Turn grant intake, volunteer access, and impact reporting into a portal, with permissions and hosting covered for nonprofit teams.


Choose the views and workflows your NGO needs today, then adapt the portal as grant programs, volunteers, and reporting requirements change.





Manage grant, volunteer, and impact data in Softr Databases, or connect Airtable, Notion, and Google Sheets with real-time sync for one source of truth.
Give applicants, volunteers, partners, and staff the right views in a branded portal. Set up secure logins, user groups, and permissions in minutes.
Let volunteers, partners, and staff access grant updates and program reports on mobile, then install the portal as a PWA in one click.
Let volunteers, partners, and staff access grant updates and program reports on mobile, then install the portal as a PWA in one click.
Use Softr Workflows to route grant applications, send volunteer updates, and trigger partner notifications when records change.
Create tailored experiences for applicants, volunteers, program staff, funders, and partner organizations.
Control who can view, edit, approve, or report on grant, volunteer, partner, and impact records.
Protect grant applications, volunteer records, and program data with encrypted connections and granular access controls.
No more one-size-fits-all tools or costly custom builds. Softr is easy to use and fully customizable, so you can launch faster, adapt as you grow, and skip the complexity of traditional software.

Describe your grant and volunteer workflows, then get a working portal in minutes with no dev time.

Add reporting views, partner access, and new workflows as your NGO programs evolve.

Bring grant intake, volunteer onboarding, partner updates, and impact reporting into one portal.
Co-build with AI
Simply describe what you need. Let Softr handle everything - Interface, database, workflows.
Iterate with AI or visually
Control most critical parts of your app yourself - roles, permissions, security.
Ship the same day
Invite team members or external clients and partners right away. No developer handover.
Use drag-and-drop blocks to build a portal that looks sleek and modern out of the box. Add only the features you need, and iterate as your workflows evolve.




An NGO portal is a secure space where staff, volunteers, donors, grantees, and partner organizations log in to reach the information and tasks relevant to them. It can bring together grant applications, beneficiary records, donor updates, volunteer schedules, reports, files, and project timelines. Instead of searching through email threads and spreadsheets, an NGO team can centralize program delivery and stakeholder communication in one place, with each person seeing the records assigned to their role.
For an NGO, the main benefit is keeping grant work, donor communication, and volunteer coordination in one controlled workspace. Softr is an AI app builder for business software. Describe the portal you need, and it generates the database, pages, and logic, already connected and secure, without writing code. You can also start from a portal template or build from scratch, then move between AI generation and visual editing at any time.
Your records can run on Softr Databases, or connect to tools such as Airtable, Google Sheets, or HubSpot. You retain control over the layout, which staff members or partners can see each grant record, and how the portal reflects your organization’s logo, colors, and domain.
An NGO portal can support the daily work of program teams, fundraisers, volunteers, and grantees through features such as:
- **AI inside the portal:** Ask AI can answer questions about grant status or beneficiary records, while Database AI Agents can classify incoming aid requests or enrich organization profiles.
- **Vibe Coding blocks:** Generate a custom grant progress component that shows milestones, disbursements, and reporting deadlines when standard blocks do not fit.
- **Softr Workflows:** Trigger an approval request when a grant application changes status, or notify a program officer when a volunteer submits an incident report.
- **Access controls:** Give donors, grantees, and staff different views of project records and financial updates.
- **Forms:** Collect grant applications, supporting documents, and volunteer availability with file uploads and conditional logic.
- **Visual blocks:** Build dashboards and charts for funding, tables for beneficiaries, kanban boards for applications, and detail views for projects.
Everything is drag-and-drop and remains editable after the initial build.
Vibe coding means describing the NGO portal you want and letting AI build it. You might request a grantee dashboard with application status, reporting deadlines, uploaded receipts, and a message area. Softr produces that experience on a production-ready foundation, rather than leaving you with raw code to maintain.
Authentication, database logic, and security are handled natively, so a fragile build is less likely to interrupt grant reporting or hide a beneficiary record from the wrong role. Where you use a Vibe Coding block for a custom component, every prompt and edit is versioned. If a change breaks a funding summary or case-review screen, you can roll it back instead of trying to repair the generated code.
Yes. One NGO portal can separate program teams, regional offices, donors, volunteers, and grantee organizations. A grantee can see its own application, documents, and reporting deadlines, while a program officer can review assigned projects and a donor can see approved impact updates. Login, role, and record-based permissions keep each group focused on the content meant for them.
You do not need an existing database to start an NGO portal. Softr Databases is built into the platform, so you can create tables for beneficiaries, grants, donors, projects, and volunteer shifts before moving anything from a spreadsheet.
If your records already live in a spreadsheet, Airtable, Google Sheets, HubSpot, Notion, Coda, monday.com, Supabase, or a SQL database, those sources can connect as well. The REST API connector covers other systems. Either way, you decide how grant applications, case notes, and project updates are structured and displayed.
Softr Databases is the recommended starting point for an NGO portal. It is a native relational database built for business apps, with high performance, instant automation triggers, and faster access because the data is stored natively in Softr.
Softr also connects to 21+ external data sources, including Airtable, Google Sheets, HubSpot, SmartSuite, and BigQuery. Airtable and Google Sheets are common choices for existing donor lists, grant trackers, and volunteer rosters. One portal can draw on several sources at once, and most integrations support real-time two-way sync. This lets program staff keep project records in one system while displaying approved updates from another.
You can control the NGO portal’s layout, navigation, and content for each audience. For example, a grantee may view only its own grant application, reporting deadlines, and uploaded receipts, while a program officer can review assigned grantees, case notes, and approval status. Donors can receive a separate view of approved milestones without accessing beneficiary names or internal assessments.
Permissions can be set with precise view and edit rights, and pages or blocks can be shown or hidden based on the logged-in user. You can also filter lists by the current user, such as showing a coordinator only their volunteer shifts. Softr’s built-in preview lets you open the portal as each user group before launch, with no test accounts required.
Yes. Add your NGO’s logo, brand colors, fonts, and custom domain, then remove Softr branding. Donors, grantees, volunteers, and partner organizations will see a portal that matches your organization’s identity, which helps keep grant submissions and impact updates in a familiar environment.
You can adjust colors, fonts, spacing, page structure, and the content each person sees after login. Choose blocks that match how your NGO works:
- **Table:** Review grant applications, beneficiary referrals, or donor pledges in rows.
- **List or Card:** Present active projects, volunteer opportunities, or partner organizations.
- **Detail View:** Show a grantee’s funding terms, reporting history, and supporting files.
- **Forms:** Collect an intake request, grant application, or volunteer registration with conditional questions and uploads.
- **Charts:** Track funding by program, beneficiaries served, or overdue reports.
- **Calendar:** Coordinate outreach visits, volunteer shifts, and reporting deadlines.
You decide where each block appears and which roles can access it. The visual builder keeps every part editable when your programs or reporting process change.
An NGO portal may hold sensitive beneficiary profiles, donor records, grant applications, and case notes, so access must be controlled as carefully as storage. Softr encrypts data in transit with TLS and at rest on secure infrastructure. Role-based permissions, visibility rules, global restrictions, and users managed in your data source help limit who can view or edit each record.
With Softr Databases, records sit in Softr’s secure environment, hosted in Europe in Germany, and the database is SOC 2 Type II compliant. If you connect an external source, Softr stores nothing from it and displays live data according to your access settings. Authentication, access control, and monitoring follow industry best practices, helping keep beneficiary details away from donor and volunteer views unless you explicitly allow access.
An AI-generated NGO portal can be production-ready when it is built on Softr’s stable foundation. For an organization, production means real grantees can submit reports, program officers can review case records, and donors can receive approved impact updates without the portal failing on the second day.
Some vibe coding tools generate fragile custom code that becomes difficult to secure or maintain. Softr handles the operational foundation natively, including authentication, secure hosting, and granular permissions. That reduces the Day Two problem and gives your team an app that is ready for real users and real grant records from day one.
Pure vibe coding tools generate raw code that can leave an NGO responsible for authentication, roles, permissions, and hosting. Traditional no-code tools usually require teams to configure those foundations manually. Softr takes a hybrid approach: describe a grants portal, volunteer tracker, or donor workspace in plain language, let AI generate the database, pages, and logic, then refine the result with visual controls.
That means non-technical teams can move from an initial program dashboard to a production app without rebuilding the operational foundation. Softr apps are also agent-ready. A logged-in user can operate the portal through an AI assistant over MCP, but only within the actions and records allowed by the portal’s existing groups, permissions, and data restrictions. There is no second permission model to build or audit.
You can automate common NGO tasks without code. A useful first workflow is sending a notification to a program officer when a grantee submits a quarterly report or changes an application from draft to ready for review. Softr Workflows runs automations when a record changes or when someone clicks a button inside the portal.
The portal can also sync with tools such as Stripe for donor payments and Intercom for support conversations. REST API connections and webhooks cover advanced cases, including sending approved grant data to another system or triggering an external process after a volunteer submits an incident form. Softr supports displaying data from other tools, sending data out, and responding to user actions in one connected workflow.
Describe your portal, get a working app in minutes, and refine it visually as your programs change.