Nonprofit Organization Outcome
The Right Platform Meets Every Standard
Donors and Regulators Expect.
BinaryWorks builds the accessibility, consent, payment, and integration layers into the platform itself. Then we run the patching and reviews that keep them true year after year.
Sound Familiar
Your Obligations Grew.
Your Platform Did Not.
IT directors and operations leads raise these on a first call, usually with a date already circled. If two or three apply, keep reading.
“A supporter told us she could not complete the donation form using a screen reader.”
“A foundation asked for our accessibility statement and data privacy policy before releasing the grant. We had neither.”
“We collect email consent somewhere in the system, but nobody can produce the record when asked.”
“Our Drupal site is two versions behind, and the agency that built it closed in 2023.”
“Our payment setup passed PCI four years ago. Nobody has reviewed it since then.”
“Nobody here can tell me what our donation form actually sends to the CRM, or when.”
What Is Actually Broken
Why the Platform Stops Meeting
Standards It Once Met
These are the build and maintenance gaps we find most often on nonprofit platforms. Each one was created at launch or left to drift.
01 · Donation Forms That Fail Accessibility
Why it happens: Most nonprofit sites were tested with a mouse and a large screen. Missing labels, poor contrast, and keyboard traps in the donation flow make giving impossible for supporters using assistive technology.
The result: You lose gifts you never see, and you carry an ADA exposure nobody has put a number on yet.
02 · Required Disclosures You Cannot Produce
Why it happens: State charitable registration numbers, the current privacy policy, the accessibility statement, and Form 990 details sit scattered across PDFs and footers. Most were last edited by someone who has left.
The result: When a funder or a state regulator asks, nobody can confirm what is current and what is stale.
03 · Consent Collected but Never Recorded
Why it happens: Forms capture an email address and a checkbox, but not the timestamp, the wording shown, or the preference the supporter chose. There is no consent record to produce and no way to honor a later change.
The result: Every state privacy request and every unsubscribe complaint lands on a team with nothing to show.
04 · A Platform Past Its Support Window
Why it happens: Drupal 10 loses community security support at the end of 2026, and older WordPress builds carry plugins nobody maintains. The site is running production payments on a stack the community will stop patching.
The result: Every month you wait, the migration gets larger, the code gets stranger, and the security position gets weaker.
05 · Payment Security Signed Off Once
Why it happens: PCI DSS 4.0 raised the bar on script control, logging, and access review. Most nonprofit setups were assessed years ago against an older standard and have not been checked since the gateway was installed.
The result: The first real review happens after an incident, when the cost of the answer is already fixed.
06 · CRM Integrations Nobody Can Explain
Why it happens: The donation form writes to the CRM through a script one contractor wrote in 2019. Nobody knows which fields it maps, what happens when it fails, or whether the donor record it creates matches the finance export.
The result: Silent failures go unnoticed for months, and every audit question about donor data has to be answered by hand.
Platform Readiness Audit
Quantify every readiness gap
in 48 hours.
The audit is where the build starts. Two days of assessment produce a costed remediation plan, sequenced so the highest exposure closes first and the rest follows in order.
- Accessibility conformance scan, page by page
- Platform, plugin, and integration risk review
- A costed, sequenced remediation build plan
How We Fix It
Six Capability Areas,
One Readiness Roadmap
Readiness is built, then maintained. BinaryWorks does both, so the standard you meet at launch is the standard you still meet two years later.
Six areas · one sequenced roadmap
/ 01 · Redesign
Donation forms, program pages, and navigation rebuilt to WCAG 2.2 AA. Keyboard paths, labels, and contrast are tested against real assistive technology rather than signed off from a checklist.
/ 02 · AI Visibility
Registration details, policies, financial summaries, and the accessibility statement published as structured pages with schema, versioned and dated. Funders and watchdog sites can verify what is current without asking you.
/ 03 · CRO & Growth Marketing
Consent captured properly at the point of entry, with the wording shown, the timestamp, and the preference stored against the record. A preference center lets supporters change it themselves at any time.
/ 04 · Development & Migration
Migration to a supported platform version, with CRM and payment integrations rebuilt as documented connections that log their own failures. Nothing critical stays inside code only one departed contractor understood.
/ 05 · Maintenance & Security
PCI DSS 4.0 aligned payment handling, with core patching on a fixed schedule and quarterly access reviews. Logging runs and gets read whether or not anyone remembers to ask.
/ 06 · AI Automation
Accessibility checks, schema validation, and broken integration alerts run on every deployment, not on a quarterly calendar. Drift gets caught in the pipeline before it reaches a funder or a supporter.
Practice Lead Session
Bring the Deadline You
Are Working Against.
Put your requirement in front of our nonprofit practice lead. Funder condition, version cutoff, or audit finding, you leave with a build sequence.
THE BINARYWORKS ADVANTAGE
Why Nonprofit Teams Choose Us
Auditors tell you what is wrong. BinaryWorks builds the fix, ships it, and maintains the platform so the finding stays closed.
Building Compliant
Nonprofit Platforms
CMS Builds
Delivered
Nonprofits Switch to Us
From Other Agencies
Platform Readiness
Audit Turnaround
Hear From Our Customers
Results BinaryWorks Has Engineered for Nonprofit Organizations
Big Fundraising Ideas Boost Conversions by 25% and Lead Generation by 30% With Drupal 10 Migration
Big Fundraising Ideas operated on a legacy Drupal 7 website with limited flexibility and scalability. Slow performance, manual content updates, and missing modern features held back conversions, lead generation, and long-term growth.
Historical Society of Michigan Boosts Higher Event Engagement Rates by 30% With Drupal 10 Upgrade
HSM’s existing Drupal 9 website struggled with performance limitations, inefficient workflows, and user experience challenges that impacted engagement and content delivery.
Catholic Charities of Eastern Oklahoma Boosts Site Speed by 70% With WordPress Redesign
CCEOK’s digital presence was limited by a legacy HTML-based site that was slow, inflexible, and vulnerable to security risks.
Your Questions Answered
We do, if you want us to. The audit produces a scoped build, and most organizations move straight into it because the same team that found the gap already knows the codebase. If you have an internal developer, we hand over the ticket list and the acceptance criteria instead.
Usually. Most failures are in markup, focus handling, and contrast, which live in the theme layer and can be corrected without touching layout. A redesign only becomes necessary when the visual system itself cannot carry accessible contrast, and that is rarer than agencies suggest. Scoping that correctly is the difference between a six-week fix and a six-month project.
They get rebuilt, not ported. Undocumented custom code is the single largest source of migration overrun, so we map every field and every trigger before writing anything. What comes out is a documented connection your next developer can read, which is the part that protects you long after we leave.
Most of our nonprofit work starts that way. The first two weeks are spent reading the codebase, the deployment setup, and whatever documentation survived. We tell you honestly whether it is worth maintaining or worth replacing, and we have recommended both. Nobody benefits from a rebuild that was not needed.
BinaryWorks serves US nonprofit organizations with development at $50 to $100/hour depending on project scope. Accessibility, compliance, and integration services start from $1,000/service. Bundle packages across platform, marketing, and AI visibility are available. FTE engagement models are available for organizations needing ongoing dedicated digital capacity.
Through a maintenance contract that does actual work, not a monthly invoice. Core and module patching on a schedule, accessibility regression checks when templates change, quarterly access reviews, and logging that is monitored. Compliance decays without this, which is why most organizations fail their second audit and not their first.
Yes, and it usually has to. We work on a staging environment and release in small increments, so the live site never goes down for the work. Migrations are the exception and need a window, which we schedule around your giving calendar rather than our sprint calendar.
A supported platform, documented integrations with their field maps, an accessibility conformance report, and a runbook covering patching, backups, and access. Everything is written so a developer who has never met us can pick it up. Delivered projects survive staff turnover. Dependencies do not.
Compliance Built to Last Starts With One Conversation.
Tell us which requirement is closest, whether it comes from a funder, a board, or a version cutoff. We scope the build from there, in order.
