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brainiac/studio

Digital Studio

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industries / non-profit

Software that amplifies every donor dollar.

We build donor databases, fundraising platforms, grant management tools, and impact dashboards for charities, NGOs, and mission-driven organisations who need technology that works as hard as their team.

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NPSPSalesforce integration
Gift AidHMRC compliant
WCAG 2.1Accessible giving
501(c)(3) ReadyGDPR CompliantPCI DSSGift Aid Ready
Charitable foundationsNGO & international developmentFaith-based organisationsArts & cultural institutionsEnvironmental & conservationEducation & scholarship fundsHealthcare nonprofits & hospicesCommunity development orgsAdvocacy & policy institutesSocial enterprise & B-corpsCharitable foundationsNGO & international developmentFaith-based organisationsArts & cultural institutionsEnvironmental & conservationEducation & scholarship fundsHealthcare nonprofits & hospicesCommunity development orgsAdvocacy & policy institutesSocial enterprise & B-corps
our approach

Technology that works as hard as your mission.

Most non-profits aren't held back by lack of mission — they're held back by tangled technology. A Salesforce system nobody set up properly, donation pages on a tool you've outgrown, and grant reports done in spreadsheets. Your team spends hours matching up data by hand that software should handle automatically.

We build the connective tissue: a donor database that actually talks to your fundraising pages, recurring giving that doesn't quietly lose lapsed donors, and a grant pipeline that flags deadlines before they become emergencies. Not generic setup work — software purpose-built for how your organisation actually runs.

Funders and boards increasingly expect real-time results, not quarterly PDFs. We build the measurement layer too — program outcome tracking, donor-facing dashboards that show exactly what each gift accomplished, and funder reports that pull from live data instead of being assembled the night before a deadline.

501(c)(3)Donor data stewardship
Gift AidHMRC compliant
PCI DSSSecure donation pages
WCAG 2.1Accessible giving
— who we build for

Mission-driven organisations.

Charitable foundationsNGO & international developmentFaith-based organisationsArts & cultural institutionsEnvironmental & conservationEducation & scholarship fundsHealthcare nonprofits & hospicesCommunity development orgsAdvocacy & policy institutesSocial enterprise & B-corps
— problems we solve

What we actually build.

01

Donor data scattered everywhere

Salesforce here, a spreadsheet for major donors there, paper pledge cards from the gala, and a separate Mailchimp list. With no single source of truth, your team reconciles data by hand instead of building relationships — and a major donor gets three 'thanks for your first gift' emails.

02

Fundraising channels that don't talk

Online donations, peer-to-peer campaigns, events, and major gifts all live in separate systems. You can't answer 'what was our best channel last year?' without a two-week data project. We pull everything into one clear view of each donor.

03

Impact reporting is manual and quarterly

Funders want to see results in real time; you're assembling 12-page PDF reports the night before a site visit. We turn your program data into live dashboards — for your team, your board, and the donor-facing pages that keep supporters giving.

04

Matching-gift money left unclaimed

Many employers match their staff's donations — but if your matching tool is only half set up, that money never arrives. We wire up the full pipeline: spotting eligible donors, submitting matches, following up, and confirming the money landed.

05

Grant management by email thread

Deadlines, budget reports, and submissions managed in inboxes and shared drives — and one missed reporting deadline can put your next grant at risk. We build grant pipelines with automatic reminders, budget tracking, and document assembly that keeps your team ahead of funders.

06

Donation pages that lose donors

A slow giving page that looks nothing like your brand costs you completed gifts every single day. We rebuild the whole flow: trust signals, suggested amounts based on giving history, and a thank-you experience that starts the next conversation.

— donor & impact platform

What a connected fundraising platform actually looks like.

Most non-profits have a CRM, a donation tool, and a reporting spreadsheet — three separate systems that don't talk to each other. We build all three layers as a connected platform from day one, so your development team has a single source of truth instead of three partial views.

Donor Acquisition & CRM

  • Salesforce NPSP / Bloomerang / custom CRM integration
  • Prospect research & wealth screening pipelines
  • Major donor relationship tracking & moves management
  • Gift history, capacity scores & lapse detection
  • Deduplication, data hygiene & merge workflows

Fundraising & Payments

  • Custom donation pages with suggested amount logic
  • Recurring giving with lapsed-donor recovery flows
  • Peer-to-peer & team fundraising campaign infrastructure
  • Event ticketing, auction bid boards & revenue reconciliation
  • Double the Donation matching: detection → submission → tracking

Impact Measurement & Reporting

  • Theory of change mapped to measurable outcome indicators
  • Programme data collection built into operational workflows
  • Live donor-facing dashboards: your gift in action
  • Funder report automation from live programme data
  • Board-level strategic dashboards & executive summaries

Donor data handled to 501(c)(3) and GDPR standards — with PCI DSS scope minimised through Stripe tokenisation

No raw card data · Data subject request workflows · UK Gift Aid HMRC submission · WCAG 2.1 AA giving pages

Discuss your platform
— integration ecosystem

Fundraising tools we connect.

CRMs, payment processors, email platforms, event tools, and gift matching services — each with the edge cases and data mapping quirks we've already documented so your team doesn't learn them the hard way.

CRMSalesforce NPSP
CRMBloomerang / Blackbaud
PaymentsStripe / Braintree
Gift MatchingDouble the Donation
FundraisingDonorbox / Givebutter
EmailMailchimp / SendGrid
EventsEventbrite / Splash
AnalyticsGoogle Analytics 4
Product AnalyticsSegment / PostHog
CMSContentful / Sanity
InfrastructureCloudflare Workers
AI / Donor ScoringAnthropic Claude
— compliance & standards

Built for trusted stewardship.

Donors trust you with their money and their data. We treat every compliance requirement as an engineering constraint built into the platform architecture — not a checkbox added before your next audit.

501(c)(3) donor data stewardship & IRS reporting — US charity rules
GDPR — Europe's privacy law, for international donors
PCI DSS — card-payment security for online donations
UK Gift Aid — digital submissions to HMRC for UK tax relief on gifts
CAN-SPAM / CASL — US and Canadian email rules for donor communications
WCAG 2.1 AA — accessibility standards so every supporter can give
SOC 2 Type II — the security audit for donor data platforms
— tech stack

Tools we reach for first.

Next.js
PostgreSQL
Stripe (recurring giving)
Salesforce NPSP
Mailchimp / SendGrid
Segment / PostHog
Contentful / Sanity
Cloudflare
Python (ML / donor scoring)
Anthropic Claude
how we engage

From donor audit to live impact dashboards.

Every non-profit engagement starts with a mission and stakeholder map and ends with dashboards your development team can act from — not just report to funders.

01

Mission & stakeholder mapping

We start by understanding your theory of change, donor segments, programme structure, and the tools your team already lives in. The output is a data architecture document that maps every donor touchpoint — acquisition, giving, stewardship, lapse, and renewal — and identifies exactly where data is being lost today.

02

CRM & fundraising architecture

We design the integration layer between your CRM, donation platform, email system, and impact data sources. Every decision — custom build vs. integration, Salesforce NPSP vs. lighter CRM, Stripe vs. Donorbox — is made here with your team size, technical capacity, and five-year growth plan in mind.

03

Build in phases without disrupting operations

We never migrate your donor database and launch a new platform on the same day. We stage it: data migration first (validated against your existing records), then the donation flow, then reporting. Your team keeps using existing tools until each phase is signed off. No big-bang launches, no lost donor histories.

04

Launch & impact reporting handoff

We instrument the full funnel — donor acquisition cost, conversion rate by campaign, recurring giving retention, and matching revenue captured. You get dashboards your development team can act from, not just monitor, plus the runbooks your team needs to manage the system without engineering support for day-to-day operations.

non-profit faq

Frequently asked.

7 questions answered. Still have one? Reach out.

Yes — we start with a full audit of your current Salesforce setup: custom fields, automations, duplicate rules, and data quality problems. We write down what's there before touching anything, stage the migration with a full undo plan, and run the old and new systems side by side to check every number matches before you switch over. We've inherited messy setups before; nothing surprises us.

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— ready

Let's build what's next.

Tell us what you’re building. We’ll tell you how we’d help.

Non-Profit Software Development — Donor CRM, Fundraising & Impact Platforms · brainiac/studio · brainiac/studio