Advancement intelligence
Prospect scores you can actually defend.
Most wealth screening hands you a number and asks you to trust it. Giving Runway shows the evidence instead — every score breaks down into individual signals, each one sourced, dated, and open to challenge. If a gift officer asks “why is this person a 72?”, there is an answer.
A score is an argument, not a verdict.
Signals are first-class records, not an internal calculation detail. Property holdings, giving history, board service, employer matching, grant alignment — each carries its own weight, source and as-of date, and each can be inspected or disputed by the person doing the asking.
That matters because fundraisers stake relationships on these judgements. A black-box rating cannot be argued with; a cited one can be improved.
Foundation assets & annual giving
IRS 990-PF
Funds public media in the region
Grant history
Board overlap with a current trustee
990 Part VII
Accepts unsolicited proposals
Funder guidelines
Illustrative example. Every signal in the platform links to its source record.
Built around how advancement teams actually work
Prospect & funder research
Institutional funders and individuals in one place, each with an inspectable signal breakdown, application model and contact route.
Moves management
Stage, owner, next action and due date. Log contact reports as you go, and tag each move to the campaigns it serves.
Portfolios
Assign prospects to the gift officer accountable for them, with a leadership roll-up across every portfolio.
Campaign tracking
Targets against committed and pipeline, phase gates, and grant deadlines surfaced before they pass.
Public-record grounded
Research is built on sources anyone can verify — IRS 990 and 990-PF filings, federal grant records, state business registries, county assessor data. Citable by design.
Your data stays yours
Each institution can run on its own database, in its own region. One college's records are never pooled with another's — a boundary that holds structurally, not by policy.
Fits your system of record
The CRM stays authoritative. Giving Runway syncs alongside it rather than replacing it, so the work you log lands back where your institution keeps it.