Current parents already log into Sycamore for billing, attendance, and grades. Giving happens in the same place, with the card already on file for tuition filling the gift form automatically.
Donors with no school login, meaning alumni, grandparents, local businesses, and friends of the school, give through a public campaign page. The school keeps full ownership of the donor relationship.
| Gift type | Transaction fee | Convenience fee |
|---|---|---|
| Credit card | 2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction | 1% |
| ACH / bank | 0.8%, capped at $5 | 1% |
Sycamore Donations is the fundraising and donor management module inside the Sycamore platform, built from the TuitionEP acquisition and rolling out through 2026. It covers AI donor intelligence, multi-campaign management, public giving pages, parent app giving, recurring gifts, pledges, matching gifts, soft credits, and automatic tax receipts. It runs on the same family record and the same payment rails as tuition.
You upload an existing donor list in whatever shape it is in, including a spreadsheet that has not been touched in a decade. The AI reads the columns even when they are mislabeled, enriches records against public sources for address and employer changes, flags likely duplicates, surfaces donors who appear to have moved or passed away rather than silently deleting them, and groups everyone remaining into giving tiers so the list becomes a campaign segment instead of a research project.
No. Donations is included in the Sycamore platform license at $4 per student per month, with no separate donations license fee, no monthly minimum, and no per-campaign charge. Standard Sycamore Payments transaction fees apply when a gift is processed, the same rails used for tuition. AI donor intelligence is included rather than billed as a per-record enrichment job.
Donations run on Sycamore Payments, the same rails as tuition. Credit card gifts carry 2.9 percent plus 30 cents per transaction, plus a 1 percent convenience fee. ACH gifts carry 0.8 percent capped at $5, plus a 1 percent convenience fee. Stripe is the processor. The school decides how each fee is handled, and many schools offer donors the option to cover the fee at checkout.
Yes. Every campaign generates a public giving page with its own URL that requires no login. Alumni, grandparents, businesses, and friends of the school give there, and a donor record is created automatically on the first gift. Current families can also give from inside the Sycamore Parent App using the card already saved for tuition.
For most K-12 schools, yes. Sycamore Donations covers the annual fund, capital campaigns, tribute giving, pledges, matching gifts, soft credits, and receipting that a school advancement office runs. Institutions with very large advancement teams and multi-million-dollar capital campaigns may still want dedicated CRM depth; Raiser's Edge NXT is genuinely the category leader for that segment. Most schools find they were paying enterprise CRM prices for a fraction of the functionality.
Yes. Cash, check, stock, and in-kind gifts are recorded directly against the donor record and the campaign, so the campaign dashboard reflects the true total rather than only what came through online. Receipts can be issued, resent, and downloaded for offline gifts the same way as for online gifts.
Yes. A receipt is issued at the moment of the gift. Year-end statements are bulk-generated and emailed in January, which removes what is typically a multi-day manual task for a small advancement office. Receipts carry the honoree through for tribute and in-memory gifts.
It is surfaced for a human to review, never silently merged or deleted. The record is flagged as do-not-solicit with a suggestion to contact the family rather than removed from the database. This is deliberate: a mistaken auto-delete loses giving history, and a mistaken auto-merge corrupts it. The school decides what happens to every flagged record.
Donations capabilities began rolling into the Sycamore platform in May 2026, following Sycamore's acquisition of TuitionEP in 2025. AI donor intelligence is part of Sycamore's 2026 AI release alongside Student AI Recap and the family lifecycle view. Schools already on Sycamore receive the module as it rolls out with no separate purchase.
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