The org brain for nonprofits

Your programs
change lives.

Candela remembers the proof, so you can tell the story.

The memory, planning, and impact story of your organization in one place, built for nonprofits by someone who spent fifteen years inside them. Candela meets you where you are.

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The problem

The organizations doing the most important work are the least equipped to remember it.

Memory walks out the door

When a program director leaves, years of context leave with them. The reasoning behind a model, the story behind a number, the relationships with funders. It lives in someone's head, and then it does not.

Reporting eats the mission

Every impact report starts from scratch. Every funder meeting means rebuilding the same story again. The time that should go to the work goes to explaining the work instead.

How it works

Three beats, from shoebox to a story funders remember.

1

Spark ingests everything

Bring in the documents, spreadsheets, and notes you already have. In about a week, they become a structured org brain your whole team can draw on.

2

Your team asks and plans

Ask questions against your shared memory. Plan programs, log decisions, and keep the reasoning in one place instead of in scattered inboxes.

3

Studio turns proof into outputs

Impact reports, donor recaps, living presentations, and dashboards, generated from your real data and grounded in what you can actually back.

Why funders trust it

Every number carries its source. Every gap says so.

Candela does not invent figures to fill a slide. When a number is grounded in your data, it shows where it came from. When it is not known yet, it says that plainly. That honesty is what a funder can forward without worrying.

Cited, or honestly absent

Participants served

1,284

Intake records

Completion rate

78%

Program tracker

12-month wage gain

Not yet

Follow-up data is still being collected. Candela will not guess it.

Credibility tiers

Verified from source dataCited, self-reportedClaimed, not yet backed

Each claim in an output carries a tier, so a reader knows exactly how much weight it can hold.

What comes out

The product is the best thing we can show you.

A Candela Studio impact report with a cited headline number and a scrollytelling section.
Impact report, built from your own data.
A living presentation view showing an org's programs laid out as a constellation.
A board presentation that stays current.
A donor Wrapped recap card sized for a phone screen.
A personal year-in-review for each donor.

Pricing

Start free. Bring in your first documents and see the org brain take shape before you pay anything.

Paid tiers scale with the size of your organization and how much you lean on Studio and Crew. There are no per-report credits and no surprises.

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A note from me
Clayton Gonzales, founder of Candela

I spent fifteen years inside nonprofits, most recently as a senior leader at CWEE, one of Colorado's most effective workforce development organizations. I have a master's in clinical mental health counseling, and I am an OIF veteran.

I built Candela out of a frustration I lived. The teams doing the hardest work were the least equipped to remember it or explain it. Every report started from nothing. Every good story lived in one person's head until they left.

Candela is the memory layer I always wanted. It is honest about what it knows, and honest about what it does not. If that sounds like the tool your team has been missing, I would like to hear from you.

Clayton Gonzales

Founder, Candela

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