Why did my gifts received suddenly jump in Blackbaud?
The Blackbaud help pages give 3 common reasons. The first to rule out: Each scheduled payment from a regular donor is tracked as its own recurring gift payment, so a day when many schedules come due can show many gifts.
Is it broken, or just quiet?
A number can fall because fewer people came, or because something stopped counting them. Below are the causes the Blackbaud help pages give, and how to check each one yourself.
What causes it?
Each scheduled payment from a regular donor is tracked as its own recurring gift payment, so a day when many schedules come due can show many gifts.
In the Blackbaud help:
When sustaining donors fulfill their scheduled commitments, each payment is tracked as a recurring gift payment.
Recurring Gifts, read 2026-11-12.Payments on manual recurring gifts are applied by hand, so several can land on the day someone catches up.
In the Blackbaud help:
Manual recurring gifts do not process automatically; you apply their payments from either workflow.
Recurring Gifts, read 2026-11-12.With the JustGiving integration, each recurring payment from JustGiving comes in as a one-time gift, which can raise the number of gifts.
In the Blackbaud help:
All recurring gift payments from JustGiving synchronize as a one-time gifts.
New Gift Records from JustGiving, read 2026-11-12.
How do I check it myself?
Gifts from JustGiving recurring payments do not show a link to a recurring gift, so check where a gift came from before reading it as new giving.
In the Blackbaud help:
The gift records do not indicate that they're associated with a recurring gift.
New Gift Records from JustGiving, read 2026-11-12.Approve payment batches every day, so gifts land on the dates expected rather than in a lump after a gap.
In the Blackbaud help:
Approve batches daily to ensure payments process on the expected dates.
Recurring Gifts, read 2026-11-12.
How would I know the day it starts?
- Feder reads the gifts received in Blackbaud each day and compares each day with your own history.
- It tells you when gifts received go quiet or move outside their usual range.
Some numbers are too quiet to judge daily, such as a form filled in a few times a week. Until there is enough of your own history to judge a change, Feder says it is still learning and scores nothing, rather than guessing.
See what Feder reads from Blackbaud, which feeds Wins. Feder only reads. It never changes anything in Blackbaud.
What else goes wrong with these numbers?
- Why did my gifts received drop in Blackbaud?Blackbaud
- Why did my recurring gifts drop in Blackbaud?Blackbaud
- Why did Google Analytics stop collecting data?Google Analytics
- Why aren't my key events showing in Google Analytics?Google Analytics
- Why does Google Analytics show (not set)?Google Analytics
See every question.
Where do these answers come from?
Every cause and check on this page comes from the Blackbaud help pages, quoted above with the date we read them. Last reviewed 2026-11-12. We read them again by 2027-11-12. If one changes, this page changes or comes down.