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Donation Form Template

Collect donations without the awkward back-and-forth — one shareable form that captures donor details, gift amounts, and payment preferences in under a minute.

A donation form template built for nonprofits, schools, religious groups, and community fundraisers. Donors fill it in from their phone or laptop, you get clean records with amounts and contact info, and your treasurer stops chasing missing details.

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Why use a donation form?

Most small nonprofits collect donations the same way: a Venmo handle on Instagram, a PayPal link in an email, and a treasurer who spends the last week of every month matching transactions to names. It works until it doesn't — until someone gives $250 with no note attached, or a recurring donor changes their email, or the tax-receipt list has 14 entries marked "Anonymous (probably Maria?)." A proper donation form fixes that at the source. You ask for the name, the amount, the address for the receipt, and the gift designation once — at the moment the donor is most motivated. The data lands in one place, sorted by date, ready to export when it's time to send year-end acknowledgements or file the 990. It works for one-off campaigns and ongoing programs. A school auction collecting silent-bid donations, a church running its annual stewardship drive, a 5K raising money for cancer research, a Patreon-style monthly supporter program — same form, different copy, same clean spreadsheet at the end.

What's included in this template

15 fields — customize any field or add new ones with AI.

Short textDonor full name✱
EmailEmail address✱
PhonePhone number
Long textMailing address (for tax receipt)
NumberDonation amount (USD)✱
Multiple choiceGift type✱
DropdownDesignate this gift to
Multiple choicePayment method✱
Multiple choiceIs this gift in honor or memory of someone?
Short textHonoree or memorial name
CheckboxesWould you like your donation to remain anonymous?
Short textEmployer (for matching gift programs)
DropdownHow did you hear about us?
Long textAdditional comments or instructions
CheckboxesI confirm the information above is accurate✱

Need different fields?

Tell the AI what to change — "add a budget dropdown" or "remove phone number" — and it edits the form instantly. Every field type above can be added, removed, or relabeled through the chat interface.

Key features of this donation form template

Everything you need to launch this form in minutes, share it with your team, and collect submissions reliably.

1

One-time and recurring gifts

Donors pick whether to give once or sign up for a monthly pledge in the same field — no separate form to maintain for recurring supporters.

2

Gift designation dropdown

Let donors direct their gift to a specific program, fund, or campaign. The dropdown is fully editable, so you can update options for each appeal without rebuilding the form.

3

Tax-receipt-ready data

Mailing address, donor name, and amount are captured in the right format for IRS Form 8283 or your country equivalent. Export to CSV when year-end rolls around.

4

Matching gift capture

The employer field flags donors whose companies double charitable contributions — a single dropdown that often doubles the value of a gift you would have missed.

5

Honor & memory tributes

Conditional fields appear only when a donor chooses a tribute gift, so the form stays short for everyone else but captures the honoree details when they matter.

6

Mobile-first design

Built for the phone-screen tap-through that powers most online giving today. Number pad opens automatically on the amount field. No pinch-to-zoom required.

Perfect for

Small nonprofits running their first online campaign, church and synagogue treasurers managing annual stewardship drives, school PTAs collecting auction-night pledges, animal-rescue volunteers funding emergency vet bills, GoFundMe organizers who want a more professional landing page, university alumni offices managing class-gift programs, and any community group raising money for a specific project without the budget for a full donor-management platform.

How to use this template

1

Open the template

Click "Use this template free." Flexform loads the form instantly — no account needed to preview.

2

Customize with AI

Type what you want to change in the chat: fields to add or remove, rename labels, change field types, or rearrange pages.

3

Connect & publish

Link to Mailchimp or Google Sheets with one click, then embed on your site or share the link.

Ways to use this template

Annual giving campaign

Run your fall or year-end appeal with a single form linked from email, social posts, and your website. Donors can give once or set up a recurring monthly pledge without leaving the page.

Memorial & tribute giving

Families directing memorial gifts to a cause can do it on one form, with honoree details captured cleanly. The development team gets the data they need to send a tribute acknowledgement to the family.

Capital campaigns

Building a new community center, expanding a clinic, or funding a major project? Use the gift designation dropdown to direct donations to specific naming opportunities or campaign phases.

Crisis or emergency fundraising

When something urgent happens — a natural disaster, a sudden medical bill, an animal rescue — you need a giving page live in under an hour. Duplicate the template, edit the copy with AI, share the link.

School & PTA fundraising

Auction pledges, jog-a-thon sponsorships, or general PTA funds. Parents fill it in from the carpool line, the room parent exports to Sheets, and the treasurer reconciles in one pass.

Religious stewardship pledges

Members commit to annual or monthly giving as part of a congregational pledge drive. Track who has pledged versus who has actually given, and follow up only with the gap.

Workflow integrations

Connect this form to your existing tools with no middleware. Every submission triggers your workflow automatically.

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Real-time sync

Data appears in your CRM or spreadsheet within 1–2 seconds of submission — no cron jobs, no delays.

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Conditional routing

Route submissions to different Slack channels, HubSpot pipelines, or Airtable bases based on field values.

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Two-way data flow

Pre-fill form fields with CRM data for returning visitors. Update existing records instead of creating duplicates.

Why choose Flexform?

Most donation tools force a choice: the slick Stripe-powered platform that takes 5% off every gift, or a free Google Form that looks like it was designed in 2009. FlexForm sits in between — a clean, mobile-friendly donation form you can publish in 10 minutes and customize without writing code. The AI editor is the part donors never see but treasurers love. Want to add a "Why are you giving today?" question for your matching-gift campaign? Type that in plain English and it's there. Need to swap the suggested gift amounts from $25/$50/$100 to $100/$500/$1,000 for a major-donor appeal? Same thing. No rebuilding, no form-builder drag-and-drop puzzles. Connect it to Mailchimp so new donors land in your year-end newsletter list automatically. Pipe submissions into Google Sheets and your treasurer has a live ledger. Set up a Slack alert so the development director gets a ping for every gift over $500. Share the form as a link in emails and social posts, or drop it into your native iOS or Android app using the Kotlin Multiplatform mobile SDK — same form, same data, no separate codebase to maintain. And the free plan covers most small nonprofits indefinitely.
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Frequently asked questions

Does this form actually process payments?

The template captures the donor information and the pledge amount, but the payment itself runs through whichever processor you point donors to — Stripe, PayPal, your bank, or a check in the mail. Most small nonprofits connect a Stripe link to the confirmation step. If you want a fully embedded payment flow, you can extend the form with a webhook to your payment provider.

Can I make the suggested donation amounts editable?

Yes. Open the form in the FlexForm editor and tell the AI "change the amount options to $100, $250, $500, $1,000 and Other." The dropdown updates in seconds. You can run different versions of the form for different audiences without duplicating the whole template.

Is the data secure enough for donor records?

Submissions are encrypted in transit and at rest. We do not store payment-card data on the form itself, which keeps you out of PCI scope for the form layer. For tax-receipt purposes, the donor name, amount, and address you collect are exportable to CSV any time you need them.

Can I send an automatic thank-you email?

Connect the form to Mailchimp or any email tool through the FlexForm integration, and every new submission triggers your welcome sequence. You can also use the Email integration directly for a single send. Many users set up two emails: an instant thank-you and a formal tax receipt after the gift clears.

How do I share the form with our donors?

Every form gets a public share link the moment you publish. Drop it into your email newsletter, paste it into Instagram bio, print it on a QR code at your gala — donors do not need an account or any app to fill it in.

Can I embed this in our nonprofit mobile app?

Yes. FlexForm ships a Kotlin Multiplatform SDK that runs natively on Android and iOS, so the same donation form renders inside your app without a webview. Useful if you have a member-app or a giving-day app you ship every year.

What if a donor wants to give anonymously?

There is an "anonymous" checkbox in the template. When it is ticked, your export can filter the name out of any public donor wall while still keeping the record on file for tax purposes. You stay compliant; the donor stays private.

Is there a cost to use this template?

No. The donation form template, the public share link, and the basic integrations are on the free forever plan. Paid plans add higher submission volumes, more advanced workflow rules, and white-labeling — but most small fundraisers never hit those limits.

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