DonorForge vs Keela

DonorForge is a nonprofit CRM for managing donor relationships, gifts, campaigns, fundraising operations and bookkeeping. It handles one-time, recurring and pledged gifts, with recurring-card updates, retries for failed charges, installments and reminders. Campaign tools include team fundraising, ticketing, seating reservations and walk-up checkout for events. Bookkeeping features include bank reconciliation through Plaid, profit-and-loss and cash-flow views, and board-ready reports. Listed integrations include Stripe for payments, QuickBooks for financial-data exports and Zapier for connecting to 6,000+ apps. Organizations can connect their own Stripe, Sola or Banquest payment account; DonorForge says it adds no platform fee beyond processing. It offers donor-record imports and says records remain exportable. Data is encrypted at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS, and card tokenization is handled by a PCI Service Provider Level 1 vendor. DonorForge says it lacks its own SOC 2 attestation, ISO 27001 certification and HIPAA Business Associate Agreement. A free trial lasts 14 days. Free plans include Starter at free for 1 users and 2 campaigns, and Pro at free for 5 users and 10 campaigns. Paid plans start at $295/mo; Enterprise pricing is custom. Support is by email, with priority response on paid plans.

Keela is a web-based donor management platform for nonprofits, combining contact records, fundraising, email marketing, and reporting. Fundraising tools include custom donation forms, campaign tracking, recurring-giving prompts, smart donor asks, and automatic gift acknowledgements. Donor profiles support deduplication, relationship tracking, donor scores, and pipeline management. Teams can build customizable emails and automated workflows, organize audiences with tags and segments, and use texting services. Reporting includes customizable dashboards, real-time reports, visual summaries, presentation-ready reports, and calculated KPIs. Listed integrations include Raisely, Aplos, Stripe, QuickBooks Online, PayPal, Eventbrite, Mailchimp, SendGrid, Xero, Zapier, BitPay, and DonorSearch. Plans include unlimited forms, emails, donations, and support, but pricing scales with contact count. The annual plan for up to 1,000 contacts is $164 a month; the monthly option is $190 a month. Organizations with more than 10,000 contacts are directed to request custom pricing. Premium Care, pipelines, texting, and wealth screening are additional features; Premium Care starts at $200 per month.