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ImagineCRM knows what happens after a grant is approved
Giving money away can produce a surprising amount of paperwork. ImagineCRM builds Salesforce systems for the foundations and nonprofits trying to keep that paperwork from swallowing the mission.
Pushpay made giving easier. Now it wants churches to notice who’s missing.
A mobile donation business became a church software suite by buying the tools around the offering plate. Its next wager: the useful part of a database is the conversation it starts.
Vanco and the Art of Passing the Plate
A donation takes seconds. Accounting for it can take the afternoon. Vanco has built a business around the distance between those two things.
Neon One Wants to Give Nonprofits Their Time Back
A donor database, a donation form, a website that staff can actually update. Neon One is betting that the less time nonprofits spend wrestling with software, the more time they have for the people who give.
Bonterra Bought the Plumbing of Philanthropy. Now It Wants to Make Giving Grow Again.
A $2 billion roll-up put fundraising, grants, casework and corporate giving under one roof. Bonterra's harder job is turning that collection into a network nonprofits can trust - and use without adding more work.
Givzey Found a $600 Million Business Hiding Between a Donor’s ‘Yes’ and the Check
The Boston startup began by borrowing buy-now-pay-later logic for philanthropy. Then it found the larger prize: the messy, expensive gap between a promised gift and money an organization can actually plan around.
The Minnesota Software Company That Bet Nonprofits Would Pay for a Partner, Not a Product
Two guys who met on a governor's campaign built one of the first cloud databases for nonprofits, then rewrote their own corporate charter to prove they meant it. Nearly 30 years later they are betting the same customers on AI.
Bloomerang
Bloomerang is an Indianapolis-based software company that builds a complete giving platform for nonprofits, combining donor management (CRM), online fundraising, and volunteer management into one system. Founded in 2012 on the insight that nonprofits were losing the majority of first-time donors, Bloomerang centers its product on donor retention and relationship-building rather than one-time transactions. It now serves more than 24,000 small and mid-sized nonprofit organizations.
Dennis Fois
Dennis Fois is the CEO of Bloomerang, the leading nonprofit donor management and CRM platform serving over 26,000 organizations across North America. With more than 25 years of international leadership in CRM and customer experience technology - spanning roles at Copper CRM, NewVoiceMedia (sold to Vonage for $350M), Rant & Rave, eGain, Barclays, and ADP - Fois brings a rare combination of high-growth SaaS playbook execution and genuine conviction about the nonprofit sector's transformative potential. Based in San Francisco, he joined Bloomerang in January 2023 to lead the company's next phase of growth, overseeing a strategic investment from Warburg Pincus in 2024 and the acquisitions of Qgiv and InitLive to build what he calls the 'First Giving Platform.'