HelpYouSponsor vs Virtuous
Enterprise-grade without the enterprise price, implementation, or bundled product stack.
Virtuous is a Responsive Fundraising platform aimed at $5M+ nonprofits, sold as a bundle of separate products: CRM+, Raise, Insights, Marketing, Events, Volunteer, Grants, and Momentum. Pricing is Contact Sales. HelpYouSponsor is a full donor CRM with everything Virtuous's core platform ships, and adds three categories Virtuous does not: purpose-built sponsorship programs, sponsor-to-recipient messaging with AI translation, and mission trip management. Published pricing. Every feature on every plan. Starts free.
Feature comparison
| Feature | HelpYouSponsor | Virtuous |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Published usage-based pricing. Current plan details live on /pricing. | Contact Sales. Professional tier for nonprofits under $5M annual revenue; Enterprise tier above that. |
| Pricing transparency | Published pay-per-commitment pricing with no contract required. | Contact Sales only. Annual contracts. |
| Product bundling | One platform. Every feature on every plan. | Separate products (CRM+, Raise, Insights, Marketing, Events, Volunteer, Grants, Momentum), priced and configured individually. |
| Stripe processing for nonprofits | Lowest available nonprofit Stripe rate. | Standard rates through Virtuous Raise / integrated gateways. |
| Sponsorship programs (1:1, community, pooled, hybrid) | Purpose-built. Matching, transfers, lifecycle, multi-program, hybrid models. | Not available. Requires custom fields and manual workflows. |
| Sponsor-recipient messaging with AI translation | Moderated 1:1 messaging with automatic translation in 50+ languages. | Not available. |
| Mission trip management | HYS Trips. Registration, individual fundraising, Checkr background checks, e-signatures. | Not available. |
| Full donor CRM (records, households, major gifts) | Full CRM on every plan. Households, moves management, major-donor tracking, giving history. | Virtuous CRM+: enterprise-grade donor management with holistic profiles. |
| AI donor intelligence (wealth capacity, ask calculator) | HYS Insights. Wealth capacity scoring, optimal-ask calculators, major-gift prospecting. Included. | Virtuous Insights: first and third-party insights, predictive scoring, dashboards. Separately priced product. |
| AI agent for major-gift officers | On the roadmap. | Virtuous Momentum, AI-powered fundraising agent for major and mid-level gift officers. |
| Fundraising campaigns (targets, match pools, recurring conversion) | HYS Fundraising. Campaign pages with donation targets, match pools, honor gifts, one-click recurring conversion on checkout. | Virtuous Raise: customizable donation forms, landing pages, project-based giving. Separately priced product. |
| Peer-to-peer fundraising | First-class program type. Sponsors, participants, and ambassadors each get a branded fundraising page tied to the donor record. | Virtuous Raise fundraising pages; peer-to-peer via Raise. |
| Journeys (automation & workflow builder) | Journeys. Multi-step automations across email, SMS, tasks, and portal events. Visual workflow editor. | Workflow & Journey Automation, built into the core platform. Strong in marketing automation, segmentation, and responsive triggers. |
| Email, newsletters, and print mailings | Appeals, newsletters, auto emails, and print mailings from one composer. | Virtuous Marketing: integrated email, SMS, segmentation, analytics. Separately priced product. |
| Text-to-Give | Available on every plan via the Sendblue integration. | SMS within Virtuous Marketing. |
| Events | Integrated in HYS Fundraising (registration, peer-to-peer pages). Dedicated HYS Events arriving 2026. | Virtuous Events, dedicated event management product. |
| Grants | HYS Grants in private beta with anchor customers; public launch 2026. Grant tracking fields today. | Virtuous Grants, dedicated grant management product. |
| Volunteer management | Not in scope today. | Virtuous Volunteer, dedicated volunteer management product. |
| Payment recovery | Built in. Smart retry on failed recurring gifts, abandoned-checkout recovery, automatic card updates via Stripe's Account Updater. | Dunning via Virtuous Raise and Marketing workflows. |
| Native mobile app | Included mobile app for donors and sponsors. | Not available. |
| Embeddable donor experiences | Smart Embed. Six embed types with auto-resizing, brand matching, three lines of code. | Virtuous Raise forms and landing pages. |
| API, webhooks, MCP server for AI agents | Full REST API, webhooks, Zapier, and an MCP server. Every plan. | Virtuous API and App Marketplace. |
| Integration marketplace | Zapier + native integrations (Stripe, QuickBooks, Salesforce, Authorize.net, Flutterwave, QPayPro, Dropbox Sign, Checkr, Sendblue, and more). | App & Partner Marketplace, broad ecosystem with deep enterprise integrations. |
| Time to go-live | Self-service setup. Most organizations live in 1–2 weeks. | Multi-month implementation with an implementation partner. |
Why switch to HelpYouSponsor
Enterprise-grade without enterprise bundling
Virtuous sells CRM+, Raise, Insights, Marketing, Events, Volunteer, Grants, and Momentum as separate products, priced, configured, and implemented individually. HYS ships a full donor CRM, fundraising, sponsorship, mission trips, messaging, AI insights, and journeys automation on every plan, on one donor record. One bill. One login. One data model.
Published pricing, self-service, live in 1–2 weeks
Virtuous is Contact Sales, Professional tier below $5M fundraising revenue, Enterprise above, with annual contracts and multi-month implementation. HYS pricing is published. Start free, scale by commitment, go live this week.
Sponsorship, trips, and sponsor-recipient messaging are categories Virtuous does not ship
If you run a sponsorship program, mission trips, or cross-language sponsor-recipient communication, Virtuous is not in the category. HYS is purpose-built for all three, on the same donor record with everything else.
preferred nonprofit Stripe versus bundled payment fees
HYS applies the lowest available nonprofit Stripe rate. Virtuous Raise processes through integrated gateways at standard rates. Across a year of giving volume, the delta is real money returned to program.
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