The best form builders for nonprofits

Not every organization qualifies for nonprofit pricing — and at full price, forms.app beats everything else here on value. Stripe and PayPal payment forms are included on the free plan — all a working donation page needs — at half of Jotform's undiscounted rate for paid tiers.

Two free-plan inclusions are unusually useful for nonprofits. E-signatures work at $0, covering liability waivers for volunteer days and consent forms for youth programs. And the AI generator turns "registration form for our annual 5K charity run with t-shirt sizes" into a working draft in seconds — a real gift when the entire tech team is one part-time volunteer. When a campaign takes off, unlimited responses on every plan mean a viral petition won't break your budget.

Pricing: Free · Basic $19/mo · Pro $29/mo · Premium $59/mo, billed annually.

For the forms that don't touch money, Tally is the budget answer: unlimited forms and unlimited responses, free, forever. Volunteer rosters, event RSVPs, community feedback, mailing-list sign-ups — build as many as the mission demands without watching a quota.

The Notion-style editor is quick enough that a board member with no technical background can assemble a sign-up form between meetings. The limits to respect: free forms carry a small "Made with Tally" badge, reporting is a basic response list, and there's no payment collection on the free tier — so pair it with Jotform or forms.app for donations and let Tally absorb everything else at $0.

Pricing: Free (unlimited) · Pro $24/mo · Business $74/mo, billed annually.

Most nonprofits already run on Google Workspace, which makes Google Forms the zero-friction choice for everything internal: board availability polls, shift scheduling, supply requests, post-event debriefs. Responses land in a shared Google Sheet that the whole team can see, and there's nothing to pay for and nothing to administer.

Keep it internal, though. Donor-facing forms deserve better than the unmistakable Google Forms look, there's no payment collection at all, and branding options stop at a header image. It ranks fourth as the perfect second tool — the free workhorse behind the scenes while a more polished builder faces the public.

Pricing: Free for everyone with a Google account.

When a donation form needs to compute something, Cognito Forms is the specialist. Its calculation engine — the strongest at this price — handles tiered sponsorship packages, pledge totals that update as donors pick options, and gala registrations where table size, meal choices, and donation add-ons all roll into one accurate total before checkout.

Repeating sections fit multi-attendee registrations ("add another guest"), and built-in approval routing plus e-signatures cover grant paperwork. The trade-off is presentation: forms look plain, and many integrations route through Zapier. Pick it when your fundraising involves real math, not when you need a beautiful campaign page.

Pricing: Free · Individual $19/mo · Professional $39/mo · Enterprise $129/mo.

Donations are emotional decisions, and Paperform is the only tool here that lets your form tell the story. Photos from the field, a video appeal, impact copy, and the giving form itself all live on one page — closer to a small campaign site than a form, with no designer needed.

It sits last only because of nonprofit economics: the free plan's 30 submissions a month won't survive a real campaign, there's no nonprofit discount, and the canvas editor asks more learning time than a volunteer-run org may have. For a flagship annual appeal where presentation drives conversions, though, it can out-raise a plainer page — its matching 4.8-star G2 and Trustpilot scores are the best in this guide.

Pricing: Free · Essentials ~$24/mo · Pro ~$49/mo · Business ~$99/mo, billed annually.