Case Study: Five Valleys Land Trust achieves streamlined fundraising and improved donor stewardship with DonorPerfect

Land Trust Moves from Home Grown System to a New Home with DonorPerfect

Five Valleys Land Trust, a Montana nonprofit founded in 1972 to protect river corridors, wildlife habitat, agricultural lands and open spaces, struggled with an outdated home‑grown database and a costly, time‑consuming monthly giving system. With 11 staff and dozens of volunteers, the organization found data entry, reporting and donor tracking inefficient (data entry took roughly twice as long and report generation was far slower), limiting major‑donor cultivation and accurate recording of soft credits and memorial/honor gifts.

They implemented DonorPerfect Online, an intuitive, customizable system with strong customer support, which was quickly deployed and easy for staff to learn. The result: streamlined recurring and online gift processing, faster data entry and reporting, improved tracking of donor relationships and soft credits, better segmentation for targeted fundraising, and stronger major‑donor stewardship — enabling more efficient acknowledgements, event management and overall fundraising growth.

Five Valleys Land Trust

Glenn Marangelo

Development Director