Raiser is a free fundraising platform that helps small charities streamline grant applications by building a reusable Impact Story™ that works across every bid and report. It reduces the administrative burden of fundraising, letting charities focus on their work rather than paperwork. The platform has already helped charities win grants up to £240,000.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Small charities spend 38% of their grant income just on the process of applying for funding, with weeks lost to repetitive paperwork, arbitrary word counts, and months-long waits for decisions. The current grant system is broken, favoring organizations with dedicated fundraising staff while penalizing smaller groups that lack time and resources.
Solution
Raiser provides a free, all-in-one fundraising platform that lets small charities tell their story once and reuse it across every grant application, report, and funding conversation. The platform centers on the Impact Story™, a living record of what a charity does, who it helps, and the difference it makes, which grows richer with each update. Charities can build this story through guided tools and then deploy it across multiple bids without redoing the work each time. The platform is designed to shift the dynamic from "please fund our project" to "here's incredible change happening in the world," enabling genuine partnership between charities and funders. Raiser is built by people with deep charity-sector experience, ensuring the technology addresses real operational needs rather than theoretical problems.
Target Audience
Primary users are small charities and community organizations in the UK that rely on grant funding but lack dedicated fundraising staff or resources to manage complex applications.
Features
- Impact Story™ builder that creates a reusable, living record of charity work and outcomes
- One-time data entry that populates across multiple grant applications and reports
- AI-assisted tools for interrogating "fuzzy" but meaningful impact data
- Free forever pricing model with no cost to charities, now or in the future
- Open Impact Standard framework for measuring and communicating impact consistently
- Built on Ruby on Rails with a focus on open-source technology and privacy-first analytics