mich

Simple Management Of Both Gift & Giver

Donor management for nonprofits that stays on your computer. Track donors, donations, pledges, and receipts — privately, with no cloud and no subscription.

The Mich dashboard showing donor and donation counts, total gifts raised, top donors, top campaigns and average gift
The home dashboard. Every card and section can be shown, hidden or reordered — and the Actions panel down the left starts a new donor, donation, pledge, pledge payment, event or receipt without leaving this page, exactly as it does on each individual view.

What is Mich?

Everything a small nonprofit needs — in one tidy desktop app

There’s an organizational sweet spot between Excel spreadsheets and expensive and complex CRM applications — and that’s where Mich resides. Mich keeps your donors and their giving organized: gifts and in-kind donations, multi-installment pledges, designations, campaigns, appeals, events and attendance, tax receipts, and a dashboard that shows how your fundraising is doing. It runs entirely on your machine, so your supporters’ information never leaves it.

Highlights

Built for the way small nonprofits actually work

Import what you already have

Bring donors and gift history in from a CSV file — matched, previewed and undoable, so you don't re-type your spreadsheet.

Donor management

One record per supporter with contact details, validated addresses, and full giving history at a glance.

Donations & in-kind gifts

Record gifts by type and method — cash, check, in-kind, or ones you define yourself — and split a single gift across multiple funds.

Pledges & payments

Track multi-installment commitments by frequency and status, then record and receipt each payment.

Receipts & acknowledgments

Generate personalized receipts and thank-you letters from your own Word templates by mail-merge.

Events & attendance

Schedule one-off or repeating events, invite donors and track every RSVP, then check guests in on the day — or simply count who came, for a service or drop-in with no guest list.

Campaigns, appeals & funds

Attribute every gift to the drive that raised it, the ask that produced it and the fund it belongs to — so you can tell which one worked.

Reports & charts

Eight reports plus retention, lapsed and first-time donor metrics — not just total raised.

Private & encrypted

Your database lives on your computer, encrypted at rest, with verified backups and an audit log.

Why “Mich”?

The name means “gift”

Mich means “gift” in Dholuo, a Nilotic language spoken by the Luo people living near Lake Victoria in Kenya and Tanzania. The app grew out of lasting friendships in Kenya and was built in support of the nonprofit Stars of Kenya. Read the story.

Simple pricing

Free to start. Buy once, own it.

Mich is free to use for as long as you like, limited to 10 records of each type and 5 receipts. A one-time license removes the limits.