Grace is no longer under active development

Since 2004, Grace has been and continues to be used by DiscipleMakers, Inc., as well as a number of other individuals and organizations. However, due to changes in DiscipleMakers and my own availability, Grace is no longer under active development, and we can no longer offer support on the Grace mailing lists.

There are other good donation management tools out there that do what Grace does, especially DonorTools, and a Google search will reveal many more options as well, several which are inexpensive or free.

It's been a great joy and privilege to interact with the Grace users over the years, and I know that both DiscipleMakers and I hope to produce other useful tools in the future. Perhaps we'll see you there.

Tom Hallman

September 30, 2011

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.