What is Grace?
The Grace Donation Manager handles the tracking of donations and donors for a non-profit organization. As donations come in for particular funds, the donation is recorded along with the donor's information. Grace also handles the printing of receipts & reports and facilitates common administrative operations like bank deposits and exporting of data to an accounting package.
Grace is well-suited for both the individual fundraiser as well as small-to-medium-sized organizations, and runs on both Windows (XP/Vista/7) and Linux operating systems.
Grace is free software and is released under the GNU Public License (GPL), which means that the source code for Grace is freely available – and always will be – and therefore can be modified to meet your organization's needs.
Project features
- Create a deposit and enter donations into that deposit.
- Multiple line items (recipients) possible for each donation.
- Streamlined data entry and finalizing of a deposit.
- Create multiple funds to receive donations.
- Print receipts for donors.
- Print reports for fund owners (or output to PDF).
- Export to external accounting system.
- Notify fund owners of donations by email.
- Multiple, concurrent users with extensive logging.
- Copy deposits for easy re-entry of repeated sets of donations.
- Rapid, extensive search for deposits, donations, and donors.
- Runs on Microsoft Windows XP / Vista / 7, 32-bit and 64-bit editions.
- Note: See Installing for important details for Windows 7 users.
- Runs on Linux, 32-bit and 64-bit (tested on Ubuntu.)
- GPL-licensed open source software for infinite flexibility to meet your needs.
- See ScreenShots.
News
August 25, 2009: Grace 0.5.1 released
Another day, another bugfix! =) This version fixes critical bugs for Derby ("Standard installation") users.
Follow the install/upgrade instructions in the user manual.
August 22, 2009: Grace 0.5.0 released
See NewAndNoteworthyIn05. Also, see the Installing page if you began using Grace v0.2.x.
Changes include:
- Overhauled Grace UI on both Windows & Linux.
- Improved icon support.
- Added Fix Wizard.
- Added "Deposit -> Open Recent" menu.
- Added ability to view donation and line item details in sealed deposits.
- Added a "Show active only" filter to the Manage Funds dialog.
- Added ability to save default "seal" preferences.
- Added ability to delete funds (which have no associated donations.)
- Added functionality to meet needs for 501(c)(3) accrual accounting methodology. All reports now use the deposit's posted date (rather than sealed date) to determine date ranges to report on.
- The "View Recent Giving" button in donor search dialogs now returns only the past two years' giving rather than all giving ("View Giving History").
- More small improvements and bug fixes.
Check out the downloads section.
January 3, 2009: Grace 0.4.0 released
Changes include:
- Grace is now called "Grace Donation Manager". This is to better align with people's expectations while searching for this type of software.
- Grace now comes packaged as a Windows Installer (and uninstaller). No more crazy command-line stuff!
- 32- and 64-bit versions of Grace are now packaged together.
- Grace no longer requires a Java JDK to be installed from distributions. A JRE will suffice.
- Grace has a new logo and icons!
- Grace has a new user manual!
- Added non-tax-deductible option for line items (for honorariums, etc.)
- Added Credit Card donation type.
- Added and improved reports.
- Various bug fixes.
Check out the downloads section.
August 21, 2008: Grace 0.3.1 released
Changes include:
- 64-bit editions are now available for Windows and Linux.
- Improved dual-monitor support.
- A number of bug-fixes that affect Linux distributions.
August 4, 2008: Changes...
Grace has recently undergone an number of changes:
- A new host: Google Code (formerly SourceForge)
- A new repository: SVN (formerly CVS)
- A new release: 0.3.0 (formerly 0.2.2)
