Affinity Fundraising Registration

What Affinity Fundraising Registration does

Affinity Fundraising Registration is a private U.S. legal-services-adjacent software and professional services firm founded in 2009 and headquartered in the Wheat Ridge / Arvada, Colorado area. The company exclusively serves nonprofit and charitable organizations, providing multistate charitable solicitation registration services—initial registrations, filing extensions, renewals, and annual reports—across all 50 U.S. states. It addresses the administrative complexity nonprofits face when fundraising in jurisdictions with distinct regulatory requirements, replacing fragmented manual filings with a centralized workflow and dedicated compliance support.

The company's core technology is the Affinity Single Portal®, a registered-trademark, cloud-based SaaS platform that consolidates state registration data entry, tracking, and document management in a single online environment. Affinity was the first registration provider to deliver an entirely online filing environment for charitable solicitation compliance. Around this platform, the company offers four tiered subscription offerings billed annually: Full Support Plus (premium customized support), Full Support (professional service for registrations and renewals), Independent Registration (self-service portal access), and Software Licensing (a DIY option that allows third parties to use Affinity's platform to serve other nonprofits). Pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed, with multiple levels positioned to meet different administrative needs and budgets.

Affinity monetizes through recurring annual subscriptions combined with human professional services. Its go-to-market is sales-led and consultative: a website with Free Estimate CTAs and direct phone sales (877-320-5602) feed an inside-sales motion, supported by educational webinars, customer testimonials, and BBB accreditation for trust-building. The customer base is a long-tail of U.S. nonprofits, with no disclosed anchor accounts. The company operates as an independent, privately held entity with no parent company, institutional investors, or funding rounds disclosed in available data, and is led by President Maia Lee.

Name

Affinity Fundraising Registration

Legal name

Affinity Fundraising Registration

Website

https://FundraisingRegistration.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Affinity Fundraising Registration is a Colorado-based SaaS and professional services firm that helps U.S. nonprofits manage multistate charitable solicitation registration through its cloud-based Affinity Single Portal® and tiered subscription services across all 50 states.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Arvada

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Professional Services - Full Support: Full-service nonprofit fundraising registration assistance including initial state registrations, filing extensions, renewals, and annual reports with dedicated professional support.
2. Software Licensing (SaaS): Do-it-yourself cloud-based software licensing option allowing users to assist other nonprofits using the Affinity platform. Multiple service levels available to meet administrative needs.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Affinity Fundraising Registration provides a cloud-based software platform (Affinity Single Portal®) and professional services that help nonprofit organizations register with state charitable solicitation authorities and maintain ongoing compliance across U.S. jurisdictions. Offerings range from DIY software licensing to fully managed registration services, all delivered through the AFRPortal.com portal.

Product overview

Affinity Fundraising Registration offers a platform-plus-modules architecture built around the Affinity Single Portal® cloud-based software platform. The core platform provides the foundational technology for multistate solicitation registration management. Organizations can access the platform through multiple service tiers: Full Support delivers comprehensive professional assistance with all registration types (initial registrations, renewals, extensions, annual reports), Full Support Plus adds customized additional care, Software Licensing enables do-it-yourself users to assist other nonprofits using the platform, and Independent Registration offers a self-service option. The portfolio is unified by the Single Portal® technology, with service levels varying based on the degree of professional support versus self-service.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Affinity Single Portal®: Cloud-based multistate solicitation registration platform for nonprofits offering state charitable solicitation registration services.

Products and services

• Affinity Single Portal® Cloud-based compliance platform that enables nonprofit organizations to manage state charitable solicitation registrations, track filing deadlines, and maintain good standing across multiple U.S. jurisdictions through a single portal (AFRPortal.com).
• Full Support Managed service in which Affinity Fundraising Registration's team prepares and files state charitable solicitation registrations on behalf of nonprofit clients.
• Full Support Plus Enhanced managed-service tier extending Full Support with additional compliance handling and support for nonprofit organizations with broader multi-state registration needs.
• Software Licensing Licensed access to the Affinity Single Portal® platform, allowing nonprofit clients to manage their own state charitable solicitation registration workflows without filing services.
• Independent Registration Self-service option enabling nonprofit organizations to independently file and manage their own state charitable solicitation registrations using Affinity's platform tools.

Quantifiable outcome

• Organizations report significant burden reduction through use of the Affinity portal for multistate registrations

Named customers4 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Harbor Compliance: Direct peer offering multistate charitable solicitation registration, nonprofit compliance, and related managed-services for the same US nonprofit customer base, with overlapping 50-state coverage and a SaaS-plus-service model analogous to Affinity's.
• CorpNet: Direct peer providing business and nonprofit compliance filings, registrations, and ongoing managed services across US states; comparable service-tier structure, sales-led GTM, and target buyer (small/mid nonprofits and small businesses).
• GovOS: Direct peer delivering SaaS for government and regulatory filings, including business and nonprofit compliance workflows; comparable technology-forward approach to replacing manual multistate filing processes.

Broad incumbents

• CT Corporation (Wolters Kluwer): Broad incumbent within Wolters Kluwer's legal and regulatory division, offering registered agent, compliance, and entity management services including charitable registration work for larger nonprofits and enterprises.
• CSC (Corporation Service Company): Broad incumbent providing registered agent, corporate compliance, and nonprofit services at scale; overlaps with Affinity on multistate compliance filings but serves a much broader portfolio of legal and entity-management products.
• LegalZoom: Broad incumbent offering nonprofit formation, 501(c) filings, and ongoing compliance services to small and mid-sized nonprofits; comparable DIY-plus-service hybrid model but distributed through a national consumer/SMB brand.
• Candid (formerly GuideStar / Foundation Center): Broad incumbent in the nonprofit information and transparency space; not a direct registration competitor but a recognized nonprofit-compliance brand whose customers Affinity's buyer personas already know and trust.

Others

• Avalara: Adjacent compliance SaaS leader (tax compliance rather than charitable solicitation) that demonstrates the strategic acquirer pattern relevant to Affinity: a category-defining SaaS compliance platform eventually consolidated into a larger compliance suite.
• National Council of Nonprofits: Adjacent nonprofit-serving organization that publishes state charitable solicitation guidance and could be an indirect competitor or partner for Affinity, given shared end customers (state-registered nonprofits) and overlapping educational content.

Emerging players

• Boomerang (nonprofit CRM/ fundraising software): Emerging player in nonprofit fundraising and donor management software; not a direct registration competitor but a plausible ecosystem adjacency where Affinity's compliance data could be bundled or integrated with fundraising CRM workflows.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/fundraisingreg
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/affinity-fundraising-registration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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