Illustrative Scenario

From a Custom Donor CRM to a SaaS Used by Many Foundations

An illustration of a donor management SaaS product for small-to-medium foundations/non-profits that need a donor CRM and impact reports in one subscription.

SAASNON-PROFITDONOR CRMMULTI-FOUNDATION

This is an illustrative concept, not a real client project — the data and results shown are examples to demonstrate what we can build.

current situation

Every foundation manages donors its own way. Hard to turn into one scalable product.

When every foundation builds its own way of managing donors and impact reports, it's difficult to build a single donor management SaaS product that many foundations can subscribe to consistently.

donor_mgmt_saas / tenant_overview
Registered Foundations
5
Total Donors Managed
1240
Foundations Still Manual
2
Avg Staff per Foundation
3
FoundationDonors ManagedSystem Status
Peduli Anak Foundation420Automated
Harapan Bangsa Foundation280Manual
Sehat Bersama Foundation340Automated
Cinta Lingkungan Foundation200Partially Manual
Total FoundationsFoundations on Automated System
Q1Q2Q3Q4
the problem

It's not a lack of foundations that need a system. It's that each one builds its own separately.

01

Donors logged manually in a spreadsheet

Some foundations still use separate spreadsheets, hard to pull into a consistent product.

02

Impact reports compiled manually

Each foundation compiles reports to donors manually every period.

03

Hard to scale to other foundations

Adding a new foundation means building a donor management system from scratch again.

proposed workflow

One product, subscribed to by many foundations at once.

Each foundation gets its own workspace (multi-tenant), but runs on the same underlying donor management system.

01 / ONBOARD

Foundation Signs Up

A new foundation signs up and gets its own workspace (tenant).

02 / SETUP

Donor Data Setup

Donor data and initial donation history are entered into the system.

03 / OPERATE

Daily Operations

New donations and follow-ups are logged automatically by the system.

04 / REPORT

Impact Report

Program impact reports are available automatically for donors.

05 / SCALE

New Foundation

Other foundations can onboard through the same process.

illustrative case study

Example: a SaaS with 5 subscribing foundations.

An illustrative scenario based on common patterns among small-to-medium foundations that each still manage donors manually. The figures below are examples to illustrate the system, not a claim of client results.

Illustrative Scenario

Multi-tenant SaaS for donor & program management

5 independent foundations want the same donor management system, but their data must stay separate between foundations. Each needs its own donor CRM and impact reports.

Main goal: let one product answer three needs at once:
  1. How does each foundation's donor data stay separate and secure?
  2. How can a new foundation onboard quickly?
  3. How are impact reports generated automatically for donors?

Illustrated automation architecture

Foundation TenantDonors, Programs, Reports
Core PlatformMulti-tenant, Securely separated data
Donor & Impact EngineDonor CRM, Automatic impact reports

EXCEPTION → a major donor hasn't been followed up on in 7 days → escalation notification sent to the foundation's program team

5
Example Foundations

subscribing on one platform

1
Codebase

used by all foundations (multi-tenant)

Automatic
Impact Reports

instead of compiled manually every period

before → after

The key change is how these foundations manage donors at the same time.

Before / spreadsheet per foundation

  • Each foundation logs donors manually on its own
  • Impact reports compiled manually every period
  • New foundation onboarding built from scratch
  • Hard to see performance across foundations
  • Updates rolled out one at a time

After / one multi-tenant SaaS

  • All foundations use the same donor management system
  • Impact reports available automatically
  • New foundations onboard within days
  • Cross-foundation performance visible in one dashboard
  • Feature updates apply automatically to all foundations
what can be built

Not just a digital donor list.

This product can be developed gradually as more foundations join.

01

Multi-tenant platform

One product usable by many foundations with data kept securely separate.

02

Donor CRM & donation history

Donor data and contributions logged neatly per foundation.

03

Automatic impact reports

Program reports available automatically for donors every period.

implementation

From a spreadsheet per foundation to one SaaS, step by step.

  1. 01

    Map cross-foundation needs

    Identify the processes common to all foundations (donors, programs, reports) as the product baseline.

    DISCOVERY
  2. 02

    Build the multi-tenant architecture

    A data structure that keeps each foundation securely separate within one system.

    FOUNDATION
  3. 03

    Build the core donor CRM module

    Donor data and donation history as the product's core feature.

    CORE PRODUCT
  4. 04

    Automate impact reports

    Program reports available automatically for donors every period.

    AUTOMATION
  5. 05

    Add further layers

    If needed, a donor portal to view their own contribution history can be added.

    OPTIONAL
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If every foundation is still building its own donor system separately, maybe what needs building isn't a single-foundation app — it's a product all of them can use.

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