Describe your nonprofit and campaign. Makeform creates a donor information form for contact details, giving preferences, interests, and pledge follow-up.
Route donor responses to Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
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Audience
New and returning nonprofit supporters
Format
Contact and preference form with conditional giving questions
Prompt size
294 chars
Example form structure
Contact and preference form with conditional giving questions
Name and contact details
Preferred way to hear from us
Programs you care about
How did you hear about us?
Updates you would like to receive
Suggested routing tags
New donors
Pledge follow-up
Stewardship
Keep a pledge amount separate from a completed gift so the development team knows which commitments still need follow-up.
Step 1
Identify
contact and donor type
Step 2
Understand
interests and communication choices
Step 3
Record
pledge, designation, and timing
Step 4
Follow up
route the next action to your team
Better donor records
Connect each supporter with the causes, communication choices, and follow-up steps they selected.
Structured names, addresses, donor type, and organization contacts keep details searchable.
Show amount, designation, timing, and recognition fields only when a donor indicates a pledge.
Route inquiries, pledges, matching questions, and stewardship requests to distinct follow-up lists.
Flexible nonprofit use
Adapt questions to each supporter moment and your team's next action.
Record contacts, interests, source, communication preferences, and owner.
Record intended amount, program designation, installment preference, expected date, and outstanding follow-up.
Turn a quick event response into a useful profile for thank-yous, volunteer invitations, and future updates.
Keep primary contacts, matching requirements, and recognition wording together.
Build the workflow
Provide campaign context, refine questions, and connect responses to next steps.
Name the campaign, supporter types, designations, and follow-up decisions.
Require essential contacts, add your program list, and branch pledge or organization questions.
Notify the right fundraiser and send structured responses to your tracking workflow.
Review recognition, communication, and follow-up preferences before outreach.
Form vs notes vs spreadsheet
A consistent form records why someone cares, how they want contact, and what happens next.
Field guide
These six sections support acknowledgment, pledge follow-up, and relevant stewardship.
Identity & contact
Collect a preferred name and structured contact information. Organizations may need separate primary and acknowledgment contacts.
Communication
Ask for channel and update preferences instead of treating every contact detail as permission for every message.
Interests
A program list helps tailor follow-up and reveal interest in volunteering, events, visits, or impact updates.
Pledge details
Record a future pledge's schedule and status without treating the response as proof of payment.
Recognition
Use explicit recognition, household attribution, and anonymous fields so acknowledgments reflect the donor's choice.
Internal follow-up
Route each submission to a thank-you, pledge reminder, matching answer, volunteer introduction, or fundraiser.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for nonprofit development teams creating a consistent online donor intake process.
It is an online intake form for a supporter's contact details, program interests, communication preferences, and relevant giving or pledge information. Teams can use the response for acknowledgment and follow-up.
Start with name, donor type, email, phone, address, and preferred contact method. Add program interests, source, communication choices, recognition preference, and optional pledge fields. Organizations may need separate primary and acknowledgment contacts.
Yes. Add fields for intended amount, designation, one-time or installment preference, expected start date, recognition choice, and preferred follow-up. Label the submission clearly as a pledge if it does not process a payment, and track its status separately from completed gifts.
Yes. Use conditional logic so organizations see business fields, pledging donors see amount and timing, and event guests see event context. Each path stays relevant and structured.
Offer explicit choices for email, phone, text, or mail and let supporters select the updates they want. Keep those selections with the donor record and review them before outreach. Your organization should decide what notice language and internal practices fit its communication process.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Responses arrive in your Makeform workspace and can connect to tools such as Google Sheets, Slack, or Zapier. Choose your donor system of record and map fields consistently before automating updates.
Not necessarily. A donor information form builds a supporter profile and may record preferences or a future pledge. A donation form focuses on completing a gift. Keep the purpose clear in the headline and instructions so donors know whether they are sharing information, making a pledge, or completing a donation.
Turn donor interest into a clear next step.
