What’s holding your fundraising back?
Identify your blind spot and get a personalized Nonprofit Hub recommendation.
Answer 8 quick questions, and we’ll provide you with guidance on what to do next.
Most fundraising and grantseeking gaps stay invisible because the people running small nonprofits were never trained as fundraisers, often transitioning into the field by accident without formal experience or professional background. You took the job because the nonprofit mission resonated. You built the development plan, donor strategy, and grant calendar from scratch, making them well-planned and intentional. So, when growth stalls, it’s rarely because you’re doing something wrong. The obstacle is usually complex and unclear.
Stop working harder. Start working smarter.
Over the past 30 years, the number of nonprofits has grown by roughly 143% while private funders have only experienced a 68% increase in the same timespan. Meanwhile, total giving has stayed flat at about 2% of GDP for the past 50 years. This means more organizations are competing for the same pool of dollars while individual giving now sits at its lowest share of disposable income in 40 years.
On the grant side, foundation funding is increasingly concentrated among the largest players and federal dollars are getting harder to reach. The squeeze is real. You’re not imagining it. You’re competing in a crowded market with marginal shifts in dollars per organization.
Our mission at Bonterra is to change this math for the entire social sector by moving charitable giving as a share of US GDP from 2% to 3% by 2033. We do this by removing friction between funders and the nonprofits ready to turn support into impact.
Bonterra Nonprofit Hub is the entry point for this work — the front door, the on-ramp — connecting to a larger network of 216,000+ nonprofits running campaigns, 400+ institutional funders distributing billions in annual grant dollars, and AI-powered coaching built on decades of hands-on work with more than 20,000 organizations.
But a network like this only helps if you know how to use it and where you’re positioned within its framework, which is why we built the following assessment: to help you uncover what’s holding your organization back from securing more funding.
Stop guessing. Start winning. Take the quiz.
The fundraising effectiveness quiz
No jargon, no judgment. No fundraising background needed. A few honest answers, and you’ll get one specific gap, plus one free next step to close it.
The first four questions capture your funding mix, including your size, strategy, and software. The last four surface the blind spot underneath this identity.
Two minutes. Eight questions. Let’s figure this out together.
Interpreting your results
Every result identifies one blind spot, explains it succinctly, and points you to two or three things you can do for free in the Hub today. A few examples of what you might see:
If you’re just getting started.
Your blind spot: You’re building without a foundation.
You don’t need more tools. You need a place to start. Your free next steps:
If you’re actively fundraising but unsure where (or how) to optimize.
Your blind spot: You’re working hard without a strategy.
You’re putting in the hours, but you’re guessing who to prioritize and which grants you can realistically win. Your free next steps:
If you’ve got volume but no visibility.
Your blind spot: You’re scaling without a benchmark.
You’re fundraising, but you can’t tell how you stack up against comparable organizations. And manual work is consuming your team. Your free next steps:
Whatever your result, the recommendations lead with the path that fits you. If you’re focused on individual donors, you’ll start with the free Network for Good experience inside the Hub, Que coaching, and donor segmentation. If you’re focused on grants, you’ll lead with GrantMatch by checking alignment before you invest the time — and saving it with AI-assisted proposal drafting. If you’re doing both, you’ll see both, ordered by wherever your strongest signal is.
A few things to note
What’s included? The Hub, Bonterra Que, and GrantMatch are free to get started. No trial expiration, no bill waiting to surprise you. You can create a profile, get matched to grants, and generate a proposal draft without paying anything. There will always be a free version.
What happens to your data? Your information is used to answer your request, not to train AI models. Bonterra doesn’t build or host its own models, and the foundation-model providers it works with don’t retain your data after generating a response or use it for training. Reference our responsible AI commitment to further understand our ethical approach to innovation.
Does the AI take over? No. Que is a coach, not an autopilot. It moves you from a blank page to a strong first draft grounded in your organization and a specific funder’s requirements. You review, refine, and stay in control. It recommends based on decades of tested coaching and 90,000+ real campaign examples, not a generic guess.
Ready to see your blind spot?
If you’re focused on donors and individual giving, get started for free in the Nonprofit Hub. If you’re focused on grants, see which opportunities you can win with GrantMatch, also in the Hub. Still not sure which path is yours? Take the quiz and find out.
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