Atticus is a strategic performance partner — bringing donor intelligence, pipeline discipline, and forecasting rigor to development teams staring down big challenges.
”Atticus gave us structure. Instead of staring at a blank screen wondering who to call, we had names, insights, and the confidence to actually reach out.
Healing Waters International
Major Gift Programs Stall When Relationship Strategy Is Built on Weak Information and Undisciplined Pipelines.
Atticus Fixes That.
We deliver unusually deep donor intelligence to give teams the context to build the right relationships.
We apply pipeline and portfolio discipline so that insight turns into movement.
We bring forecasting rigor so revenue expectations reflect what the pipeline can realistically produce.
The result is a more disciplined pipeline, more reliable revenue forecasting, and greater confidence in where your next major gifts are coming from.
“I don’t view Atticus as a vendor or just a tool—it truly feels like a collaborative partnership. I expected it to be like any other donor analysis tool, but it isn’t like that at all. Atticus operates as a partner.”
Navy Seal Foundation
Prospects with the capacity, generosity, and MVV alignment to become your organization’s next major donors.
“Strangers” means you don’t know one another yet. We can also surface “hidden gems” from within your own data to identify prospects you already know with the capacity to give more.
Portfolio & Pipeline Discipline
Prioritizing Your Existing Data
Know who to focus on first.
An organization was drowning in donor data with no clear portfolio structure. We applied our portfolio structuring tools and methodology to their database – prioritizing and assigning prospects into MGO portfolios – so every gift officer had a clear, structured book of business and knew exactly who to focus on and in what order.
Donor Intelligence
Finding New Major Donors
Expand beyond your current network.
A nonprofit needed to identify prospective major donors outside their existing database – people who had never given to them before. Using our prospect identification system, we surfaced highly aligned, high-capacity donors they didn’t know existed – people with the capacity, generosity, and mission alignment to become major donors.
The insights summary provides an overview of how we know the prospect aligns with your organization. Our rich, narrative profiles also have many additional insights showing proof of the prospect’s capacity, generosity, and alignment.
Additional profile sections provide a selected history of (public) gifts, contact information, and even potential human connections between the prospect and your organization.
Attend “stranger engagement” workshops and more to fine-tune your teams’ donor outreach skills.
Forecasting Rigor
Making Revenue Forecasts You Can Actually Defend
Know what your pipeline can realistically produce.
A development team had strong donor relationships but no reliable way to forecast major gift revenue. Leadership was guessing. We deployed our pipeline forecasting framework – calibrated to their actual pipeline data – so the team could set credible revenue expectations, identify gaps early, and report to leadership with confidence.
How We Work
Diagnostics
We listen to your challenges, ask the questions that surface root causes, and identify what’s costing you the most opportunity.
Applied Solutions
We deploy the right combination of tools, systems, and processes from our established framework – scoped to your situation and budget.
Partner & Deploy
Founded by major donors, we’ve lived the challenges your team faces. Our solutions do the research, the data work, and analysis so your team can focus on building relationships and closing gifts.
WHO WE'VE HELPED
”The insights Atticus was able to provide helped us cut through so much of that red tape and get to a gift quicker.
Navy Seal Foundation
”I've never seen anything like this platform. Atticus has the potential to be a game changer in major donor relationships and gifts.
Atrium - Wake Forest Baptist Health
