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Two questions decide a nonprofit’s year: where the next dollar comes from, and whether it is safe to take. Civly answers both out of the public record — millions of grants foundations have actually paid, and dated, sourced diligence on the people writing the checks — then keeps watch on what gets said about you afterwards.
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Foundations file what they gave. Courts, regulators and registries file what people did. Platforms carry what everyone says. Almost everything a development office and a board need is already published — it has just never been readable at once.
Every private foundation and grantmaking charity reports the checks it wrote — recipient, amount, and purpose in its own words. We match your programs against millions of those grants, so you approach funders whose money already reaches work like yours instead of funders whose website sounds encouraging.
See Grant Matching →A dated, sourced, analyst-reviewed report on a major donor, a prospective board member, or a corporate partner: litigation, criminal and regulatory exposure, business entanglements, adverse media, and political giving — read against your mission, before the pledge is signed.
See Donor Due Diligence →Your donors check the reviews, scroll the mentions, and increasingly just ask an AI whether you are worth giving to. We watch 13 platforms and the press, and run your organization through ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity to grade what they actually say.
See Social Listening & Clips →Returning a gift costs far more than declining one. The cheapest moment to know something is before the pledge agreement — which is the whole argument for running Donor Due Diligence on the funders Grant Matching surfaces.
Civly Nonprofits
Start with one. They are built to work together, but none of them require the others.
Every foundation reports the grants it paid — recipient, amount, and purpose in its own words. We match your programs against millions of them, then name the trustees who decide.
A foundation’s priorities page is marketing. Its tax return is the receipt — every grant paid, the organization that received it, the amount, and the purpose in the funder’s own words. Civly reads millions of them so your development office does not have to.
Send your EIN. We read your own filings for what you do, find the funders whose money already reaches that work, and name the people who decide — each match carrying the grant that produced it.
Get a Grant MatchCivly Nonprofits, answered.
A directory sells you what funders say about themselves, plus a calendar of open calls. Civly matches on what funders actually paid — the recipient, the amount, and the purpose in their own words, out of their tax filings. Only one of those tells you a foundation writes checks your size, outside its home county, to organizations it had no prior relationship with.
No. A background check answers whether a record exists. Donor Due Diligence answers whether accepting this gift, this board seat, or this sponsorship creates a problem for your organization specifically — every finding dated, attached to a primary document, graded for how much it should weigh, and read by an analyst against your mission before it reaches you.
The match runs off your own filings, so there is no data project to staff before you get value, and the ask band is set to grants you can actually absorb and report on rather than the largest ones available. Every product stands alone — most engagements start with one.
Not unless you ask it to. Grant Matching and Donor Due Diligence run against public filings and published sources. Client data stays inside the engagement it belongs to; the shared layer is public and licensed source data, not anything you give us.
Send us your EIN and we will show you who is already funding work like yours. Send us a donor’s name and we will show you what a report covers.