Philantro – Donations and Donor Management

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1. ★★★★★ Dr A. Huber

   1.1y ago

   We don’t have a web person on our team but found this plugin very easy to use and customize to fit our needs. A few things thing that sold us was the fundraising dashboard, the email marketing feature and the intuitive donation form that helps our supporters manage their recurring gifts. Our donors can making changes to their recurring gifts without having to contact us and can get copies of their receipts from their donor portal. It’s a time saver. The donation form looks good on the computer and on a smartphone so we can reach donors on the go and at galas with qrcodes. Glad to find this service, thanks WordPress.

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2. ★★★★★ PortMacOnline

   7.9y ago

   Nowhere in the description does it say that it is only applicable in three countries, you need to install the plugin, then ‘sign up’ for a demo account to find that out! Total waste of my time!

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3. ★★★★★ societalharmony

   8.2y ago

   GDPR compliance was a headache for our organisation until we found Philantro. The donor reports, household statistics and consent records are brilliant, just what we needed!!!

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4. ★★★★★ aarondancun1973

   8.7y ago

   Philantro is by far the best donation platform we’ve used. We have used around 4 donation platforms in the last 10 years and Philantro is the only service that both the Development department and my department (IT) can agree on… which is rare. We were asked to leave a candid review because our website is WordPress and we’ve had Philantro for a little over a year. Long story short, we hit a dry spell due to the economy and we couldn’t sustain paying $300/month for our previous platform. Our original goal was to find a simple solution to see us through the dry spell until we rebounded and could afford going back to our old platform. After things started to pick up, our board unanimously agreed that we should stick with Philantro and I couldn’t agree more. It outperformed our previous donation platform on multiple levels, was more cost effective, provided insight that we didn’t have access to before and Philantro provided information that allowed multiple departments to work together more efficiently. The donor self-service freed up a lot of our time, so that’s definitely an extra point. I read a review on here and she wrote “Each update they roll out, you’ll see something you were JUST thinking about it” and it’s funny because it’s so true. Here’s what we like: Everything – donor information, transaction data, design, statistics, usability, responsiveness, donor self-service, ACH, PayPal, constant updates that address things you didn’t know that you didn’t know, Salesforce and Mailchimp integration. Our wish-list: Paid plans. I say this because we’re reaching close to a million in donations this year and it would be nice to see Philantro offer a monthly subscription that would lower our transaction cost or offer a volume discount. Mail Merge for donor acknowledgments QuickBooks Integration We rave about Philantro every chance we get, keep up the great work and lets see some paid plans in 2018 🙂

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5. ★★★★★ Carolyn Jimmers

   9.2y ago

   The amazing peeps at Philantro reached out to us WordPress users who use their plugin to write a candid review of Philantro and to be brutally honest 🙂 Buahahaha – you should have never asked, jk! Philantro is invaluable, the data they provide on donors and donations – invaluable, the donation form is beautiful and responsive, conversion and demographic metrics – invaluable, they way Philantro curates data for accuracy is unreal and their recapture features – unbelievable! The recapture features alone will brings tears of joy any nonprofit’s eyes lol. It’s just a really solid, forward thinking donation service/platform and each update, it gets better and better. It’s clear they listen to use users. Each update they roll out, you’ll see something you were JUST thinking about it lol, the Philantro team is just as amazing as Philantro itself. We’ve been with Philantro for maybe 18-19 months and on my birthday, I received a birthday card with the option to choose a Philantro t-shirt or a hoodie as a gift – they’re just incredible. Philanto is amazing. The Philantro team is amazing. Now – here’s what I would like to see 🙂 I would love to see phone support in the future. The custom reporting need some work because we would like the ability to select the fields it returns. When we run custom reports for third-parties, sometimes we just want gender and amounts etc. And lastly, we would love to see integrations with accounting software instead of just the ability to export our transaction data. Overall, if you’re a nonprofit – you will love Philantro, you will love the team and you will wonder how you ever managed to accept donations without it!

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2 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 6.4 Philantro – Donations and Donor Management <= 5.3 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via donate Shortcode ↗
   2025-01-27 CVE-2024-13527 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 5.3 Patched in 5.4
2. Medium · 6.4 Philantro – Donations and Donor Management <= 5.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting ↗
   2024-12-17 CVE-2024-12500 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 5.2 Patched in 5.3

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.8.2

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-05-15 70+ → 60+ down after 16 days in tier
2. 2026-04-29 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2026-04-28 70+ → 60+ down after 3 days in tier
4. 2026-04-25 60+ → 70+ up after 1 days in tier
5. 2026-04-24 70+ → 60+ down after 5 days in tier
6. 2026-04-19 60+ → 70+ up after 2 days in tier
7. 2026-04-17 70+ → 60+ down after 4 days in tier
8. 2026-04-13 60+ → 70+ up after 61 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• GiftFlow – Donation & Fundraising — installs · 3.6★ · 4 shared tags B
• FundCollector – Donations Plugin and Fundraising Platform for WordPress — installs · 3.6★ · 4 shared tags B
• Donorbox – Free Recurring Donation Plugin and Fundraising Platform 8K+ installs · 4.6★ · 3 shared tags B
• FundPress – WordPress Donation Plugin 200+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags B
• Mightycause Donation Forms and Embeds 200+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags B
• Q QuickDonate — installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags B

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Philantro – Donations and Donor Management: 60+ active installs, 4.2★ (5 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/philantro