For Community Foundations

For Community Foundations

iWave Helps Community-Centric Organizations Identify New Prospects

Community foundations have an amazing opportunity to bring donors together in order to benefit the entire community. This mission is the sweet spot for fundraising intelligence. Community foundations often have a small database, without the luxury of pre-established donor pools of alumni, patients, or ticket buyers. Whether they need major gift donors for an upcoming campaign, they’re looking for volunteers within their community, or they need to learn more about the philanthropic interests of wealthy individuals, fundraising intelligence will help. Leveraging iWave’s wealth, biographical, and philanthropic data empowers community-based organizations fundraise efficiently and effectively for the betterment of their community.

Using iWave, community foundations can:

  • Identify new prospects based on past charitable giving, geography, and interests to reduce reliance on referrals.
  • Perform wealth screenings on event volunteers, one-time donors, or long-time supporters to understand capacity and ensure you’re making the right gift ask.
  • Create detailed prospect profiles to help board members and other leadership get to know prospects before donor meetings.
  • Understand the past charitable giving history and giving interests of prospective donors.
  • Find wealthy individuals who are connected to board members using relationship mapping.

Hear From Other Community Foundations

iWave is our main source of new major gift prospects. We used to focus mainly on referrals but now a vast majority of new prospects are identified using iWave.

Jo Theodosopoulos, Prospect Research Analyst

Minneapolis Foundation

We recently started a $40 million capital campaign. With iWave, I was able to gather and verify critical wealth and philanthropic information about a prospect that led to a $10 million gift from that individual. iWave’s research platform helped us get 25% of the way to our goal with that one prospect alone.

Dedan Brozino, Executive Director

Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation

I believe iWave offers the best research results for the best value. I’ve used iWave in 3 small shops and it has helped us unearth many major gift prospects, saving us the cost of professional research fees. The simple interface, the variety of research tools, design, and handy features make this a time and money saver. And best of all – the data is always fresh and accountable. I recommend iWave to all my colleagues!

Suzanne Duncan, Senior Manager

WoodGreen Community Services
Giving Increases by 40% Using iWave

“With home values and the ability to perform wealth screens, they experienced a 40% increase in giving.”

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