Open by design, so you're never stuck.
No magic and no lock-in. An open, vendor-neutral standard you map your data to, capabilities you add over time, and donor data that never leaves your walls. Here's the whole shape of it.
Start from an open standard
Map your CRM to one vendor-neutral way of describing fundraising data, the Advancement Common Data Model (ACDM™), that maps to and from the systems you already use. Your data becomes portable from day one.
Add capabilities as you need them
Switch on what you're missing, a piece at a time, all on the shared standard, so everything interoperates with what you already have. No rip-and-replace, no all-or-nothing platform decision.
Keep data local and governed
Insights can be shared without raw donor data ever leaving your organization. Calculations run inside your own walls, and consent and retention rules are enforced on the data itself.
Leave any time
It's free and open source, and your data is portable by design. You stay because it works, not because you're trapped.
The privacy guarantee
What leaves your organization is summary parameters and synthetic data, never donor records. Comparison and modeling happen on aggregates, calculations run inside your own environment, and consent and retention are enforced on the data itself. You get the insight without ever putting a donor at risk.
Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
"Free software" often means hiring an expensive developer or agency to install and maintain it. Fundraising Commons is different: we provide pre-built ETL scripts and crosswalks for major CRMs like Salesforce NPSP and Microsoft Dynamics. Your existing advancement services team can set it up without a dedicated software engineer or expensive consulting contracts.
Don't take our word for it. Read the code.
The standard and the tooling are open source and openly licensed. Your team can inspect exactly how everything works, and the whole sector can build on it, including vendors you might choose instead of us. That's the point: a foundation no single company owns.
Explore the open source on GitHubNow picture what you'd build
Once the foundation is in place, a lot more is within reach. See what becomes possible.