You did not grow up around money. That is a network problem, not a character problem.
A researched pipeline of larger-giver prospects, connectors, and institutions — with the actual routes to reach them.
Everyone tells you to build relationships with major donors. Nobody tells you how to meet one.
For many people who find this easy, the room was already familiar. They went to school with it, worship next to it, sit on boards with it. When they are told to “cultivate a relationship,” they already know four people to call.
You are being asked to compete in a system that assumes access you were never given. That is not a flaw in your organization, and it can be closed deliberately.
- Founders with deep community trust and no inherited access to wealth
- Organizations whose donor list is loyal, generous, and too small
- Groups told to “start a major gifts program” with no map of who or how
- Anyone who has been in the room once and did not know how to get back
- Who in your geography has capacity and a documented reason to care about your result
- Which institutions — funds, family offices, corporate giving programs, donor-advised funds — sit near your issue
- Who you may already be connected to without knowing it
- Which existing supporters are connectors rather than donors, and what to ask them for
- What would have to be true about your organization before each route is worth walking
- A realistic sequence: who first, who later, who not yet
Where the evidence does not support a conclusion, you get that too — named, not filled in.
- A researched prospect set with the reasoning behind each one
- Named connectors found in public sources and the route to reach each one — DSG does not make introductions
- Institutional routes near your issue and how they take approaches
- What to say in the first conversation with each type
- A sequence, so you are not working the list alphabetically
- What to have ready before the first meeting
Examples of the kinds of things that surface. Yours will be your own.
- A board member's employer running a matching and volunteer-grant program nobody had looked at
- A regional funder with a documented interest in the result the organization produces, never approached because it describes itself differently
- Two existing small donors sitting on other boards — connectors misfiled as donors
- Find Who Can Pay™from $795The researched pipeline and the routes
- Build My Capital Case™from $1,500The case, materials, and approach language to work it
- Get Me Ready for the Room™from $2,500Preparation for the specific meetings
Lower price means narrower scope, not lower rigor.
- Is this a purchased list?
- No. It is researched for your organization, geography, and result. A purchased list is names. This is names, reasoning, and routes.
- We have no wealthy contacts at all. Does this still work?
- That is the situation this exists for. The first pass is built to find existing proximity you may not realize you already have — proximity that's easy to file under the wrong heading.
- How many prospects will I get?
- The number depends on what your geography and issue actually support. You get what the research carries, not a quota.
Build My Larger-Giver Pipeline™ · From $795, scoped
What you leave with
A researched, desk-screened pipeline of larger-giver prospects, connectors and institutions in your geography, with the route to reach each one.
Covers: One organization, one geography, one defined search brief
The files you receive
- Editable pipeline spreadsheet
- Accessible PDF reasoning record with sources and search dates
- A sequenced approach order
Format
Editable spreadsheet plus accessible PDF
Your work
- Define the search brief with us
- Tell us who you already know and who you have already approached
- Do the outreach yourself
DSG's work
- Search public sources and record what was searched and when
- Screen each prospect against your brief and say why it stayed or went
Timing
Within 15 business days of complete intake
Human-reviewed work begins when intake is complete, not when payment clears. If anything needed is missing, we ask for it and the clock starts when it arrives.
Check this schedule against your deadline before you pay. If your deadline does not fit, tell us first — we would rather turn the work down than miss it.
Corrections
One factual-correction request within 7 calendar days
What this is not
- Desk-screened from public sources, not externally validated by the prospects
- No introductions and no meetings arranged
- No promise that any prospect gives
Money back
Because this is human work performed to order, it is not refundable once the work has started. If you are unsure whether it fits, contact DSG before you pay and a person will tell you plainly.
DSG identified the routes and the people. What several of them will ask for next is evidence your current materials do not carry. Build My Capital Case™ builds it before those conversations start.
Not sure this is the one?
Start with Know the Room™. Tell us who you are approaching or what you are trying to get done, and we will point you at the right work.
Know the Room™ · $175The self-directed tools are finished work in their own right. Use one, keep the output, and stop there if that is what you needed.