What is Prospect Research?

What is Prospect Research and why should my organization work with Grant Prospector?

• Prospect Research is a Small Investment for a Large Return – Unlike traditional direct-mail and telemarketing campaigns, where a positive result can be a gift of just $10, prospect research yields individual gifts of $10,000, $100,000 and even $1,000,000 or more. Even a single gift that your organization earns with the direction of Grant Prospector can return your investment in prospect research several times over.
  
  
• Prospect Research is Getting the Scoop on your Competitors. Grant Prospector can tell you about the foundation grants that others in your field are managing to get.
  
  
• Prospect Research is About Determining the Ask – Asking for too little is even worse than asking for too much. Grant Prospector™ will help you determine the optimum request for each prospect based on its giving history and capacity.
  
  
• Prospect Research is About Current Donors, Too – Just because a donor has given to your organization for years doesn’t mean the source is tapped out. Grant Prospector™ can tell you what other organizations are receiving from your donors so you can confidently decide whether to ask for more.
  
  
• Prospect Research is About Reaching Foundations On Time – A list of foundations won’t help you if you don’t know how or when to reach them. Grant Prospector™ will provide information on how to contact the foundations that can give you money, and when you should submit your proposal. Plus, if the foundation has a website, we'll provide a clickable link to it right in the research.
  
  
• Prospect Research is About Building Relationships – Nothing is stronger than a hot contact. Grant Prospector™ will provide you with the trustees at relevant foundations so you can see if anyone at your organization – the board, the staff, the volunteers – knows how to reach them directly.
  
  
• Prospect Research Takes Time – Time you can be using to write proposals, or make solicitations, or actually run your organization. Let us do the research for you, so you can focus on the things only you can do.
  
  
• Prospect Research Takes Expertise – Only an expert researcher can assemble the information in a manner meaningful to you and your organization. It takes additional expertise to uncover other relevant details and to know the difference between solid leads and leads that waste time, effort, and money. Grant Prospector is built on two decades of prospect research and grant acquisition, so you can be sure its researchers know how to find your organiztion its best leads.
  
  
• Prospect Research is Most Powerful When It’s Prioritized – What’s the point of a list of hundreds of foundations when you don’t know where to begin? Grant Prospector™ identifies the foundations most likely to be a match for your organization, so you don’t get distracted by false leads.
  
  
• Prospect Research is Only a Means, not an Ends – Just knowing your best prospects won’t help your organization. Luckily, Grant Prospector™ is integrated into a full-service fundraising firm with over 20 years experience, which can help you implement your next steps. When you work with Grant Prospector™, your organization gets a personal consultation as soon as you’re ready to move ahead.