With Better Giving, Completing Form 990 is a ‘Piece of Cake’!

How Better Giving Cuts Your Form 990 Workload AND Still Gives You All Your Donor Insights

Form 990 season brings a familiar but often stressful feeling for many nonprofits. Spreadsheets everywhere. Donor records that need checking. Pages of contribution details that have to be reconciled. Don’t get me started on the costs! And a fear that one missing record will cause delays or errors.

But it does not have to be like that.

Better Giving turns one of the most time consuming annual tasks into something closer to a piece of cake. 

Because we change the way donations arrive at your organization, without taking away the donor information you depend on.

One Grantor, Hundreds of Donors

For form 990, every donor matters. Each contributor who gives above certain thresholds must be itemized and each contribution source must be accounted for. This becomes a heavy lift when donations arrive from many different people, with payment methods and using platforms.

Better Giving solves this problem.

When donors give via Better Giving, your nonprofit receives funds from a single grantor. That grantor is Better Giving itself as a 501(c)(3). Instead of reporting hundreds of individual donors, your Form 990 reporting becomes dramatically simpler because the funds arrive as a single pooled grant. Here are the exact details on the reporting and how Better Giving makes it simple. 

Less admin. Less reconciliation. Less stress.

The Better Giving Bonus: The cherry on the cake!

You Still Get Every Donor Detail – Although Better Giving is the single grantor for your tax reporting, you still receive full insight into who your donors are and what they donated. 

Every donation includes the donor profile, name, contact details, including address if you want that, amount, frequency, and history.

So, 

• Your Form 990 workload drops massively because you only need to account for Better Giving as the grantor.
• Your fundraising, stewardship, and donor communication stay fully intact because you still have all donor level data.

It is the classic having your cake and eating it too.

p.s. Did you know that web, SEO and AI ‘scrapers’ will use your Form 990 information to give search results. So, while it looks like a dense ‘pile of words’ the initial sections are extremely important in making sure your nonprofit tells a coherent story. 
Do not just copy and paste the minimum words. Use the full scope of Part 1 and part 3 to make the most of what is in effect, free SEO optimization!