# Employee giving and volunteering for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, November 2026

Gane Index, November 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 an enterprise B2B company. Added to the November 2026 Edition. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/experience/employee-giving-and-volunteering/2026-11/enterprise

**Standing:** Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform leads with 70% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 47 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/benevity-enterprise-impact-platform/index.md) | 70% | 27% | 75 |
| 2 | [Uncommon Giving](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/uncommon-giving/index.md) | 15% | 17% | 18 |
| 3 | [Groundswell](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/groundswell/index.md) | 6% | 6% | 35 |
| 4 | [YourCause CSRconnect](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/yourcause-csrconnect/index.md) | 4% | 18% | 60 |
| 5 | [Deed](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/deed/index.md) | 2% | 9% | 11 |
| 7 | [Bonterra](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/bonterra/index.md) | 0% | 20% | 20 |
| 8 | [Submittable](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/submittable/index.md) | 0% | 12% | 17 |
| 9 | [Goodera](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/goodera/index.md) | 0% | 13% | 15 |
| 10 | [Millie](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/millie/index.md) | 0% | 20% | 20 |
| 65 | [CyberGrants](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/cybergrants/index.md) | 0% | 58% | 12 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 65 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: Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform; alternatives Deed, Groundswell, Uncommon Giving, YourCause CSRconnect
- GPT-5.4 mini: Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform; alternatives Bonterra Deed, Bright Funds, Groundswell, YourCause CSRconnect
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform; alternatives Deed, Goodera, Groundswell, YourCause CSRconnect
- Perplexity Sonar: Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform; alternatives Bonterra, Deed, Goodera, Groundswell
- Grok 4.20: Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform; alternatives Bonterra CyberGrants, Millie, YourCause CSRconnect
- Mistral Small: Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform, YourCause CSRconnect; alternatives Bonterra, Field Day
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform; alternatives Bonterra, Groundswell, YourCause CSRconnect
- Llama 4 Maverick: YourCause CSRconnect; alternatives Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform, Deed Engage, Good2Give, Millie
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform; alternatives Deed, Millie, YourCause CSRconnect
- Kimi K2: Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform; alternatives Bonterra CyberGrants, YourCause CSRconnect
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform; alternatives Bonterra, Groundswell, YourCause CSRconnect
- MiniMax M2.5: Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform; alternatives Bonterra, Uncommon Giving, YourCause CSRconnect
- GPT-6 Luna: Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform; alternatives Goodera, Submittable, YourCause CSRconnect
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform; alternatives YourCause CSRconnect

## Sources the answers cite

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

- benevity.com: 63 answers, 155 citations
- g2.com: 49 answers, 102 citations
- uncommongiving.com: 45 answers, 90 citations
- momogood.com: 30 answers, 39 citations
- groundswell.io: 26 answers, 45 citations
- guideflow.com: 25 answers, 38 citations
- bonterratech.com: 24 answers, 34 citations
- yourcause.com: 23 answers, 36 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://benevity.com/blog/best-csr-software (24 answers)
- https://g2.com/categories/corporate-volunteering-platform/enterprise (23 answers)
- https://momogood.com/blog/best-employee-giving-platforms (22 answers)
- https://benevity.com/ (19 answers)
- https://guideflow.com/blog/corporate-giving-software (16 answers)
- https://optimy.com/blog-optimy/best-corporate-volunteering-software (16 answers)
- https://benevity.com/demo-enterprise-impact-platform (15 answers)
- https://benevity.com/blog/best-volunteer-management-software (14 answers)
- https://benevity.com/blog/yourcause-alternatives (13 answers)
- https://uncommongiving.com/comparison/benevity-vs-yourcause (13 answers)

## Warned against

- Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform: 20 of 75 labels negative. "Benevity - Significant Concerns ... complaints about delayed disbursements, with funds sitting in their accounts for months without being distributed" (Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt)
- YourCause CSRconnect: 11 of 60 labels negative. "Benevity and YourCause are "enterprise workplace giving platforms... both do it well at that scale." ... "the other five quote on request"" (Muse Glimmer 30B, budget prompt)
- CyberGrants: 7 of 12 labels negative. "the three best known legacy CSR suites - Benevity, YourCause from Blackbaud and CyberGrants - are often evaluated on features and list price, while the total cost of ownership is less transparent" (Muse Glimmer 30B, negative prompt)
- Bonterra: 4 of 20 labels negative. "Bonterra's CSR products—especially if the proposal combines CyberGrants with other Bonterra products... product-clarity and continuity diligence issue" (GPT-6 Luna, negative prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 13 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform at 70%.

- YourCause CSRconnect: 8% to 4%, −4. Inside the floor by 9 points · rank 3 → 4 of 65.
- Uncommon Giving: 12% to 15%, +3. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 2 of 65, unchanged.
- Groundswell: 4% to 6%, +2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 4 → 3 of 65.
- Deed: 0% to 2%, +2. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 11 → 5 of 65.
- Benevity Enterprise Impact Platform: 69% to 70%, +1. Inside the floor by 12 points · rank 1 of 65, unchanged.
- Bonterra: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 13 points · rank 9 → 7 of 65.
- Submittable: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 13 points · rank 31 → 8 of 65.
- Goodera: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 13 points · rank 8 → 9 of 65.
- Millie: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 13 points · rank 10 of 65, unchanged.
- CyberGrants: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 13 points · rank 16 → 65 of 65.

## Record

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