Target new and increased foundation funding!
New private, corporate, community, and family foundations are created, and revise their giving guidelines, every day – don’t miss the funding boat!

You don’t need to buy software, hire a full-time researcher, train staff on yet another database tool, or spend hours poring over mind boggling information!

With ACG’s Donor Insights service you get more than “data.” You automatically get hands-on analysis and assistance from an experienced senior development professional from the arts and culture sector. ACG offers strategic recommendations to help you better understand a donor prospect’s connection, commitment, and giving capacity to maximize your contributed revenues.

ACG cost effectively “wealth screens” an organization’s donors, subscribers, members, single ticket buyers, and other individual records against several public information databases. The resulting information reports on a prospective donor’s financial position, community connections, board experience, property ownership, age, public and private company ownership, and/or political contributions. Pulled from over 200 million current household records, this information can then be used to determine potential sources of new or increased contributions.

ACG uses data come from its unique collaboration with the leading providers of database wealth screening services. ACG’s rates can save organizations 60%-80% off market prices with the most accurate and current aggregated data received from a variety of sources, including:

Lexis-Nexis Real Estate®
Dun & Bradstreet®
Marquis Who’s Who®
CorpTech Database of Hi-Tech Companies®
Thomson Wealth Management Corporate Insider Traders
Vickers Database of Current SEC Insiders®
Federal Election Commission (FEC) Database
ECHELON™ Liquid Asset Identification System
InSource Date of Birth Overlay®
IRS Exempt Database

ACG presents you with a series of reports that will help you focus your development resources on your most promising prospects. The data can be uploaded back into your donor database for future reference right on your desktop!

Foundation Research & Planning
Many organizations miss opportunities for funding because they lack critical information prior to making a proposal or submitting a letter of inquiry. Asking for the wrong amount at the wrong time can mean that the organization can’t apply for funding again for at least one year. A huge funding gap results. In other cases the organization doesn’t even realize that they are eligible to apply for funds from a certain foundation because they simply don’t know that it exists. Another missed opportunity.

Time is money and with more than 78,000 private, corporate, community and family foundations across the U.S. and almost 10,000 in Canada, research makes the difference.

ACG provides the crucial information that you need in order to effectively cultivate the foundation prospect in advance of the application. This ensures that you’re meeting the deadlines and specifications of your prospective funder. We talk to you about your special programs, community needs, and aspects that may give you an edge with a funder. We do the research and provide you with key information on your foundation prospects, including:

Foundation Name
Contact Information
Foundation’s Board Members
Grant Deadlines
Application Information
Asset Information
Giving History
Number & Size of Past Gifts
Other Info Based on Past Experience

IMPLEMENTATION – Putting the Research into Action
ACG’s experienced development professionals are available to provide follow-up assistance to help you maximize the newly discovered potential in your own database. Whether this includes the creation of a strategic fundraising plan, design of a major gift cultivation program, or integration of the findings into your annual, planned giving or capital campaign efforts, we can work hand-in-hand with you to achieve your organization’s goals.

See Our Clients section for a list of some of the organizations that we’ve helped generate extraordinary results and impact.