What if nonprofits stopped working alone?

What becomes possible when nonprofits stop working in isolation and start running on shared intelligence? That’s the question we’ve spent the last decade building to answer.

With the release of our new flagship report, “Inside the Bonterra Network: How collective intelligence is powering the next era of social good,” that answer is finally here.

For 50 years, charitable giving in the United States has remained fixed at 2.5% of GDP. Not because generosity has stalled: Survey data collected by Bonterra and Hanover Research in early 2026 found that 38% of donors and volunteers are giving more in direct response to federal funding disruptions. Rather, the sector has simply never had the connected infrastructure to turn that willingness into coordinated, compounding impact. What has held giving flat is not a lack of commitment — it’s a lack of connected infrastructure. The Bonterra Network is the infrastructure built to change all of that, and it’s already live.

A smarter nonprofit sector, now within reach

The Bonterra Network is the first collective intelligence system built specifically for social good, connecting all sides of the sector — nonprofits, funders, and supporters — around shared resources and insights so that every action goes further, faster.

Every interaction that flows through the Network adds to a shared body of evidence about what works, for whom, and when. What one organization learns becomes available to the next, without any proprietary data being exposed. As the Network grows, everyone’s tools grow smarter. And because of our commitment to ethical, responsible AI, insights are distilled from aggregate patterns, never from individual records.

The road, the on-ramp, and the engine

The report uses a highway metaphor to make the Network’s architecture tangible. Think of the Network as the kind of highway system transportation engineers dream about: dynamic, routing of resources along the most efficient path, frictionless and free of bottlenecks, and intelligent enough to remember where an organization has been so it never has to retrace steps.

The road is the Bonterra Network itself: the shared throughway where intelligence accumulates across every nonprofit, funder, and supporter connected to it.

The on-ramp is the Nonprofit Hub: a verified organizational profile that is free to create and travels with a nonprofit into every funding relationship. The Hub already supports 195,000 nonprofits with access to $8B+ in grants and 1,000+ grant programs, awarding $500B annually through Grants.gov.

The engine is Bonterra Que: the AI layer that turns what the Network has learned into action. Trained on 1.16 billion Network transactions, Que is the most trusted AI in social good and the only one built on the largest body of collective intelligence this sector has ever produced. Unlike tools that stop at suggestions, Que can both advise and act. It identifies which donors are most likely to upgrade their gift this quarter and writes the email to them; or it surfaces a grant opportunity that fits an organization’s programs and drafts the proposal. Organizations using Que see an average 44% increase in donations. Plus, Que runs across Network for Good, EveryAction, Apricot, and DonorDrive, embedded in the tools your team already uses with no new login required.

What the Network changes:

Why your organization should be on this highway

The sector is navigating one of its most difficult funding environments in recent memory. More than half of nonprofits relying on federal funding are reporting financial instability, and 60% are competing for private foundation grants to replace what has been lost. At the same time, 78% of nonprofit professionals want to use AI at work, but only 21% trust the tools available to deliver accurate results in their specific context. That gap reflects not resistance to technology, but the reality that the technology available was never purpose-built for this work.

The Bonterra Network addresses both of those realities directly. It gives nonprofits access to connected, compounding infrastructure that makes funding discovery faster, grant applications less burdensome, and funder relationships more durable. Through the free Nonprofit Hub, it also puts sector-specific AI, trained on real social good data rather than repurposed from general-purpose platforms, into the hands of the organizations that need it most.

Growing charitable giving from 2.5% to 3% of GDP by 2033 would unlock $155 billion in new annual resources for communities across the country. Getting there requires a connected system for coordinated, compounding impact. When one nonprofit benefits from the Network, everyone gains the advantages of collective intelligence. Our vision is for the Network to eventually connect the entire social good sector, bringing every nonprofit, funder, and supporter onto the same intelligent infrastructure so that no act of generosity is wasted and no organization has to start from scratch.

The Nonprofit Hub is free to join and is your on-ramp into everything the Network makes possible. To see what collective intelligence looks like for your mission specifically, request a demo.