Why We Built Something Different

When we started building Scalanthropy, we weren't trying to create another wealth screening tool. We'd used those. We knew what they were missing.

We wanted to build the thing we always needed in the field: a platform that started with giving behavior, real, verified, regularly updated giving behavior sourced from 990s and direct reporting, and let development professionals build their prospect strategy from there. That means donor data updated daily, not annually. Filtering by mission, cause, and geography, not just by capacity scores. The ability to look at a donor's full giving history across organizations, not just their relationship with yours. And all of it at a price that doesn't require a seven-figure development budget to access.

We also built it knowing that the person using it is often a development director wearing six other hats, not a full-time research analyst. The tool needed to be fast. It needed to be clear. It needed to give you what you need to walk into the next conversation with confidence, not a stack of data you have to decode.

Before your next campaign, it's worth asking some honest questions.

When did your prospect data last get refreshed? If it's been more than six months, you're working with a dated map. Are you segmenting by mission alignment, or just by capacity? Do you know which of your lapsed donors have continued giving elsewhere, just not to you? How long does it take your team to build a prospect brief? If the answer is "too long," your current tools aren't working hard enough.

These aren't gotcha questions. They're the same ones we asked before we built Scalanthropy.

Start a free trial with Scalanthropy and see what your team has been missing.