Built by someone who did the work
Prospect Sprint exists because the tools small nonprofits are handed for foundation research are expensive, slow, and built for organizations with full-time research staff.
Why this exists
Most small nonprofits skip prospect research because the options are wrong: expensive subscription databases, or dozens of hours spent clicking through foundation websites that may not even exist.
The idea came from inside nonprofit development: watching teams pay for tools they didn't have time to use, or skip the work entirely because they couldn't afford help.
So we built a simpler alternative. One brief, free, sourced from public filings, reviewed by a person.
How we work
We process 1.87 million grant records from public IRS filings to identify foundations that are giving now and that fund organizations similar to yours by cause, size, and region — each one backed by a real grant it actually made to a peer organization.
Then a person reviews the matches, writes fit notes, identifies application paths, and cites the exact filing each prospect came from.
Operating principles
Public data only
We do not scrape private sources, buy contact lists, or use undisclosed data. Every claim traces to a public IRS filing.
Human review
The matching is assisted by code; the judgment is done by a person. Every brief is reviewed before it is sent.
No subscription
Request a brief when you need one. There is no account, no subscription, and no cost. Every brief is free, built from public data and reviewed by a person.
Who it is for
Small US nonprofits without a full-time prospect researcher. Development directors who need a shortlist they can act on. Consultants who want a research partner they can resell into engagements.
Your foundation prospect brief arrives free by email, complete with names, specific fit reasons, grant size ranges, and application path.
What we promise
We will not oversell what a brief can do. It is a starting list of foundations worth your time, not a guarantee of funding. Every recommendation carries written reason codes, and application paths come only from verified data, never invented.
The tool is free, so there is no risk in trying it: if it does not surface foundations worth pursuing, it has cost you nothing.