The Scenario
You are a fundraising coordinator at a nonprofit. The spring gala campaign closed at midnight. You wake up to 1,200 donations and a calendar invite from the board chair: review meeting Friday at 9 AM.
The board wants a clean spreadsheet, every donor name, amount, date, and payment status. Not a link to the Raisely dashboard. An actual spreadsheet they can save as a PDF and walk into the room with.
The slow version of Tuesday morning:
- Open Raisely, navigate to the campaign, find the export button
- Wait for the CSV to generate and download
- Open it in Excel to check the columns, then import it to Google Sheets
- Fix the date format, which exported in ISO 8601 and the board chair reads dates as DD/MM/YYYY
- Realize the export only has 500 rows because of Raisely's default pagination limit
- Export the next page manually, paste it below the first batch, deduplicate the header row
- The board chair emails asking if the data is ready. It is 11 AM. You are on page two of three.
The fast version is one prompt.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent inside your spreadsheet that reads Raisely's API and writes the data for you, so you do not have to export, page through, or reformat anything by hand.
Open the SheetXAI sidebar and type:
List all donations from my Raisely campaign 'spring-gala-2025' and import donor name, email, amount, currency, date, and payment status into this sheet starting at A2. Sort by amount descending. Format dates as DD/MM/YYYY.
SheetXAI handles the pagination, pulls all 1,200 records, formats the dates, and writes the full dataset into the sheet. The board gets a clean tab, sorted by top donors, with every donation accounted for.
What You Get
A complete donation register, ready to share:
- Donor name and email — one row per donation
- Amount and currency — exact values from Raisely, no rounding
- Date — formatted the way the board reads it
- Payment status — paid, pending, refunded, flagged at a glance
Every record is there, not just the first 500. SheetXAI handles Raisely's pagination automatically, so campaigns with thousands of donations land in the sheet complete.
Want to pull only the top 100 by amount, or only donations above $500? Tell SheetXAI. Want a second tab with refunded donations separated out? Ask for it in the same prompt.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Donation data from a campaign that ran for several weeks is rarely perfectly clean. SheetXAI handles the messy cases in the same prompt.
When donor names are inconsistently formatted
Some donors entered their names in all caps, some in sentence case, some as "firstname lastname" and some as "LASTNAME, Firstname."
Import all donations from 'spring-gala-2025' into this sheet. Normalize the donor name column so all names appear in Title Case (e.g. "Jane Smith"). Then sort by amount descending.
When you need to flag large donations for gift processing
Gifts above $5,000 require a different acknowledgement process. You need them flagged before the report goes to the board.
Import all donations from 'spring-gala-2025' into this sheet. Add a 'Gift Tier' column: label amounts over $5,000 as 'Major Gift', $1,000 to $4,999 as 'Significant', and under $1,000 as 'Standard'. Sort by amount descending.
When a sponsoring company donated multiple times under different names
The same corporate donor appears as "Acme Corp," "Acme Corporation," and "ACME" in three separate rows.
Import all donations from 'spring-gala-2025'. Group donations by donor email and sum the total giving per email into a 'Total from Donor' column. Flag any email that appears more than once in a 'Duplicate Donor' column so we can check for corporate giving consolidation.
When the board also wants a summary alongside the raw data
The raw table is useful but the board chair wants a one-page summary above the data: total raised, average donation, number of donors, largest gift, and the top five donors by name.
Import all donations from 'spring-gala-2025' into rows 5 onward. In rows 1 through 4, write a summary: total raised (sum of amount column), number of unique donors (count of distinct emails), average donation, largest single gift, and the top five donor names with their amounts.
The pattern: instead of pulling raw data first and then analyzing it separately, ask for both in one prompt. The summary lands above the data, the data lands below, and you share a single sheet with the board.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and ask it to pull your latest closed campaign's donations into a sheet. The Raisely integration is included in every SheetXAI plan. For next steps, see how to analyze recurring donor subscriptions or the Raisely in Google Sheets overview.