Solutions / Nonprofit Prospect Research

Tell it a cause and a place. It comes back with scored prospects, not a guess.

Set a cause taxonomy and a geography — a radius, a set of states, or the whole country — and a request finds local businesses through Google Places or IRS-registered foundations through the federal Business Master File, then scores each one on seven weighted signals with a plain-English reason for every score.

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The actual Donor Discovery overview

Not a mockup — the live overview a real organization sees: prospect and signal stat cards, quick actions into Discover Prospects and Corporate Marketplace, and a live intent-signals panel, all reflecting this account’s actual current state rather than seeded demo numbers.

The live Donor Discovery overview page, showing real stat cards, quick-action cards into Discover Prospects and Corporate Marketplace, and a live intent-signals panel

A three-step request, not a form with fifty fields

1
Taxonomy

Pick the cause or business category you're looking for prospects within.

2
Geography

A radius around an address, a set of states, or a national search.

3
Review & Launch

Confirm the scope and start the run — it works through enumerating, enriching, and scoring on its own.

Seven signals, weights shown, not hidden

25%
Has an active giving program
20%
Has a public donation form
15%
In-kind giving history signals
15%
Linked to a matching foundation record
10%
Geographic match to your service area
10%
Company size fits a plausible ask
5%
Has a CSR / community page at all

Stated limitations

Scoring reflects what's publicly discoverable about giving activity and CSR presence, not a company's actual internal giving budget or decision process. Treat a high score as a reason to research further, not a guaranteed yes.

A national search across a common cause code enumerates a large number of candidates before enrichment and scoring can run, so a broad request naturally takes longer than a narrow, local one — scope the geography to what you actually need first.

FAQ

What two kinds of prospects does this actually find?
Local businesses, found through Google Places within a radius you set, and IRS-registered foundations, found through the federal Business Master File filtered by NTEE cause code across whatever states (or the whole country) you choose. You pick which one a given request is for in the taxonomy step — it isn't one blended, unlabeled list.
Is the score a black box?
No — it's seven weighted signals, and you can see the weights: an active giving program (25%), a public donation form (20%), in-kind giving history signals (15%), a matched foundation record (15%), geographic fit (10%), company size versus a plausible ask (10%), and simply having a CSR or community page at all (5%). Each score also comes with a two-sentence, plain-English rationale Claude writes from the same evidence, not a templated fill-in.
How long does a research request actually take?
A request moves through four stages on its own — queued, enumerating, enriching, scoring — and finishes without anyone babysitting it. Runs against a real, moderate-sized geography have completed in about a minute; a much larger national search across a common cause code will naturally take longer simply because there's more to enumerate.
Is this the deep 51-agent research pipeline I've heard about?
No, and we want to be direct about the difference rather than let the names blur together. This tool is live today for every account, request-based, and built for a focused question: which local businesses or foundations in this area are worth approaching. A separate, much larger research pipeline exists for deep, single-prospect dossiers with relationship mapping and cultivation strategy — it's real, working code, but it's gated behind a controlled rollout that hasn't started yet. See Donor Prospecting Intelligence for that one, and don't expect it on your account today.
What happens to a prospect after it's scored?
It lands in your organization's prospect list at whatever stage it's actually in — new, reviewing, contacted, applied, received, or rejected — visible on the same Donor Discovery overview as your active requests and pipeline funnel. From there it can move into an outreach queue the same way any other prospect in your pipeline does.
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Donor Prospecting Intelligence is real, working code — currently in a controlled rollout, not open to every account yet.

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Run a real prospect search on your own area

A live demo walks the three-step request and shows a real scored result, weights and all.

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