Real Clients. Real Impact. DonorSearch Success Stories.

One of our new donors that was on the DonorSearch list—her first gift was $20,000. You talk about finding the right people, and that’s just one of the stories we have from DonorSearch.

-Don Hall, Island Senior Resources

We were actually able to reduce our mailing volume by 75%. That’s a cost saving of about $50,000 for us. The real win, though, is that because we became much more targeted, we were able to raise the revenue from our annual fund last year by 10%. 

-Darrien Garay, Director of Development, Peconic Bay Medical Center

It’s mind-blowing. As soon as you start watching how it all unfolds, it’s really helpful in a lot of ways.

-Collenn Howe, Sunbeam Family Services

We just raised $10 million in 6 years—and before that, we had only raised $89,000.

-Charles LaFond, Island Senior Resources

 It gives you some kind of connection that you didn’t even know was there, and that’s the most amazing part. Really.

-Calvin Bankert, Maltz Jupiter Theatre

The most direct and obvious thing to mention is that over the last 2 years, we’ve more than quadrupled the number of donors in our mid-level and major giving donor societies. 

-Andrew Jehl Mathewes, Senior Director of Development

We’ve been able to go into those meetings prepared—knowing the background of the donor, what their affinities were, what their interests were—and we’ve been able to secure a couple of million-dollar arrangements because of that.

-Kendra Fortenberry, Manager, Prospect Research and Portfolio Management

One transformational story using DSAI: last year we hosted a golf tournament. We were able to pull a query using your software to connect with a donor who otherwise wasn’t very interested in golf. But we understood that he had the ability to give a larger gift than we thought. He ended up sponsoring the entire tournament. So we were able to raise double what we did the first year we had it—all using your software.

-Colin Hester, Shriners Children’s Portland

DonorSearch has really supported Reel Works’ mission because we were able to identify some prospective board members, and we’re confident that they will join our board of directors in the next year.

-Christiamilda Correa, Reel Works

We are now at a qualification conversion rate of 20%, and we have saved them 71% of their time. So our gift officers are working smarter, not harder.

– C.J. Drymon, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta

For us, using the DS rating for our parent giving process has really been instrumental in increasing the amount of money that we raise. 

-Sharon Poulson, NC State University

We try to raise around $5 million a year, and we almost nail it—or exceed it—every year that I’ve been here. I have found that DonorSearch, bar none, has been the best tool in my utility belt.

-Ryan Petrillo, VP, Mission Advancement, Life Teen

You will make your money back. It will easily give you a return on investment in the first year.

-Matthew Cook, Blue13 Dance Company

I would say to someone who’s considering bringing on DSAI: look at it in terms of an investment and return on investment. The price we paid for DSAI has already been paid back in full—just from what we’ve been able to do through our annual fund.

-Darrien Garay, Director of Development, Peconic Bay Medical Center