Table of Contents
- The fundamental difference
- What is Taskade Genesis?
- What is Bloomerang?
- Feature-by-feature deep dive
- Pricing and total cost of ownership
- When to choose each
- Build without permission
- Explore Taskade Genesis
- Build without code
- Related reading
The fundamental difference
Bloomerang is a finished product: a donor CRM with a defined set of features that thousands of nonprofits rely on to track gifts, score donor engagement, and run giving campaigns. You sign up, you configure it for your organization, and you work inside the tool it provides.
Taskade Genesis flips that model. Instead of renting a fixed tool priced by donor records, you describe the tool you need, a donor tracker, a volunteer portal, a grant pipeline, a board dashboard, and Taskade Genesis builds a working app you own, with AI Agents and automations wired in. You shape the software around your program rather than shaping your program around the software.
Bloomerang asks: "How do we fit your nonprofit into our donor CRM?" Taskade Genesis asks: "What tool do you want, and can we build and ship it for you to own?"
What is Taskade Genesis?
Taskade Genesis is the AI app builder inside the Taskade workspace, built on Workspace DNA: Memory (Projects) plus Intelligence (AI Agents) plus Execution (Automations) working as a self-reinforcing loop. Founded in 2017 by John Xie, Dionis Loire, and Stan Chang, and Y Combinator-backed, Taskade lets you describe an app in plain language and deploy it with custom domains, GenesisAuth email sign-in, and password protection. Every app can be shared or cloned through the public Community Gallery, so a donor tracker or volunteer portal you build can be reused by other teams.
What is Bloomerang?
Bloomerang is a donor management CRM and fundraising platform founded in 2012 in Indianapolis by Jay Love, built specifically to help small and midsized nonprofits raise more money and, importantly, retain more of their donors. It is genuinely strong on its home turf: donors and gifts are easy to record, the dashboard and reporting are intuitive, and the platform ships nonprofit-specific features like donor engagement scoring, wealth screening, online giving pages, and nightly address verification. Reviewers consistently praise its ease of use and responsive customer support.
Through acquisitions of Kindful and Qgiv, Bloomerang has expanded into an integrated Giving Platform that spans CRM, fundraising, and volunteer management, and it is trusted by tens of thousands of nonprofits.
Bloomerang at a glance: Founded 2012, Indianapolis, by Jay Love. Donor CRM for small and midsized nonprofits, trusted by thousands of nonprofits. Bloomerang CRM starts around $125/month billed annually, with a Fundraising add-on from ~$40/month and Volunteer from ~$119/month; pricing scales by the number of donor records with unlimited users, and the full Giving Platform is custom-quoted. Rated around 4.6 stars on G2.
Feature-by-feature deep dive
Donor and contact tracking
- Taskade Genesis: Build a donor or constituent record system as a custom app and view it as a List, Board, Table, Calendar, Mind Map, Gantt, or Org Chart. AI Agents can summarize a donor's full history, draft personalized follow-ups, and surface lapsing supporters on demand.
- Bloomerang: Ships a purpose-built donor CRM with constituent timelines, interaction logging, and donor engagement scoring designed by and for fundraisers, ready the moment you sign in.
Fundraising and online giving
- Taskade Genesis: Build intake forms and pledge trackers, then automate the follow-through; payment processing and hosted giving pages are not native, so you would connect a payment tool through integrations.
- Bloomerang: Includes integrated online giving pages, forms, and payment processing through its Giving Platform, a clear strength for organizations that want fundraising and CRM in one place.
AI and automation
- Taskade Genesis: AI Agents v2 bring 34 built-in tools, persistent memory, custom tools, multi-agent collaboration, and public embedding. A durable automation runtime adds automatic retries, branching, looping, filtering, and a Runs tab for inspecting every execution.
- Bloomerang: Offers email marketing, smart suggestions, and reporting tuned for fundraisers, with automation focused on nonprofit workflows rather than general-purpose agents.
Reporting and views
- Taskade Genesis: 7 project views let the same dataset appear as a pipeline board, a calendar of events, a Gantt of a campaign timeline, or an org chart of your board, all switchable in a click.
- Bloomerang: Strong, fundraiser-friendly dashboards and reports that many reviewers find easy to build, with deeper custom filtering sometimes finished in a spreadsheet.
Ownership and extensibility
- Taskade Genesis: Apps live in your workspace, deploy to a custom domain, and can be cloned from the Community Gallery. You connect 100+ bidirectional integrations and run on 15+ frontier models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and open-weight providers, auto-routed by plan with no API keys to manage.
- Bloomerang: A curated nonprofit integration stack and an established ecosystem, with the structure and feature set defined by the platform.
Pricing and total cost of ownership
| Plan | Taskade Genesis | Bloomerang |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free Forever | Demo and quote only |
| Entry paid | Pro $16/mo (annual, 10 seats, unlimited apps) | Fundraising add-on from ~$40/mo (bundle) |
| Mid tier | Business $40/mo (unlimited seats) | CRM from ~$125/mo (annual) |
| High tier | Max $200/mo, Enterprise $400/mo | Giving Platform custom-quoted |
| Pricing basis | Flat per plan | Number of donor records, unlimited users |
Taskade Genesis pricing is flat per plan rather than metered by the size of your donor database, so a growing list of supporters does not change what you pay. Bloomerang prices by the number of donor records you track and includes unlimited users, which keeps per-seat costs predictable but means cost rises as your database grows. The right model depends on whether you value a turnkey nonprofit CRM (Bloomerang) or a flat-rate platform where you build and own the tool (Taskade Genesis).
When to choose each
Choose Bloomerang if:
- You want a turnkey donor CRM built for fundraisers with no setup-from-scratch.
- Donor retention scoring, wealth screening, and integrated giving pages are must-haves.
- You prefer a curated nonprofit ecosystem with dedicated fundraising support.
Choose Taskade Genesis if:
- You want to build and own a donor tracker, volunteer portal, or grant pipeline instead of renting fixed software.
- You want AI Agents, automations, and 7 project views in one workspace.
- You prefer flat per-plan pricing that does not scale with your donor count, starting Free Forever.
Use both if: Keep Bloomerang as your donor system of record and build complementary internal tools, like a volunteer scheduler or board dashboard, in Taskade Genesis.
Build without permission
- Describe your donor tracker, volunteer portal, or grant pipeline and build it in Taskade Genesis.
- Browse the Community Gallery to clone a working app and adapt it to your nonprofit.
- Compare options on the pricing page or see more side-by-side comparisons.
Explore Taskade Genesis
- AI Agents — 34-tool agents with memory
- AI Apps — ship apps from a prompt
- AI Automations — durable, branching workflows
- AI Websites — public pages and portals
- AI Knowledge Base — searchable team memory