Built for nonprofits, by people who serve them.

Why we built it

We came to nonprofits from different directions, but we ended up doing the same work: building Salesforce systems for them, one org at a time, one contract at a time. After enough of those, the pattern was impossible to miss — we were both solving the same handful of problems on basically every engagement.

And it wasn’t the organizations’ fault. Nonprofits get treated as an afterthought by enterprise software: too small to prioritize, too mission-driven to push back, too tight on budget to demand better. A donor portal, a form, deduping their contacts, a receipt they could send themselves: every one was a separate tool, a separate bill, a separate login. Something breaks, and the fix is a consultant at $150 an hour. Even the tools that called themselves “free” usually weren’t.

Your Salesforce isn’t broken. It’s just unfinished.

We’d each spent years circling the same problem from a different angle, so when our worlds came together the move was obvious: stop charging by the hour and start building the thing every one of those orgs actually needed.

Every feature in CauseStack started as a real problem we’d watched an organization run into, not a line on a roadmap — the everyday tools at no cost, the bigger pieces at one public price a nonprofit can actually pay. We got tired of billing people for plumbing. This is what we built instead.

Matt Souza and Sean Ramsey, co-founders of CauseStack. Both nonprofit Salesforce practitioners long before we were founders.