Monation is donation software with one flat monthly fee and 0% taken from donations. Nonprofits keep 100% of every gift, and their donors are never asked to tip a platform. We make money the honest way: predictable SaaS subscriptions.
Fundraising platforms quietly tax generosity. They take a percentage of every donation, or push "optional" tips onto donors, so the more a nonprofit raises, the more it loses. A small org running a $100k year can lose several thousand dollars that were meant for the mission, and the cost only grows with success.
Competitors charge roughly 3%–4% of every gift (Fundraise Up 4%, Donorbox 2.95%). Cost scales with the cause's success.
"Free" tiers survive by prompting donors to tip the platform, quietly shifting the fee onto supporters.
Enterprise tools (GoFundMe Pro / Classy) require annual contracts, pricing out the smaller orgs that feel fees most.
One honest, flat monthly fee priced by org size, and we take nothing from donations. Software revenue and donor generosity are cleanly separated. Nonprofits keep everything; we keep a predictable subscription.
There are ~1.5M registered nonprofits in the US, and the vast majority are small orgs underserved by enterprise tools and overcharged by percentage-based ones. Even a small share of these, on a $29–$199/mo flat plan, is a large, durable recurring-revenue business. Online giving continues to grow, and every one of these orgs needs a way to collect it.
Monation is early. The product is fully built, live at monation.org, and approved by Stripe (including Connect). We are pre-revenue and focused on a single question: acquiring the first cohort of paying nonprofits. This raise is about turning a finished product into a repeatable go-to-market motion, not building the thing. The riskiest technical and compliance work is already done.
Every number below is an assumption you can change. This is a model, not a forecast. Drag the sliders to pressure-test the business under different growth, conversion, churn, and plan-mix scenarios, or start from a preset.
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SaaS on a serverless stack (Cloudflare) with pass-through payments means very low cost of revenue. Margins look like software, not services.
Once a widget is embedded and donations flow, switching is friction. Flat pricing removes the "punish success" churn trigger that percentage tools create.
Free → paid, tier upgrades as orgs grow, campaign-page revenue, and a Pro API create natural expansion beyond the base subscription.
The product is finished and live. This round funds the one thing left: a repeatable go-to-market engine to acquire the first hundreds of paying nonprofits and prove the flat-fee model at scale. (Edit the amount and terms to match your actual raise.)
Direct nonprofit outreach, content, partnerships with consultants and fiscal sponsors, and paid experiments to find repeatable channels.
Deeper analytics, donor CRM, campaign-page editing, and integrations that raise switching value and expansion revenue.
A founder-led go-to-market motion, then the first growth and support hires as the funnel proves out.