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Best AI for non-profit and fundraising
Charities, foundations, associations and civil society organisations are increasingly expected to do more with fewer people and less money. AI takes over grant applications, donor communications and campaign creation, so staff and volunteers can focus their energy on the mission itself.
Professional tool with the strongest GDPR profile
CrowdinGDPR: Strong
CrowdinGDPR: Strong- Provider based in the EU
- Data in the EU according to the provider
- Publishes certification/GDPR safeguards
General model: the default choice
ClaudeGDPR: Strong
ClaudeGDPR: Strong- Editorial score 9.0 of 10
- Elo 1506
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Watch out in this field
Donor data is personal data under the GDPR; use only systems with a data processing agreement and preferably EU hosting. Automated donor profiling (wealth screening) can be sensitive: be transparent in your privacy policy. AI-written grant applications require human checking for accuracy and alignment with the organisation's identity.
All 26 options
Professional tools with the strongest published GDPR safeguards first, then general assistants by suitability.
26options, 14 field-specific
12free to try
2professional tools from NL or EU
6GDPR strong or good
Strong · 2Limited · 2Unknown · 10
#SolutionQualityQuality from blind duels on LMArena: users choose between two anonymous answers. A difference of about 20 points is noticeable, a few points is noise. How we measurePriceGDPROur summary of what the provider itself publishes about your data. For a professional tool: whether the data is held in the EU, whether there is a certification or GDPR guarantee, and whether the provider is based in the Netherlands or the EU. For a general model: EU hosting, no training on your data and self-hosting. From Strong to Unknown; Caution only applies to a model with a documented problem. How we measure
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Eudonet professional toolEudonet (FR, Courbevoie; also NL) · EUEuropean CRM platform for charities, fundraisers and associations, with AI-driven data analysis for donor trends and campaign effectiveness. Supports fundraising, membership administration, event management and marketing. More than 1,500 clients in six countries, including the Netherlands.own modelapprox. €250–400/month per organisationStrong2Crowdin professional toolCrowdin OÜ (Estonia, Europe) · EU · free to tryLocalisation platform with a generous free plan, popular with software projects, open source and non-profits. Texts come in automatically from your repository, translators (in-house team, community or agency) work online and translations flow back into the code. You connect AI translation and proofreading to your own model provider, so you keep control over where texts go.on 
free planStrong3
Salesforce Agentforce Nonprofit professional toolSalesforce, Inc. (San Francisco, US) · free to trySalesforce's non-profit platform (formerly Nonprofit Cloud) with four purpose-built AI agents: Prospect Research Agent, Participant Management Agent, Volunteer Capacity Agent and Donor Support Agent. Through the Power of Us Program, eligible non-profits receive 10 free licences.on Core $70/user/monthLimited4
Fundraise Up professional toolFundraise Up Inc. (Brooklyn, USA)AI-driven donation platform that optimises the suggested donation amounts for each donor in real time based on behaviour and context, converts one-off givers into regular donors and manages recurring gifts via SEPA. Supports iDEAL and SEPA Direct Debit for Dutch donors.own modelno subscription or setup costsLimited5
Grantable professional toolGrantable Inc. · free to tryAI-native platform for grant applications and grant management. Grantable combines funder discovery (based on IRS 990 data), AI writing assistance and application management in one platform for non-profits, grant professionals and research teams.own modelStarter $50/monthUnknown6
Bloomerang professional toolBloomerangAll-in-one non-profit software combining CRM, fundraising, volunteer management and AI-driven donor retention. Bloomerang's AI ('Penny') predicts donor risk, flags lapsing donors and suggests personalised follow-up actions. More than 23,000 non-profits use the platform.own modelon request (scalable on contact…Unknown7
Instrumentl professional toolInstrumentl Inc. · free to tryIntelligent grant operating system that combines 450,000+ funder profiles with AI-driven funder matching, proposal writing and post-award management. Over 5,500 non-profits use Instrumentl to manage grant research, applications and follow-up in one platform.own modelfrom $179/month (billed annually)Unknown8
DonorSearch professional toolDonorSearchLeading prospect research platform with more than 1 billion data points from 40+ sources. DonorSearch AI builds predictive models to forecast which donors are most likely to give, and integrates with 40+ CRM platforms.own modelon requestUnknown9
Virtuous professional toolVirtuous Software, Inc. (Phoenix, US)Responsive fundraising CRM for mid-sized non-profits ($500K–$5M revenue). Virtuous combines donor management, fundraising automation, AI-driven prospect identification and the Momentum AI module for personalised major gift communication.own modelon requestUnknown10
Zeffy professional toolZeffy · free to tryCompletely free fundraising platform for non-profits (100,000+ organisations). Zeffy handles donations, ticketing, raffles, auctions, memberships and peer-to-peer campaigns with no platform or transaction fees. Funded through voluntary contributions from donors.own model100% free for non-profitsUnknown11
Funraise professional toolFunraise · free to tryAll-in-one fundraising platform for non-profits with AppealAI: AI-generated donation appeals based on machine learning (timing, device, giving history). Funraise focuses on small organisations (<$1M revenue) and offers a free tier.own modelFree tier availableUnknown12
FundRobin professional toolFundRobin (London, UK)British AI platform for grant discovery and proposal writing for non-profits, universities and social enterprises. FundRobin matches organisations with 10,000+ funding opportunities and generates grant proposals in minutes.own modelGrowth £49/month (£470.40/year)Unknown13
Gravyty (Raise) professional toolGravytyAI platform for major gift fundraising at non-profits and higher education institutions. Gravyty's Raise product identifies top prospects, drafts personalised emails for major donors and manages dynamic fundraising portfolios. More than 2,750 institutions use the platform.own modelon requestUnknown14
Grant Assistant professional toolGrant Assistant (US)AI platform for non-profits with two modules: Discover for semantic search of grant opportunities (trained on 7,000+ winning applications) and Respond for drafting grant applications in your organisation's style. Primarily aimed at US grants; EU use is possible for writing assistance.own modelon request (demo required)Unknown15Claude generalAnthropicFamily of language models from Anthropic that excels at long documents, careful reasoning, coding and reliable, safe output.1506Elo$20 / monthStrong16ChatGPT generalOpenAIOpenAI's versatile, agentic flagship with a very large context window and a broad ecosystem of integrations.1485Elo$8 / monthStrong17
Copilot generalMicrosoftMicrosoft's AI layer that combines GPT and Claude models with your own organisational data and the Microsoft 365 apps.1485Elofrom €10 / monthCaution18
Le Chat (Mistral) generalMistral AIFrench/European AI lab with open-weight and commercial models and the Le Chat assistant, with EU data residency as its core proposition.1426Elo$14.99 / monthStrong19
Perplexity generalPerplexity AI · free to tryUS AI search engine that delivers answers with source citations via its own Sonar models and external frontier models, with separate Enterprise agreements on data use.–Elo$20 / monthUnknown20Gemini generalGoogleGoogle DeepMind's natively multimodal model family, deeply integrated into Workspace, with a very large context window.1527Elo€4.99 / monthStrong21
Qwen generalAlibaba Cloud · free to tryChinese model family from Alibaba Cloud with a free chat app, a large open-weight catalogue and the proprietary flagship Qwen3.8-Max with 1 million tokens of context.1484Eloon requestCaution22
GLM (Z.ai) generalZ.ai (Zhipu AI) · free to tryChinese AI lab (Zhipu, international Z.ai) with the open-weight GLM family under MIT licence, particularly strong at programming and agent tasks at low prices.1483Elo$18 / monthCaution23
Kimi generalMoonshot AI · free to tryChinese AI lab (Moonshot AI) with the open-weight Kimi K2 family and an assistant that focuses strongly on agents, deep research and long documents.1487Elo$19 / monthCaution24
Grok generalxAIThe model from xAI, integrated into X, distinguished by real-time access to live X posts and web data.1471Elo$10 / monthCaution25
DeepSeek generalDeepSeek · free to tryOpen-weight (MIT) Chinese language model with a 1M context window and a built-in reasoning mode, at very low API costs.1475Eloon requestCaution26
Llama generalMeta · free to tryMeta's natively multimodal, open-weight Mixture-of-Experts family (Scout and Maverick), free to download and self-host.–Eloon requestCaution
Eudonet professional toolEudonet (FR, Courbevoie; also NL) · EUEuropean CRM platform for charities, fundraisers and associations, with AI-driven data analysis for donor trends and campaign effectiveness. Supports fundraising, membership administration, event management and marketing. More than 1,500 clients in six countries, including the Netherlands.own modelapprox. €250–400/month per organisationStrong2Crowdin professional toolCrowdin OÜ (Estonia, Europe) · EU · free to tryLocalisation platform with a generous free plan, popular with software projects, open source and non-profits. Texts come in automatically from your repository, translators (in-house team, community or agency) work online and translations flow back into the code. You connect AI translation and proofreading to your own model provider, so you keep control over where texts go.on free planStrong3Salesforce Agentforce Nonprofit professional toolSalesforce, Inc. (San Francisco, US) · free to trySalesforce's non-profit platform (formerly Nonprofit Cloud) with four purpose-built AI agents: Prospect Research Agent, Participant Management Agent, Volunteer Capacity Agent and Donor Support Agent. Through the Power of Us Program, eligible non-profits receive 10 free licences.on Core $70/user/monthLimited4Fundraise Up professional toolFundraise Up Inc. (Brooklyn, USA)AI-driven donation platform that optimises the suggested donation amounts for each donor in real time based on behaviour and context, converts one-off givers into regular donors and manages recurring gifts via SEPA. Supports iDEAL and SEPA Direct Debit for Dutch donors.own modelno subscription or setup costsLimited5Grantable professional toolGrantable Inc. · free to tryAI-native platform for grant applications and grant management. Grantable combines funder discovery (based on IRS 990 data), AI writing assistance and application management in one platform for non-profits, grant professionals and research teams.own modelStarter $50/monthUnknown6Bloomerang professional toolBloomerangAll-in-one non-profit software combining CRM, fundraising, volunteer management and AI-driven donor retention. Bloomerang's AI ('Penny') predicts donor risk, flags lapsing donors and suggests personalised follow-up actions. More than 23,000 non-profits use the platform.own modelon request (scalable on contact…Unknown7Instrumentl professional toolInstrumentl Inc. · free to tryIntelligent grant operating system that combines 450,000+ funder profiles with AI-driven funder matching, proposal writing and post-award management. Over 5,500 non-profits use Instrumentl to manage grant research, applications and follow-up in one platform.own modelfrom $179/month (billed annually)Unknown8DonorSearch professional toolDonorSearchLeading prospect research platform with more than 1 billion data points from 40+ sources. DonorSearch AI builds predictive models to forecast which donors are most likely to give, and integrates with 40+ CRM platforms.own modelon requestUnknown9Virtuous professional toolVirtuous Software, Inc. (Phoenix, US)Responsive fundraising CRM for mid-sized non-profits ($500K–$5M revenue). Virtuous combines donor management, fundraising automation, AI-driven prospect identification and the Momentum AI module for personalised major gift communication.own modelon requestUnknown10Zeffy professional toolZeffy · free to tryCompletely free fundraising platform for non-profits (100,000+ organisations). Zeffy handles donations, ticketing, raffles, auctions, memberships and peer-to-peer campaigns with no platform or transaction fees. Funded through voluntary contributions from donors.own model100% free for non-profitsUnknown11Funraise professional toolFunraise · free to tryAll-in-one fundraising platform for non-profits with AppealAI: AI-generated donation appeals based on machine learning (timing, device, giving history). Funraise focuses on small organisations (<$1M revenue) and offers a free tier.own modelFree tier availableUnknown12FundRobin professional toolFundRobin (London, UK)British AI platform for grant discovery and proposal writing for non-profits, universities and social enterprises. FundRobin matches organisations with 10,000+ funding opportunities and generates grant proposals in minutes.own modelGrowth £49/month (£470.40/year)Unknown13Gravyty (Raise) professional toolGravytyAI platform for major gift fundraising at non-profits and higher education institutions. Gravyty's Raise product identifies top prospects, drafts personalised emails for major donors and manages dynamic fundraising portfolios. More than 2,750 institutions use the platform.own modelon requestUnknown14Grant Assistant professional toolGrant Assistant (US)AI platform for non-profits with two modules: Discover for semantic search of grant opportunities (trained on 7,000+ winning applications) and Respond for drafting grant applications in your organisation's style. Primarily aimed at US grants; EU use is possible for writing assistance.own modelon request (demo required)Unknown15Claude generalAnthropicFamily of language models from Anthropic that excels at long documents, careful reasoning, coding and reliable, safe output.1506Elo$20 / monthStrong16ChatGPT generalOpenAIOpenAI's versatile, agentic flagship with a very large context window and a broad ecosystem of integrations.1485Elo$8 / monthStrong17Copilot generalMicrosoftMicrosoft's AI layer that combines GPT and Claude models with your own organisational data and the Microsoft 365 apps.1485Elofrom €10 / monthCaution18Le Chat (Mistral) generalMistral AIFrench/European AI lab with open-weight and commercial models and the Le Chat assistant, with EU data residency as its core proposition.1426Elo$14.99 / monthStrong19Perplexity generalPerplexity AI · free to tryUS AI search engine that delivers answers with source citations via its own Sonar models and external frontier models, with separate Enterprise agreements on data use.–Elo$20 / monthUnknown20Gemini generalGoogleGoogle DeepMind's natively multimodal model family, deeply integrated into Workspace, with a very large context window.1527Elo€4.99 / monthStrong21Qwen generalAlibaba Cloud · free to tryChinese model family from Alibaba Cloud with a free chat app, a large open-weight catalogue and the proprietary flagship Qwen3.8-Max with 1 million tokens of context.1484Eloon requestCaution22GLM (Z.ai) generalZ.ai (Zhipu AI) · free to tryChinese AI lab (Zhipu, international Z.ai) with the open-weight GLM family under MIT licence, particularly strong at programming and agent tasks at low prices.1483Elo$18 / monthCaution23Kimi generalMoonshot AI · free to tryChinese AI lab (Moonshot AI) with the open-weight Kimi K2 family and an assistant that focuses strongly on agents, deep research and long documents.1487Elo$19 / monthCaution24Grok generalxAIThe model from xAI, integrated into X, distinguished by real-time access to live X posts and web data.1471Elo$10 / monthCaution25DeepSeek generalDeepSeek · free to tryOpen-weight (MIT) Chinese language model with a 1M context window and a built-in reasoning mode, at very low API costs.1475Eloon requestCaution26Llama generalMeta · free to tryMeta's natively multimodal, open-weight Mixture-of-Experts family (Scout and Maverick), free to download and self-host.–Eloon requestCautionNo options with these filters. 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- Try this weekStart for free with Crowdin on non-confidential work. In under an hour you'll see what AI can do for non-profit & fundraising.
- Sort the basics (GDPR)Choose the business variant, sign a data processing agreement and turn off training on your data. See the GDPR check per option.
- Go deeper with field softwareBook a demo with Crowdin: built for non-profit & fundraising, with the strongest published safeguards.
Where AI does the most in this field
The core tasks we track for this profession. Tools in the list above can be compared on these tasks.
- 1Grants and fundraising: writing and matching applications
- 2Donor management, segmentation and personalised follow-up
- 3Creating campaign copy, newsletters and social media
- 4Drafting impact reports and annual reports
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What is the best AI for non-profit & fundraising?
It depends on your requirements. Field-specific solutions such as Eudonet are built for non-profit & fundraising; general assistants such as Claude are more broadly usable and cheaper to get started with. At the top of this page you'll find our picks.
What is the difference between a 'field-specific tool' and a 'general assistant'?
A general assistant (such as ChatGPT or Claude) is a clever all-rounder you converse with yourself. A field-specific tool is a ready-made product for non-profit & fundraising, often built on top of such an assistant, with its own domain knowledge, integrations and GDPR commitments. The 'Quality' column shows which model a tool runs on.
May I use confidential data?
Donor data is personal data under the GDPR; use only systems with a data processing agreement and preferably EU hosting. Automated donor profiling (wealth screening) can be sensitive: be transparent in your privacy policy. AI-written grant applications require human checking for accuracy and alignment with the organisation's identity.
What does the GDPR profile mean?
Our summary of what the provider publishes about data protection: EU hosting, no training on your data, certifications and provenance. 'Strong' = several safeguards published; 'Unknown' = the provider shares little, so ask them. It is a tool, not legal advice.