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What is Fundraise Up?

Fundraise Up was founded in 2017 and is based in New York City, USA. The company has rapidly grown and established itself as a leader in the sector, enhancing the donor experiences to drive growth for charitable organizations. The company has experienced significant growth since its inception. Fundraise Up focuses on one thing — reducing donor friction to drastically increase donation revenue for nonprofits. Born from the frustration of a donor, Fundraise Up set out to question all the assumptions and build a better way for people to make online donations. With a data-driven and donor-centric approach they have more than doubled online revenue for many large nonprofits. Key Features and Functionality Optimized Donation Forms: Fundraise Up optimizes donation forms to increase conversion rates and provide a seamless giving experience. Powered by AI, Fundraise Up customers see more than double the industry average for conversion rates on their forms. Donation forms can be added via elements on the nonprofits website or on a standalone campaign page. Recurring Donations: The donation form is optimized with AI to turn one-time supporters into recurring givers, providing a steadier stream of donation revenue. The recurring plan retention rate of online donors is over 25% higher than the industry-average. A donor portal makes it easy for donors to manage their receipts and recurring payments. Donor Experience Enhancements: Features such as a variety of payment methods, support for multiple languages, and multi-currency support are included to make the donation process as smooth as possible for users all over the world. Built for enterprise nonprofits it has best-in-class security and compliances, industry-leading AI, and 99.9% uptime. Transparent pricing has no lock-in, monthly fees, or hidden costs. Despite there being no lock in contracts, Fundraise Up has retained every Enterprise-level client since its inception seven years ago.

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Double your online donation revenue with AI conversion optimization, turnkey payment methods, and donor engagement tools that integrate with your website. 3X your recurring donor base with intelligent features and upsells that make it easy to become a monthly supporter. Choose an online donation experience that lets donors give how they want: all major payment methods, cryptocurrency, and stock donations - all included in one unified giving experience.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Improve the donor experience with intelligent optimizations: Fundraise Up uses AI, backed by valuable data unique to the nonprofit industry, enabling you to offer the most personalized donor experience possible. When AI is enabled to suggest the optimal donation amount for each donor, it yields on average 10-15% more revenue, and 2x the amount of donor acquisition.

Unique tools give you everything you need to grow sustained support and increase recurring revenue. The donation form is optimized with AI to turn one-time supporters into recurring givers, providing you with a steadier stream of donation revenue.

Provide a global experience for donors: Present a fully localized, highly accurate donor checkout experience with each language translation developed and perfected by native speakers. 20+ languages are supported. Donors have the ability to give in 135+ currencies.


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Year Founded
2017
HQ Location
Brooklyn, US
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@fundraiseup
396 Twitter followers
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201 employees on LinkedIn®
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Fundraise Up is a technology company unlocking the world’s generosity potential by optimizing the way people give. Our donation platform helps nonprofits engage more supporters and grow revenue by providing easy ways to increase conversion, enable modern payment methods, and personalize the giving experience for every donor. Fundraise Up is the partner of choice for UNICEF USA, The Salvation Army UK, American Heart Association, and other impactful organizations across the globe. For more information, visit fundraiseup.com.


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5.0 out of 5
"Quick, effective, understanding and efficient service."
Direct and quick accurate response from support
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"FundraiseUp support is amazing"
FundraiseUp's support team are great professionals and experts. Whenever I have an issue brought about by the complexity of our customization, they...
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Fundraise Up is incredibly responsive and attentive to our needs as nonprofit. They are constantly innovating, whether in donation flow improvment...
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Aaron S.
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Digital & Data Operations Lead
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Fundraise Up?

They're always testing to optimize donation flows. Their look and feel is so good that most other platforms' changes in recent years seem to be trying to duplicate what Fundraise Up has done. Also, their support is fast and helpful, and their integrations keep all of our data in sync with our CRM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fundraise Up?

Maybe there is such a thing as too much testing. Once, I had an issue where a donation form was defaulting to monthly instead of one-time, and that did not make sense for the context of my link. Support said they were testing a feature, but there was no way to opt out of this test for this particular campaign. (Other AI/machine learning optimizations can be disabled if needed, but not this one yet. So I ended up forcing the one-time default with URL parameters to make the donation link work the way I needed it too.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fundraise Up solving and how is that benefiting you?

Best available donor experience.

Auto-update recurring donor card info.

Magic link sign-in for donors to edit their own monthly gifts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TW
Digital Fundraising Manager
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Fundraise Up?

Initially I was looking for a product to support our regular giving programme, I wanted something that offered flexibilty for our supporters. In short terms, I was absolutely blown away by what Fundraise Up was able to offer us. It (unintentionally) solved some other pretty major internal problems that I was also trying to fix, so its hard to describe just how life changing Fundraise Up has been for us, both internally, but our data speaks for itself. The diversification of payment types and the use of AI have been utterly exemplary areas of the platform. We're due to do our two year review to staff internally and it's weird to say that we're excited to do this, and we're proud. I haven't even started raving about the amount of support we recieved, and continued to recieve, to make this continue to become a huge success story for us. Thank you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fundraise Up?

As our account manager knows, we just want folders for our campaigns. But this isn't even a dislike, it's just a teeny change so I can organise things better! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fundraise Up solving and how is that benefiting you?

It would be easier to list what Fundraise Up isn't solving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
AN
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Fundraise Up?

FundraiseUp's support team are great professionals and experts. Whenever I have an issue brought about by the complexity of our customization, they are always swift to respond back and they provide amazing insight and solutions. They are always able to figure out even the cases that are perplexing to our business users. Amazing support! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fundraise Up?

It might be challenging to figure out where a setting is sometimes but mostly it's easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fundraise Up solving and how is that benefiting you?

Great and integrates well with our organization website and works seamlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Fund-Raising
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Fundraise Up?

There are so many great things to say about Fundraise Up. First, let's talk money. Our conversion rates and average gifts were higher during our extensive pilot and have continued to improve over time. Second, the product itself took minutes to set up. Seriously. Minutes. Third, the platform is the most intuitive and easy to use of any platform we use or I have ever used. It's just simple and clear. With the elements (widgets) you can do so many things like pop-ups, embedded forms, buttons, links, donor rolls, and so on. And to place that on your website, it's one tiny snippet of code that again, just works. It's dead simple to use.

I also love that FRU keeps rolling out new features and functionality. We get great customer service and only pay a per transaction fee which 80% of our donors cover. Bluntly, the competition contacts me regularly to consider using them instead of FRU, but I can't even imagine changing solutions anytime soon. There so much to love and I highly recommend you at least check them out. They won't waste your time and you'll likely love what you see. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fundraise Up?

The only downside I can think of is that in order to make FRU so usable and converting donations at the highest rates, there isn't a lot of flexibility in terms of the order of your fields or showing all the fields in a single column versus a multi-step form. So parts of the experience are locked down and there isn't as good of visibility into where the donors are abandoning within the checkout experience as I would like to see. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fundraise Up solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed a way to quickly and easily set up donation forms that convert at the highest levels, maximizing revenue for our organization. And our website page owners love the pop-up experience since the user never leaves their page to donate. Once they are done giving, they close the pop-up and are still right there on the content where they started. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Fundraise Up?

Fundraise up has a wide range of built in tools supporting complex online fundriaisng programs. The interface is really easy to use, create new fundriasing campaigns and see relevant insights. The donor portal is an excellent benefit to save our team time and gives our donors control of their giving. Fundraise up is well localized in many languages and currencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fundraise Up?

Fundriase up intergration to payment processors and crm could be more refined. We do see limitations with enabling different payment methods, where the payment flow is not fully optemized for the donor's expected user expereince. I wish there was more developpment to understand regional and cultural payment norms, if the product is going to fully support a global audience. We have also expereince limitations to the data and it's flexibility with our crm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fundraise Up solving and how is that benefiting you?

Acting as a donation form and payment gateway, localized in many languages and currencies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Fund-Raising
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Fundraise Up?

We've had the pleasure of using Fundraise Up, and it has been a fantastic experience for our organization. The platform stands out for its simplicity of use, making it accessible for our team and ensuring that our donors have a seamless experience when making contributions.

What truly sets Fundraise Up apart, though, is its incredible staff. They are responsive, knowledgeable, and always willing to go the extra mile to ensure we get the most out of the platform. Their support has been instrumental in helping us optimize our fundraising efforts.

Additionally, we greatly appreciate Fundraise Up's willingness to innovate based on donor needs. The team listens to feedback and proactively implements updates and new features that align with the evolving expectations of donors. This commitment to continuous improvement has significantly enhanced our fundraising strategies.

Overall, Fundraise Up has been an invaluable partner in helping us achieve our fundraising goals. We highly recommend them to any organization looking for a reliable, forward-thinking platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fundraise Up?

While we've found a lot to appreciate about Fundraise Up, particularly its user-friendly design and proactive support team, there are a few areas where the platform could be improved.

One of the main challenges we've encountered is with some of the out-of-the-box features. Although these features are generally well-designed, we've found that they often have limited ability for customization. This can be frustrating when we're trying to tailor the platform to better fit our specific needs and branding requirements.

We understand that Fundraise Up prioritizes simplicity and ease of use, but offering more flexibility in customization would significantly enhance the platform's utility for organizations with more complex or unique needs.

Despite these limitations, Fundraise Up remains a strong platform that has helped us achieve our fundraising goals. We hope to see continued development in this area to better meet the diverse needs of its users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fundraise Up solving and how is that benefiting you?

Fundraise Up is solving how to create a smooth donor experience for fundraising. They make a complex problem into something that is easy to grasp for both the user and end user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TW
Director of Philanthropy Operations
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about Fundraise Up?

The product itself is incredibly user-friendly from both the administrator side and the donor side. The donor portal is straightforward and easy to use. Aside from that, Fundraise Up's customer support team is highly responsive and they've always been able to fix the issue quickly and effectively. They truly set the standard for customer support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fundraise Up?

n/a -- our organization loves Fundraise Up! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fundraise Up solving and how is that benefiting you?

FundraiseUp provides direct integration into our CRM, and captures highly valuable data during the donor's gift transaction that informs much of our marketing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Linh V.
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Accountant
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Fundraise Up?

Fundraise Up is very easy for staff with minimal IT knowledge to learn and use quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fundraise Up?

Sometimes, it is hard to navigate to fund specific item (history of payments) through the website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fundraise Up solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps our organization with donor management and keeping track of customer donations and other customer details such as names, payment methods, projects that fundings should be directed to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
UN
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Fundraise Up?

Fundraise Up is incredibly responsive and attentive to our needs as nonprofit. They are constantly innovating, whether in donation flow improvments, or providing entirely new functionalities.

They are also so responsive, not only provide immediate support but also suggest new ideas based on the specific query.

We have grown about 400% in the 3 years since we installed Fundraise Up donationl portals.

Every few months the platform has really exciting changes and improvements, that help us expand our fundraising in new ways. This year, through their recurring donor donation flow improvements, we have doubled our recurring donor revenue in the first 6 months. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fundraise Up?

They are very focused on their primary scope, donation software. I wish someday they would grow and provide a wider range of services. They are, hands down, our preferred software team and would love this level of service and support with the iother products we use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fundraise Up solving and how is that benefiting you?

The provide a very user friendly interface, great automations with receipts and emails, very good integration with our primary donor database. Our fundraising revenue has grown through using their system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

AC
Digital Marketing Specialist
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
Validated Reviewer
Verified Current User
Review source: Seller invite
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What do you like best about Fundraise Up?

I love all the features that FundraiseUp offers, and that they are always updating and creating new tools to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fundraise Up?

A lot of the setup is done on your own which can be challenging, but their team is very responsive and always willing and ready to help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fundraise Up solving and how is that benefiting you?

FundraiseUp is very clean and straightforward to use. We appreciate that it provides multiple tools for our marketing efforts including peer-to-peer, and third-party fundraising. They always come out with new features as well which helps fill the gap in our fundraising efforts, and finding a tool to solve this problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.