Bloomerang for Startup Ventura

Where the work lives today

Five tools, one founder, no follow up engine

You have pieced together a stack that works because you personally hold it together. Every tool below solves one slice, and none of them talk to each other. As Startup Ventura scales past the first cohort, that gap is what breaks first.

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Notion CRM

Manual

Homegrown, no giving data

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Zeffy

Payments

Not linked to records

🎫

Eventbrite

Events

Attendees stay siloed

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Mailchimp

Barely used, disconnected

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You

The glue

Follow up lives in your head

Five disconnected tools
plus manual effort → One unified giving platform
records, giving, email, events

The ROI, in your terms

What one found major donor is worth

You are raising roughly half of a 300,000 to 400,000 dollar operating budget from grants, corporate gifts, and individuals. Move the sliders to your reality. This models the giving lift Bloomerang customers see after converting, plus peer to peer growth, found major gifts, and the hours you get back. Move the sliders to test it yourself.

Your inputs

Funds you raise in a year, all channels$175,000

Peer to peer raised in a year$10,000

Major gift prospects hidden in your list3

Admin hours saved per week5

What an hour of that time is worth$50

First year return on Bloomerang

0 to 1

New giving, major gift upside, and reclaimed time vs. the annual investment

Added giving

At the average 47% lift Bloomerang customers see after converting

Peer to peer lift

Same 47% lift applied to peer to peer

Major gift upside

At $5,000 per identified prospect

Time reclaimed

Hours saved times what your time is worth

Total first year impact

Illustrative. 47% giving lift is the average Bloomerang customers see. Major gift value locked at $5,000 per prospect for a like for like comparison.

The cost of doing nothing

A homegrown system has a ceiling you will hit fast

You said it yourself. A homegrown build can work long term, but right now Salesforce would take a couple hundred hours to shape and Notion cannot see a gift as it lands. The real cost is not the tools. It is what slips through while you are the only integration, and it is quantifiable. The figures below track the calculator above.

Prospects you never surface

Without giving history and propensity in one place, the board contact who could give five figures looks like everyone else. Every $5,000 prospect you cannot see is one you never ask.

Missed major gifts per year

The lift you leave on the table

Bloomerang customers raise about 47% more after converting. Every year on the homegrown stack is a year that lift does not happen across your giving and peer to peer.

Uncaptured giving lift per year

Hours rebuilding instead of raising

Every hour spent tuning a CRM by hand is an hour not spent closing a sponsor or a grant. Your business development skill is the asset, not database admin.

Founder time lost per year

Standing still is not free. On your current inputs, doing nothing costs Startup Ventura about $0 in the first year alone.

Built for how Startup Ventura works

The pieces you asked for, in one place

Every capability below maps to something you raised on our call. This is not a feature dump. It is the shortlist that gets Startup Ventura to a yes.

Lead management

New people in, follow up scheduled

Add a contact in seconds, drop in your notes, and set the next touch. The one thing you named as most important, finding new people and staying on them, becomes a workflow instead of a memory test.

Follow up

Scheduled follow up you will not forget

Built in email marketing plus scheduled tasks and reminders on every record. The follow up you named as most important becomes a workflow instead of a memory test.

Donor centric CRM

Every supporter, one record

Giving, emails, event attendance, and notes on a single timeline. The donor centric view you wanted, so a relationship is never scattered across five tools again.

QuickBooks Online

A native, direct integration

Gifts flow straight into QuickBooks Online, the system your bookkeeper almost certainly uses. No exports, no double entry, no month end reconciliation guesswork.

Events

Dinners and sponsors, tracked

Your model is dinners with sponsors and gifts at the end, not ticketed gates. Capture sponsors, attendees, and gifts against real records, ready for the Cal Lutheran summit when you shape its giving piece.

Payments

Keep what works, connect the rest

Zeffy has served you well at zero processing fee. Bloomerang gives you native giving tools and recurring options for when you are ready to make the monthly ask, without forcing a switch before you want one.

Penny, your AI fundraising partner

AI that reads your data, not a search box

You are fluent in AI and you will see through anything shallow. Penny is trained on your database, not generic answers, so she works the way you would want a sharp analyst to work.

What Penny actually does

The bar you set on our call was real intelligence over your data, not a glorified search that hands every nonprofit the same reply. That is the line Penny is built to clear.

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Surfaces hidden capacity. Scores everyone in your database for major gift propensity, so the founder who can give far more than they do today does not stay invisible.

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Drafts the ask. Point Penny at a prospect and have a tailored outreach letter ready to edit, not a blank page.

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Cleans the busywork. Tell her to fix every uncapitalized name in your imported records and she does it, so your first sends look professional.

Penny

AI fundraising partner

Who in our database has the capacity to give more than they are giving now?

I found several. Here is the strongest signal in your records right now.

Illustrative example

$5,000+

A current supporter giving at a fraction of likely capacity. Want a draft ask?

Yes, draft it.

Done. A tailored letter is ready for your review and edits.

How the options stack up

You have already met the alternatives

You tested a homegrown build, applied for the free Salesforce grant, and looked at Blackbaud. Here is how each lands against what Startup Ventura actually needs.

What you need	Bloomerang	Salesforce (free grant)	Blackbaud	Homegrown / Notion
Built for nonprofits, not adapted B2B	Yes	✗ B2B core	Dated	✗ DIY
Ready without heavy setup	Days	✗ ~200 hrs to shape	Complex	✗ Ongoing build
Donor giving history in one record	Native	Custom work	✓	✗ Not linked
Built in email automation	Included	Add on	Add on	✗ Separate tool
QuickBooks Online integration	Native	Connector	Varies	✗
Modern interface	Yes	✓	✗ You called it terrible	Your build
AI trained on your data	Penny	General	Limited	✗

The pattern we see

Early stage orgs stall on the follow up, not the mission

New nonprofits rarely lose momentum because the cause is weak. They lose it because the founder is the only one holding every relationship, and there is no system to catch the next touch. The organizations that scale are the ones that put that engine in place before the volume arrives, not after it overwhelms them.

Why it matters for cohort one

Set the foundation before the growth, not during it

You are starting fresh with no historical numbers to lean on. That is the ideal moment to build clean. Every supporter you add now lands in a real record with real follow up, so when the accelerator is running and the corporate money gets easier, as your board predicts, the system is already ready for it.

94%

of Bloomerang customers renew year over year

Before and after

The same founder, a very different week

Today

✗A new contact means a Notion row, a mental note, and a follow up you hope you remember.

✗Zeffy shows a gift landed, but nothing links it back to the person or prompts a thank you.

✗Event attendees from Eventbrite sit apart from everyone else you know.

✗You are the integration layer, and it works only while the numbers stay small.

With Bloomerang

✓A new contact lands in one record with a scheduled next touch, no memory required.

✓A gift posts to the donor timeline and to QuickBooks Online, thank you ready to send.

✓Event guests, sponsors, and donors share one view, so relationships compound.

✓The system holds the follow up, so your time goes to sponsors, grants, and founders.

The investment, Intelligent Giving Platform

Simple pricing, built for where you are

Sized to Startup Ventura at the zero to 1,000 contact tier, unlimited users, billed by contacts and bundle, not per seat. You asked to see Standard and Pro side by side, so both are below, each with the Intelligent Giving Platform intelligence shown as its own line item so you can see exactly what it adds.

Your path with Bloomerang

Discovery

Complete. We mapped your stack, your goals, and what gets you to a yes.

Demo, July 9

The full hour long walkthrough of the platform against your real needs.

Decision

On your roughly three month horizon, brought to a board that trusts your call.

Standard, recommended starting point

Intelligent Giving Platform, Standard

Donor management, Bloomerang CRM

Up to 1,000 contacts with unlimited users, no per seat fees
Complete donor database with a constituent timeline on every record
Donor engagement scoring and generosity scoring
Wealth screening and giving capacity insight
Sustainability scorecard
Smart segmentation and saved, filtered lists
Customizable reporting and dashboards, in plain English, no SQL
Built in email marketing with templates and merge fields
Letters, acknowledgements, and receipting
Recurring gifts, tribute gifts, and pledge management
Nightly address verification and deceased suppression
Native QuickBooks Online integration, Zeffy via Zapier
Mobile app for iOS and Android
Data export any time, you always own your data

Fundraising, Bloomerang Fundraising Standard

Unlimited online donation pages and forms, customizable and mobile optimized
Standard ticketed events with seat charting, QR check in, and custom questions
Donor and fundraiser mobile apps

Intelligent Giving Platform layer, the $1,000 line item

PredictAI scores: who is ready to give, who is lapsing, who is ready for a bigger ask
ProspectAI research and enrichment from public sources, every figure cited
Penny and the AI Content Assistant draft outreach you review and approve

AI, onboarding, and support

Penny, your AI fundraising partner, generous introductory access
Guided onboarding
Support by phone, email, and 24/7 chat
Bloomerang Academy, weekly training, and knowledge base

Standard base$2,899

Intelligent Giving Platform+$1,000

$3,899

per year

Up to 1,000 contacts, unlimited users.

Pro, if events and peer to peer scale

Intelligent Giving Platform, Pro

Everything in Standard, plus these Pro tools

Unlimited automated email and task outreach, the sequences that run without you
Peer to peer fundraising, turn advocates into fundraisers who bring in new donors
Auctions, silent and live, with online bidding, fund a need, and the givey app
Outbound text fundraising

Intelligent Giving Platform layer, the $1,000 line item

PredictAI scores, ProspectAI research, and Penny content drafting, same as Standard

Pro base$4,999

Intelligent Giving Platform+$1,000

$5,999

per year

Up to 1,000 contacts, unlimited users.

Pricing prepared for Startup Ventura at the zero to 1,000 contact tier. Final quote confirmed with your signed agreement.

IGP, predictive donor intelligence

Does the upgrade pay for itself?

A forward look for when Startup Ventura is ready for the Intelligent Giving Platform. The slider is set to your record count. Any one of the three outcomes below covers the annual cost on its own, and most organizations reach all three.

PredictAI

Scores the supporters already in your database on behavior and likelihood, who is ready to give, who is about to lapse, and who is ready for a bigger ask. Includes Next Gift Likelihood, Recurring Giving Likelihood, and Recurring Donor Churn Risk.

ProspectAI

Prospect research and enrichment from public sources like IRS 990s, FEC filings, and news, with charitable giving history and an adverse findings scan. Every figure is cited and clickable back to its source.

Penny and AI Content Assistant

Help draft the outreach once your team decides to act. The intelligence is automated. A person reviews and approves everything that goes out.

Built natively into Bloomerang, with no separate login. It works on the supporters already in your database, so it pairs with prospecting tools like DonorSearch that bring in brand new names.

IGP Upgrade ROI Calculator

How many outcomes does it take to cover the cost? Usually fewer than you would think.

Constituent Records

MAJOR GIFTS

LAPSE SAVES

MONTHLY CONVERTS

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Scenario 1: Major Gift Identification

GIFT THRESHOLD

DONORS NEEDED

TOTAL REVENUE

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Scenario 2: Lapse Prevention

AVG ANNUAL GIFT