More Mission. Less Platform Tax.
Nonprofit EDs and Chief Development Officers watch 8-15% of fundraising revenue evaporate into platform fees (Classy 4.9%, Substack 10%, Bonterra per-campaign) + 30-50% of development team time go to tool reconciliation across Salesforce NPSP + Classy + Bonterra + DonorPerfect + Foundant. Aeion's nonprofit stack unifies it at 0% donation fee + a 50-80% nonprofit discount across every à-la-carte module — every dollar saved flows to mission spend, not platform overhead.
What Aeion Ships for Nonprofit Executives
0% Platform Fee on Donations
Stripe still charges its 2.2% nonprofit rate — but Aeion takes 0% additional. vs Classy 4.9% + Substack 10%. On a $5M-fundraising org, that's $245K-500K Year-1 mission-recovered. Read Commerce →
Donor LTV AI
AeionClaw's donor-scoring assistant reads giving history, recency, and engagement signals to project each donor's lifetime giving potential 12-24 months out — so your development team spends cultivation time on the donors most likely to become major gifts, not the ones who happen to be top-of-mind. Mid-tier deployments report +20-40% major-gift conversion as a result. Read Claw →
Recurring + One-Time Donations Native
Sustaining-giver programs run with multiple tiers built in — no separate subscription-billing tool taking its own cut on top of your processor. Annual giving days, capital campaigns, and peer-to-peer fundraising all run on the same platform, so a peer-to-peer participant's gift shows up in the same donor record as their one-time gift last year.
990 Schedule Auto-Generation
Form 990 Schedule A, B, and M prep drafts automatically from your live CRM and Commerce data instead of a spreadsheet reconstruction every spring. Public-support-test calculations, UBIT tracking, and tax-deductible receipt issuance run continuously through the year, so nothing gets rebuilt from scratch at filing time.
40-State Charity Registration Tracking
Registration and renewal deadlines are tracked state by state, with solicitation-registration requirements and year-end donor reports generated per each state's specific rules — so expanding your fundraising into a new state doesn't mean a compliance research project first. Read Governance →
Grant Lifecycle Mgmt
Every grant moves through prospecting, application, award, reporting, and renewal in one tracked pipeline, with restricted-fund tracking tied to the grant that funded it. Foundation portal integration and per-foundation report templates mean each funder gets the format they expect without a rebuild from scratch.
Impact + ESG Reporting
Per-program impact tracking and theory-of-change documentation separate outcomes from outputs from activities, so a funder report shows what actually changed, not just what activities happened. Foundation funder reports and corporate-sponsor ESG reports generate directly from that data.
Volunteer Coordination
Each volunteer's skills, schedule, banked hours, and background-check status live in one profile, so matching volunteers to shifts doesn't require a separate volunteer-management tool synced by hand.
The Mission-Spend Math
Typical mid-size nonprofit ($5M fundraising):
- Classy fundraising fee: $245K/year (4.9%)
- Bonterra peer-to-peer fee: ~$50K/year
- Salesforce NPSP: $50-150K/year (after 10-seat free tier)
- DonorPerfect: $5-30K/year
- Mailchimp Nonprofit + Constant Contact: $5-20K/year
- Foundant for grants: $10-50K/year
- Custom volunteer scheduler: $5-30K/year
- Total platform tax: ~$445K/year (~9% of fundraising revenue)
Aeion nonprofit deployment (501(c)(3) discount):
- Aeion module pricing (CRM + Commerce + Marketing + Forms + ESG, à la carte): $700-1,800/year (50-80% nonprofit discount off $3,540/year list; Governance, Giftcards, and AeionClaw included free with any module)
- Stripe nonprofit rate: 2.2% + 30¢ (vs Classy's 4.9% + 2.9%)
- LLM inference for fundraising AI: $2-10K/year
- Total: $3-12K/year
Year-1 mission-recovered: $430-440K
For a $10M-fundraising org: $850-900K/year recovered to mission spend.
That's typically 1-2 entire program-staff salaries re-funded by switching platforms.
The Major-Gift Pipeline AI Story
Donor LTV scoring grounded in your actual giving data: Per-donor pattern analysis (recency, frequency, gift size, growth velocity, engagement signals). AI surfaces major-donor potential 12-24 months before traditional patterns would.
Lapsed donor early-warning: Per-donor engagement decay detection. AI surfaces donors at risk of lapsing 60-90 days before. Auto-triggers personalized re-engagement campaigns. Lapse rate reduction 25-40% typical.
Grant opportunity matching: Per-foundation profile + per-nonprofit program. AI matches grant opportunities to programs you actually run. Surfaces deadlines + alignment scores. Drafts initial application narratives.
Per-campaign appeal drafting: AeionClaw drafts year-end appeals, monthly newsletters, post-event thank-yous in your nonprofit brand voice. Per-donor segment personalization. Improves response rates 15-30%.
Impact storytelling automation: Per-program impact narrative drafting from outcomes data. Per-donor impact reports auto-generated. Annual report drafting. Frees development staff from admin to relationship building.
Worked example: $5M nonprofit, 18 months on Aeion:
- Year-1 mission-recovered: $435K direct savings
- Lapsed donor recovery: $180K (donors retained who would have lapsed)
- Major-gift conversion lift: $420K (3 additional $100K+ gifts vs prior 12-month baseline)
- Grant opportunity surfacing: $250K (3 new grants discovered + won via AI matching)
- Total Year-1 incremental: $1.3M
That's 26% revenue lift on a $5M base — usually larger than the impact of any single program-staff hire.
What Nonprofit Execs Stop Doing
Per-vendor reconciliation across 6-8 systems
One platform and one audit trail replace the monthly ritual of cross-checking donor records between tools.
Manual 990 prep
Schedule A/B/M drafts auto-generate from your live CRM and Commerce data instead of a year-end scramble.
Per-state charity registration tracking spreadsheets
Registration and renewal deadlines are tracked automatically, with alerts before anything lapses.
Donor data export from Classy + import to Salesforce NPSP
One unified database means there's no export/import step to get wrong.
Per-program impact narrative drafting
AI drafts the narrative from your outcomes data; your team reviews and ships it.
Per-foundation custom report formatting
Template-based generation handles each funder's format without a rebuild from scratch.
Lapsed-donor manual review
AI surfaces at-risk donors 60-90 days before they'd have lapsed, while there's still time to act.
Major-gift "gut feel" cultivation
AI-scored opportunities get surfaced systematically instead of relying on whoever remembers a name.
Foundation + Corporate Funder Reporting
Per-funder reporting requirements vary widely. Aeion handles all common shapes:
- Per-grant custom outcome reports — GuideStar/Candid-style impact narrative + financials + beneficiary metrics
- Per-corporate-partner ESG reports — SASB + GRI nonprofit standards
- Foundation board packets — pre-formatted for major funders
- DAF (Donor-Advised Fund) integration — Schwab Charitable, Fidelity Charitable, NPT
- Estate / planned giving tracking — bequest pipeline + realized gifts
- Capital campaign milestone reporting — major-donor stewardship
Per-funder reports auto-generated from your live CRM + Commerce + program-outcomes data. The development team reviews + customizes (not writes from scratch).
Per-funder portal flexibility:
- Foundation X requires PDF with specific format → template-based PDF gen
- Foundation Y has online portal → Aeion API + their submission API
- Foundation Z requires SASB-formatted ESG disclosure → ESG module handles
Annual report compilation goes from 200-400 hrs to 30-60 hrs. Mid-cycle funder check-ins go from 4-8 hrs each to 30 min.
Nonprofit Exec questions
Verified 501(c)(3) status (we check via IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search) qualifies for 50-80% discount off Aeion's standard à-la-carte module pricing. Most $1-50M-revenue nonprofits pay $700-1,800/year all-in across the modules they use (CRM, Commerce, Marketing, Forms, ESG) — pricing is flat per module with unlimited users, so it doesn't scale with revenue or headcount. Combined with eliminated Classy/Bonterra fees, typical Year-1 net is $400-900K+ in mission-recovered dollars.
Yes — Singularity has connectors for Salesforce NPSP, Classy, Bonterra, DonorPerfect, Mailchimp Nonprofit, Foundant. Most migrations preserve donor history + giving patterns + tax-receipt records. Per-team graduated cutover over 2-3 months.
Aeion Executive module + Claw drafts board materials from live fundraising + program-outcomes data. Quarterly board packets that took 40-80 hrs to compile now take 2-4 hrs of review. Per-board-member custom dashboards available.
Per-donor anonymity preferences enforced platform-wide. GDPR + state privacy law compliance. Per-donor right-to-erasure with audit-trail preservation. Anonymous donations supported throughout.
Aeion Finance handles per-restriction fund accounting. Per-grant restricted-fund tracking. Per-program restricted-net-assets tracking. Auditor-ready balance sheets with restriction categorization.
Native — per-campaign milestone tracking, major-donor cultivation pipelines, planned-giving pipeline (bequests, charitable trusts, gift annuities). Auto-tracks pledge fulfillment + recognition.
Yes — a parent national org, state affiliates, and program subsidiaries can all run on one deployment, each with its own isolated records, while leadership still gets cross-entity rollup reporting.
Aeion Finance can replace QuickBooks/Sage Intacct OR integrate via Singularity. Most $1-50M nonprofits use Aeion Finance natively. Larger orgs sometimes keep Sage Intacct for GL and use Aeion for AR + fundraising + restricted-fund tracking.
Aeion Governance module tracks board composition + DEI metrics + conflicts-of-interest disclosures + per-board-meeting attendance + per-board-decision audit log. Annual board self-evaluation surveys via Aeion Forms.