Grant writing 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.

RKD Group is a full-service fundraising and marketing agency delivering direct mail, digital, and paid media fundraising campaigns, brand strategy, and data/AI-driven donor analytics for 250+ nonprofit clients, with Heller Consulting and Whiteboard as affiliated subsidiary brands.

Allegiance Creative Group, LLC, based in Fairfax, VA, is a fundraising and marketing agency now unified with Pursuant, GivingDNA, and Beaconfire RED under the AGP brand, providing direct mail, digital fundraising, donor acquisition/retention, data/analytics, and mid-level and major donor program services to nonprofits.

Moore is a data-driven constituent experience and fundraising company serving nonprofits across direct mail, digital, telephone and media channels, providing strategy, creative, production, data and analytics. It is a series LLC made up of more than 20 operating companies.

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.

Sanky Communications (Sanky Inc.), founded in 1977, is a New York fundraising and marketing agency delivering integrated direct mail, digital, paid media, and mid-level donor campaigns for nonprofits.

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 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.

American Philanthropic (AmPhil) is a national for-profit fundraising consultancy offering direct mail and digital fundraising, major gifts, capital and mission campaigns, grant writing, planned giving, donor research, and CRM services to nonprofits.

Aperio Philanthropy is a fundraising consulting firm that partners with nonprofits to build and scale major giving programs through strategy, systems, processes and staff training. It operates from Brooklyn, NY and Kansas City, MO.

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.

Schultz & Williams is a nonprofit consulting firm providing development consulting, direct response fundraising, planned giving, strategic planning, data analytics and interim staffing. It serves arts and culture, education, health, environment, zoos and aquariums.

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.

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.

McAllister & Quinn (now at jm-aq.com) is a Washington, DC federal grants consulting and government relations firm founded in 2004 (per search sources) by John McAllister and Andy Quinn, offering proposal writing, opportunity identification, and congressional appropriations advocacy, having secured over $1 billion in competitive grants for clients.

BBS & Associates (Berkey Brendel Sheline) is a faith-based fundraising firm serving Christian ministries with direct mail, digital, mid/major donor strategy, capital campaigns, and estate/planned giving services. Founded in 1981 in Akron, OH.

Partnership Resources Group (PRG), founded in 1991 and based in San Rafael, CA, has helped over 300 nonprofits in Northern California with capital and endowment campaigns, major gifts, annual giving, planned giving, and leadership development.

Mission Advancement Professionals (Mission Advancement) is a fundraising consulting firm founded in 2007 that helps nonprofits, independent schools, and ministries with planning studies, capital campaigns, annual fund growth, board development, and grant services. Based in McKinney, TX.

LKA Fundraising & Communications, founded in 1999 (as Lewis Kennedy Associates) and based in Portland, Oregon, provides multi-channel fundraising strategy, direct mail and digital campaigns, creative/brand design, and donor analytics for public media, human services, healthcare, arts, and education nonprofits.