Solutions for Donor and Prospect Research
Work smarter and raise more funds using donor insights.
High-impact organizations choose Blackbaud donor prospect research software to further their fundraising initiatives.
Read their stories and more in our customer story showcase.
Find the Support You Need with Advanced Wealth Solutions
New donors are out there, ready to give to your organization. But you have to be able to find them – and be strategic about how you engage them.
Get access to the industry’s best, most comprehensive individual wealth and philanthropic insight to drive results and help grow your mission.
With Blackbaud’s prospect research solutions, you’ll:
- Discover new donors to join your cause
- Understand donor giving capacity and propensity
- Work more effectively as you focus your efforts on the most strategic targets
Identify top prospects for each fundraising program.
Through custom modeling, Blackbaud uses supporters' giving, wealth, and consumer data to design predictive models that help you target your best major, annual, and planned givers. Blackbaud also provides recommended target gift ranges to help you optimize your asks to curtail chances of leaving money on the table.
- Prioritize top donor prospects using the likelihood and capacity scores from custom modeling
- Access and use your modeling results in the industry's leading CRM and prospect research software
Understand giving potential, overall capacity to give, and liquidity.
Blackbaud prospecting software uses advanced proprietary analytics methods to evaluate data from over 100 fully compliant data sources. This generates four key wealth attributes to enhance your donor prospect research:
- Annual income: Identify truly high earners using data that accurately predicts income at the household level
- Net worth: Recognize truly high net worth by combining home value, liquid investment, and other proprietary data
- Investments: Find the truly financially secure in your database using the largest survey of financial assets to predict investments
- Discretionary spend: Discover truly big spenders with data based on known buying patterns that accurately predict discretionary spending/household income
Segment potential donors using advanced analytics.
Through cluster segmentation, Blackbaud's prospecting software groups your backers into five distinct donor groups and thirteen sub-segments that help you:
- Better understand the motivation behind donor groups
- Tailor messaging to specific donors based on their personas
- Develop campaigns for each donor segment
Leverage experts with decades of knowledge and experience.
Using Blackbaud consulting services that are part of key solutions, customers gain access to tenured fundraising experts with years of experience helping nonprofits drive productivity across programs. These individuals are commonly tasked with analyzing and communicating modeling results, implementing targeting strategy, performing donor portfolio analysis, and developing long-term fundraising roadmaps. Their expert skills can be applied toward nearly any assignment that requires a practiced strategic resource. From Blackbaud's team of experts, you can expect:
- Dedicated time with strategic consulting resources
- Identification of industry best practices
- Tactical, project-level recommendations
- Strategic targeting and investment recommendations
- An implementation plan
Modeling and Prospecting Resources

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