Form Builder for Nonprofits and NGOs

Yes. FormNX offers discounted pricing to registered nonprofit and non-governmental organizations, including 501(c)(3) charities in the United States and their equivalents elsewhere (for example a registered charity in the UK, Canada, or Australia). We do not publish a single fixed rate because organizations vary in size and needs, so the discount is arranged directly with our team. Contact our support team with your organization name, country, and registration or EIN number, and we will confirm your eligibility and set up your nonprofit rate.

Send us proof that your organization is a registered nonprofit. For United States organizations that is usually your IRS determination letter or your EIN, which we can verify against public 501(c)(3) records. For organizations outside the US, a charity registration number or the equivalent government registration document works. Churches, faith groups, foundations, NGOs, animal rescues, PTAs, and community associations all qualify if they are formally registered. Political campaigns, lobbying organizations, and individuals fundraising for personal causes do not.

Yes. FormNX has a free plan with unlimited forms and unlimited submissions, including the drag-and-drop builder, conditional logic, multi-step forms, file uploads, and email notifications. Many small nonprofits run their volunteer signups, event registrations, contact forms, and membership forms entirely on the free plan. The nonprofit discount applies when you need paid features such as e-signatures, PDF generation, or removing FormNX branding. Two things to know about payments: donation forms on the free plan carry a platform fee, while paid plans charge a 0% platform fee, so you pay only the payment provider's own rate. Stripe works on the free plan, and PayPal and Razorpay are available on paid plans.

Yes, in both directions. Every FormNX form is a mobile-friendly online form, and any submission can be turned into a branded PDF automatically, which is how donation receipts, giving statements, and volunteer certificates are generated. If you need actual fillable PDF documents, the PDF builder lets you design PDF forms and fill them from submission data, so the same organization can run its online signups and its printable paperwork from one account.

There are two different kinds, and it helps to keep them separate. The first is government paperwork: IRS Form 1023 (or 1023-EZ) to obtain 501(c)(3) status, the annual Form 990 information return, and any state charity registrations. Those are filings you make with the IRS and your state, not something a form builder produces, so speak to an accountant or a service like your state association of nonprofits for them. The second kind is the operational forms your organization runs on every week: donation forms, volunteer applications and waivers, event and fundraiser registrations, membership forms, grant applications, and program intake. That second kind is what FormNX builds, and it is where most of a small nonprofit's admin time actually goes.

Yes. FormNX supports Stripe, PayPal, and Razorpay, and you can offer more than one on the same form so donors pay with whichever they already trust. A donation form collects one-time payments without a separate donation platform. Add suggested amounts, let donors enter their own figure, use calculation fields to work out a total, and send an automatic receipt by email or as a generated PDF. Every donation is then marked Paid or Due, so you always know what has come in. Donations are processed through your own payment account, so the money goes directly to your organization. Stripe works on the free plan; PayPal and Razorpay are available on paid plans. See the payment forms feature for details.

Start from a template or a blank form, add the fields you need (donor name, email, amount, which program the donation supports, and whether it is in memory or in honor of someone), connect your Stripe, PayPal, or Razorpay account in the payment field, then turn on an automatic email receipt. Publish it as a shareable link, embed it on your website, or open it as a popup. The whole process is drag and drop, so no developer is required. Most nonprofits have a working donation form live in a few minutes.

Yes. Volunteer registration is one of the most common nonprofit uses of FormNX. Build a volunteer application form with availability, skills, emergency contact, and role preference fields, use conditional logic so applicants only see questions relevant to the role they pick, collect a signed waiver with the e-signature field, and get an email the moment someone applies. Every response lands in your FormNX dashboard where you can search, filter, and export it.

Yes, and they are a large part of our nonprofit user base. Churches use FormNX for new member and membership forms, tithe and offering collection, event and retreat registration, small group signups, prayer requests, volunteer rotas, and giving receipts. Registered churches and faith organizations qualify for the same nonprofit pricing as any other 501(c)(3). Browse the form templates library for church membership and donation starting points.

Google Forms is free and fine for a simple internal signup sheet, but it cannot take payments, cannot collect a legally signed waiver, cannot generate a branded PDF receipt, and always carries Google branding on a form your donors see. FormNX takes donations through your own Stripe, PayPal, or Razorpay account, matches your organization branding, collects e-signatures, generates receipts, and gives you conditional logic and multi-step forms. If you are currently on Google Forms, see the Google Forms alternative comparison.

They do, and you should ask all of them. Vendor nonprofit programs change often, so check each one's current offer directly rather than trusting a percentage quoted on a third-party page. The more useful comparison is what you get before any discount applies, because a large discount on a capped plan can still cost more than a smaller discount on an uncapped one. Ask each vendor: are monthly responses capped, is the number of active forms capped, are payment submissions and signed documents capped separately, and how much storage is included? FormNX gives unlimited forms and unlimited responses on every plan including free, so an upgrade buys features rather than permission to collect more. See how we line up against Jotform, SurveyMonkey, Typeform, and other form builders.

Every submission in your Responses area carries a payment status of Paid or Due, updated automatically when the payment clears, so you can see at a glance who has paid. For anything still marked Due, you can regenerate the payment link and resend it in one click. The supporter clicks, completes the payment, and the entry flips to Paid on its own, with no need to recreate the pledge or registration. You can export the full list with payment status included whenever your treasurer, auditor, or board needs the numbers. This works the same for pledge forms, event registrations, membership dues, and sponsorship commitments.

The most common are donation and giving forms, volunteer registration and volunteer application forms, event and fundraiser registration, membership and new member forms, grant and scholarship applications, program intake and beneficiary forms, contact and inquiry forms, sponsorship and in-kind donation requests, and post-event feedback surveys. Because everything lives in one account, the same organization can run all of these without paying for separate tools.

Submissions are stored in your FormNX account, served over HTTPS, and visible only to people you have given access to. You can delete individual responses or an entire form permanently, and paid plans add one-click export to CSV, Excel, or Google Sheets so your data is never locked in. Built-in spam protection (captcha, an invisible honeypot, and disposable-email blocking) keeps junk out of your donor lists. For payments, card details are handled by Stripe, PayPal, or Razorpay directly and are never stored by FormNX.

Yes, on the plans that include workspaces. Higher Pro tiers and the Agency plans add workspaces, so your fundraising lead, volunteer coordinator, and events manager can each work on their own forms and see responses without sharing one login. This matters for nonprofits where volunteers rotate, because you can add and remove people without resetting a password everybody uses. If you are on the free or entry plan, you can still run everything from a single account. Ask our team which tier fits your organization when you ask about nonprofit pricing.

No. Anyone with the link can complete a FormNX form without signing up, creating an account, or installing anything. That removes a real barrier for donation and volunteer forms, where every extra step costs you responses. Forms are mobile-friendly by default, which matters because most donors and volunteers open your link on a phone.