Proven UX-led app development for Non-profits
Your mission deserves technology as serious as your work. We design and build digital tools that help non-profits serve their communities more effectively — and operate with the efficiency their resources demand.
Who our solutions help
Non-profit technology isn't one-size-fits-all. We build for the full range of people your organization serves and supports:
Non-profit innovators bringing new service delivery models to life and needing a technology partner who understands the mission.
Community members and program participants who need clear, accessible tools to find and use the services available to them.
Program staff who need reliable systems that reduce administrative burden and let them focus on people.
Leadership and operations teams managing programs, outcomes, and reporting across complex funding requirements.
Coalition and network organizations coordinating across multiple partners or communities.
Our process starts by talking to real stakeholders — including the populations you serve, where appropriate — to understand where friction lives and where technology can genuinely help. From there, we design and build solutions that work in the real world: for users with varying technical comfort, on a range of devices, in the conditions your communities actually face.
Our solutions may encompass:
Mission-driven technology, built to perform
Too often, non-profit technology is an afterthought — cobbled together from donated software or built without the people it's meant to serve ever being consulted. The result is tools that staff tolerate and communities avoid.
We take a different approach. We treat non-profit service delivery with the same rigor we bring to healthcare and other high-stakes industries — because the stakes are just as high. Whether you're connecting families to housing resources, delivering environmental education at scale, or coordinating services across a regional network, the technology behind your mission matters.
Good design doesn't require a for-profit budget. It requires the right partner.
Experience in the space
We've worked with non-profits across environmental education, housing security, and community services — organizations doing meaningful work that needed technology built to match. That experience informs how we think about accessibility, data stewardship, and designing for populations that are often underserved by mainstream technology.
Beyond the program: operations and data
The organizations we work with don't just need client-facing tools. They need systems that work behind the scenes too — tracking outcomes, supporting reporting requirements, and giving leadership the visibility to make good decisions.
We build with the full operational picture in mind, so your technology investment serves your staff and your funders, not just your end users.
Results
PFT knocked it out of the park
“PFT knocked it out of the park with their creativity, vision, technical expertise, and customer focus—they were the perfect partner to not only bring this project to life but take it to the next level to support our work in promoting environmental stewardship and clean water across the state of Iowa!””
Ann Staudt
Director
Water Rocks!
100% of Audits Passed
Our software has passed 100% percent of compliance audits given, including SOC 2, pentesting and ADA compliance.
6X Engagement
One nonprofit client achieved 6X engagement after our UX Focus sprint & subsequent development work to implement the changes.
Ready to get started?
Clients come back again and again because we offer:
Speed of delivery: We offer startup pace, with enterprise quality.
Empathetic UX research: We are skilled facilitators and researchers who will make the process easy for you.
Interdisciplinary collaboration: We emphasize a collaborative approach, bringing together UX, operations, security, compliance, marketing and data teams to quickly iterate on the best solutions.
Onshore development team: We are a fully remote team proudly located 100% in the United States.
Design QA discipline: We QA not only for functionality, but also for smoothness of use and aesthetic beauty. You deserve to be proud of your application.
Security & Compliance rigor: Security and compliance are an integral focus of our training and design from day one.
Security and compliance come standard.
Secure by Design
Security isn’t a layer we bolt on later—it’s baked in from the first line of code.
Every pull request undergoes double peer review, including one by a senior engineer
Automated code scanning checks for vulnerabilities before deployment
Our team completed 125+ hours of security training last year
Compliant by Design
We build with compliance in mind, making it easier to meet industry regulations without compromising usability.
ADA testing ensures accessibility for all users — and we have a 100% pass rate
HIPAA, privacy, and compliance reviews are integrated throughout the build process
Our team completed 100+ hours of HIPAA and privacy regulation training last year
People-Friendly by Design
Our code moves fast—but never at the expense of the human experience.
Automated testing gives us speed and reliability
Real human testers catch the nuance and polish that automation misses
We design and build interfaces that are as delightful as they are functional
