The new standard for fund management on Blackbaud.
FundMiner connects with Blackbaud products to give fundraising, finance, and donor relations teams a shared source for funds, balances, and reporting.
Why organizations
pair FundMiner
with Blackbaud.
Blackbaud powers your core fundraising and finance systems. FundMiner sits on top to orchestrate fund management, automate donor reporting, and align operations, stewardship and finance around a shared set of facts.
A better experience for donors & staff.
FundMiner and Blackbaud together give donors clear, consistent reporting while giving your internal teams less friction, fewer spreadsheets, and more confidence in the numbers.
Native connectivity to Blackbaud data.
Fund balances, transactions, restrictions, and donor records flow from Blackbaud into FundMiner. No re-keying, no duplicate systems, just one connected stack working in harmony.
Fundraising and finance, now in sync.
Everyone sees the same data, in the same structure, tailored to their access and views: from gift officers and fund accountants, to stewardship leads and executives.
From Blackbaud data to fund insight and donor-ready reporting
FundMiner was designed to elevate and optimize how your organization already uses Blackbaud, while automating the high-touch reporting and stewardship work that typically lives in spreadsheets and shared drives.
- Real-time fund visibility into balances, restrictions, and activity without logging into multiple systems.
- Personalized endowment & impact reports generated directly from Blackbaud fund and gift data.
- Donor-facing portal that surfaces the right information without exposing the complexity of your back-end systems.
- Scheduled reporting & proactive fund analytics that highlight under-utilized or at-risk funds.
How FundMiner
connects your ecosystem
• Secure connection to your Blackbaud environment using the SKY API and modern authentication protocols.
• Configurable sync cadence (nightly or more frequent) based on your needs and volume.
• Pre-mapped fields for Financial Edge NXT and other Blackbaud solutions to reduce setup time.
Outcomes for Blackbaud + FundMiner Clients
📈 University of Texas - EP: 20% increase in fund utilization rate.
🔼 UC Riverside: 44% increase in report narrative collection rate.
Other KPIs Improved Through FundMiner
FundMiner serves Blackbaud clients of all types and sizes
This partnership is built around a shared goal: delivering measurable improvement in fund utilization, compliance, and donor transparency, without adding more administrative burden for your team to manage.
- Higher education and K-12 institutions with endowment reporting challenges, and many campus stakeholders.
- Healthcare & hospital foundations managing thousands of purpose-restricted funds with minimal information.
- Community foundations where donor trust and visibility are paramount concerns.
- Large and Medium-sized Nonprofits with difficulties managing manual disbursement workflows, complex processes, and labor-intensive reporting.
How UC Riverside went from a 56% to ~100% response rate on impact report narratives
800+ Personalized Reports Delivered on 500+ Funds
UC Riverside was able to design and package tailored reports for their all their stakeholders
Reports were prepared 3 weeks ahead of schedule
Reports were ready to be deployed ahead of schedule, complete with impact narratives.
What to expect when you add FundMiner to your Blackbaud stack.
FundMiner was built to integrate with your systems and sources of truth, not replace them. It is about orchestrating your tech stack so fund management, reporting, and stewardship work the way your organization and stakeholders needs them to.
| Impact Area | Before FundMiner | After FundMiner |
|---|---|---|
| Fund Visibility | Balances stored in multiple reports and spreadsheets. | Centralized fund views based on user rights, pulling directly from Blackbaud. |
| Donor Reporting | Manual assembly of statements; long turnaround times. | End-to-End workflow for automated financial and impact reports at scale. |
| Cross-team Alignment | Different versions of the truth; ad-hoc reconciliations. | Shared definitions, shared reporting dashboards, automated processes, and clear ownership. |
| Risk & Compliance | Limited visibility into under-spending or off-policy use. | Proactive exception reporting and guardrails built around restrictions. |
Ready to see your
Blackbaud data in
FundMiner?
We'll need a few details about your current Blackbaud environment and we’ll tailor a live walkthrough of how FundMiner can work for your organization.
Interested in learning about our latest updates too?
Ask us about the new Donor Portal launching in Q1 2026.
Answers to common
questions from
Blackbaud Customers
If you don't see your question below, get in touch, we'd love to help out.
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No. FundMiner is designed to enhance your Blackbaud environment, not replace it.
We pull the data you already maintain in Blackbaud (Financial Edge, Raiser’s Edge NXT, CRM, or BBMS) and unify it into a single, fund-centric view. FundMiner handles the operational fund management, donor reporting, and endowment oversight that Blackbaud doesn’t natively centralize.Your existing financial system, CRM, and workflows stay exactly as they are — FundMiner simply orchestrates and connects the pieces so everything works together more cleanly.
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Usually very little.
FundMiner is cloud-based and works through secure APIs and ODBC/flat-file connections. IT typically supports:-
Approving the connection method
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Providing API keys or secure file delivery
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Enabling scheduled data syncs
After that, FundMiner’s implementation team manages configuration, mapping, normalization, and ongoing maintenance. Most clients report just a few hours of IT involvement during onboarding and minimal after go-live.
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Depends on your integration choices. Most customers choose high frequency for daily-used data, and low frequency for annual data.
Most organizations choose a scheduled daily pull for fund and financial information , which is more than enough for fund management, balances, spend tracking, and donor reporting.
If your organization needs more frequent updates (e.g., for high-volume spending or multi-entity reconciliation), we can increase the cadence based on your system architecture.The optimal sync is automated, requiring no manual steps after setup.
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Yes — this is one of FundMiner’s strongest capabilities.
We support:
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Multi-entity foundations
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Multi-campus universities
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System-wide advancement structures
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College-within-university models
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Decentralized units with their own funds and budgets
FundMiner can segment data, reporting, permissions, and workflows by entity or campus so each unit sees only what they are authorized to see. All the while, leadership gets a unified, accurate view across the entire organization.
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Success varies by organization, but clients consistently see improvements in:
Fund visibility
A single, trusted view of every fund — balances, restrictions, spending, utilization, available-to-spend, and prior-year activity — without reconciling multiple spreadsheets.
Donor reporting
Dramatic reductions in manual work and turnaround times. Most clients generate annual and impact reports months faster, with higher coverage and fewer errors.
Fund utilization & compliance
Clearer oversight of under-spending, overspending, restrictions, and exceptions — with guardrails that catch issues before year-end.
Alignment with finance
A shared source of truth between Advancement and Finance, reducing ad-hoc reconciliations and version-control issues.
Time savings
Teams save hundreds of hours per year, freeing staff to focus on strategy and donor experience rather than chasing data.