Software for nonprofits
We build donate pages, volunteer sign-ups and the reports your board and funders ask for, from a small software studio in central New Jersey. Start with the job that eats the most staff time. You get a fixed written quote, a preview every week, and your organization owns what we build.
The problem
Most small nonprofits run on spreadsheets, a donate button and a lot of goodwill. If a few of these sound familiar, pick the one that costs your team the most hours and start there.
“Our donate button sends people to a page that looks nothing like our site.”
A donate page on your own site, with the card form from a payment provider account in your organization's name, so the money goes straight to you.
“Donors, volunteers and event guests live in three different spreadsheets.”
One set of records for the people who support you, imported from the sheets you have, with duplicates merged and the totals checked with you.
“Volunteer shifts get filled through a group text and somebody always forgets.”
A sign-up page with the shifts and spots left, plus a confirmation and a reminder that send themselves by email or text.
“The board report or grant report takes a week of copying numbers between files.”
Reports that read from the same records your team updates, with an export when a funder wants a spreadsheet.
“Thank-you emails go out late, or not at all, when it gets busy.”
A thank-you that sends itself after each gift, in your words, with the receipt details your accountant tells you to include.
“People who care about our cause nearby don't know we exist.”
A Google Business Profile and site that say plainly what you do and where, and a short video a supporter can share in one tap.
What people ask for
Each card leads to the full service page. The Internal tools page has a working admin tool and a live report for a made-up landscaping company. The screens for donors and volunteers are built from the same parts.
How we build for nonprofits
Senova was founded by Rob La Gravenis, who writes the code. The tools are shaped around how your staff and volunteers already work, not a template.
Sign-ups on a phone
Donate and sign-up pages are designed for small screens first, since that's where people tap a link from a post or an email.
Roles that fit
Staff, coordinators, volunteers and board members each see what their job needs, and every change is recorded with a name.
Reports you can hand over
Pick the few numbers your board and funders ask for, see them live, and export a spreadsheet when someone wants one.
A fixed written quote
One price for the agreed scope, with dated milestones. It only changes if the scope does, and only with your OK.
Running costs at cost
Hosting and the database are paid straight to the providers on your own accounts, with no markup from us.
Yours to keep
The code, your supporters' data and every account are in your organization's name. Staff changes don't lock you out.
Our work
There's no nonprofit work to show here yet. These are our own projects, each with a write-up of why it exists and how it was made.
Process
The same four steps whether it's one donate page or donations, volunteers and reports together.
Step 1: Tell us what you need
Fill in the two-minute brief or book a short call. Plain words are fine; you don't need a spec.
Step 2: Get a fixed quote
A written scope, a fixed price and a dated plan. Free, with no obligation to go ahead.
Step 3: We build, you review weekly
A private preview link that grows every week. You click through it and tell us what to change.
Step 4: Launch and look after
We go live on accounts in your name, with optional ongoing help if you want it.
Your quote
Every project gets its own written quote before any work starts. For a nonprofit that usually comes after one call about how a normal month runs, from a new gift to the report your board reads.
The scope
What we'll build, page by page or screen by screen, and what's out of scope, in plain words.
A fixed price
One price for the agreed scope. It only changes if the scope does, and only with your OK.
A dated timeline
When the first preview arrives, when each part lands and when you go live.
What you'll own
The code, the design and every account, in your name from day one.
Running costs, itemised
Hosting, email and any other services listed one by one, paid to each provider at cost.
FAQ
Often, yes. If one already handles your giving, events and donor records well, keep it, and we'll tell you so. Custom makes sense around the edges it doesn't cover, like volunteer scheduling the way you actually run it, a donate page that matches your site, or the funder reports your team still builds by hand.