u/Striking_Ad_9716

Built a free, open-source tool to help rank donors by major-gift likelihood
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Built a free, open-source tool to help rank donors by major-gift likelihood

I built PhilanthroPy after seeing how many shops either pay for expensive wealth-screening vendors or do donor scoring in spreadsheets with no way to check if the numbers are even trustworthy. It's a free Python toolkit that takes your CRM export and gives you a 0–100 score per constituent for major-gift likelihood, lapse risk, and planned-giving intent — basically a sorted call list for your gift officers instead of a flat donor list.

No coding background needed to run the included example, though someone on your team (or a volunteer/consultant) will need basic Python to hook it to your actual CRM export. MIT licensed, free forever, no vendor lock-in. Happy to answer questions about what it can/can't do — it's not a replacement for a real wealth-screening vendor, but it's a solid first pass, and it's transparent about how the scores are computed, which most vendor tools aren't.

https://github.com/PhilanthroPy-Project/PhilanthroPy

u/Striking_Ad_9716 — 7 days ago