# Employee giving and volunteering: what AI models recommend, October 2026

Gane Index, October 2026 Edition. Asked as "employee giving and volunteering platform" and as "corporate social responsibility platform", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of a mid-market B2B company. Added to the October 2026 Edition on October 4, 2026. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/experience/employee-giving-and-volunteering/2026-10

This is the permanent record of the October 2026 Edition, published October 1, 2026 and superseded since. The current standing: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/experience/employee-giving-and-volunteering/index.md

**Standing:** Millie leads with 22% of first choices; verdict contested. 59 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Millie](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/millie/index.md) | 22% | 3% | 33 |
| 2 | [Selflessly](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/selflessly/index.md) | 20% | 3% | 30 |
| 3 | [Uncommon Giving](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/uncommon-giving/index.md) | 10% | 6% | 32 |
| 4 | [Bright Funds](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/bright-funds/index.md) | 8% | 6% | 16 |
| 5 | [Groundswell](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/groundswell/index.md) | 7% | 5% | 20 |
| 6 | [YourCause CSRconnect](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/yourcause-csrconnect/index.md) | 5% | 46% | 41 |
| 8 | [Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/benevity-enterprise-impact-platform/index.md) | 3% | 59% | 61 |
| 9 | [Deed](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/deed/index.md) | 2% | 12% | 16 |
| 21 | [Goodera](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/goodera/index.md) | 0% | 6% | 16 |
| 67 | [CyberGrants](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/cybergrants/index.md) | 0% | 46% | 13 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 67 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Uncommon Giving; alternatives Bright Funds, Groundswell, Millie
- GPT-5.4 mini: Bonterra; alternatives Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Groundswell; alternatives Bright Funds, Deed, Millie, Uncommon Giving
- Perplexity Sonar: Millie; alternatives Percent Pledge, Uncommon Giving
- Grok 4.20: Millie; alternatives Goodera, Selflessly, Uncommon Giving
- Mistral Small: Bright Funds; alternatives Uncommon Giving, VolunteerLocal
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Groundswell, Millie; alternatives Bright Funds, OnHand, Selflessly, Uncommon Giving
- Llama 4 Maverick: Bright Funds; alternatives Guideflow, Uncommon Giving
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform, Social Cues; alternatives Goodchange, Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud
- Kimi K2: Groundswell, Millie; alternatives Alaya, OnHand, YourCause CSRconnect
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Bright Funds; alternatives Uncommon Giving
- MiniMax M2.5: Bright Funds, Uncommon Giving; alternatives Millie, OnHand
- GPT-6 Luna: Selflessly; alternatives Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform, Millie, YourCause CSRconnect
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Bright Funds, Uncommon Giving

## Sources the answers cite

80 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- uncommongiving.com: 51 answers, 98 citations
- guideflow.com: 44 answers, 75 citations
- g2.com: 42 answers, 80 citations
- bonterratech.com: 41 answers, 61 citations
- yourcause.com: 39 answers, 59 citations
- benevity.com: 29 answers, 45 citations
- goodera.com: 27 answers, 32 citations
- submittable.com: 23 answers, 29 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://uncommongiving.com/uncommon-blog/csr-software (39 answers)
- https://bonterratech.com/blog/corporate-giving-platforms (29 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/corporate-volunteering-software (27 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/corporate-giving-software (25 answers)
- https://stratuslive.com/blog/7-best-workplace-giving-platforms (23 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/csr-software (22 answers)
- https://submittable.com/blog/best-csr-software (21 answers)
- https://yourcause.com/articles/best-corporate-volunteering-software (18 answers)
- https://momogood.com/blog/best-employee-giving-platforms (17 answers)
- https://goodera.com/en-gb/blog/corporate-volunteering-software (16 answers)

## Warned against

- Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform: 36 of 61 labels negative. "Platforms with documented, repeated criticisms Benevity ... complex admin, slow fund distribution, 2–3% transaction fees, hard-to-reach support, and low employee engagement." (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)
- YourCause CSRconnect: 19 of 41 labels negative. "Benevity, YourCause, and Deed are specifically called out for issues such as long distribution timelines, limited mobile support, or heavy administrative burden" (Perplexity Sonar, negative prompt)
- CyberGrants: 6 of 13 labels negative. "Platforms like Benevity, YourCause, CyberGrants that charge extra for support, have high transaction fees, and require complex onboarding" (GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt)
- Bonterra: 4 of 7 labels negative. "you will want to avoid legacy enterprise systems like Benevity, Bonterra, or YourCause" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, budget prompt)

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, October 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/hr.