# How DonorsChoose uses Algolia

**30%** year-over-year increase in conversions for new

As published on [algolia.com](https://www.algolia.com/customers/donorschoose). Captured by usedby on 2026-11-07.

- Company: [DonorsChoose](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/donors-choose.md)
- Tool: [Algolia](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/algolia.md)
- Industry: [Non-profit & NGO](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/non-profit-ngo.md)

## The use case: how DonorsChoose deploys Algolia

DonorsChoose uses Algolia InstantSearch and the Algolia Search API to power a unified teacher shop that lets teachers search products from many education vendors, replacing a fragmented set of separate vendor shopping experiences. It also uses Click & Conversion Analytics and Rules.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Algolia and DonorsChoose, not ours.

> From 37% of new teachers successfully submitting projects, the organization has seen a jump over just one quarter to 48%. That’s a 30% year-over-year increase in conversions for new teachers (and even higher on mobile).

- **48%**: “From 37% of new teachers successfully submitting projects, the organization has seen a jump over just one quarter to 48%.”
- **580,000**: “With the Algolia-powered functionality in place, teachers can now use the online shop to search and find anything DonorsChoose can supply them, from a host of more than 580,000 indexed products and over one million SKUs.”

> Algolia made the development process easier and made it so that we could actually launch this product, which was the most important thing
>
> Stephen Burke, Senior Product Manager

Source: [algolia.com](https://www.algolia.com/customers/donorschoose), captured 2026-10-07.

## Algolia users in Non-profit & NGO

- [Fern](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/fern.md) — Confirmed

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-11-07.

- Checked: the figure 30% is on the page; its label is our wording.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of DonorsChoose.
- Checked: DonorsChoose uses Algolia. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-11-07.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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