Every way your non-profit raises, under one roof.
Built from 30+ years of real auctioneer, emcee & board-member experience — not a faceless tech company.
Every way to raise — auctions, donations, recurring giving, peer-to-peer, ticketed events, raffles, golf tournaments, grant sourcing & AI grant writing and more — plus an AI donor-intelligence CRM, email + SMS, and live scoreboards. One login. One dashboard. One team behind you.
Built with 100% input from founder Larry Scala — who's personally worked hundreds of live & online fundraisers — together with a 23+ developer team and multiple cross-sections of leading AI technology.
✦New — Know exactly which volunteer scanned 80% of your guests and rung up the most POS sales. Real per-volunteer efficiency reports, stamped audit trail, 4-digit kiosk PINs. Nobody else does this.
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Let's get real for a second
If your non-profit isn't using
Charityfundraiser.com,
you're just BURNING MONEY! 🔥
Every bloated platform fee, every clunky tool, every donation you can't capture — that's your hard-raised cash going up in smoke. $0 setup. $0 monthly. The lowest fee in the industry.
We get paid only when you get paid. — and only the smallest fraction in the industry.
See pricingFree AI grants engine
Why pay $3,000 grant writers when our AI does it free?
Discover government & foundation grants matched to your mission, scored 0–100 so you chase only the winnable ones — then draft the application free. Add a website, event tools and a 2% fee, and most nonprofits save thousands a year.
Avg. saved per year
$20,000+
on grant writing, website, fees & staff time — plus the grants you newly win.
Only on CharityFundraiser
The largest benefit-auctioneer directory in the country, baked right into your platform.
Givebutter, OneCause, BiddingForGood, DonorPerfect — none of them help you find an auctioneer. We do.Search 8,800+ vetted benefit auctioneers across all 50 states. Filter by state, city, or specialty (gala, silent, paddle raise, fund-a-need). Free. No sign-up. No middleman fees. Built directly into your event-creation flow.
8,800+
Auctioneers nationwide
50
States covered
$0
To search & contact
1-click
Match from event page
Auctioneers can claim their listing free or buy a Featured slot ($99/yr, one per city) for top placement.
Built for events of every size
From a 25-guest backyard wine tasting to a 4,800-guest convention-center black-tie — same QR-tag flow, same dashboard, same fees.
See it in action
Watch one gala run, end-to-end.
Real screenshots, real mock-data, real flow — silent auction (table sheets + mobile bidding), live auction (paddle raise + big-screen), door admission, POS, and the end-of-event report. No demo call required.
01 · Donor arrives
Branded storefront with live countdown
Why you can trust this platform
Built by someone who's actually stood at the front of the room.
CharityFundraiser wasn't dreamed up by a faceless tech company. It was built by Larry Scala — a working auctioneer, emcee and nonprofit consultant who has personally worked hundreds of live and online fundraising events over 30+ years for organizations like Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Arlington & Fort Worth, The Art Station in Fort Worth (23 years), the Miracle League of Arlington and Ducks Unlimited. Every feature here exists because Larry watched the pain happen live — and fixed it. It's built with 100% of Larry's input, a 23+ developer team, and multiple cross-sections of leading AI technology — not a faceless tech company.
We only succeed if your nonprofit event succeeds.
Fundraising tools
Every way to raise. All in one platform.
Whatever your format — silent auction, gala, golf outing, 5K, paddle raise, online appeal, or grant funding — we've already built it. No add-ons. No upsells. No 'available in our Pro tier.'
Live & silent auctions
Timed bidding, mobile paddles, reserve protection, anti-snipe auto-extend, drag-drop photos & video.
Donations & giving pages
Branded forms with thermometer, impact tiers, suggested amounts, donor tipping, anonymous gifts.
Recurring donations
Monthly / quarterly / yearly Stripe subscriptions with auto-renewal and MRR dashboard.
Peer-to-peer fundraising
Your supporters become fundraisers. Personal pages, team leaderboards, donate-to-vote mode.
Grant sourcing & AI writing
A free, curated grant directory with live Grants.gov import, plus an AI Grant Writer that drafts full, on-brand proposals — find funding and write winning applications without leaving the platform.
Sponsorship Toolkit (AI)
Win and keep sponsors: a sponsor prospect pipeline, an AI proposal & package generator, an AI outreach writer, an asset-valuation calculator, and auto post-event impact reports built from your live event data to drive renewals.
Events & ticketing
Tickets, sponsor packages, a custom registration form builder (meal choice, dietary, per-guest names), min/max purchase limits, .ics + Google Calendar sync, promo codes.
Raffles
Compliant ticket sales with caps, random winner draws, confetti celebrations and livestream embeds.
Golf tournaments
Foursomes, hole sponsors, 18-hole scorecards, live leaderboard — the full club-house workflow.
Fund-a-Need / Paddle raise
Tiered live appeal with public progress bar and a real-time paddle ticker your MC will love.
Reverse raffle & Heads-or-Tails
Crowd games that drive ticket sales and party energy — admin-driven, mobile-friendly.
Fixed-price store / Buy-it-Now
Sell merchandise, swag, or limited-quantity items with quantity tracking and instant checkout.
Event check-in
QR rosters, in/out actions, kiosk mode for big-screen progress at the door.
Per-table QR chat
Guests scan their table's QR to message staff live or tap quick requests (drinks, auctioneer, check-out). Staff reply + broadcast 'dinner is served' — unique to us.
Fulfillment workflow
Ready → shipped → picked-up → delivered with tracking and audit trail.
Enterprise CRM & donor intelligence
Know your donors. Then move them.
More than a donor list — a full major-gift CRM. AI scores each donor's capacity and affinity, moves management tracks every cultivation stage, and gift officers get their own portfolios. The donor intelligence nonprofits buy iWave and Bloomerang for, included free.
Donor Intelligence Hub (AI)
iWave-style wealth & affinity screening built in. AI scores every donor's giving capacity and affinity, drafts a cultivation brief, and screens an entire event guest list in one pass.
Capacity & affinity scoring
Every donor gets a computed capacity band and an affinity score, so gift officers work the right 30 conversations instead of all 3,000 contacts.
Moves management & portfolios
Cultivation stages, a follow-up task board, and per-officer 'My Portfolio' dashboards. Assign donors to a staff owner; nothing goes cold.
Householding & soft-credits
Link spouses and family into one household and soft-credit the influencer behind a gift — flows straight into reports and year-end statements.
Offline & legacy gifts
Log checks, wires, stock, DAF, and pledge payments. They live on the same donor profiles and tax statements as online gifts.
Donor CRM & tier classification
Auto-classify every donor as Major / Mid / Grassroots / Lapsed / New / Prospect based on lifetime + recency.
CSV import & bulk assignment
Bring legacy donor lists in 30 seconds with smart column mapping. Reassign hundreds of donors to a new gift officer in one action.
Unified donor profiles
Bids, wins, donations, tickets, sponsorships, P2P, notes, tasks — every interaction on one timeline per person.
Workflow automations
Drip emails on triggers: donation paid, days after gift, anniversary, lapsed, ticket purchased.
Outreach
Email, SMS, and on-screen energy that converts.
Reach donors where they are — in their inbox, on their phone, on the big screen at your gala. All channels share one audience, one brand, one set of merge tags.
Email campaigns
Dual-provider email infrastructure with automatic failover. Audience by tier, tag, donor, attendee, sponsor, fundraiser.
SMS & Text-to-Give
Carrier-direct SMS. Bulk segments, keyword-driven giving (TEXT GIVE 50), opt-out compliance.
Template library
Polished, opinionated templates for receipts, year-end appeals, gala invites, monthly-donor welcome.
Outbid notifications
Lose a bid? We email and SMS the previous high bidder instantly — and they come back.
Embeddable donate widget
Drop a single <script> tag on any website. Branded color & label, fully responsive.
Live public scoreboard
Project a real-time fundraising dashboard at your gala. Total raised, top donors, live activity.
Kiosk mode
Big-screen, auto-refreshing read-only view for lobbies, donor walls, and check-in tables.
Live thermometer & milestones
Animated goal bars and toast pops at 25 / 50 / 75 / 100% — the energy multiplier.
Money flow
Every payment method donors want. Money in your bank.
Stripe Checkout LIVE, PayPal & Venmo native, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, Klarna, Afterpay. Funds land in YOUR Stripe Connect account on a rolling payout — not held hostage.
Cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay
Stripe Checkout in dozens of countries. Apple/Google Pay, ACH, Klarna, Afterpay — all on by default.
PayPal & Venmo
Native PayPal + Venmo with Pay-Later. Same tipping, fees, and persistence as cards.
Stripe Connect (direct payout)
Funds land in YOUR bank account on a 2-day rolling payout. Or stay on platform-mode and we forward.
Auto-bill auction winners
Auction closes → winners charged automatically. Smart retry on declines, no chase, no missed wins.
Automated year-end tax statements
Consolidated IRS-compliant PDFs per donor — including soft-credits — with your letterhead, EIN, and itemized table. A scheduler auto-emails the whole campaign every late January.
Reports & exports
KPIs, 30-day trends, top donors, CSV per module, platform-wide reconciliation across providers.
Reserve protection
Set reserves on premium items. Items below reserve don't sell. You always stay in control.
Promo codes
% or $ off, optional event scoping, max-uses cap. Cross-org-leak-proof.
No-line events
Move 400 guests in 9 minutes. Move them out without a single unpaid tab.
Most galas lose 8–14% of their auction revenue to unpaid bills — guests who left without checking out. They didn't mean to. They just got distracted. We close that hole.
One QR tag per guest. Scan to admit at the door, scan to ring up mulligans / raffle / silent-auction wins, scan to settle on the way out. Volunteers don't need an app — they use the phone in their pocket.
Plus a seating-chart lobby kiosk, 3-way QR check-in (prepaid email, walk-up DIY self-register, paddle scan), 11 payment methods for donations, and card-on-file so end-of-night settlement is a single auto-charge instead of a chase.
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Staff scans a guest's QR with their phone camera. Big green "Admit Jane" card. One tap. Done. Duplicate scans trigger a red warning so nobody slips in on a stolen tag.
One tab, every spend
Mulligans, raffle tickets, side games, silent-auction wins, paddle raises — anything a volunteer rings up lands on the guest's single running tab. Per-item caps prevent overselling (no one buys 47 mulligans).
Smart "heading out?" alert
When a guest has been at the event 2+ hours AND has unsettled charges, we auto-text + email them the one-tap settlement link. No more chasing donors on Monday morning.
Attendance counter you can project
Big-number live attendance display: admitted, registered, expected, walk-ins. Refreshes every 8 seconds. Boards love it. Sponsors love it. Caterers love it.
Guests can't lose their tag
QR is emailed and MMS'd to them the moment a paddle # is assigned. Lose the printed tag? Pull it up on their phone in 2 seconds. Need a re-print? One-label-on-a-half-used-Avery-sheet reprint built in.
A 400-person gala costs roughly $2,800 in volunteer time at the door + 8–14% of auction revenue in unpaid tabs. Our QR-tag flow eliminates both — built in, no add-on fees.
Built-in superpowers
AI, accounting, and integrations that just work.
AI ghost-writes your catalog copy. Outbound webhooks pipe data anywhere. Native QuickBooks sync plus universal exports keep any accounting software in step, and Google Calendar syncs automatically. Everything is multi-tenant, branded, and built to scale.
AI everywhere
Item descriptions, campaign copy, thank-yous, smart starting bids, segment suggestions, Fund-a-Need narratives, SMS drafts.
Outbound webhooks (Zapier-killer)
15 event types. HMAC-signed. Pipe data into Slack, Notion, Google Sheets, your CRM — anywhere.
Accounting sync (QuickBooks + more)
Native QuickBooks Online OAuth with idempotent Sales Receipt sync, plus universal exports that work with every commonly used accounting platform — Xero, Sage Intacct, Blackbaud Financial Edge, NetSuite and more.
Google Calendar
Two-way event sync. Public 'Add to Google Calendar' link on every event page.
Printable bid sheets
One-click PDFs with photo, QR code, pricing strip — printed silent-auction sheets without leaving the platform.
Multi-tenant + custom branding
Each org gets their own storefront, microsite, brand colors, logo, and custom domain (coming soon).
How it works
From signup to settled in a single afternoon.
No procurement specialists. No IT department. No six-week onboarding. Just a guided flow your team will actually finish.
Create your non-profit page
Brand it with your logo, mission, colors, and story. Each charity gets their own storefront and microsite.
Pick your tools — turn them on
Auctions, donations, P2P, events, raffles, golf tournaments, fund-a-need — flip on what you need. The rest stays out of your way.
Go live & promote
Email, SMS, embeddable widget, kiosk mode, live scoreboard. AI helps draft the copy. Watch the dashboard climb.
Collect & report
Auto-bill winners. Smart retry on declines. Funds payout to your account. Year-end tax letters and reconciliation CSVs included.
On every device
Your guests arrive with their table assignment in hand.
Every prepaid guest gets a personal digital event tag — paddle #, QR, and their assigned table with sponsor — bookmarkable on their phone. Volunteers scan it straight off the screen.
- Mobile event tag. QR + paddle + table + sponsor on one tap. Apple Wallet-style.
- Lobby kiosk. Drop a tablet in the foyer — guests type their first name, table highlights instantly.
- Privacy-redacted. Only first name + last initial appears anywhere public.
- Zero-app, zero-login. It's just a URL. No App Store. No password. Works on every browser.
Real screenshots from the Riverside Children's Foundation demo event — 24 guests across 6 sponsored tables.
Categories
Any item. Any cause. Any format.
From fine art and signed memorabilia to vacation packages and one-of-a-kind experiences — your donors bid on the things they love, your cause gets the lift it needs.
- Fine art & antiques
- Luxury watches & jewelry
- Vacation & travel
- Sports & memorabilia
- Wine, spirits & dining
Pricing built for non-profits
Free to start. Free to grow.
We don't make a dime until you do. No setup fees, no monthly costs, no per-seat licensing, no contracts — just a flat 2% when your donors give, the smallest fraction in the industry.
No setup fees
Sign up, brand your page, launch your campaign — all free. Forever.
No monthly costs
No subscriptions. No 'Pro' tiers. Every feature, every module, all-in.
Flat 2% when you raise
Just 2% on what you raise — the lowest in the industry. Donors can optionally cover it so your nonprofit keeps 100%.
Our goal is to help you succeed. That's when we succeed.
See how flat 2% beats Givebutter (3% or up-to-20% tip) & OneCause ($5K–$25K /yr)Common questions
The short answers.
Free to start — no setup fee, no monthly subscription, no per-event license. We charge a low 2% platform fee on funds you raise, plus standard payment processing. We only earn when you do.
Yes. A 'cover the fee' toggle lets the donor absorb the platform + card fees so your organization receives the full gift. It's on by default.
Funds pay out directly to your bank via Stripe Connect on a rolling schedule — we never hold your money, and there's no middleman.
All of them — mobile bidding with anti-sniping, printable bid-sheet backups, QR check-in/checkout, sponsorships, fund-a-need, and license-aware raffles, all in one platform.
Yes. Payments are processed by Stripe (PCI-DSS Level 1). We never store raw card data, and access is role-based with audit trails.
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