Ticket-as-donation with IRS-compliant tax receipts auto-emailed to every donor. Lowest-in-class platform fees so more dollars reach the mission. Donor intelligence across every event you have ever run. Volunteers check donors in by name and organization, never by phone number.
Built for executive directors, development directors, and chapter leads who run galas, donor cultivation dinners, annual fundraisers, and golf classics without a development team to lean on.
Common wisdom says fundraising is getting harder.
The EDs moving their numbers year after year already know common wisdom has it backwards.
Eventbrite bills your donors $4.87 to give you $50. Zeffy promises zero fees and upsells the donor on a tip that does not go to you. Classy charges your nonprofit a platform fee that scales with your fundraising, so the more you raise, the more they take.
The donors are not tired. The platforms are eating the fundraisers. The best EDs have already figured that out. Vantage is the platform that catches up.
Every ticket sold writes a tax-deductible donation receipt. Every attendee enters a record your development team can act on. Every event compounds the last one. The platform either raises with you, or it eats the difference.
Each pillar names a specific capability and the dollar, donor, or board-meeting answer it earns you.
Every ticket sold generates a tax-deductible donation receipt, auto-emailed to the donor with your EIN, the fair market value of any goods received, and the deductible portion calculated correctly. Your accountant stops chasing paperwork. Your donors get exactly what the IRS wants to see, the morning after the event.
Nonprofit-tier pricing undercuts Eventbrite, Classy, and Givebutter on every event size. The free tier stays free for small orgs and chapters. Every dollar that stays out of platform fees stays in the mission. No "donor tip" upsell that funds the platform instead of you.
See which attendees come back, who upgrades their giving, who has attended six events in three years without anyone on your team noticing. Cross-event patterns surface in the cultivation queue automatically. Volunteers never see giving history. Only development staff and the ED do.
Names and organization only. Phone numbers, emails, and giving history are masked from volunteer roles by default. Your donor list never walks out on a clipboard, and your board chair's spouse helping at the door does not see the major-gift flag next to a guest's name.
Vantage predicts attendance based on past events, RSVP trajectory, weather, and send-time patterns. The forecast tightens as the event approaches. You stop ordering food for ghosts, and you stop running short when the number lands higher than you guessed.
Revenue, cost per attendee, net to mission, new donors acquired, repeat donors retained, average gift size, year-over-year delta. Pulled into a one-page export the morning after the event. Your board chair gets the answer before they ask.
The five stages every fundraiser runs. Two very different outcomes.
| Stage | Without Vantage | With Vantage | What you earn |
|---|---|---|---|
| Save-the-date | Mailchimp blast to a stale list. Bounce rate unknown until next quarter's report. | Send sequence drafted by the AI in your ED's voice, deliverability tuned, soft-bounces flagged for development to clean. | Invitations that arrive, in language donors recognize. |
| Ticket sales | Eventbrite bills the donor a fee. Donor sees the platform name on the receipt, not yours. Tax-receipt logic happens later, by hand. | Tax receipt issues automatically with your EIN, your branding, the fair-market-value math correct. Donor sees a receipt that reads like it came from your finance team. | IRS-clean receipts before the donor closes their laptop. |
| Booking the catering | Order for the optimistic number. Pay for the no-shows. Or order for the pessimistic number and run out at table six. | ML forecast updates every 24 hours as RSVPs come in. Caterer locked at the right headcount four days out. | No food ordered for ghosts. No empty plates at table six. |
| At the door | Volunteer with a printed list. Phone numbers and giving history visible to anyone who walks past the iPad. | QR scan. Volunteer view shows name and organization only. Major-gift flags and giving history visible to development staff only. | Donor list stays where it belongs. |
| Board meeting | Two weeks of reconciling Eventbrite, Stripe, the catering invoice, the venue, and the auction software. A spreadsheet that nobody trusts. | One-page ROI export the morning after. Revenue, cost, net to mission, new donors, repeat donors, average gift, year-over-year delta. Same numbers your CFO would have built by hand. | The board gets the answer before the meeting. |
Side by side, on the same $50 ticket. Net to mission is the only number that matters.
| Platform | Platform fee on $50 | Donor "tip" upsell | Net to mission |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vantage | 3.5% + Stripe ($1.75 + $1.75 = $3.50) | None | $46.50 |
| Eventbrite (nonprofit pricing) | 3.5% + $1.59 + Stripe ($4.87 total typical) | None, but charges donor directly | $45.13 |
| Classy | Platform fee scales with revenue (typically 4.9% + Stripe) | Optional, prompted | ~$45.85 |
| Givebutter | "Free" platform, but tips fund operations | 15% suggested by default to donor | ~$48.55 (if donor tips), ~$48.55 (if not, plus Stripe) |
| Zeffy | "Zero fee" platform, donor tip funds platform | Defaults to 15-25% tip on donor | $50.00 nominal, but donor pays the platform's bill |
Comparison reflects publicly stated fee schedules at time of writing. Stripe processing applies on every platform and is itemized separately on the donor's receipt. The "free" platforms charge the donor the fee that the paid platforms charge the nonprofit. The math reaches the same place by a different route.
Every insight below answers one question: how does this raise the next gift, retain the donor, or close the cultivation loop? If we cannot answer that, we do not build it.
Vantage flags donors whose gifts have risen across the last three events. Surfaces them in the cultivation queue with a suggested next ask, calibrated to past pattern. Your development director sees the moment, not the spreadsheet.
Cross-event analytics surface the donor who has shown up to six events in three years without anyone on your team reaching out personally. The CRM had her flagged as small-dollar. Vantage flags her as overdue for a coffee.
Vantage tracks the donors who attended consecutively, then dropped off. Suggests a re-engagement touch before the gap becomes a full lapse. Your retention rate stops being a quarterly surprise.
Ranked daily by gift trajectory, attendance pattern, and time since last contact. Not a generic priority score. A working call list your two-person dev team can actually finish in a week.
Updates every 24 hours as RSVPs and reminders fire. Tightens to a confidence band the closer the event gets. The caterer's call goes in with a forecast, not a guess.
Revenue, cost, net to mission, new donors, repeat donors, average gift, year-over-year delta. One PDF. The version your CFO would build by hand if the CFO had three more days.
Vantage flagged a pattern.
Over four years, one attendee showed up at every major fundraiser. Never the cocktail events. Never the auctions. Always the quiet dinners with the executive director.
She had given $50 each time.
The ED pulled the cross-event report. The woman had attended twelve events in three years. She had never once been contacted directly by development staff. She had been slotted as a "small-dollar volunteer" in the CRM by someone who had left the org two reorgs ago.
The ED wrote her a handwritten thank-you. Asked for fifteen minutes of her time.
She wrote the foundation's largest annual gift the following quarter.
The pattern had been in the data the whole time. Until Vantage, nobody had been looking at it across events.
Illustrative scenario. Vantage tracks attendance and engagement history across every event you have run; human judgment drives cultivation strategy and personal outreach.
The free tier is free for small orgs and chapter-level events, with no ceiling that forces an upgrade by attendee count. The paid tiers are priced below Eventbrite's and Classy's effective fee structures on the events most nonprofits actually run. For most EDs the math works out as net-positive in the first quarter of using Vantage. We will model it for your event count if that helps the budget conversation.
Yes. Each receipt includes your EIN, a unique transaction ID, the gross amount paid, the fair market value of any goods or services received (with a default $0 for ticket-only events that you can edit per event), and the deductible portion calculated correctly. The receipt arrives within a minute of the donor's transaction confirmation. The format follows IRS Publication 1771 guidance.
It sits on top. Vantage does the event lifecycle, the donor intelligence across events, and the post-event ROI. Your CRM continues to hold the constituent record of truth. CSV export and webhook sync to Salesforce NPSP, Bloomerang, DonorPerfect, and the like is on the roadmap, with manual export available today. You do not pick one or the other. Vantage is the layer your CRM does not have time to be.
Data is encrypted at rest. Role-based access means volunteers see name and organization only. Phone numbers, emails, and giving history are admin-only by default. Your data is exportable in CSV at any time. No data-sharing with third-party advertisers. We document the security posture in a one-page brief your board chair can review in five minutes.
Most one-person development shops are running their first event on Vantage within thirty minutes of signing up. The AI handles the heavy lift on email cadence, dietary capture, and tax receipts. The cultivation queue replaces the spreadsheet your dev director was building by hand on Sunday afternoons. The learning curve is shorter than the next time you reset your Eventbrite password.
Volunteer and contractor check-in roles never see phone numbers, emails, or giving history. The default protects the donor list. The exception requires you to grant a specific user a specific role, role by role.
Receipts include your EIN, transaction ID, gross amount, fair market value of goods received, and deductible portion. Format follows IRS Publication 1771. Issued automatically within a minute of the transaction.
Your first fundraiser on Vantage is free, forever. No credit card. No expiring trial. If your first event does not net more dollars to the mission than your last comparable event on Eventbrite, Classy, or Givebutter, we will refund the platform fee. We are confident enough to put it in writing.
The first 25 nonprofits on Vantage get a free lifetime upgrade from Growth to Pro. Pay $39 per month. Get the $99 tier's features forever. When the 26th org signs up, the offer closes. Standard pricing applies from that point on. No tricks. No expiring trial.
Real limit, no manufactured scarcity. Founder-led onboarding for every org in the cohort, personally, by the founder.
All 25 founder spots for nonprofits have been claimed. Standard pricing applies from today forward. The product works exactly the same; the cohort discount is the only piece that ended.
Annual gala, donor cultivation dinner, golf classic, walk-a-thon, member happy hour, board retreat. Same donor record, every event. Giving history, dietary restrictions, and last cultivation note in one place. The platform that wrote the receipt is the same one writing the cultivation queue.
Free for chapter-level events that do not need the paid features. Growth for the org running four to eight events a year. Pro for development teams running cross-chapter or multi-region events with shared donor data. Enterprise for nationals with multiple regions, SSO, and white-label needs.
Fifteen minutes. Pre-loaded with a gala scenario, an IRS receipt being issued, and a cultivation queue populating in real time. No sales pitch.
Book demoSign up, no credit card. One full event on Vantage. If you raise more than the comparable event on your old platform, founder-cohort pricing kicks in.
Create free accountA short essay on the math behind ticket fees, the rise of "tip-funded" platforms, and how donor intelligence compounds across events.
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