Little Green Light Pricing: Official 2026 Tiers, Users, Fees, and Grant Fit

Little Green Light pricing in 2026 starts at $45/month for up to 2,500 constituent records. The official table reaches $135/month for up to 50,000 records, then continues in $15/month steps for each additional 10,000 records up to 200,000 constituent records. Every tier includes unlimited users, all features, no setup fee, no long-term contract, and 30 days free.

The important grant distinction is scope. Little Green Light includes Grant Proposals so a development team can track grant requests, deadlines, and proposal tasks. It does not replace post-award restricted fund compliance, expenditure reporting against awards, reimbursement support, or fund accounting. If your nonprofit is comparing LGL against a grant-centered system, start with GrantPipe pricing and model the side-by-side cost in the nonprofit CRM cost calculator.

How Little Green Light Pricing Works

Little Green Light uses a single plan priced by constituent record count. Every tier includes the same feature set, so the bill changes when the database grows rather than when a team adds another user or turns on a module. For nonprofits used to per-seat pricing, that is the most attractive part of the model: board members, volunteers, finance staff, and development staff can all use the system without adding seats.

The published table starts at $45/month for up to 2,500 constituent records. It then moves to $60/month for 5,000 records, $75/month for 10,000, $90/month for 20,000, $105/month for 30,000, $120/month for 40,000, and $135/month for 50,000. Above 50,000 records, Little Green Light lists another $15/month for each additional 10,000 records through 200,000 records.

Prepayment lowers the subscription, but it does not change the feature set. Little Green Light lists annual prepayment at a 10% discount, 6 months at a 5% discount, and 3 months at a 2.5% discount. The practical takeaway is simple: the published monthly price is the cleanest comparison point, and the prepayment discount is a budgeting choice after the system is selected.

What Counts Toward the Record Tier

Little Green Light prices by constituent records. That phrasing matters because a nonprofit database usually contains more than current donors. Members, volunteers, event attendees, organizations, contacts tied to pledges, and older records can all affect the size of the database a team needs to maintain.

Before choosing a tier, export the current CRM or spreadsheet list and count the records the team actually expects to keep in the live system. A small organization with a long event history can hit the 5,000 or 10,000 record tiers faster than the active donor count suggests. That is not a flaw in the pricing model, but it is easy to underbudget if the estimate starts from “active donors” instead of total constituent records.

What the Subscription Includes

Little Green Light’s strongest pricing feature is that all features are included across tiers. The $45/month tier is not a stripped-down plan that forces a development team into an upgrade to unlock core donor work. The same published feature set includes donor management, gift entry, pledge tracking, membership management, events, reporting, online giving forms, and Grant Proposals.

That makes LGL easy to understand for small nonprofits. The buyer is not trying to decode whether a feature sits in Starter, Growth, Professional, or Enterprise. The main question is whether the record-count tier and the scope of the feature set match the work the organization has to run.

Where Grant Work Stops

The official feature list includes Grant Proposals, and the page describes using LGL to track grant requests. That is useful for proposal-stage work: who owns the application, what tasks are open, what deadlines matter, and what happened to the request.

Post-award work is different. Once an award is active, the finance and program teams need restricted fund visibility, expenditure reporting, budget-to-actual checks, reimbursement support, document evidence, and compliance deadlines. Those workflows determine whether grant money is spent on the right purpose and whether the organization can answer funder or auditor questions cleanly.

For a donor-first nonprofit, LGL may cover enough of the day-to-day system of record. For a grant-funded nonprofit, the real comparison is LGL plus the separate compliance process beside it. If that process is spreadsheets, calendar reminders, exported donor reports, and finance-system lookups, the subscription price is only one part of the operating cost.

Payment Processing Fees

Online donation fees sit outside the subscription. Little Green Light’s online donations page lists card payments through Stripe at 2.2% + $0.30 per transaction for Stripe and 1.99% + $0.49 for PayPal. Actual fees can vary by processor, payment method, and nonprofit eligibility. Those fees matter when the organization is estimating net revenue from online giving campaigns, recurring donations, and event appeals.

The subscription still matters for budget approval, but donation volume changes the total economics. A nonprofit that processes a small number of online gifts may barely notice the processing line. A team moving a large appeal program online should model the platform subscription and payment fees separately so the board sees both the software cost and the net-gift impact.

GrantPipe Comparison

GrantPipe prices the system around nonprofit operating needs rather than donor database size. The published plans are:

• Starter ($329/mo): Donor CRM, grant pipeline tracking, compliance calendar, 990 export templates, and email support
• Growth ($539/mo): Everything in Starter, plus automated deadline reminders, spend-down threshold alerts, compliance report pack, and guided import support
• Audit-Ready ($1,079/mo): Everything in Growth, plus Program Allocation management, budget-vs-actual exports, advanced fund accounting, financial statements and board-ready outputs, guided onboarding, and the Auditor & Funder Portal for scoped, expiring access to specific grants, funds, and documents

For a nonprofit with fewer than 2,500 constituent records and no meaningful grant compliance burden, Little Green Light’s $45/month entry price is hard to beat. For a nonprofit managing restricted grants, the comparison should include the second system or spreadsheet process required to handle post-award compliance. That is where the cheaper CRM can become the cheaper donor database but not the cheaper operating workflow.

How to Budget the First Year

Start with the obvious subscription math, then add the implementation work the team has to do either way. A realistic first-year budget should include:

• Subscription tier based on total constituent records
• Online donation processing fees based on expected gift volume
• Data cleanup and migration time
• Staff training time
• Any separate tool or spreadsheet process needed for grant compliance
• Report formatting and reconciliation work that continues after launch

That last line is where many nonprofit CRM comparisons become misleading. The monthly price answers what the donor database costs. It does not answer whether the whole grant and donor reporting process gets simpler. If the team still has to reconcile gifts, awards, restricted funds, and expenditures outside the CRM, the headline subscription is only the starting point.