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Every contact has a donor status that Advocora calculates automatically from their giving history. You never set it by hand—it updates on its own as gifts are recorded.

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The three statuses

Active donor

Has given at least one gift in the last 12 months.

Inactive donor

Has given before, but not within the last 12 months.

Non-donor

Has no recorded gifts yet.

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How it updates

Donor status is always based on the most recent gift date:
  • Record a recent gift and a contact becomes an Active donor.
  • As time passes with no new gifts, an active donor eventually becomes Inactive.
  • A contact with no gifts at all is a Non-donor until their first gift is recorded.
Because it’s automatic, you don’t need to maintain it manually—just keep recording gifts and the status stays accurate.

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Where you’ll see it

  • As a badge on each row of the contact list and on the contact’s profile.
  • As a filter on the Contacts page, so you can focus on just active donors, lapsed (inactive) donors, or people who haven’t given yet. See Find a contact.
Filtering by Inactive donor is a quick way to build a re-engagement or lapsed-donor outreach list.