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cTelligence is an online searchable database of individual, corporation, and foundation charitable gift records (donations). Whether you are researching your organization's current donors for a hidden major gift prospect or trying to build a list of new donor prospects for an upcoming fundraising campaign, cTelligence is the first place to go for donor research.
The Technology
iWave Information Systems is proud of cTelligence, its own proprietary database of searchable donation records as part of our Prospect Research Online (PRO) product.
iWave has made advances in presenting their donation data in such ways where users will be able to verify 100% of all donation records directly from the annual report in which it was derived from, and the fact that each and every donation contains not only a donor name and a recipient, but a donation amount.
cTelligence's extraction technologies place a priority on specified gift amounts but customer and staff submissions will include all extractable donation records when possible, and such data is made available as it passes quality control assurances.
iWave has also finalizing a method where our subscribers can actually contribute annual reports and donor lists and we will quickly make them available for searching within our product. As a Canadian based company doing business internationally, we are proud to be able to provide the the nonprofit industry with philanthropic gift data on individuals, corporations and foundations. This data can be found under the "Donations" tab in PRO.
Frequently Asked Questions.
- Who should use this service?
- Any nonprofit organization that needs to raise money from individuals, foundations or businesses will find our Donation Database extremely valuable. Startup and early stage nonprofits will benefit from finding new sources of seed funding, while larger established institutions will benefit from finding new major gift prospects from within their ranks of existing annual donors. Organizations planning for capital campaigns can use the database to create customized prospect lists and to assist in solicitation planning.
- Where does the data come from?
- The database is comprised of detailed charitable gift information that has been collected from publicly available internet locations, all of which are accessible in the open web (or they were once available but have since been removed or updated). If an organization has not put their donor data on the web then it will not be included in the database nor will it be included if the data on the web is password protected.
- How often is information updated?
- Gathering 50,000 new records per day on average. Given the fact that there are more than a million nonprofits in the U.S. alone; the data should be viewed as a cross-section of philanthropic data.
