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| Start with Proven Philanthropy A donor's previous history of giving to your organization and to other non-profits is a strong indicators of philanthropic inclination. Your organization's giving history measures the effectiveness of your prior cultivation efforts with the donor. The donor's giving history with other non-profits is the starting point for assessing any potential change in your strategy. By evaluating giving to other non-profits, you can learn the donor's demonstrated interests. By looking at the frequency of gifts and their dollar value you can begin to estimate their inclination to give, when, and at what level. This is key information for improving cultivation decisions and determining ask amounts. DonorSearch.net is the single largest repository of donor giving history publicly available anywhere, almost twice the size of the nearest competitor. By combining DonorSeries, NOZA and FEC data, the user can search 55+ million gift histories simultaneously and it is growing at 1 million records per month. |
| Political Giving and Charitable Giving For the first time anywhere, the undeniable correlation between charitable giving and political giving is maximized through DonorSearch. Statistically, 70% of all non-estate charitable giving comes from donors that have made a $250 gift to a Federal political campaign. The root of this behavior is more understandable when you realize that only 6% of Americans ever make a regulated Federal political gift. Less than one-tenth of one percent ever make a single gift of $1,000 at this level. Stated differently, 99.9% of Americans never make a $1,000 Federal political gift. Research shows that political donors who make multiple $1,000+ political gifts are essentially the same people who make five, six, and seven figure gifts. It can be used reliably as a marker of wealth and likelihood of philanthropy even in the absence of other evidence. In DonorSearch, political gifts also show employment and business affiliations overtime. This is in addition to thirty years of giving history and of course, the donor's political interests |
| How do we get better results? DonorSearch.net search capabilities are most thorough in the field because they were selected to match the idiosyncrasies of the giving data available. This means you will find records here that are simply missed by other services licensing the same data. You will see this with individual giving histories. It is even more apparent for foundations, trusts, small businesses, large corporations, and community based gift-giving organizations searches. |
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