• Find donations by cause
  

• Find donations to a specific charity

• Build lists of prospects who support a particular type of cause

• Build lists of prospects who have given to nonprofits in a defined geographic area:

• Check your donor’s other philanthropic interests

• Check your strategy

What is fr&c’s giftsearch?

• It’s a fully searchable database of donations and donors to Australian nonprofits, all of them reported in the public domain, compiled by Fundraising Research & Consulting’s staff. It currently contains over 90,000 records, and gifts worth a total of over $1.27 billion.
  

   

• It’s designed to help fundraisers and researchers in the not-for-profit sector to find good information on philanthropic giving in Australia – without spending hours on the web to find it.

• All the information is gathered by us from public domain sources – websites, annual reports etc – and compiled into a database where you can look up an individual donor or prospect, as well as search, for example, for donors to health causes in a particular state or postcode.

  
  

How is it researched?

We gather information from websites, annual reports and other public domain sources.

The information is edited and checked by our researchers.

Yes. For every record we show the website or document where the information was sourced, usually with a live link

What does it contain?

 It contains records of over 90,000 philanthropic gifts, company sponsorships and trustees for a range of nonprofits

 “Nonprofits” includes charities, universities and schools, museums and arts organisations, as well as campaigning organisations

The database includes

·         Donor’s name

·         Recipient organisation’s name

·         Recipient’s postcode

·         Recipient organisation’s type (for example – “Education/Training” or “Arts/Culture”)

·         Where the information is available it also contains the donation value or donation band (for example “$5000-$10000”)

·         Year that donation was made/recorded

The database includes the names of trustees and patrons of leading Australian nonprofits.

We include, for some records, additional notes on the donation – for example where the specific purpose of a gift is given in the public record

For every record we show the website or document from which the information was sourced

The database is fully searchable on any of these fields, and any combination of these fields. Users can search by name or partial name, for example, or put together a search combining recipient type (“Arts/Culture”) with amount (“More than $1000”).

Search results can be exported, instantly, into an Excel file. NB there is an export limit of 500 records per search.

 How can I search in giftsearch?

The database is fully searchable on any field, and any combination of these fields. Users can search by name or partial name, for example, or put together a search combining recipient type (“Arts/Culture”) with amount (“More than $1000”).

The search engine allows searches on a full name, or on partial name. In the “Donor Full Name” enter all or part of the name of the person you are searching for. (For example, to find donors whose surname is Smith or Smithson or Blacksmith, search for “smith”.)

Search results can be exported, instantly, into an Excel file. NB there is an export limit of 500 records per search.

How will giftsearch help my fundraising or development program?

Find donations by cause:

You can search on any cause, or “Activity Type” of charitable activity. So, for example, a search on “Environment/Conservation” will find all the donations in Giftsearch that have been made to environmental organisations.

Remember that you can instantly export your search results into an Excel file. Just click on “Export to CSV”.

Find donations to a specific charity:

In the Search form, click on “Recipient Name” in the search box and enter the name of the charity, or any part of its name. Click Search.

Build lists of prospects who support a particular type of cause:

 In the Quick Search box, click on “Recipient’s Activity/Type” in the drop down list and select the type of cause (for example “Health” or “Welfare”). Click Search.

Build lists of prospects who have given to nonprofits in a defined geographic area:

In the Advanced Search page, chose the “Recipient Postcode” search box. Enter the postcode for an area that interests you. For example, “2000” will find all the recipient organisations in the Sydney CBD.

Choosing the “postcode starts with” option and entering “20” will find all recipient organisations whose postcodes begin with “20..”, so it will find Sydney CBD and also the wider Sydney area covered by those postcodes.

Note that the search is for the recipient organisation, not the donor.

Check your donor’s other philanthropic interests:

You have a supporter or donor and want to find out her other donations and affiliations.

In the Quick Search box, click on “Surname” in the search box and enter your supporter’s surname. Click Search.

Or, in the Advanced Search box, enter your supporter’s name in the “Donor Full Name” search box and click Search.

Check your strategy:

 Your organisation is planning a new appeal in, for example, the field of animal welfare.

Which other organisations have had notable gifts in this field? How much are donors giving? Who are our competitors? Who are the prospects?

By using combinations of Advanced Search options you can see who’s giving to what, when and where.

You can export the results, instantly, to Excel for further analysis.

Bear in mind that giftsearch ONLY reports on donations known in the public domain. It is not, and cannot be, a listing of all donations to all causes.

It also does not contain any geographic or address or business information on the donors, so it is not always possible to be sure that the Dick Smith you find is the Dick Smith you are looking for.               

Can I download information?

Yes. It’s fast and easy.

Just carry out a search, then click on the “Export to CSV” at the bottom of the list of results (on any page).

Your search results will be instantly exported to an Excel file. Save the file in your desktop or folders in the normal way.

To protect our IP, downloads are limited to 500 records in any one download

Please don’t be tempted to try to download the whole database. We know you won’t – it would not be fair. But just to make sure we’ve imposed this limit on the export facility.

How many records are there in giftsearch?

There are currently just over 90,000 entries, all drawn from public domain sources, listed in giftsearch. This number increases continually, as our research continues.

There is at least $1.27 billion in donations recorded in Giftsearch. This number is the sum of the total donations of a specified amount added to the sum of the “lower gift band” amounts given for donations in a specified gift band. Again, this number increases with our continued active research program.

Can anyone subscribe to giftsearch?

Any nonprofit organisation can subscribe to giftsearch.

Special conditions apply to freelances, consultants and other commercial.

What do I get for my annual subscription?

Unlimited access to the database, 24/7.

Unlimited searches in the database.

Fully searchable fields – text and numbers.

Instant, free, download of information into an Excel file.

How much is a subscription?

For nonprofit organisations, the annual subscription to giftsearch is $675 + GST.

Special conditions apply to freelances, consultants and other commercial users of giftsearch. For details, contact us via our website.

Can I see a demo? 

We can arrange a live demonstration of giftsearch for you - just contact us via the contact page on our website

How do I subscribe?

Just contact us via the contact page on our website

What are the Terms and Conditions?

FR&C’s standard Terms and Conditions apply.

The Terms and Conditions specify as follows:

“Access, for one user, for one year from receipt of payment, to FR&C’s giftsearch for the purpose of promoting philanthropy by researching donations to Australian nonprofits. No part of the database may be used for any other purpose, nor may any part of the database be sold, leased or loaned on to third parties.”

Can I use this data for commercial purposes?

Or to make a mailing list?

No. Special terms and conditions apply to giftsearch to ensure that we comply with the spirit and the laws of data protection. You will have signed these terms when you signed up for giftsearch. The data does not include contact details either for donors or for recipient organizations.

Giftsearch is hosted for FR&C by Factary, providers of prospect research services in the UK and Europe and the Factary Phi UK donations database