Case Study: Funraise boosts nonprofit fundraising 7x with embedded Sisense analytics
Key results
The challenge
Funraise is a fundraising platform for nonprofits. Delivering analytics to its customers required engineers to build custom reports by hand, a process that took several days to weeks and consumed roughly 40 hours of engineering time per week. Nonprofit users could not explore their own data without waiting on the engineering team.
The solution
Funraise embedded Sisense to power a self-serve product called Fundraising Intelligence, with template reports, self-service dashboards, and in-app integration so nonprofits could access analytics directly. This freed engineers from producing reports and let customers build their own views.
“We wanted our engineers to build innovative new technology instead of putting out reports.”
TSTony SassoChief Product Officer, Funraise
The results, in context
Following the embed, Funraise reports a 7x increase in annual online fundraising and a 1.5x increase in recurring revenue growth for its nonprofit customers, alongside a 12% year-over-year improvement in donor retention. Internally, the change returned about 40 hours of engineering time per week and cut analytics delivery from days to moments. Figures are quoted from the public Sisense case-study page, which does not display an explicit publish date.