Executive search consultants

CCS Fundraising (Community Counselling Service), founded 1947, is a global for-profit fundraising consultancy offering campaign planning and management, feasibility studies, data analytics, interim development management and strategic planning for nonprofits.

Carter (formerly Bob Carter Companies) is a fundraising consulting firm advancing philanthropy worldwide through capital campaigns, major gifts, organizational planning, governance, grants and philanthropic writing services for nonprofits. Led by CEO Bob Carter, CFRE.

Grenzebach Glier and Associates (GG+A) is a Chicago-based full-service philanthropic management consulting firm founded in 1961, serving higher education, independent schools, academic medicine and healthcare, arts and culture, and the voluntary sector. It was acquired by Huron Consulting Group in February 2024.

For Impact | The Suddes Group is a global fundraising consultancy founded by Tom Suddes in 1983 (For Impact launched 2001) that provides fundraising strategy, training, coaching, and campaign management. It reports having managed 500+ campaigns and raised over $3 billion for organizations.

Netzel Grigsby Associates is a California-based fundraising consulting firm founded in 1985, offering capital campaign counsel, feasibility and planning studies, development staffing, and training for nonprofits across arts, education, health, human services, faith-based, and youth sectors. It operates multiple offices across California and Hawaii.

Donor By Design Group (DBD Group) is a nonprofit fundraising consultancy founded by former YMCA of the USA philanthropy executive Bruce Berglund, specializing in capital campaigns, feasibility studies, annual/endowment programs, strategy, and board governance.

National nonprofit fundraising consultancy offering strategic development planning, a major-gifts accelerator, direct mail and digital response, capital campaigns, grant writing and donor advisory. Headquartered in West Chester, PA with offices in several metro areas.

The Compass Group is a national fundraising consulting firm providing planning studies, capital campaign management, development audits, capacity building, and leadership development for nonprofits. It reports serving 150+ organizations across all 50 states.

The Winkler Group is a national fundraising consulting firm founded in 2004 that partners exclusively with nonprofits, schools, and healthcare organizations on capital campaigns, feasibility/campaign studies, major gift strategy, strategic planning, and executive search. Headquartered in Mount Pleasant, SC with regional offices.

Ghiorsi & Sorrenti, Inc. (GSI), co-founded in 1989 by Peter Ghiorsi and Dan Sorrenti in Wyckoff, NJ, provided campaign counsel and management to healthcare systems raising nine- and ten-figure campaign goals; GSI was acquired by GOBEL (a healthcare philanthropy consulting/data firm) in July 2022 and is now integrated into GOBEL's offering.

Kansas City-based national fundraising consulting firm providing capital campaigns, feasibility studies, grant writing, planned giving, executive search and board training to nonprofits.

Brakeley Briscoe, Inc. is a fundraising and management consulting firm (tracing roots to 1919) offering campaign feasibility studies, capital and endowment campaign management, major and planned giving, prospect research, and development executive search to nonprofits worldwide.

DickersonBakker (Dickerson, Bakker & Associates) is a national fundraising-consulting firm founded in 1985, offering capital campaigns, feasibility studies, major-gift solutions, grant development, executive search and strategy consulting to nonprofits. HQ is in Asheville, NC with offices including Raleigh, NC and Coppell, TX.

Gonser Gerber is a Naperville, IL advancement and leadership consulting firm (operating since 1950) offering capital campaign counsel, executive search for advancement leaders, and institutional strategic planning for nonprofits and educational institutions.

Columbus, Ohio consulting firm serving nonprofits with capital and endowment campaigns, strategic planning, governance, capacity building, communications, nonprofit technology, and executive search. Founded 1999.

Veritus Group is a fundraising consultancy founded in 2009 that helps nonprofits plan, develop, and manage mid-level, major, and planned gift programs through its donor-centered Veritus Way methodology and training academy.

The Angeletti Group is a Morristown, NJ (New Vernon per registry) fundraising consulting firm offering assessments and counsel, strategic planning and board development, campaign planning, nonprofit executive search/interim staffing, and predictive donor analytics for education, healthcare, faith-based, and arts organizations.

Washburn & McGoldrick, founded in 1995 in Bryn Mawr, PA, is a strategic advancement consultancy serving colleges, universities, schools, museums, and healthcare organizations with campaign planning, feasibility studies, program reviews, and advancement-staff training.

Pelofsky & Associates, Inc. of Kansas City, MO merged with Jeffrey Byrne + Associates in 2019 to form Byrne Pelofsky + Associates, LLC, a fundraising consulting firm offering campaign strategy and major donor development, grant writing, and nonprofit advisory services, having raised over $3.5 billion for 750+ clients.

Bridge Philanthropic Consulting (BPC) is a New York-based, Black-owned fundraising and social-impact consulting firm founded in 2016, offering campaign architecture, major gift strategy, fractional development staffing, and governance/board capacity-building to nonprofits nationally.

Development Guild DDI provides fundraising consulting, capital campaign management, interim management and nonprofit executive search. Founded in 1978 and based in the Boston area.

TWB Fundraising (Ter Molen Watkins & Brandt) is a Chicago firm providing capital campaign support, capacity-building fundraising counsel, organizational and leadership development, data analytics/prospect research and executive search for nonprofits.

GSB Fundraising is a fundraising-consulting firm based in Fletcher, NC with roughly 40-50 years of operating history, providing capital campaign, annual fund, feasibility study, communications, organizational development, and executive search services primarily to churches, synods, outdoor ministries, and other nonprofits nationwide.