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Form 990 Is a 'Piece of Cake'

Posted: June 17, 2026

Author: Tim Stirrup

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

How Better Giving Cuts Your 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.

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 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.

Email: Form 990 is a ‘piece of cake’!
How Better Giving Cuts Your Workload AND Still Gives You All Your Donor Insights


Transparency Plus Simplicity

Better Giving was created to make giving more transparent for donors and simpler for nonprofits. Being your single grantor means your reporting is cleaner, your compliance risk is lower, and staff time is saved for work that matters.

At the same time, donor trust stays strong because donors know their gifts are being delivered to you clearly and accurately and you can still build relationships with every supporter. You understand who gives and how.

You get all of the clarity with none of the extra work.

Form 990 Does Not Need to Be Painful

Nonprofits work hard enough. Your annual return should not swallow days of valuable time. Better Giving removes one of the biggest administrative barriers by streamlining the flow of funds. With one grantor and full donor transparency, compliance is straightforward and donor engagement stays strong.

If you want next year’s Form 990 to be a piece of cake, Better Giving is built for you.

Ask for a demonstration today.

Best regards,