seat, or self-host outright for a one-time $399 if your team wants to run it yourselves.
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The CRM your role deserves, free to start.
Start from a setup built for nonprofits and shape it to your workflow. Flat $29/mo, unlimited users, every module included. Or own the source and self-host from $399.