🤝 FLAIRE for Nonprofits & Fundraising
Donor record to mission impact on one platform. Donations, gift acknowledgments, fund accounting, grant deadlines, volunteer programs, and stewardship sequences — built for organizations where every dollar carries a story.
Why mission-driven teams burn out on the back office
Most nonprofits run a donor CRM (Bloomerang, DonorPerfect, Salesforce NPSP), a separate fund-accounting system (QuickBooks or Sage Intacct NFP), an email tool, a peer-to-peer page builder, and event-management software. Donor stories fragment across all of them. Acknowledgments slip. Grants miss deadlines. The development director becomes a data janitor.
Last gift, last touch, wealth screen, board connection — it's all in different tools or different tabs. By the time the ED sits down to plan a major-gift ask, the data has aged and the moment has passed.
IRS Pub 1771 says donors need a written acknowledgment for gifts of $250+. Most teams batch the letters monthly — if at all. The first impression after a generous gift is silence, then a delayed form letter.
LOIs due in three weeks, full proposal in eight, interim report next quarter, final report at year-end. Without a shared grant pipeline with deadlines and owners, the team scrambles or misses the renewal entirely.
"The Andersons said they'd consider a five-figure gift after the gala" gets remembered for a week. Without a moves-management workflow tracking the cultivation arc, big gifts get left on the table because nobody followed up at the right moment.
Built for how nonprofits actually operate
Three persona-based plays. Pick the one that matches your org — or run multiple under one tenant if you span programs, fundraising, and a separate foundation.
Grassroots / Volunteer-Led (<$500k budget, ED + 1–2 staff)
Community-based: food bank, animal rescue, youth org, mutual aid. ED wears every hat. The wins come from a donation page that converts, automated acknowledgments that build trust, and a volunteer signup flow that respects everyone's time.
Mission, programs, impact stories, board page, financials, and a donation page with one-time / monthly options, gift designations (program, general, restricted), and Apple/Google Pay checkout.
Every donor as a record with full giving history, contact preferences, household links, and source of acquisition. Aria flags lapsed donors and surfaces the donor who's about to upgrade to monthly.
Automated IRS Pub 1771-compliant acknowledgment within minutes of the gift, year-end giving summary in January, monthly-donor failed-payment recovery, and birthday/anniversary touches.
Volunteers sign up for shifts through Echo, get reminders, check in on arrival, and log hours. Coordinator sees the schedule fill (or not) in real time without spreadsheet swaps.
Restricted vs unrestricted vs board-designated funds segregated at the GL. 990 prep, in-kind gift recording, and a treasurer report that the board can actually understand.
Deep dive into donor records, moves management, major-gift cultivation, segmentation, peer-to-peer fundraising, and Aria's lapsed-donor and upgrade signals.
Mid-Size with Development Team ($1M–$25M budget)
Dedicated development director, major-gift officer, grants manager, events coordinator. Multiple revenue streams (individual, major, grants, events, corporate). The play is a moves-management discipline that converts cultivation into asks, and a grant pipeline that doesn't miss a deadline.
Major-gift prospects move through stages (identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit, steward). Aria flags prospects whose engagement signals readiness for the ask — before the moment passes.
Multi-fund chart of accounts, pledge revenue recognition under FASB 116/117, grant-restricted spending tracked, functional expense allocation (program/admin/fundraising) prepared for the 990 and the audit.
Capital campaign, year-end appeal, giving Tuesday, and peer-to-peer microsites with individual participant pages, team leaderboards, and personalized email tools.
Grant LOI, full proposal, interim report, and final report deadlines tracked per funder. Stewardship sequences run on autopilot — impact reports, restricted-fund updates, donor anniversary acknowledgments.
Donor inquiries (giving statements, gift designation changes, DAF questions, planned-giving info) routed to the right person. Event registration, sponsorship management, and table seating from the same record.
Faith-Based / Membership Organization
Churches, parachurch ministries, synagogues, mosques, professional associations, alumni groups. Recurring giving or membership dues, member portal, events, programs, and a community to keep engaged year-round.
Households linked across members (spouses, children, dependents). Track service involvement, small-group membership, ministry teams, and engagement journey from visitor to member to leader.
Members log in to update giving, register kids for programs, submit prayer or care requests, and access teaching content. Staff respond from a single, privacy-respecting workspace.
Recurring giving as the dominant revenue stream, member-dues billing with grace periods, in-kind gift recording, and segregated funds for building, missions, scholarship, and general.
First-time visitor sequence, second-visit nurture, new-member onboarding journey, lapsed-member reengagement — the year-round cycles that build community without requiring a 30-person staff.
One donor, first gift to lifetime giving
A single donor from the first $25 gift through a major commitment to a planned-giving conversation — running across all five products with one donor record, one giving history, and one source of mission stewardship.
Mission page links to a clean donation page. Visitor gives one-time, chooses program designation, opts into email. Apple Pay processes; gift posts to the donor record.
Pulsar fires the IRS Pub 1771-compliant acknowledgment within minutes of the gift. Personalized, signed by the ED, with the program designation referenced — not a delayed form letter.
Nova places the donor in the first-time-donor segment. Welcome series fires over 30 days — impact story, behind-the-scenes content, second-gift soft ask, and a personal note from a program staff member.
Atlas books the gift to the designated program fund with the right restriction. Pledges and matching-gift offers tracked separately; year-end giving summary auto-generates in January.
Donor emails about changing the recurring gift, designating a memorial, or asking about DAF giving. Echo routes to the right staff with the full giving history in the conversation — the donor feels known.
Aria flags the donor's growing engagement and capacity. Major-gift officer picks up cultivation in Nova. Ten years later, a planned-giving conversation closes the loop. The donor record tells the whole story.
Go deeper on each product
Every FLAIRE product is preconfigured for nonprofits — donor records, fund accounting, IRS substantiation templates, grant pipelines, and stewardship sequences seeded on day one.
Donor 360 with giving history, household links, moves management stages, major-gift pipeline, peer-to-peer fundraising, member/household records for faith-based orgs.
See how Nova fits →Restricted/unrestricted/board-designated funds, FASB 116/117 pledge revenue recognition, in-kind gift recording, functional expense allocation, 990 and audit prep.
Explore Atlas →Mission site, program pages, donation pages with designations, capital campaign and year-end microsites, peer-to-peer participant pages with leaderboards.
Explore Vega →Donor service desk with full giving history in every conversation, volunteer signup and shift management, member/care portal for faith-based and membership orgs.
Explore Echo →IRS Pub 1771-compliant acknowledgments, year-end giving summaries, grant deadline cascades, stewardship sequences, recurring-gift failed-payment recovery, payment-processor connectors.
Explore Pulsar →Five products at a discount versus buying each separately. Shared donor record, shared funds, shared AI — from day one.
See bundle pricing →Compliance baked in
Nonprofits operate under IRS exemption rules, state charitable-solicitation registration (different in every state), donor-substantiation requirements, and the FASB standards that shape every NFP audit. FLAIRE captures the right artifacts at the right times so 990 prep, board audits, and state registrations are routine instead of year-end emergencies.
Automatic written acknowledgment for gifts $250+ with the required language. Quid pro quo disclosure for event tickets and auction items above the $75 threshold. Donor receipts that hold up in an IRS audit of the donor.
Functional expense allocation (program, admin, fundraising) at the transaction level. Schedule B donor list, Schedule G fundraising events, Schedule M non-cash contributions — all prepared from the same ledger.
Per-state charitable solicitation registration tracked with renewal deadlines (40+ states require registration). Multi-state filings prepped from a single data source; URS support where the state accepts it.
Restricted, temporarily restricted, and board-designated funds segregated at the GL with spending controls. Donor-restriction language captured at the time of gift; release tracked when conditions are met.
Donor record to mission impact — one connected platform.
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