Inside Philanthropy Fundraising Intelligence
Affordable Fundraising
Support to Find Grants
Looking for funding is hard work. Inside Philanthropy Fundraising Intelligence is here to help with consulting services for nonprofits of all sizes that tap our unmatched knowledge of key funders and trends in giving. Whether your organization is just getting started or you’re a major institution aiming to do better, our team can guide you to greater fundraising success—at a cost you can afford.
Powering Fundraising Success
How we can help
Grantseeking Strategy
Our team will help you define your goals, sharpen your positioning, and develop a realistic plan for securing new funding from foundations.
Funding Landscapes
Philanthropy is changing all the time. We’ll help you better understand grantmakers and funding trends in your issue areas or geographic region.
Foundation Research
To identify new grant opportunities for your organization, we’ll draw on our deep knowledge of institutional grantmakers to find good matches.
LOIs & Proposals
Strong pitches are essential to fundraising success. We’ll help improve your existing letters of inquiry and grant proposals—or write new ones.
Hands-on Support
for Effective Grantseeking
Identifying Your Needs
Maybe your organization only needs grant research in a single issue area. Or maybe you need to build a fundraising operation from scratch. We’ll work with you to clarify your needs and establish broad goals.
Making a Plan
Once we’ve agreed on where you’re going, we’ll help you develop a plan to get there by identifying new funding opportunities, developing needed outreach materials, and nailing down a timeline for action.
Staying on Track
We’ll collaborate closely with you to keep things moving forward—building out your list of funders to approach, making sure proposals get written and get out the door, and following up to help you respond to funder feedback and requests.
Process and Pricing
We work with a limited number of clients to ensure we can give each one the attention they need. Our fees are based on a scope of work and agreed-upon deliverables, as well as your organization’s budget, with sliding-scale pricing to ensure our services are accessible to all.
Why Inside Philanthropy Fundraising Intelligence
Inside Philanthropy was created with a simple goal: to pull back the curtain on one of the most powerful and dynamic forces shaping society. Every day, our team digs into how foundations and major donors are giving away their money—and why. Over the past decade, we’ve built unmatched insider knowledge about thousands of funders working across dozens of issue areas and geographies. We created IP’s consulting arm because we believe that the resources of philanthropy should be accessible to all nonprofits, not just to those with the right connections.
Our Team
Meet the team behind the work we do.
David Callahan
David founded and leads Inside Philanthropy, managing reporters and researchers digging daily into development across the charitable sector. Previously, he co-founded Demos, the national public policy organization, where he engaged in extensive fundraising.
Renata Redford
Renata leads IP’s research team, which tracks and analyzes the grantmaking of thousands of foundations and major donors, looking to understand their changing priorities and how nonprofits can best approach them to secure funding.
Jessica Hoffman
Jess analyzes funding trends across multiple issue areas to help IP members and clients stay on top of emerging developments. She’s consulted with a range of nonprofits to help advance their fundraising and communications.
Tate Williams
Before turning to consulting, Tate spent ten years as a reporter and editor at IP, developing a deep knowledge of foundations and major donors, along with key trends in the sector. Previously, he worked as a grantwriter and journalist.