Best Donation Platforms for Extracting Donor Emails
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Why Donation Platforms Contain Donor Emails
Online donation platforms collect email addresses with every contribution. Donors provide their email for tax receipts, donation confirmations, campaign updates and communication from the organisation. Over time, these platforms build a database of supporters that represents the organisation's most engaged audience.
Extracting donor emails is useful for importing into an email marketing platform, building segmented donor lists, consolidating supporters across multiple campaigns and platforms, migrating to a new fundraising tool or creating a backup.
Popular Donation Platforms
Donorbox
Donorbox provides embeddable donation forms, recurring donations, peer-to-peer fundraising, crowdfunding, event ticketing and donor management.
Email sources: Donor records, donation receipts, campaign contributors.
How to extract: Export donors as CSV, then upload to Email Extractor. See Extract emails from Donorbox donors.
GoFundMe Charity
GoFundMe offers a charity-specific platform for nonprofits to create fundraising campaigns with donation tracking and donor management.
Email sources: Donor records from campaign contributions.
GiveWP (WordPress)
GiveWP is a WordPress donation plugin that provides donation forms, recurring donations, donor management, reporting and integrations.
Email sources: Donor records stored in WordPress, donation receipts.
Bloomerang
Bloomerang is a donor management platform (CRM for nonprofits) with online giving, donor retention tools, email marketing and reporting.
Email sources: Donor records, constituent profiles, online giving submissions.
Classy
Classy is an online fundraising platform for nonprofits that provides campaign pages, peer-to-peer fundraising, events, recurring giving and donor management.
Email sources: Donor records, campaign contributors, event registrants.
Network for Good
Network for Good provides fundraising, donor management and marketing tools for small and mid-sized nonprofits.
Email sources: Donor records, online giving submissions.
PayPal Giving Fund
PayPal Giving Fund processes charitable donations through PayPal. Nonprofits enrolled in the program receive donor data including email addresses.
Email sources: Donation records, PayPal donor profiles.
How to Extract from Any Donation Platform
The process is the same across platforms:
- Export donors or donations from the platform as CSV.
- Go to bulkemailextractor.com.
- Select "Text and files."
- Upload the file (or files from multiple platforms). Up to 25 MB per file, 100 MB per batch.
- Click "Extract emails."
- Review the results. Duplicates across all files are removed automatically.
- Download as TXT, CSV, or CSV with sources.
Consolidating Across Platforms
Nonprofits often receive donations through multiple channels (their website, events, peer-to-peer campaigns, third-party platforms). Export donors from each source and upload together. Deduplication shows your total unique supporter base.
After Extraction
Build a donor mailing list
Import extracted emails into Mailchimp, Constant Contact, Kit or another email marketing platform for newsletters, campaign updates, annual reports, year-end appeals and donor appreciation communications.
Segment by campaign or giving level
Export donors by campaign, date range or donation amount. Create targeted lists for major donors, recurring donors, first-time donors or campaign-specific supporters.
Verify addresses
Donor email addresses are usually valid because tax receipts are sent to them. Older records for lapsed donors may be outdated. Verification before re-engagement is recommended. See Best email verification services.
Respect donor preferences
Donors may have communication preferences. Honour opt-out requests and unsubscribe lists when importing into email marketing platforms.
