A Brief History

By Gene Weinbeck, Founder and CEO 

Founded in 1983 as Professional Support Software, the company has grown and evolved from a local computer-consulting and custom-software firm into FundRaiser Software, "home of the FundRaiser Family of donor management software for nonprofit organizations", with clients and users around the world.

The company began as so many small businesses do: from sheer necessity and on a shoestring. My wife and I had moved from the eastern seaboard to a small-town in south-central Missouri on the promise of a job, which came true, but then dissolved after a few months. A long job-hunt later, I decided to take matters into my own hands, and find a niche which needed filling. Since personal computers were then reaching even the middle of the country, and I had some experience in the field, that seemed to fill the bill.

The first two years were largely taken up with designing and writing one local client's custom software, and then I went on to other consulting and programming clients in an ever-widening geographical area. The program which evolved into FundRaiser Professional, the flagship of the current business, was originally a custom program for a local politician's campaign fundraising efforts. In the decades since its birth, FundRaiser has grown and added two "sibling" programs, FundRaiser Select and the baby of the family, FundRaiser Basic.

As the FundRaiser programs have gained users, and gained in sophistication, the consulting and custom-programming efforts of the original company dwindled until about 1993 when the entire focus of the company became the FundRaiser programs: improving them, marketing them, and supporting them.

It has always been my belief that prompt, friendly, and expert technical support is vital to the users of any software, and it has been my intention from the beginning to supply just that to my clients. According to FundRaiser users, we have been successful in that endeavor. While I rarely handle tech support calls anymore, most new clients are simply amazed by the patience and friendliness of our support staff.

We've been growing for over two decades now, and have great plans for the future, helping nonprofits with affordable donor management software that they can grow into, accessible and friendly tech support, and a continually improving family of affordable products.

FundRaiser Software is family-owned. While it's now more than just "Mom 'n' Pop", it's still a friendly group of people to do business with. Come join us. You'll find it an enjoyable experience.