A GiveWP alternative for small nonprofits

If you like GiveWP but want more than donations, or you would rather not pay extra for recurring gifts, Nonprofit Manager is a free alternative that handles donations plus membership, newsletters, and events in one plugin. Here is how the two compare.

Where they are similar

Both are free to start, and both take one-time donations on your own WordPress site through gateways like Stripe and PayPal. If all you need is a one-time donation form, either one works.

Where they differ

Two places.

First, recurring donations. GiveWP’s free core takes one-time gifts only, and it adds a 2% fee on donations you take through Stripe. To accept recurring monthly gifts, you need GiveWP’s Pro plan, which runs $399 a year. Nonprofit Manager includes recurring donations in Pro at a flat yearly price, takes no fee of its own, and keeps everything else alongside it.

Second, scope. GiveWP is a donation plugin. Nonprofit Manager is built to run the whole organization: your donors and your members sit in one system, and it sends your newsletters and lists your events too. If you added GiveWP for donations and then bolted on a membership plugin and a newsletter service, that is three tools you could replace with one. Here is the cost math.

When GiveWP is the better pick

Straight answer: if donations are genuinely all you do, and you want deep fundraising-specific features like peer-to-peer campaigns, fee recovery, and a large library of gateway add-ons, GiveWP goes further on fundraising than Nonprofit Manager does. Pick the tool that matches the job.

When to switch

If you run a small nonprofit or club and donations are one part of a bigger picture that also includes members, email, and events, one plugin is simpler and cheaper than four. Install Nonprofit Manager free and see. It is the all-in-one plugin for small nonprofits, and here is how to set up donations. It sits alongside the other options in our best WordPress donation plugins guide.