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Donor Engine · 04

The report a major donor asks for, drafted before they ask for it.

Impact reporting fails for a boring reason: the giving data and the programme data live in different places, so somebody reconciles them by hand every time. HOPEAQUE joins them once and drafts from the join.
Inputs
Giving history and programme outcomes
Depth
Four tiers, configurable
You keep
Full editorial control before sending
Reporting depth by tier4 of your bed
Regular1 page
Mid-level3 pages
Majorfull
Fundertemplate
Four supporters, four different reports. Depth follows the relationship rather than the gift size alone, which is why the grant funder sits beside the major donor.Illustrative tiering.

How a report is assembled

Five steps, and step three is the one that earns trust.

Overstated attribution is the fastest way to lose a sophisticated donor. It is also the default behaviour of most impact templates.

01

Pull the giving history

Every gift from this supporter, with designation and date, grouped by the fund or programme it was restricted to. Unrestricted gifts are apportioned by the same rule you use in your annual accounts, so the report cannot contradict your audited figures.

02

Join it to programme outcomes

Outcome data your team already records: beneficiaries reached, sessions delivered, units distributed, follow-up results. HOPEAQUE matches on programme and period rather than asking anyone to retype numbers that already exist.

03

Attribute honestly

A supporter funding 4% of a programme does not get told they educated every child in it. Contribution is expressed proportionally, or as a named component they fully funded, which is the version major donors actually trust.

04

Write the narrative

The draft is written around the numbers: what the money went to, what changed, what did not work, and what comes next. Your voice is configurable and every sentence is editable before anything leaves the building.

05

Attach the evidence

Field photographs, programme notes, and the outcome table behind the summary. A report that shows its source is the one that gets forwarded to a trustee.

Customisation per donor tier

Four depths, so a hundred-rupee donor is not sent a forty-page document.

Regular giverOne page
  • Total given this year and what it funded
  • One programme outcome in plain language
  • One photograph or field note
  • A specific thank you, not a template
Sustained or mid-levelTwo to three pages
  • Multi-year giving pattern and cumulative contribution
  • Two programmes with outcome figures
  • A named beneficiary story with consent recorded
  • What the next twelve months need
Major donorFull report
  • Proportional attribution against programme budget
  • Outcome table with methodology stated
  • What underperformed and why, in writing
  • Named component they fully funded, where applicable
  • Finance summary consistent with audited accounts
Grant funderFunder's own structure
  • Mapped to the funder's reporting template and headings
  • Milestone and deliverable status against the agreement
  • Variance explanation on budget lines
  • Interim and final versions from the same data

Anatomy of a draft

What lands in your review queue.

A draft is not a finished document and HOPEAQUE does not pretend otherwise. It is the reconciliation and the first pass at language, which together are the part that used to eat the afternoon.

Editable everywhere
Every sentence, figure caption and heading is editable. Numbers stay linked to their source, so an edit that contradicts the data is flagged rather than silently accepted.
Approval before sending
Reports move through a review state. Nothing reaches a supporter without a named person approving it.
Formats
Print-ready document, an email version, and a plain data export of the underlying outcome table for funders who want to check your arithmetic.
Reusable across a tier
Approve the shared programme narrative once, and it populates every report in that tier with each supporter's own figures.
Recorded on the relationship
What was sent, when, and whether it was opened or replied to, all feeding the engagement score as a genuine interaction.
Draft, awaiting review

Attribution line

Your support covered 11% of the Ward 6 tutoring programme for the year, and fully funded its learning materials.

Outcome line

142 children completed the year; 96 moved up a reading level against the baseline assessment.

What did not work

Attendance in the monsoon months fell to 61%. The schedule for the coming year moves those sessions indoors.

Next twelve months

The same programme needs two additional tutors to hold the ratio as enrolment grows.

Illustrative draft content, showing structure rather than any real programme.

What we will not automate

HOPEAQUE will not invent an outcome figure you have not recorded, and it will not round a difficult result into a comfortable one. If your programme data has gaps, the draft says so in the place where the number should be. A report that quietly fills its own holes is worse than no report, because it is the one a funder eventually checks.

Donors rarely leave because a programme underperformed. They leave because nobody told them what happened.

The report is retention work. It has simply been priced as admin.

01Open an accountCreate your workspace, import a donor file, and see the bed planted with your own supporters.02Bring us your data problemLegacy donor database, split spreadsheets, unmatched receipts. Tell us the mess and we will map the migration.

Keep reading

Grant & Major Gift PipelineWhere reporting deadlines sit inside the cultivation cycle.For grant-making foundationsThe same reporting logic pointed at a grantee portfolio.Donor & Volunteer ManagementThe giving history the report is assembled from.