Prepared for Illinois Sheriffs Association · September 29, 2026
A single fundraising, membership, and reporting platform built for all 102 County Sheriffs ISA supports, with the automation and donor intelligence to help rebuild fundraising revenue and reverse member attrition.
Business objective
Rebuild fundraising revenue to $1M and reverse ~1,000-member-a-year attrition.
So ISA can keep funding training, youth scholarships, and resources for all 102 County Sheriffs it supports.
Your Mission, Multiplied
For 98 years, a lean two-person team has kept training, youth scholarships, and programs like K9 Heroes funded for all 102 Illinois county sheriffs. Here's how the time and revenue Bloomerang gives back could build on that.
💰 The $150,000 gap between today's giving and the $1M ISA raised a few years back is enough to keep youth scholarship funding and K9 Hero fulfillment running at full strength in every one of the 102 counties.
⚠ Lynn described the weekly fulfillment report and manual batch entry as major time sinks, but didn't put a specific hours-per-month number on it. Kyle, do you have an estimate from Lynn to add here?
Why now
ISA has lost roughly 1,000 members a year and watched fundraising revenue slide from about $1M to $850K, while its donor base keeps aging out. There's no external deadline forcing the decision, but every renewal season on the current system is another year of lost first-time donors and manual rework that's hard to win back.
Why change
A communication-preference default cost ISA a full year of mail to 1,644 first-time donors. Memberships have been auto-billed without consent. Reporting is, in Lynn's words, "a rabbit hole," and the weekly fulfillment report for renewals and appeals is still built by hand. ISA lost its dedicated CRM support when it migrated off its original Innovare/Fundly-managed system, and hasn't had a real de-duplication or segmentation partner since.
Why Bloomerang
Conversational reporting replaces the query "rabbit hole," and built-in donor intelligence plus Penny's daily recommendations flag major-gift and lapse-risk members automatically, work this team has never had time for. County tracking becomes a custom field on every form with Penny scanning monthly for gaps, closing most of the manual work even though full automatic address-to-county lookup isn't available from either platform.
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Prepared for Illinois Sheriffs Association · September 29, 2026
A single fundraising, membership, and reporting platform built for all 102 County Sheriffs ISA supports, with the automation and donor intelligence to help rebuild fundraising revenue and reverse member attrition.
"I get down a rabbit hole trying to get the result that I'm wanting in the core."Lynn Saputo, Membership & Marketing Coordinator, Illinois Sheriffs Association
Where Charity Engine falls short
Charity Engine already consolidated CRM, payments, and email under one roof. The problem isn't fragmentation, it's what's breaking underneath.
Interactive ROI calculator
Seeded with Illinois Sheriffs Association's actual numbers. Adjust to match your goals.
The cost of doing nothing
None of this is hypothetical. It's what ISA has already lived through.
Fundraising revenue has slid from $1M to $850K. Every year the gap goes unaddressed is a year of lost training, scholarship, and K9 Hero funding.
ISA has lost 1,000 members a year, with an aging donor base and no automated welcome or win-back series in place to slow it down.
300,000 pieces go out every year to find new members and donors, at under a 1% return, the single biggest line item in ISA's acquisition effort.
What's included
Built around what ISA's day-to-day actually looks like: memberships, county-based scholarships, and a two-person team.
Up to 125,000 records, unlimited users, household tracking, soft credit attribution, pledge management, and in kind donation tracking, all in one profile.
Drag and drop email builder on the same engine as Mailchimp, plus unlimited Journey Automations running simultaneously. No separate subscription. No integration to maintain.
Multi-step membership, event, and merchandise forms with live mobile and desktop previews, built-in inventory caps for things like K9 Hero plush toys and license plate frames, and fund/GL-code splits so every transaction reconciles cleanly.
Prepare for donor meetings, identify major gift ask amounts, write personalized thank you emails, and prioritize the team's daily to do list, all powered by Illinois Sheriffs Association's own data.
Charitable giving history and capacity indicators built into every donor profile. Know what to ask before walking into the room. Included, not an add on.
Automatic recurring card updates, first time donor flags, and lapsed donor identification, running in the background, always.
Meet Penny
An illustrative look at how Penny works once Illinois Sheriffs Association's donor history lives in Bloomerang.
Every other AI tool gives every nonprofit the same generic answer. Penny is trained on your specific database, so her advice reflects your donors, your history, your mission.
Competitive comparison
| Feature | Bloomerang | Charity Engine |
|---|---|---|
| Conversational, AI-assisted reporting | ✓ Included | ✗ Manual query builder, "a rabbit hole" per Lynn |
| Built in donor intelligence (major-gift & lapse signals) | ✓ Included | ✗ None described |
| Penny AI fundraising assistant | ✓ Included | ✗ No AI assistant described |
| Live phone support | ✓ ~54 sec average pickup, in-house team | ~ "Can't ever get a human," per Lynn |
| Starting price (comparable tier) | Custom | Not disclosed on the call |
Charity Engine notes are drawn directly from Lynn's own comments on the Discovery and Demo calls. Rows without a clear, confirmed answer for Charity Engine (QuickBooks, card updater, automation) were left out rather than guessed at.
What nonprofits say
"We did a Bloomerang demo and I was like, 'This is it.' It has everything we want, everything we'll need in the future. It's so intuitive, and the onboarding process was very seamless."Becca Gray, Pensacola Habitat for Humanity
"Bloomerang is one of the best giving platforms I've ever seen. It makes it so easy to run everything from peer to peer fundraising, to transaction reports, to event check in."Beth Hill, Lakeland Volunteers in Medicine
"We did our due diligence looking at other CRMs, but Bloomerang was the clear winner. With Bloomerang, I feel like we're finally running the department the way it should be run."Julie Angulo, ScholarMatch
A similar membership association
AAZV's previous CRM made it hard to see fundraising history or donor engagement clearly, the same visibility gap Lynn described. After moving to Bloomerang, segmentation and full donor profiles gave their small team a clear read on who was actually engaged, and who was starting to drift.
The result
Donor retention rate
AAZV also saw email open rates climb to 60%, with clear visibility into which stories and outreach were actually landing with members.
See it in action
Two short ones directly relevant to what came up on our calls. Kyle can pull up more live any time.

How AI Helps Nonprofits Prepare for Donor Meetings, with Penny

Gift-Entry and Reporting Foundations
The transformation
Without Bloomerang
With Bloomerang
Your investment
Built around ISA's real record count and the predictive donor intelligence Lynn saw in the demo.
It's not because they're locked in. It's because the system works, and the team behind it genuinely wants nonprofits to succeed. When you thrive, we thrive.
The path forward
A shared plan for Illinois Sheriffs Association and Team Bloomerang, so nothing falls through the cracks between now and launch.
Reviewed ISA's goals, current systems, and the specific pain points with Charity Engine.
BloomerangWalked through forms, membership setup, reporting, and donor intelligence with Kyle and Solutions Consultant Jacob Houser.
BloomerangCovering remaining open questions from the demo, then walking through pricing, data migration, and onboarding.
BloomerangTo be scheduled once ISA has had time to review the proposal. Kyle, update this once a target decision date is set with Lynn.
Illinois Sheriffs AssociationTimeline depends on what's agreed in today's Proposal Review. Kyle, update this once onboarding dates are confirmed.
BloomerangSee it in action
Kyle Simkovich can walk through any of these live on your next call.



Kyle, this is a starting set, three real, verified links. Ask me to search for more (videos on a specific topic, or the Sales Collateral archive) any time and I'll add to this tab.