A Neon CRM alternative for small nonprofits

Neon CRM might be more than your organization needs, or wants to pay for. Nonprofit Manager is a free alternative that runs on your own WordPress site. Here’s the real difference, and when Neon still earns its price.

Scale and price

Neon CRM is hosted software. It starts at $99 a month. Pricing scales as your organization’s own revenue grows, not a simple contact count. There’s no free tier and no self-serve trial, only a sales demo. Nonprofit Manager’s core is free and self-hosted, with no monthly bill at all.

Where Neon CRM pulls ahead

Named plainly: Neon is built for larger nonprofits. Deep donor analytics, complex workflow automation, dedicated reporting across a big program, that’s its lane. If that’s where your organization sits, its price reflects real capability. You’d struggle to build that with a free plugin.

Where Nonprofit Manager fits

Track members and donors. Send a newsletter. List events. That’s what a small nonprofit usually needs, and Nonprofit Manager does it free, with no monthly bill that grows as you succeed.

Get started

Install Nonprofit Manager free and see if it covers what you need before booking a sales call. It’s part of the all-in-one plugin for small nonprofits, compared with the field in our best WordPress plugin for nonprofits guide.