For newly approved 501(c)(3)s

You're officially a nonprofit. Can anyone actually give you money yet?

The IRS letter makes you real. It doesn't make you fundable. Most new orgs go weeks before a supporter can donate online. Donorbox turns it on in about 15 minutes, with no monthly fee.

Start taking donations

Disclosure: if your organization signs up for Donorbox through this page, I earn a referral fee from Donorbox. It costs your org nothing extra.

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Weeksletter → first online gift

That's the typical gap between the determination letter arriving and a supporter actually being able to give online. And it lands exactly when your people are warmest: the launch window. The congratulations pour in, and there's nowhere to put a dollar behind them.

Determination letter arrives. Everyone says congratulations. Nobody can give you a dollar.
Your first supporters are the warmest they will ever be, right now, in the launch window.
"We'll set up donations later" is how launch momentum turns into a mailing list that never gave.

The fix

In one sentence.

Donorbox is a donation platform: it puts a working donate button and donation form on your org today and keeps track of every donor for you.

How it works

Sign up free

No monthly fee on the free plan. No card required to find out if it fits.

Set up your form

About 15 minutes. Add your org, connect where the money goes, done.

Take your first donation

Share the link anywhere: your site, an email, a text to your board. Donations work today, not "once the website's finished."

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Why this one

It's near-standard equipment for nonprofits that raise money online, and the free plan means the decision costs nothing to test. You keep 100% on the free plan.

[TESTIMONIAL PLACEHOLDER — real nonprofit customer needed. Do not publish this page with an invented quote.]

"We can't afford another tool."

What does it cost?: The free plan has no monthly fee. You keep 100% on the free plan. If your budget is zero, that's the plan you start on.
Can't we just set this up later?: You can. But your launch window is when friends, family, and first believers most want to give. Fifteen minutes now beats a big push to a cold list in six months.
Do we need a website first?: No. The donation form has its own link. Website comes whenever it comes.

Fifteen minutes. Then your org can take donations.

Start taking donations

Disclosure: I earn a referral fee if your org signs up through this link. It costs your org nothing extra.