Fundraising consultants in Iowa

Des Moines-based firm specializing in planned-giving marketing for nonprofits, offering direct mail, digital marketing, donor surveys, data analysis and development training to nearly 1,500 organizations.

West Des Moines, IA fundraising consultancy founded in 1990 providing pre-campaign feasibility studies, capital campaign counsel, annual fund development planning, and gift/planned-giving services to hospitals, schools, social-service agencies, arts organizations, and religious institutions nationwide.

Wastyn & Associates is a Quad Cities (Davenport, IA) consultancy offering grant development/writing, strategic planning, fundraising planning, capital campaign management, and board/leadership development for nonprofits.

EDEN+ is a nonprofit fundraising consulting firm that helps organizations create, strengthen, and sustain fundraising programs including campaigns, major gifts, and annual giving.

Advancement Resources, founded in 1995 and based in Iowa, provides philanthropy-focused professional training and development coaching for major-gift fundraisers; it was acquired by Huron Consulting Group in March 2025 along with the addition of Halpin Partnership.

Technology-enabled managed services firm providing strategic fundraising, membership, enrollment management solutions and software including CAMPUSCALL phonathon platform and off-campus calling programs

Possible match: Blueprint Advancement / TAYLAR Development LLC runs outsourced phone-based annual-fund, membership, and subscription-sales campaigns for nonprofit performing-arts organizations and sells proprietary call-center fundraising software; HQ location does not match the registry's Dubuque, IA listing, so this may be a different entity.

Hinton Consulting helps nonprofits raise more money through tailored fundraising expertise including grant writing, individual donor campaigns, board development, corporate gifts, and fundraising strategy planning.

Isaacson Consulting LLC (now Isaacson Syverson Consulting) is a Des Moines, Iowa fund-development and nonprofit management consulting firm led by Connie Isaacson, CFRE, and Nikki Syverson, CFRE, that has helped Iowa nonprofits raise over $74 million through capital campaigns, major and annual gifts, and strategic planning.

Technology-enabled enrollment and fundraising management services provider for higher education institutions and nonprofit organizations

Philanthropic research, breakthrough thinking about philanthropy, and development training for nonprofits

Fox Creek Fundraising, based in Carson, IA, is a solo practice run by owner Lisa Fox offering grant writing, fundraising appeals/letters of inquiry, donor data & analytics, and marketing/design services to nonprofits.

Midwest Studies Group is a Waterloo, Iowa-based fundraising consultancy providing feasibility studies, capital campaign management, annual and planned giving consulting, grant research/writing, and strategic planning for nonprofits.

Kitchen Sink Communications is a grant writing and nonprofit communications consultancy based in Johnston, IA, offering grant strategy, proposal writing, grant readiness assessments, and donor communications for nonprofits, businesses, and school districts.

JB Consulting Firm, led by lawyer and former university fundraiser Jonathan Blum, provides grant research/writing (800+ grants, $500M+ secured), board modernization, and strategic planning consulting to nonprofits, plus fractional executive and estate-planning services.

The Right Grants specializes in finding and writing grants for rural communities, with expertise in critical access hospitals and libraries. Services include grant writing, fundraising strategy, grant funding research, and other development services.

Professional consultation for capital and endowment campaigns, planned and major gift programs, feasibility studies and development audits

Full-service promotional marketing firm that creates strategic marketing plans to handle the financial needs of nonprofit clients

Des Moines-based solo fundraising consultancy founded by Mollie Giller, providing fundraising strategy, grant research/writing, market research, and philanthropic advisory services to nonprofits and public agencies.

Offers board training and development, feasibility studies, capital campaign development and implementation, event planning and marketing, executive recruitment and coaching, fundraising planning, meeting facilitation, organizational development, staff training, and strategic planning to help mission-driven organizations with strategic planning, organizational capacity building, stakeholder and community engagement, and fundraising and donor engagement.

Nicole Joan Consulting LLC, founded in 2016 by Nicole Joan Grabowski in Des Moines, IA, provides grant research, LOI and proposal writing, grant/reporting timelines, and staff grant-writing training for nonprofit organizations.