Philanthropic & political giving
Every profile has a Philanthropic Profile and a Political Profile. This article walks through both: private foundations, public gifts, board seats and affiliations, and political giving history.
Every profile has a Philanthropic Profile and a Political Profile. This article walks through both: private foundations, public gifts, board seats and affiliations, and political giving history.
Every donor profile has two cards covering giving: the Philanthropic Profile (private foundations, public donations, board seats, and affiliations) and the Political Profile. We'll walk through both and how to read them.
Let's go through the giving sections on a real profile — Eric Schmidt again. Expand grouped rows, sort columns, hover the charts, and click any citation to open its source:
Each donation carries a Category tag — the primary issue area of the receiving nonprofit, like — and a source icon that opens the page where we found the gift. Board seats and affiliations carry the same source icons, drawn mostly from IRS filings.
Example: you're an environmental nonprofit reviewing a prospect. If most of their gifts carry an Environment category tag, their giving already lines up with your mission!
Click a nonprofit's name to open its profile. On a real profile, every nonprofit links to its own DonorAtlas page, with its finances, donors, board members, and IRS filings.
If you're a political campaign team, you'll also see a suggested ask alongside the party and history charts — the amount our model recommends asking this donor for. Hover it to see the reasoning behind the number.
Federal contributions aren't itemized. To comply with federal regulations, DonorAtlas doesn't itemize contributions to federal candidates. They still count in the aggregate charts, so a donor's political totals can be higher than the itemized state-and-local table adds up to.
Next up: the Connections section — who in your network knows this donor, and how to find more prospects like them.