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Total Raised Network-Wide+18.4% vs last year
$0M

YTD across active franchise brands

Active Franchise Locations+63 this quarter
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Reporting in real time

Donor Retention Rate+7pts vs industry avg
0%

Across all network tiers

Cause Campaign ROIBenchmark: 1.8x
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Per dollar of campaign spend

Aggregated from 847 live franchise integrations
Franchise Donor Intelligence

Every franchise.
Every donor.
One truth.

Stop managing 200 spreadsheets. Start running a network. Steward aggregates every dollar donated, every campaign launched, and every donor touched — across every location, in real time.

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Finding 01
2026 Franchise Giving Report

Franchise networks outperform solo operators — when the data is unified.

Our analysis of 2,400+ franchise locations across 18 brands found that networks with centralized donor management achieve 58% higher retention and 3.4x campaign ROI versus those still running location-by-location spreadsheets.

Key insight: The gap between top-quartile and bottom-quartile franchise giving programs is not budget — it's visibility. Networks that can see every location simultaneously raise 2.8x more per unit.

Performance vs. Industry Benchmark

n=2,412 franchise locations · Q4 2025 data

Industry Avg
Steward Network
Donor Retention Rate
Industry: 58%Steward: 92%
Industry Average
Steward Network
Campaign ROI
Industry: 180%Steward: 340%
Industry Average
Steward Network
Year-End Report Accuracy
Industry: 71%Steward: 99%
Industry Average
Steward Network
Cross-Location Donor Overlap Identified
Industry: 12%Steward: 84%
Industry Average
Steward Network
Time to Consolidated Tax Receipt
Industry: 23 daysSteward: 4 days
Industry Average
Steward Network

Data sourced from Steward platform aggregates and public franchise giving disclosures. Methodology available in full report.

Finding 02

The hidden cost of fragmented data isn't the spreadsheets. It's the decisions you can't make.

Multi-unit operators spend an average of 23 days per year reconciling donor data across locations. That's time not spent growing the network.

Without Steward · Current State
Shared Drive / Franchise_Giving_2025 / ...
Q4 Donor List - FINAL(3).xlsx2.4 MB
Location 047 - November Donations copy.csv840 KB
Tax Receipt Template v7 REVISED.docx156 KB
Donor Master - USE THIS ONE.xlsx8.1 MB
Campaign_ROI_2025_DRAFT.xlsx1.2 MB
Loc_203_donors_reconciled_maybe.csv320 KB
Board Deck Data - URGENT.xlsx5.6 MB

Real cost: $340K/year in reconciliation labor

Across a 200-location network at 4.5 hrs/month/location · $28/hr blended rate

With Steward · Unified View
Live

Total Raised

$14.2M

All 847 locations · Real time

Unique Donors

284,193

Deduped across network

Avg Gift Size

$49.80

+12% MoM

Pending Receipts

0

Auto-generated on gift

Top performing locations · This month847 active
Chicago - Wicker Park
891 donors$42,180
Austin - South Congress
743 donors$38,940
Denver - LoDo
698 donors$35,210

✦ Estimated annual savings: $312K–$380K

In reconciliation labor · plus 18.4% lift in total giving

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Finding 03

A donor's relationship is with your brand, not your location.

61% of Steward network donors give at more than one location. Without unified data, each location treats them as a stranger. Map how Steward turns every touchpoint into relationship intelligence.

Acquisition

284K

Unique donors captured

A donor gives $25 at the Denver LoDo location during a local cause campaign. Steward creates a unified donor record instantly — visible to every location in the network.

LOCATIONS INVOLVED

Denver – LoDoDenver – Cherry CreekBoulder – Pearl St
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The Franchise Giving Report

48 pages · 2,412 locations analyzed · Q4 2025 data

The complete analysis behind every finding on this page. Includes location-level benchmarks, donor lifecycle data, campaign ROI breakdowns by franchise category, and a 12-month roadmap for network-level giving programs.

Donor Retention BenchmarksCampaign ROI by Category12-Month Giving RoadmapTax Receipt Best Practices

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$14.2M

Raised this year

847

Active locations

92%

Donor retention

3.4x

Campaign ROI