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Private beta · Founding member pricing

The fundraising platform with skin in the game.

Free event software. An AI revenue engine. A marketplace that only earns when it brings you money you didn't already have. We only make money when we make you money.

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$0
Platform fee on your event rails. Forever. No $2,995-plus-5% bill for running the event itself.
10%+
The only fee we ever charge — and only on facilitated revenue we demonstrably bring you.
$417K
The real cost of a reported "$1M gala" once $133,000 of uncounted staff hours were added to the ledger.
Source: Armando Zumaya, "Kill Your Gala," 2024 →
What the industry already knows

The gala isn't the problem. The economics are.

Development directors aren't asking for better bidding screens. Trade publications, practitioner forums, and sector surveys keep landing on the same finding: the event works. The math around it doesn't.

52% / 25%

Productive isn't the same as effective.

A Chronicle of Philanthropy survey of nonprofits with $10M–$200M budgets found 52% of leaders call their galas "productive." Only 25% call them "very effective" at raising money.

Chronicle of Philanthropy, cited in Convergent Nonprofit →
1,000 hrs

Six months of unpaid labor, most years.

Auction chairs report spending up to 1,000 hours — six months of full-time work — producing a single event, much of it chasing donated items with no procurement system behind it.

Roger Devine, SchoolAuction.net →
47%

Procurement runs on luck, not a system.

Greater Giving's own survey of nonprofits found 47% admit they "take what they can get" on auction-item donations rather than sourcing strategically.

Greater Giving procurement survey →

"If I write you a bigger check, can I just skip the gala?" — some donors are already asking.

Reported in Town Hall Agency's nonprofit events analysis, 2024
How it works

One platform, three ways it makes you money

Every layer past the first is optional. You only pay for what visibly pays you back.

Layer 1 — Free forever

The event rails

$0
  • Professional event page & registration
  • Ticketing & seating
  • Mobile bidding
  • Live auction console
  • Real-time revenue dashboard
  • Stripe processing at nonprofit rates
Not a teaser tier. No $2,995-plus-5% incumbent bill for the software itself, ever.
Layer 2 — Membership · Founding member pricing

The AI revenue engine

$249–$749/mo
  • Builds and runs your production calendar
  • Drafts every appeal and thank-you
  • Reconciles post-event data into your CRM
  • Coaches the live fund-a-need
  • Runs sponsor and auction-item procurement
Priced against a fraction of one hire, not against software. Cancel anytime — you keep the free rails.
Layer 3 — Facilitated revenue · 10%–25%

Sponsor Exchange & Inventory Marketplace

  • Sponsor Exchange: brands and local businesses browse vetted events by audience, city, and cause. When a match closes, the sponsor pays the 10% marketplace fee — not you.
  • Inventory Marketplace: consignment auction items from vetted suppliers at fixed floors. You keep 100% above floor.
The mechanic 40,000+ nonprofits already accept from consignment suppliers like Winspire, applied to sponsors and multi-supplier inventory in one place.
The Skin-in-the-Game Manifesto

We will never charge you a percentage of money we did not bring.

  1. We will never charge you a percentage of money we did not bring.
  2. Our pricing is published. Every number, in the open, always.
  3. No sales calls to find out what something costs.
  4. If our AI revenue engine and marketplace don't make you money, cancel. You keep everything you already had.
  5. Sponsors pay for the Sponsor Exchange. Not you.
Signed and published, 2026 — EventRaise, founding team
The honest math

What the category actually charges

Published and reported pricing as of July 2026. Several vendors now gate exact figures behind a sales quote on their own current sites — that gap is itself part of the comparison. Verify directly with each vendor before you decide.

PlatformSoftware costTake ratePricing, in their own words
EventRaise $0 mandatory$249–$749/mo optional membership 10%+, only on revenue we bringNever on money you already had Published above. No quote required →
OneCause $2,995/yr reportedor pay-as-you-go 5%, cappedon the pay-as-you-go tier Current site: "Get Pricing" quote required for its Professional tier.
GiveSmart ~$3,000/yr reportedflat annual license 3.5% processingreported Current site: "transparent, fixed pricing," figures behind a demo request.
Handbid ~$1,396–$1,999/yr reported 5% of winning bidsreported Current site: "no one-size-fits-all tiers," custom quote only.
Zeffy $0nonprofit pays nothing $0 from the orgfunded by optional donor tips "100% free forever." No auction console or Sponsor Exchange.

Figures for OneCause, GiveSmart, and Handbid reflect public reporting and vendor materials gathered in July 2026 research; each vendor's current site gates exact figures behind a sales conversation, so treat these as directional, not quoted live prices. EventRaise is not affiliated with OneCause, GiveSmart, Handbid, or Zeffy.

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