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Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT®  vs. Bloomerang

Outgrowing Bloomerang? Do more and raise more with Raiser’s Edge NXT.

A larger campaign. A more complex gift. A board that needs more than a fundraising total. As expectations grow, the depth of your fundraising system matters.

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Higher expectations. A fundraising solution built to meet them.

44% Average Increase

in total dollars raised*

Fundraising Intelligence

backed by more than 30 years of research and development

One Connected System

for donor relationships, gifts, and fundraising activity

You’re not switching for another feature list.
You’re switching to get more done.

AI, gift management, and reporting appear on both feature lists. The real comparison is how well they support the work: preparing for an ask, honoring a commitment, and understanding what drives results.

Key Differentiator

Raiser’s Edge NXT

Bloomerang

Build a stronger major-gift program

Turn donor potential into gifts you can pursue with purpose. AI-informed cultivation plans help fundraisers prepare and follow through, while opportunity management gives leaders a clearer view of asks, progress, and stalled relationships.

Identifying promising donors is no longer enough. Your team needs more support developing each ask—and a clearer picture of which relationships are moving toward a commitment.

Accept larger, more complex commitments

Pursue the gift without losing control of the details. Manage changing commitments while keeping donor intent, recognition, payments, and financial history aligned.

Your gifts are becoming more complex than your current process comfortably handles—especially when allocations, payment plans, or donor instructions change.

Invest in fundraising that performs

Know what works—and where to focus next. Compare campaign and appeal results against costs and goals, down to individual packages. AI-assisted benchmarks and guidance help turn performance into priorities for growth.

You can report what came in, but explaining which approach worked best, what it cost, and where to invest next takes more effort than it should.

Keep fundraising and finance aligned

Give both teams confidence in the numbers. Controlled gift posting provides a reviewed, traceable handoff to accounting, including adjustments—not simply less data entry.

Transactions reach accounting, but handling commitments, changes, and reconciliation still requires more coordination between teams than you want.

Build long-term support through planned giving

Manage future gifts with the care they deserve. Dedicated planned-gift records support the terms, value, stewardship, and eventual realization of commitments that may span years.

Custom fields and notes record that a planned gift exists, but give your team less structure for managing the commitment itself.

Reach more donors with the team you have

Add capacity—not just recommendations. Agents for Good™ includes a Development Agent that carries out personalized donor outreach and follow-up under your team’s direction, extending coverage to relationships you don’t have time to cultivate today.

Knowing whom to contact doesn’t solve a shortage of time. If promising donors still go without consistent outreach, your team needs capacity to carry out the work—not simply more recommendations.

Built for the work. Ready for the ambition.

A stronger donor pipeline. Monthly giving that lasts. Reports that explain performance and guide the next campaign. Raiser’s Edge NXT brings depth to the daily work of fundraising—and AI to add capacity so your team can take on more.

Keep the donor story intact, develop stronger asks, and manage a growing pipeline with AI that helps your team prepare and follow through.

  • Get a fuller donor picture. Giving, relationships, conversations, and actions stay connected in the donor record, and AI briefings let staff prepare for meetings or take over a relationship without slowing down.

  • Identify better prospects within your own database. Prospect Insights helps identify supporters with more to give and prospects who deserve a place in a fundraiser’s portfolio.

  • Grow major giving with AI-informed cultivation. Turn giving potential into a specific opportunity, suggested ask, and cultivation plan—with your fundraiser reviewing the next steps.

  • Manage your pipeline with greater clarity. Compare asked, expected, and received amounts, and see which opportunities are moving or spending too long in a stage.

  • See your planned giving commitments. Dedicated planned-gift records capture the commitment’s terms, value, beneficiaries, and expected timing—not just a note that a future gift may exist.

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Run appeals, online giving, recurring gifts, and events with activity connected to donor records—and clearer ways to measure what earns support.

  • Manage online giving without a separate entry process. Donation forms capture gifts and donor designations, match constituents, and bring gifts into processing—reducing the work between an online donation and an updated donor record.

  • Grow recurring support with less payment chasing. Automated payments, retries for temporary failures, and payment updates help keep monthly gifts coming in and give staff fewer missed payments to follow up.

  • See the relationship beyond the event. Manage registrations, guests, fees, and attendance alongside giving history, so fundraisers can use participation to inform the next conversation.

  • Automate your next steps. List-based workflows connect emails, assigned actions, and timed follow-up so a campaign does not end with the send.

  • Simplify creation of personalized gift acknowledgements. Templates and AI-assisted messages help staff recognize the contribution accurately and personally, with review before delivery.

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Handle everyday volume and complex commitments with the checks, history, and accounting controls your team needs to keep gifts accurate.

  • Batch gift processing with validation before approval. Expected counts and totals, validation, exceptions, and control reports help staff catch problems before gifts move forward.

  • See the full commitment, not just the payment. Manage multi-year pledges, installments, balances, fund allocations, and recognition alongside everyday donations.

  • Retain history of changes. Posted adjustments and recurring-gift amendments retain the information needed to trace changes and explain the gift’s history.

  • Maintain healthy supporter records. Duplicate management, data-health tools, consent history, and role-based access support dependable donor information.

  • Control your handoffs to finance. Select gifts and adjustments, review exceptions, and retain posting reports. Post directly to Financial Edge NXT or export for another ledger.

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See what drives results across campaigns and appeals, then use deeper analysis and AI-assisted benchmarks to decide where to invest next.

  • See your full fundraising picture—and what’s driving it. Dashboards, detailed reports, queries, and performance analysis connect the headline result with the donors, gifts, and programs behind it.

  • Understand the fundraising direction, not just the total. Compare campaign, fund, and appeal results over time and against goals to see where growth is building, where it is slowing, and how much remains to raise.

  • Use AI to find a stronger path forward. Peer benchmarks and AI-assisted analysis help interpret performance and weigh where retention, donor upgrades, or recurring giving could contribute to your goal.

  • Know whether an appeal earned its cost. Assess response, cost per gift or donor, average gifts, and goal attainment before deciding where to put the next campaign’s budget.

  • Choose the stronger version of an appeal. Compare packages by conversion, gift size, and return, then review the underlying donors and gifts to decide which approach to repeat or refine.

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Extend donor coverage with Agents for Good™, connect specialist tools, and build the skills to put more ambitious fundraising plans into practice.

  • Get AI support with your daily work. Blackbaud AI Chat helps staff ask questions, summarize donor context, and draft communications without leaving the fundraising environment.

  • Engage more valuable donors. The Data Health Agent fixes data issues at scale, while the Development Agent carries out personalized outreach, extending your team’s capacity to focus on what matters.

  • Extend the tools around your fundraising. Partner apps, low-code tools, and APIs connect specialist capabilities and support custom integrations while keeping Raiser’s Edge NXT as your core fundraising system.

  • Build the skills behind the next program. Blackbaud University, professional services, support, and a fundraising peer community help staff learn workflows, solve problems, and put new capabilities to work.

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Bloomerang is fine for tiny organizations with no money—it's a good little engine that could. But it wasn't going to take Boundless where we needed to go… Raiser’s Edge NXT is a much better solution for us.

Jodi Bopp

Vice President, Advancement
Boundless
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The reason I chose Blackbaud is because I'm a solo fundraiser and I wanted all the automation it offered. We looked at Bloomerang, eTapestry, and other tools, but they didn't have a lot of what Raiser’s Edge NXT had. I needed a system that could do things for me like automated emails, had a third party fundraising system that is connected, and other automated options.”

Lesley Mutschke

Fund Development and Donor Relations Manager
Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton

Frequently Asked Questions

How does Raiser’s Edge NXT compare to Bloomerang?

Bloomerang is approachable and well-designed for organizations in early growth stages — but as fundraising operations mature, the data model, workflow depth, and reporting capabilities that complex programs require aren’t there. Organizations that grow with Bloomerang often find themselves planning a migration precisely when their fundraising momentum is strongest. Raiser’s Edge NXT is built to hold up as that complexity increases — without requiring a system change at the moment it’s least convenient.

Why do nonprofits switch from Bloomerang to Raiser’s Edge NXT?

Organizations often evaluate Raiser’s Edge NXT when they need more advanced reporting, stronger major gift fundraising tools, deeper donor insights, and a platform that can support continued fundraising growth.

Which platform is better for major gift fundraising?

Raiser’s Edge NXT includes purpose-built tools for prospect research, portfolio management, stewardship, and major gift fundraising workflows designed to help fundraisers identify and cultivate high-value donors.

How do reporting and analytics differ between Bloomerang and Raiser’s Edge NXT?

Bloomerang offers traditional reporting focusing on past performance, giving trends, and engagement. Bloomerang’s data model is approachable and well-suited to organizations in early growth. But as fundraising operations become more complex — multi-fund reporting, compliance, stewardship tracking, and long-term performance analysis — the depth and governance of Raiser’s Edge NXT’s fundraising-native data model becomes essential to achieving deeper reporting and analysis goals. In addition to traditional reporting and dashboards, it brings together performance against goals, benchmarking and AI-guided insights, so fundraising teams can see whether they’re on track, spot risks and opportunities early and decide where to focus next. Instead of only describing past performance, Raiser’s Edge NXT helps answer the deeper question: Do we have what we need to reach our goals?

Is Raiser’s Edge NXT a good fit for growing nonprofits?

Yes. Raiser’s Edge NXT is designed to support organizations at every stage of growth, from expanding donor programs and fundraising teams to major campaigns and sophisticated fundraising strategies.

Does Raiser’s Edge NXT offer fundraising intelligence and AI capabilities?

Yes. Raiser’s Edge NXT provides donor intelligence, prospect research, AI-powered insights, and fundraising tools that help organizations identify opportunities and prioritize fundraising efforts more effectively.

See What Raiser’s Edge NXT Can Do for Your Organization

Request a free, personalized demonstration of Raiser’s Edge NXT and see how it can support your fundraising goals, donor engagement, and day-to-day work.

No commitment. No obligation. Just a chance to see if it’s the right fit for your organization.

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