Executive search consultants in California

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.

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.

Arts Consulting Group (ACG), founded in 1997, is a full-service management consulting firm serving arts and culture nonprofits across North America, offering executive search, interim management, fundraising/revenue enhancement, strategic planning and community engagement, and facilities & program planning.

Fitz Nonprofit Consulting is a San Diego-area fundraising consultancy founded in 2004, offering feasibility studies, campaign management, development audits, wealth screening, board development and interim development services.

KDD Philanthropy provides fundraising coaching, training workshops, and consulting services to help nonprofit organizations and educational institutions build fundraising capabilities and strengthen donor relationships

Tustin, CA fundraising consultancy founded in 2008 by Claudia Looney offering campaign planning and management, development assessments, interim and fractional leadership, philanthropic advisory and board/staff training.

Catalan Conlon Consulting (incorporated 2016, currently FTB suspended status as of 2021) provides strategic fundraising consulting and coaching for nonprofits of all sizes. Catalan Conlon has 20+ years of experience supporting organizations on fundraising strategy, pipeline development, and leadership capacity building.

Founded in 2015, Venture Leadership Consulting partners with over 130 nonprofits, schools, municipalities, and philanthropies across 16+ states. Offers strategic consulting, leadership development, organizational performance improvement, and talent cultivation through their Venture Leader Lab community.

Theresa Nelson & Associates provides fund development consulting to Bay Area nonprofits, including capital campaign feasibility studies, major gifts, strategic planning, board development and interim development staffing.

DeLauro & Associates is a San Diego, CA fundraising consultancy founded in 2001 by Jim DeLauro offering campaign planning/feasibility studies, board and staff training, major gifts, planned giving, and prospect research counsel to nonprofit clients nationwide; note the firm's own website was unreachable during this review and this record relies on third-party business listings.

Transforming Philanthropy is a fundraising and organizational consulting firm founded by Kay Sprinkel Grace in 1990. The firm works with nonprofits on major giving, strategic development planning, board engagement, capital campaigns, and mission/vision/values/case statements.

Orange Door Consulting, founded in 2005 and based in Los Alamitos, CA, provides government and private grant writing, executive recruitment, strategic advising and board development services to Southern California nonprofits, reporting roughly $8 million in grants secured for clients in 2025.

National-caliber consulting firm helping nonprofits strengthen operations through integrated approach of right leaders, healthy systems, sufficient resources, and powerful messaging. Offers capital campaigns, major gifts, planned giving, executive search, and strategic communications services.

Morris & Berger is a boutique executive search firm founded in 1984 in Pasadena, CA, specializing in recruiting nonprofit leadership including development/fundraising executives for higher education, museums, health and human service agencies, and arts organizations.

Cook Silverman Search is an executive search firm specializing in nonprofit leadership recruitment, including CEO/Executive Director, development, advancement and communications roles. Founded in 2015.

Do Good Stuff is a San Francisco solo consulting practice run by P Tyrone Smith-Cunha offering nonprofit development operations consulting, database/gift-processing cleanup, interim development staffing, and event/meeting support.

Nonprofit fundraising consulting firm that creates fundraising plans, writes donor appeals, builds donor relationships, and conducts executive searches for nonprofits

Michelle Whiting & Associates (founded 1994, Long Beach, CA) provides development assessments, fundraising/campaign plan design and implementation, foundation relations and grant proposal development, and executive search for fund-development leadership roles.

Fundraising consultant and researcher with 20+ years leading high-performing fundraising teams for nonprofits. Focuses on nonprofit sustainability, fundraising staff retention and development, training, and executive coaching.

Ansbach & Associates is a Sacramento-based fundraising counsel firm, founded in 1985, that manages capital and major gift campaigns for nonprofits and provides interim executive management services.