For child sponsorship charities

The CRM built for child sponsorship programs.

Manage sponsors, track children, and send updates. Without the spreadsheets, generic CRMs, or six-figure custom builds.

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SM Sarah Mendez Toronto · since 2022 SPONSOR DL David Liang Vancouver · since 2020 SPONSOR PR Priya Rao London · since 2023 SPONSOR JK Jamal Khan Doha · since 2021 SPONSOR MF Maria Ferreira Madrid · since 2024 SPONSOR A Amara, 8 Kenya · Class 3 SPONSORED CHILD R Ravi, 10 Pakistan · Class 4 SPONSORED CHILD E Esha, 7 Bangladesh · Class 2 SPONSORED CHILD T Tomás, 9 Honduras · Class 3 SPONSORED CHILD A Aisha, 11 Ethiopia · Class 5 SPONSORED CHILD
90%

annual retention is what sponsorship can deliver when the relationship is tended properly.

AFP Fundraising Effectiveness Project · sustaining-donor benchmark

Why sponsorship is different

Sponsorship runs on retention, not pipeline.

Across the sector, fewer than one in five new donors come back. Sponsorship is the opposite shape: a multi-year relationship with retention rates that climb into the 80s and 90s, when sponsors actually feel the impact each quarter.

Charity Buddy is built to make that happen.

How it works

From the office, into the field, back to the donor's inbox.

Four steps. One source of truth. No more chasing field workers on WhatsApp or rebuilding sponsor lists in spreadsheets every quarter.

  1. 01

    Office adds sponsors and children.

    Staff onboard each sponsored child and the donor backing them. Charity Buddy keeps every match logged, auditable, and easy to reassign when a sponsorship ends.

  2. 02

    Field officer captures the visit.

    Workers in Lahore, Nairobi, or Tegucigalpa open the phone app, photograph the child, log school progress, and add notes. Works fully offline. Syncs the moment they're back on signal.

  3. 03

    Office reviews and approves.

    Updates queue for ops sign-off. Nothing reaches a sponsor until your team has eyes on it. Photos can be cropped, notes edited, and translations applied before the report goes out.

  4. 04

    Donor receives a professional PDF.

    A branded, beautifully formatted update lands in the sponsor's inbox automatically. Photos. School progress. Personal note from the field. Exactly what they were promised when they signed up.

Inside the product

One source of truth from the field to the donor inbox.

Ops sees every sponsorship at a glance. Field workers capture visits and photos from a phone, even offline. Sponsors get the polished updates you promised.

Charity Buddy admin dashboard showing active sponsorships, key metrics, and live field activity.

Operations

Built for charity operations.

Designed alongside ops teams running real sponsorship programs in Pakistan, Kenya, the Philippines, and Honduras. Every workflow exists because somebody asked for it, not because we imagined it.

Donor data, locked

Donor-data secure.

SOC 2-aligned controls, encryption in transit and at rest, role-based access, full audit trails, and regional data residency for charities with EU or Canadian donor obligations.

Get live fast

Implementation in weeks, not quarters.

A guided onboarding moves your existing sponsorships out of spreadsheets in days. No multi-quarter Salesforce-style implementation. No six-figure SI contract.

By the numbers

Why sponsorship is worth getting right.

~90%

annual retention sponsorship can hit, when run well.

AFP FEP sustaining-donor benchmark

~152M

orphans worldwide. The population sponsorship programs exist to support.

UNICEF, 2024 estimate

19.4%

of new donors return the next year, sector-wide. Sponsorship beats that, by a lot.

AFP FEP, Q4 2024

Your tools decide which of those numbers your program lives at.

Pricing

Pay for the sponsorships you actually run.

Pricing scales with active sponsorships, so small programs stay affordable and large ones get better economics. Pilot is free up to 25 sponsorships, and free forever.

Pilot
Up to 25 active sponsorships
$0 CAD / forever
No card required. No expiry.
  • Sponsor & child records
  • Field app (offline-capable)
  • PDF update reports
  • Email support
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Starter
Up to 250 active sponsorships
$149 CAD / month
~$0.60 / sponsorship at cap
  • Everything in Pilot
  • Sponsor portal
  • Renewal automation
  • 2 ops users
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Growth
Up to 1,000 active sponsorships
$399 CAD / month
~$0.40 / sponsorship at cap
  • Everything in Starter
  • Field-worker mobile fleet
  • Branded donor PDF reports
  • Unlimited ops users
  • Priority support
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Scale
Up to 5,000 active sponsorships
$899 CAD / month
~$0.18 / sponsorship at cap
  • Everything in Growth
  • SSO & advanced roles
  • Custom donor PDF templates
  • Dedicated CS partner
  • SLA + uptime guarantee
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Enterprise · 5,000+ sponsorships

Custom contracts from ~$1,500–$3,000/month. Annual term, regional data residency, custom integrations, and a named technical contact.

Contact us

30 minutes. No pressure.

Stop running sponsorship on spreadsheets.

A short demo with someone who actually built this. Not a sales rep reading from a deck. We'll map your current program onto Charity Buddy and tell you honestly whether it's a fit.

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30-minute call. No pressure. We'll show you the product working with your data model.