Design
A site that looks like your nonprofit from day one. Pick your fonts, colors, and layouts — no custom design contract needed.
The Nonprofit Website Builder With Fundraising Built In
One platform for your website, campaigns, and donor journeys — built on Webflow®, powered by Donately, starting at $5,000.
$5k
Starting setup
0–1%
Transaction fees
40–75%
Annual savings
Trusted by mission-driven teams
What is Habitat?
A CMS for nonprofits that puts fundraising first.
Habitat is a content management system built for nonprofits — combining website publishing, donation management, and campaign tooling in one platform on Webflow.
Every page can fundraise natively — no plugins or developer work. Donations run through Donately at a flat 1%, and all donor data stays on your own domain and analytics.
Build
Build pages your way. Drag and drop from 100+ ready-made blocks for stories, campaigns, events, and team pages — no code, no developer.
Fundraise
Take donations, run campaigns, and manage donors right on your site. Recurring giving, events, peer-to-peer — all in one place.
The core
One system for fundraising and marketing.
Donately runs the fundraising side. Webflow runs the marketing and content side. Together, they replace the half-dozen plugins and platforms most nonprofit sites are duct-taped together with.
WebflowMarketing & content
The enterprise-grade visual CMS trusted by global brands. Your team publishes pages, launches campaigns, and edits content from one editor — without touching code or waiting on a developer.
Why it matters: Most nonprofit CMS tools are locked and rigid. Webflow gives Habitat real CMS power, editor access, and clean, indexable HTML by default.
Fundraising & data engine
The fundraising backbone — embedded donation forms, recurring giving, campaigns, event ticketing, and the donor data that makes every other tool in your stack smarter. 1% transaction fee with 0% volume bands on Growth and Strategic tiers.
Why it matters: Donately data powers Habitat's analytics, conversion tooling, and CRM sync. It's not a side widget — it's the layer everything else builds on.
Fundraising in every page
Fundraising features that live inside your website.
Habitat's fundraising tools are native to the website — not embedded through third-party widgets. Build branded donation forms with single-step or multi-step flows, configure weekly, monthly, or yearly recurring plans, and accept Stripe, PayPal, ACH, Apple Pay, and Google Wallet payments. Every donation lives on your domain, so every gift builds your site's search visibility and domain authority.
Campaigns in Habitat are CMS objects — structured content managed alongside pages and stories, not disposable landing pages. Launch, update, duplicate, and retire campaigns without developer support. Habitat also supports event ticketing, virtual products, eCards, and registration forms, all integrated with the same donation infrastructure.
Content engine
A content management system that grows with your nonprofit.
Habitat provides nonprofits with a structured content system built on Webflow's design engine. Organizations start with core pages and collections — and as needs evolve (additional content types, multi-language, multi-site), the system extends without rebuilding. Same component library. Same data flowing into your CRM and analytics. No replatforming every three years.
Search & AI
Nonprofit SEO and AI visibility built into every page.
Every page, campaign, and donation experience on Habitat is structured content built on Webflow's design engine. Search engines, AI assistants, and generative discovery tools can read and reason about your organization's pages, programs, and impact — without bolting on a third-party SEO plugin.
- SEO and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) foundations
- Indexable campaign and donation pages
- Structured schemas for content, campaigns, and organizations
- Optimized metadata and page hierarchy
- Clean internal linking and URL structure
The Strategic Layer
The difference between a website and a growth engine.
Most platforms stop at software. Habitat adds a strategic layer — an ongoing partnership that aligns your website, fundraising, and donor data into one system.
Engagement OS alignment
Your website, campaigns, and donor data run as one operating system — aligned to fundraising goals, not just design preferences.
Attribution & forecasting
See which channels, campaigns, and pages actually drive giving. Forecast revenue and report to your board with confidence.
A partner, not a vendor
Quarterly strategy, continuous experimentation, and exec-level reporting from a team that treats your site as a growth engine.
Integrations
Wire Habitat into the tools your team already runs on.
Most nonprofit CMS tools wall you off from your stack. Habitat does the opposite — pushing donation events, donor records, and campaign performance into your CRM, email platform, AI tools, and anywhere else your team needs them. Salesforce, HubSpot, Mailchimp, Zapier, Google Analytics, and more — connected by category.
A common question
Can I use a different fundraising platform with Habitat?
Short answer: yes. Habitat can embed donation experiences from most major platforms — or run with no fundraising layer at all if you just need the site. But there are real trade-offs worth knowing about up front.
- Higher platform fees
Other platforms typically charge 2–5%+ on every donation. Donately includes processing at 1% (with 0% volume bands), so the same dollar raised costs you less.
- Reduced Habitat functionality
Habitat's analytics, conversion tooling, AI-assisted optimization, and CRM sync are powered by Donately's data model. Without it, those features are limited or unavailable.
- Fragmented data
Without Donately as the backbone, donor records, campaign attribution, and lifecycle events have to be stitched together manually — which is the problem Habitat was designed to solve.
The build process
From setup to launch in six steps.
Habitat's onboarding follows a six-step process designed around how nonprofit supporters engage. Setup begins at approximately $5,000 and scales with the organization's needs — 1% transaction fees with 0% volume bands on higher tiers, and no mandatory annual redesigns.
Plan the structure
We organize your information architecture around Learn → Trust → Act → Give, the framework we use across every Habitat site.
Apply your brand
Your brand is layered onto the shared component system — typography, color, layout, and tone, without the cost of a custom build.
Build in fundraising
Forms, campaign templates, and giving UX patterns are wired directly into your CMS — not bolted on after launch.
Connect your stack
Donately, GA4, your CRM, and email platform are integrated and tested before launch, with no manual exports required.
Review on staging
You review everything in a staging environment, give feedback, and we resolve issues without you having to chase developers.
Launch and own it
We train your team on the CMS, donation flows, and analytics — so you can launch campaigns without calling a developer.
The math
Nonprofit website costs: Habitat vs. a traditional multi-vendor setup.
Nonprofits using a traditional multi-vendor approach typically spend $20,000 to $75,000+ per year across website builds, hosting, fundraising platform fees, integrations, and ongoing developer support. Habitat consolidates these into a single platform with a single partner — at a predictable cost.
The typical setup
Death by a thousand vendors
- Website build: $15,000–$50,000
- Hosting & maintenance: $2,000–$6,000 / year
- Fundraising platform fees: 1–4% of every donation
- Integrations & plugins: $1,000–$5,000 / year
- Ongoing dev & support: $3,000–$20,000+ / year
Often $20,000–$75,000+ per year across vendors.
With Habitat
One platform, one predictable cost
- One platform. One partner. One predictable cost.
- 1% transaction fee — with 0% volume bands on higher tiers.
- Hosting, maintenance and support included.
- CRM, email, and analytics integrations built in.
- Total: $5,000–$15,000 per year, all-in.
Total $5,000–$15,000 per year. See pricing →
Trusted by nonprofits
Results from organizations using Habitat.
Real fundraising results from nonprofits using Habitat and Donately.
“With the help of Donately's custom solutions and their development expertise, our fundraising events are more effective and easier to manage.”
Development Director
United Way of Metro Chicago
“We always get a response within 2 minutes, which is incredibly reassuring when you're in the middle of a fundraising campaign and need support.”
Executive Director
Working In The Schools (WITS)
“We worked with Donately to create a customized donation experience that has been an astounding success. After only 2 weeks, we already raised over $5 million.”
Executive Director
The Barstool Fund
FAQ
Common questions about Habitat.
- Habitat is a nonprofit website builder with fundraising built in. It's a content management system built on Webflow and powered by Donately that combines your website, donation forms, campaigns, and donor data in one platform — so you don't need separate vendors for your site and your fundraising.
- Mission-driven organizations of every size — from grassroots nonprofits launching their first site to foundations and INGOs running complex, multi-program operations. Setup starts at $5,000 and scales as you grow.
- Two best-in-class tools working as one. Webflow runs the marketing and content side as an enterprise-grade visual CMS, and Donately runs the fundraising side — donation forms, recurring giving, campaigns, and donor data — at a flat 1%, with 0% volume bands on higher tiers.
- Most builders treat donations as an add-on widget. In Habitat, every page can fundraise natively, and every gift, page view, and campaign feeds your donor data, analytics, and CRM — so your website works as a growth engine, not just a brochure.
- Yes. Habitat sites live on your own domain, and your content and donor records belong to your organization. You can export your data or sync it to your CRM at any time — no lock-in.
- Yes. Habitat pushes donations, donor records, and campaign performance into tools like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Mailchimp, plus an open API for custom systems — available on Growth and Strategic tiers.
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Trusted by mission-driven teams
See how Habitat can fundraise for your nonprofit.
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