Houdini

Houdini

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Houdini is not a donation marketplace; it is infrastructure that nonprofits can deploy themselves to run campaigns, recurring donations, events, CRM-style donor management, and payouts. That makes it a stronger fit under operational support than under direct funding, because its primary value is reducing the cost of building and operating fundraising systems.

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Goal: Project support. Model: Infrastructure. Status: Live.

Should you use this?

Best for
Projects whose main blocker is hosting, CI, storage, AI tooling, or operational overhead.
Not ideal for
Projects that need direct maintainer income rather than cost reduction.
Why choose it
Self-hosted fundraising software with no platform fee. Best for organizations that want full control over their donation infrastructure.
Watch out for
Credits and tooling reduce burden but usually do not fund maintainer time directly.
Setup effort
High
Fees
Houdini is self-hosted software. There is no platform fee, though implementers still pay their chosen payment processors and hosting costs.
Last verified
2026-03-15
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Goal Project support
Model Infrastructure
Tags
Non-profit Self-hosted
Official websiteVisit official website
VerificationUnverified
OrganizationCommunity project
Open source statusOpen source
Platform technologyOpen source Ruby on Rails fundraising platform
Monetization modelSelf-hosted donation and fundraising infrastructure
Payment methodsProject-configured payment processor integrations
Platform feesHoudini is self-hosted software. There is no platform fee, though implementers still pay their chosen payment processors and hosting costs.
User activityThe GitHub project currently shows 227 stars, 97 forks, and an actively maintained pre-2.0 codebase in heavy development.

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