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Funder Research Desk

Foundation and donor research without the expensive subscriptions.

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A deeper tool for specific roles — add it to your workspace anytime.

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Prospects
Meadowline Trust
Brief ready · strong fit
Alder Community Foundation
Application window: Oct
Corporate givers — shortlist
6 qualified
Major donor prospects
Research queue
+ New search
Funder brief — Meadowline Trust
Strong fitOne-page brief
Meeting prep · program officer call, Thursday

Giving priorities: youth workforce development, Midwest, grants $25–75K. Two current grantees run programs adjacent to yours — likely questions and portfolio notes below.

Public 990 filingsGrantee lists 2022–25Program officer statements
Warm paths
✦Your board × their board: 1 shared contact
·Former grantee in your coalition
In the brief
Giving priorities
Recent grants list
Application window
Likely questions
What it does

Deep research on foundations, corporate givers, and major donor prospects — giving priorities, past grantees, board connections, application windows — assembled into clean briefs.

For many organizations this replaces thousands of dollars a year in research database subscriptions.

How your organization uses it

Three moments where it earns its keep.

Prospecting
Find Midwest foundations that fund youth workforce development at our budget size.
A QUALIFIED LIST, NOT A DUMP

Prospecting

Returns a qualified list with giving history and how to approach each — not 400 search results.

Meeting prep
One-page brief: portfolio · recent grants · public statements · likely questions
READY BEFORE THE CALL

Meeting prep

Before a call with a program officer, get a one-page brief on their portfolio and likely questions.

Board connections
Their board × your network → the warm introduction you didn’t know you had
THE WARM PATH, NOT JUST THE ADDRESS

Board connections

Cross-reference a funder’s board with your own network to find the warm introduction you didn’t know you had.

Why it matters

Research depth without the database bill.

Replaces costly research database subscriptions

Turns hours of Googling into minutes

Briefs your whole team can reuse

Finds the warm path, not just the address

Works well with
Add-on modulePersona & Pitch RehearsalPractice the big ask before you’re in the room.Learn more → Core workspaceGrant WriterFirst drafts built from your best past applications — in your voice.Learn more → Autonomous agentGrant Opportunity ScoutAn agent that hunts funding opportunities matched to you — every week, on its own.Learn more →
Limited founding-customer spots

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Every Groundcrew engagement starts with an AI audit — a fixed-price look at where tools like this genuinely help your organization, and where they don’t. $1,500 founding $5,000 standard.

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