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# Terms & Definitions

## Terms & definitions for Fundraising Intelligence

### Single Giving reports

### Metric

**Avg gift size:**  
Average size of all appeal gifts

**Gross revenue:**  
Total revenue from all appeal gifts

**Major gifts:**  
Number of gifts greater than $5,000

**Mid-size gifts:**  
Number of gifts greater than $500

**Number of acquired donors:**  
Number of donors who gave their first ever gift

**Number of donors:**  
Number of donors who gave an appeal gift

**Number of gifts:**  
Number of successful appeal gifts

**Number of lapsed donors:**  
Donors who gave to an appeal in the previous year (13-24 months) but not in the past year (last 12 months)

### Benchmark

**All organisations:**  
All organisations that qualify as part of the Dataro data pool

**Fundraising revenue:**  
Organisations that raise a similar amount of fundraising revenue to you in the past year

**Number of active donors:**  
Organisation that have a similar number of donors who gave a gift in the past year

**Organisation cause:**  
Organisations that have the same cause as you. You can update your cause in Settings

### Recurring Giving reports

### Metric

**Avg gift size:**  
Average size of all recurring gifts

**Gross revenue:**  
Total revenue from all recurring gifts

**Number of acquisitions:**  
Number of donors who gave their first ever gift

**Number of churners:**  
Number of donors who gave no more successful recurring gift from this date range

**Number of conversions:**  
Number of donors who gave their first recurring gift after previously giving to another program (e.g. appeals or events)

**Number of donors:**  
Number of donors who gave a recurring gift

**Number of gifts:**  
Number of successful recurring gifts

**Number of reactivations:**  
Donors who gave a recurring gift after being lapsed for at least 6 months

**Number of upgrades:**  
Number of donors who increased the size of their recurring gift

### Benchmark

**All organisations:**  
All organisations that qualify as part of the Dataro data pool

**Fundraising revenue:**  
Organisations that raise a similar amount of fundraising revenue to you in the past year

**Number of active donors:**  
Organisation that have a similar number of donors who gave a gift in the past year

**Organisation cause:**  
Organisations that have the same cause as you. You can update your cause in Settings

 

### Appeal Giving reports

### Metric

**Avg gift size:**  
Average size of all appeal gifts

**Gross revenue:**  
Total revenue from all appeal gifts

**Major gifts:**  
Number of gifts greater than $5,000

**Mid-size gifts:**  
Number of gifts greater than $500

**Number of acquired donors:**  
Number of donors who gave their first ever gift

**Number of donors:**  
Number of donors who gave an appeal gift

**Number of converted donors:**  
Donors who gave their first appeal gift having given previously to a different program (e.g. recurring giver)

**Number of gifts:**  
Number of successful appeal gifts

**Number of lapsed donors:**  
Donors who gave to an appeal in the previous year (13-24 months) but not in the past year (last 12 months)

### Benchmark

**All organisations:**  
All organisations that qualify as part of the Dataro data pool

**Fundraising revenue:**  
Organisations that raise a similar amount of fundraising revenue to you in the past year

**Number of active donors:**  
Organisation that have a similar number of donors who gave a gift in the past year

**Organisation cause:**  
Organisations that have the same cause as you. You can update your cause in Settings

### Management reports

### Metric

**Gross revenue:**  
Total revenue from all gifts

**Number of donors:**  
Number of donors who gave a gift to the specified program

**Number of gifts:**  
Number of successful gifts

### Program

**Appeal:**  
Any gift tagged as Appeal, Newsletter or Acquisition

**Community, P2P & Events:**  
Any gift tagged as Community, Peer-to-Peer or Event

**Corporate, Trusts & Foundations:**  
Any gift tagged as Corporate or Trusts & Foundations

**One-off:**  
Any gift tagged as any other type of one-off gift (including Receipts, In Memory, One-off, Survey, Other etc)

**Recurring Giving:**  
Any gift tagged as Recurring Gift with a specific pledge or commitment attached

**Membership:**  
Any gift tagged as Membership

**Merchandise:**  
Any gift tagged as Merchandise

**Raffles & Lottery:**  
Any gift tagged as Raffles or Lottery

**Stewardship & Bequests:**  
Any gift tagged as Stewardship or Bequest

**Workplace Giving:**  
Any gift tagged as Workplace Giving

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