Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT vs. Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT
Score 7.9 out of 10
N/A
Raiser's Edge NXT is cloud fundraising and constituent relationship management software from Blackbaud.N/A
Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager
Score 6.0 out of 10
N/A
With Foundant GLM, users can create, launch and receive online applications and grant reports, manage online proposal reviews, and manage grants and information from a single, integrated solution from anywhere they have internet access.N/A
Pricing
Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXTFoundant Grant Lifecycle Manager
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXTFoundant Grant Lifecycle Manager
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Features
Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXTFoundant Grant Lifecycle Manager
Communications and Marketing
Comparison of Communications and Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT
5.5
30 Ratings
18% below category average
Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager
-
Ratings
Constituent engagement and marketing6.730 Ratings00 Ratings
Social listening4.611 Ratings00 Ratings
Digital advocacy enablement5.312 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting and Analytics
Comparison of Reporting and Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT
7.0
33 Ratings
6% above category average
Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager
-
Ratings
Reporting and data visualization7.133 Ratings00 Ratings
Wealth screening6.928 Ratings00 Ratings
Fundraising and Events
Comparison of Fundraising and Events features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT
6.3
30 Ratings
3% above category average
Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager
-
Ratings
Online donation options7.629 Ratings00 Ratings
Event registration and ticketing7.130 Ratings00 Ratings
Text and phone donations5.47 Ratings00 Ratings
Volunteer shift management5.16 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile event check-in6.411 Ratings00 Ratings
Security and Platform
Comparison of Security and Platform features of Product A and Product B
Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT
7.4
32 Ratings
5% above category average
Foundant Grant Lifecycle Manager
-
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Role-based user permissions8.032 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile access7.228 Ratings00 Ratings
Integrations7.129 Ratings00 Ratings
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User Ratings
Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXTFoundant Grant Lifecycle Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
7.8
(458 ratings)
3.0
(13 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
8.2
(58 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Usability
7.1
(42 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Availability
10.0
(7 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
10.0
(15 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
4.7
(65 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
10.0
(13 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Online Training
7.2
(216 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
5.1
(22 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Configurability
10.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
8.5
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
10.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
10.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Professional Services
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
7.5
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
10.0
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXTFoundant Grant Lifecycle Manager
Likelihood to Recommend
Blackbaud
Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT is good for a medium sized organization who needs a central piece of software for communication and recordkeeping between office staff, executive staff, and fundraising staff. Front-line staff can record their interactions with constituents, which can be used for analysis and marketing by office staff, and in future fundraising efforts. Executive, fundraising, marketing, and accounting staff can have detailed reports on giving relevant to their specific work. And information can be communicated back to front-line staff by other departments and referenced as needed. Little coding ability is needed, security allows for staff to be limited to the features they need, and customizability means that most needs can be accounted for. Larger organizations might consider whether more robust software requiring more training might meet their needs better, and smaller organizations will likely need to look for something in their budget range. Prospective adopters should note that while web view has been out for a while, it has incomplete and limited functionality. Complete functionality only exists in database view, which is old. Database view functionality is being transferred to web view throughout 2025 - consider whether waiting to evaluate the new functionality first is prudent.
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Foundant Technologies
From where I stand, GLM is well-suited for use by small-staffed charitable foundations who make more than thirty (30) grants a year and distribute more than $500,000 in funds to non-profits. The software is able to handle every step in the grant-making process from receipt of a request, to the evaluation and decision regarding the grant, to tracking the pay-out, and to closing the grant when the work or the year is completed.
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Pros
Blackbaud
  • The Work Center for our fundraisers gives a fantastic snapshot of past due actions and overdue pledges. Clicking on the number brings up a detailed list with the ability to add Actions straight from the list.
  • NXT's ability to customize dashboards and insights gives me the ability to report on statistics that my team needs. The visuals are compelling and helpful.
  • List generation is incredibly easy. The filters are easy to use, and one the list is made, can easily be exported or shared.
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Foundant Technologies
  • Foundant provides a streamlined grants management solution for reasonable cost.
  • The company listens to its users, collecting ideas and making improvements. Updates to the software are rolled out several times a year. When something cannot be changed right away, the company gives context and forecasts when the change might be possible.
  • While the software is easy to use, it also offers more advanced features (such as merge templates) that allow more customization for the advanced user.
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Cons
Blackbaud
  • API coverage is limited - certain data is inaccessible for arduous to query (ex: rather that pulling all name format records, must query name format data one constituent/API call at a time.
  • Native reporting (ie, not using API calls) is limited.
  • Bulk data maintenance (imports, updates, etc) limited without use of API calls.
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Foundant Technologies
  • Need a smother process for third party responses. Currently individuals recommending more than one student for scholarships have many emails to deal with to find the correct link to upload the correct student's letter.
  • Questions that would filter which applications the applicant would apply for.
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Likelihood to Renew
Blackbaud
We have a lot invested in NXT and it suits our needs perfectly. There would be no reason for us to consider a needless conversion to a new solution. I do not believe there is any other product on the market that would be worth considering.
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Foundant Technologies
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Usability
Blackbaud
NXT seems easy to learn on a relatively deep level. There are glitches, like with everything, but it is usually easy to see where they are, most of time. I like that Development staff can choose what they want to see and where they want to see it, and it doesn’t affect my screen.
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Foundant Technologies
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Reliability and Availability
Blackbaud
The only reason I cannot give a 10 is because like all web based products, internet connection is required and that is not something that can be counted on 100% of the time. When the internet connection is stable, I have had little to no issues using Raiser's Edge.
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Foundant Technologies
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Performance
Blackbaud
NXT itself is a pretty simple interface, and is great for front-line fundraisers to be able to look up info and run some simple "reports"/analysis. It's very quick and intuitive, but the back-end attached to it (RE 7.96) may have connectivity issues from time to time. NXT itself, though, is simple enough that issues are rare.
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Foundant Technologies
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Support Rating
Blackbaud
Overall I feel like I receive sufficient assistance when reaching out to Blackbaud's Support area. When my questions cannot be answered completely during an online chat I appreciate the ability to easily access the ongoing notes so everything is together. It can be frustrating at times, though, as emailing back and forth seems to make solutions take longer.
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Foundant Technologies
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In-Person Training
Blackbaud
When you get a good, knowledgeable person for in-person training, you can't beat it! Hands on, real time, questions answered on the spot. And they want to make sure you get what you needed before leaving. To also have dedicated time without other distractions is very important to the learning process in my opinion.
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Foundant Technologies
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Online Training
Blackbaud
Courses are offered both synchronously and asynchronously for various subjects for your employees. I have taken a handful of them and have found them very insightful and helpful. They have helped in getting more out of their product and it helps that you can learn from others in the classes that you take learning what their practices are and how other organizations are doing things with BlackBaud's products.
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Foundant Technologies
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Implementation Rating
Blackbaud
Training is key. Blackbaud offered the training package prior to implementation and it helped us understand how to build it so that the future use would be appropriate to the operation of the organization. Data conversion stage was also very important. A lot of work must be done before making the final decisions about the data conversion - what data to convert and what to leave out, where certain information was supposed to be placed within RE.
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Foundant Technologies
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Alternatives Considered
Blackbaud
Raiser's Edge NXT integrates well with the existing products we use like Outlook Email and Double the Donation. They are both integratable and streamline the process. Double the Donation integrates right on the donation form and Outlook as a Raiser's Edge button in the email to record the action on the constituent's record.
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Foundant Technologies
I have not used other online grantmaking products or evaluated others. I used to use MicroEdge Gifts, but not the online application version. It was a stand alone management system. This is hands-down better, easier to use and a more complete system
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Contract Terms and Pricing Model
Blackbaud
Pricing really seems to be all over the place, and everything else you need is an extra add-on cost. The biggest issue is training. Options are limited unless you subscribe and pay for it across your contract.
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Foundant Technologies
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Scalability
Blackbaud
New features are constantly being added to Raiser's Edge NXT that expand its capabilities. Features such as constituent mapping and easily accessible actions allow for more in-depth analysis of existing constituents. The future ability to manipulate soft-credits and customize reporting dashboards will make NXT even more attractive to our fundraisers and executives. It's great to see that the software is evolving.
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Foundant Technologies
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Return on Investment
Blackbaud
  • Time management, saved time with data, resulting in a cost savings of 20%
  • Made reporting easy with processing donor gifts and recording them approximately
  • Improved fundraising as the preferred platform and increased donations by 15%
  • Attained a holistic approach to identifying prospective donors
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Foundant Technologies
  • Positive customer service--fairly easy to use for applicants.
  • Positive--easy to run reports you have already set up, so [it] saves time.
  • Negative--limited question types makes it harder to gather the data we want to track.
  • Negative--our budget is more complex than can be tracked in Foundant, so we have to use a separate program.
  • Negative--we have to track potential grantee conversations in a separate program.
  • Negative--getting data ready to display in a dashboard takes a lot of time to manipulate in Excel.
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ScreenShots

Blackbaud Raiser's Edge NXT Screenshots

Screenshot of benchmarking in Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT, which helps users understand fundraising performance by comparing their organizations against other organizations within a specific vertical or mission, or organizations of a similar size. The reports also quantify the revenue potential associated with improving, and surface actionable insight. Metrics include retention rate, recapture rate, acquisition rate, total revenue, revenue per donor, and current donors.Screenshot of integrated analytics in Raiser’s Edge NXT, which help organizations identify their constituents’ gift capacity and recommends whom solicitors should be targeting for maximum major gifts. Ratings appear on constituents’ profiles, and lists include a ranking of all screened constituents from highest to lowest wealth.Screenshot of Work Centers, which enable management of a portfolio with a clearly-defined process for all fundraising activities. They are designed to instill a deeper understanding of constituents and drive action. Action-triggering insights reveal areas that should be focused on, actions completed, constituents who need attention, proposals in progress, gifts received, and progress towards goals.Screenshot of an example of the out of the box dashboards and reports that display how an organization is performing at all times. Dashboards can be customized based on what’s important, to achieve a clear view of the organization’s performance.Screenshot of online giving pages.Screenshot of the open, cloud platform