Alive, not stale
We screen out foundations that have gone quiet. Every prospect is tied to a recent public filing showing active giving.
Built by fundraisers, for fundraisers
We find the foundation funders you don't already know
Custom foundation prospect briefs built from 1.87 million IRS Form 990-PF grant records. We screen for currently active funders, then exclude the ones you already have.
The part nobody tells you
Everyone applies to the same five names.
You know the ones. The big national foundations whose names you can recite from memory. So can every other ED in your field. That is the problem.
Meanwhile.
A private foundation two counties over gave $40,000 last year to a literacy nonprofit your size. It has no website. It has never taken a cold call. The only place it exists, in public, is one PDF.
Form 990-PF, filed with the IRS, public record, read by almost no one.
There are about 120,000 private foundations in the country. Maybe 40 of them are a real fit for what you do, where you do it, at the scale you do it.
The 990-PF filings that would tell you which 40 add up to 1.87 million grant records. That is the haystack. Nobody reads it. Not because they are lazy, because it is 1.87 million records, and nobody pays you for the hours it takes.
The big databases will sell you a login to that haystack for around $1,500 a year. Then you still have to do the reading.
I read it for you. The output is a short list of foundations that already fund organizations like yours, each with the 990-PF page it came from so you can check my work. Not the five names you already know. The ones you would never have found on your own.
See the first 3, freeWhy this is different
Most tools give you a database. We give you a shortlist.
No duplicate donors
Because your current funders appear in your own 990s, we exclude them, so the brief is only new prospects.
No subscription traps
One price, one brief, done. No annual contract, no seat fees, no login to forget about.
Pricing
One brief. One flat price.
A custom foundation prospect brief, built from your own 990 filings. One-time $299. No tiers, no subscription, no seat fees.
Custom prospect brief
$299
One-time, flat fee · your full ranked brief
Get my briefFirst 3 matches free by email, pay only for the full brief.
- Your full ranked shortlist of active funders
- Fit rationale and typical grant range on every entry
- Application path for each funder
- Funders you already have, excluded via your 990s
- IRS 990-PF provenance on every line
- Reviewed by a person before it's sent
Money-back guarantee
Full refund within 14 days if the brief doesn't surface foundations worth pursuing. No complicated forms.
Why you can trust the brief
Sourced, honest, and checkable.
One public source
Every match comes from IRS Form 990-PF filings, the federal returns private foundations file each year.
Provenance on every line
Each funder lists the filing it came from, so you, or your board, can verify the claim before you write a word.
Alive, not stale
We screen out foundations that have gone quiet, so the brief is funders giving now, not names from a decade-old list.
No duplicates of your donors
Because your current funders appear in your own 990s, we exclude them, you only pay for prospects you don't already have.
Source: IRS Form 990-PF public filings.
Straight answers
Questions a careful ED would ask.
No fine-print games. If something below still worries you, the first 3 matches are free, so you can check my work before you pay anything.
Where does this data actually come from?
Public IRS Form 990-PF filings. Every private foundation has to file one every year, and it lists who they gave money to and how much. That is the whole source. No purchased lists, no scraped LinkedIn. I read 1.87 million of those grant records and pull out the foundations that have actually been funding work like yours.
So when your brief says a funder is a fit, you can go look at the exact filing it came from. I cite it. You can check my work.
How do you keep from listing funders we already have?
I read your own 990 first. Your grant history is right there on it. I pull the foundations already in your corner and take them out of the running before I rank anything. You paid me to find funders you don't have yet, not to hand you back a list of your current ones with a fresh coat of paint.
If you'd rather just send me a list of who you already work with, that works too. Either way they're excluded.
What do I actually get for $299?
A ranked shortlist of about 20 private foundations that fund organizations like yours, meaning the same cause and roughly your size and region. For each one you get a plain reason it fits you, the typical grant range it gives, how to actually approach it, and the specific 990-PF filing the match came from.
That's it. One brief, one time, $299. No subscription, no seat license, no "starting at." I'm not going to email you next month asking you to upgrade.
The sample brief on this page, is that real or made up?
Made up, and I'm telling you that on purpose. The sample is an illustrative example built from representative, stand-in data so you can see exactly how a brief is laid out before you spend a dime. The funders and reasons in it are for demonstration. It is not a real org's results.
Your brief is the opposite. It's built from your actual 990 and real 990-PF filings, and every match is one I can point you to. I don't invent funders to pad a list. If the data only supports 16 strong matches, you get 16, not 20 with four filler names.
What's the refund if it's no good?
14 days, full money back, you keep the brief. Read it, sit with it, show it to your board. If it's not useful, email me inside two weeks and I send back the $299. There's no form to fill out and you don't have to tell me why. I'd rather refund you than have you feel burned by one more vendor.
Is my org's donor and payment info safe with you?
I use your existing-funder info for exactly one thing: taking those names out of your results. I'm not building a profile on you, and I'm not selling it, sharing it, or doing anything else with it. There's no list, because I don't sell lists.
Payment runs through Stripe. I never see your card number; it goes straight to them. So the worst case here is you got a brief you didn't love, and there's a refund for that.
Who is actually behind this?
Me. I'm Tom. I do foundation relations for a living, and I've spent enough hours digging through 990s to know how much of a fundraiser's week disappears into it. Prospect Sprint is one person, not a startup with a sales team. When you email, I'm who answers.
Want proof before you pay? Send your org name and I'll email your first 3 matches free. No card, no drip campaign waiting on the other side.
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