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title: "DonorSearch Alternatives: 6 Options, Honestly Compared"
description: "Kindsight, WealthEngine, Windfall, GivingDNA, DonorAtlas and Hatch compared, with real pricing where published and the question most guides skip."
canonical: https://gratefully.io/blog/donorsearch-alternatives
category: "Buyer's Guide"
date_published: 2026-08-09
date_modified: 2026-08-09
read_time: "12 min read"
author: "Muddsar Jamil"
keywords: "DonorSearch alternatives, wealth screening software, Kindsight, iWave, WealthEngine, Windfall, GivingDNA, DonorAtlas, Hatch, prospect research, donor intelligence"
source: Gratefully — Donor Intelligence for Nonprofits
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# DonorSearch Alternatives: 6 Options, Honestly Compared

**The main alternatives to DonorSearch are Kindsight (formerly iWave), WealthEngine, Windfall, GivingDNA, DonorAtlas and Hatch. Only one of them publishes its pricing. Before you compare any of them, there is a question worth asking about whether the screener is actually the thing that needs replacing.**

## On this page

- [First, the question most comparison pages skip](#first-the-question-most-comparison-pages-skip)
- [The category changed hands while the lists stayed the same](#the-category-changed-hands-while-the-lists-stayed-the-same)
- [The six alternatives at a glance](#the-six-alternatives-at-a-glance)
- [Kindsight, formerly iWave](#kindsight-formerly-iwave)
- [WealthEngine](#wealthengine)
- [Windfall and GivingDNA](#windfall-and-givingdna)
- [DonorAtlas and Hatch](#donoratlas-and-hatch)
- [What almost nobody in this category will tell you](#what-almost-nobody-in-this-category-will-tell-you)
- [When the screener is not the problem](#when-the-screener-is-not-the-problem)
- [How to choose](#how-to-choose)

## First, the question most comparison pages skip

**Wealth screening** is the practice of matching your donor file against external data on property, securities, business affiliations and past philanthropy, to estimate who has the capacity to give more than they currently do. It answers one question well. It does not answer what to do next.

There are two honest reasons to leave DonorSearch, and one common reason that will not be solved by leaving.

**Good reason one: the data does not fit your file.** Screening accuracy varies by donor demographic, region and giving level. If you are getting thin matches on the people you actually cultivate, a different data provider is a reasonable answer.

**Good reason two: the price stopped making sense.** Wealth screening is priced by records and screens, and files grow. A tool that fit at 5,000 records may not at 40,000.

**The reason that will not be fixed by switching: nobody is acting on the scores.** In our experience working with small development teams, this is the most common version of the problem, and it is worth being blunt about it. If your last screening produced a ranked list that nobody worked, a better ranked list will not change the outcome. That is a capacity and workflow problem wearing a data problem's coat, and every vendor on this page will happily sell you the data version of the fix.

<table>
<thead>
<tr><th>Why you are leaving</th><th>Fixed by a different screener?</th><th>What to do</th></tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Thin matches on the donors you actually cultivate</td><td>Yes</td><td>Compare data providers on your own file, not on vendor benchmarks</td></tr>
<tr><td>Price no longer fits the size of your file</td><td>Yes</td><td>Start with the one vendor that publishes rates, then judge quotes against it</td></tr>
<tr><td>Nobody is working the list you already paid for</td><td>No</td><td>Fix capacity and workflow first. A second list will go unworked too. This is the gap Gratefully works on</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Work out which of the three you have before you take a demo. It changes the entire shortlist. If it is the third one, skip to that section now, because none of the six tools below will help you and you will save yourself a fortnight of demos.

## The category changed hands while the lists stayed the same

Before comparing anything, know that two of the biggest names here are no longer the companies most comparison pages describe.

**DonorSearch was acquired by EverTrue on 4 September 2025.** The product continues, now inside EverTrue's engagement platform, and the stated logic was to pair DonorSearch's prospect intelligence with EverTrue's outreach tooling.

**iWave merged into Kindsight in February 2024**, together with UC Innovation's ascend CRM and NonprofitOS, all under the same owner, Incline Equity Partners.

**Why this matters when you are the one switching.** An acquisition usually moves the roadmap, the support model and eventually the pricing. So two practical questions follow. If you are leaving DonorSearch because of something that frustrated you before September 2025, check whether it is still true under EverTrue before you spend three months migrating away from it. And if you are moving to Kindsight, understand that you are now buying from a company that also sells a CRM and an AI product, which may be an advantage or may be a roadmap conflict, depending on what you already run.

Neither fact is a reason to choose or avoid anyone. Both are reasons to ask a different set of questions on the demo call.

## The six alternatives at a glance

<table>
<thead>
<tr><th>Tool</th><th>What it is for</th><th>Published pricing</th><th>Notes</th></tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Kindsight (formerly iWave)</td><td>Prospect research and wealth screening</td><td>Yes. From $4,500/yr</td><td>The only screening vendor here that publishes a rate card</td></tr>
<tr><td>WealthEngine (Altrata)</td><td>Enterprise wealth screening at scale</td><td>No</td><td>Pre-scored US profiles, positioned at large shops</td></tr>
<tr><td>Windfall</td><td>Precise net worth estimation</td><td>No</td><td>Also supplies data into other platforms</td></tr>
<tr><td>GivingDNA</td><td>Continuous screening and segmentation</td><td>No</td><td>Priced by record count, unlimited users and screenings</td></tr>
<tr><td>DonorAtlas</td><td>AI-generated prospect profiles with citations</td><td>No</td><td>Newer entrant</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hatch</td><td>Explainable affluence, propensity and affinity scoring</td><td>No</td><td>Positioned at smaller shops</td></tr>
<tr><td>DonorSearch, for reference</td><td>Wealth screening and philanthropic data. Acquired by EverTrue, September 2025</td><td>No</td><td>Reported at roughly $4,000 to $12,000/yr, see caveat below</td></tr>
<tr><td>Gratefully</td><td>A different category. Donor intelligence on top of your existing CRM: who to call this week, why, and what your organization already knows about them</td><td>Yes. $400/mo with 5 seats</td><td>Not a screener. Named here because roughly half the people searching this phrase are trying to solve a problem screening does not solve, see the section below</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>

## Kindsight, formerly iWave

**If you take one thing from this page, take this: iWave is now Kindsight.** iWave, UC Innovation (maker of the ascend CRM) and NonprofitOS combined under the Kindsight brand in an announcement dated 20 February 2024, and all three are backed by Incline Equity Partners. iwave.com redirects to kindsight.io. A lot of comparison pages have not caught up, so if you are reading a list that still treats iWave as an independent company, check its date.

The iWave product still exists inside Kindsight, and it is the most direct like-for-like replacement for DonorSearch: prospect research, wealth screening, scores and analytics.

Pricing, from Kindsight's own page:

<table>
<thead>
<tr><th>Tier</th><th>Price</th><th>Screens</th><th>Users</th></tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Starter</td><td>From $4,500/yr</td><td>1,500</td><td>1</td></tr>
<tr><td>Professional</td><td>From $5,800/yr</td><td>5,000</td><td>3</td></tr>
<tr><td>Premium</td><td>Contact</td><td>20,000</td><td>5</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>

Their Engage writing tool is priced separately, from $545/yr for one user up to $3,295/yr for ten.

**Be careful with figures you find elsewhere.** Capterra and SoftwareAdvice currently list the Starter tier at $4,150 and Professional at $5,350. Those are below what Kindsight publishes today. Check the vendor page, not the directory.

**Best for:** teams who want a straight swap for DonorSearch and want to know the price before booking a call.

## WealthEngine

Part of Altrata. Positioned at the enterprise end: large pre-scored databases of US profiles, refreshed continuously, aimed at major gift shops running screening at volume.

**Pricing is not published.** Expect a quote process, and expect it to sit above the Kindsight tiers.

**Best for:** large shops with a dedicated prospect research function. Probably not for: a two-person development team, where the depth is real but largely unused.

## Windfall and GivingDNA

Worth treating together, because GivingDNA uses Windfall data as part of its screening.

**Windfall** focuses on precise net worth estimation rather than broad philanthropic history. If capacity accuracy is the specific thing failing you at DonorSearch, this is the targeted answer.

**GivingDNA** is the continuous-screening option: rather than a point-in-time screen, it keeps segmenting your file as it changes. Pricing is by constituent record count and, unusually, includes unlimited users and unlimited screenings per year, which changes the math for teams who currently ration screens.

**Neither publishes pricing.**

## DonorAtlas and Hatch

The two newer, smaller options.

**DonorAtlas** generates prospect profiles with citations attached, which matters if you have ever been handed a capacity rating and been unable to find out where it came from.

**Hatch** is positioned on explainability and price for small shops: affluence, propensity and affinity scoring you can defend to a board that asks how the number was produced.

**Neither publishes pricing.** DonorAtlas does not currently have a public pricing page at all.

## What almost nobody in this category will tell you

Here is the finding that surprised us most while researching this page.

Of the seven screening tools discussed here, including DonorSearch itself, exactly one publishes a **rate card**. Kindsight. Every other vendor routes you to a demo before you can learn what it costs.

That is worth naming, because it has practical consequences:

- You cannot build a budget from public information. Any number you find for these tools came from an aggregator, a review site or another buyer, not the vendor.
- **Comparison is slow by design.** Six quote processes is weeks of calls before you can put like next to like.
- **DonorSearch publishes no pricing itself, but its reseller does.** DonorPerfect, which resells DonorSearch, publishes a rate card dated January 2025: ProspectView subscriptions from $19 to $179 a month, and batch screening from $1,250 for 5,000 records to $5,750 for 30,000, falling to $0.10 per record at high volume. That is reseller pricing, not DonorSearch's own, and the file is 19 months old. Full tables are on our [Gratefully vs DonorSearch page](/gratefully-vs-donorsearch). Wider annual figures circulating for DonorSearch, commonly $4,000 to $12,000 a year, remain reported rather than published.

**Practical move: ask every vendor the same three questions in writing, before any demo.**

<table>
<thead>
<tr><th>Ask this</th><th>A good answer sounds like</th><th>Worry if</th></tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>What is the annual cost at our record count?</td><td>A number, or a tight range with the assumptions stated</td><td>"It depends, let us get you on a call"</td></tr>
<tr><td>What does a screen cost beyond the included allowance?</td><td>A per-screen or per-block rate</td><td>No answer until contract stage</td></tr>
<tr><td>What happens to the price when our file grows by half?</td><td>A published tier or a stated uplift</td><td>Silence, which usually means renegotiation</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>

The vendor who answers fastest is telling you something useful about what the next two years of that relationship will feel like.

## When the screener is not the problem

Come back to the third reason from the top of this page, because it is the one that sends people round this loop twice.

A wealth screening tool answers one question: **who could give more than they do?** It answers it well, and it is worth paying for.

It does not answer the questions that decide whether that ever turns into a gift. What does this organization already know about this person. Who spoke to them last, and what was promised. Why did the cultivation stop. Which of the 200 flagged prospects should be called this week rather than eventually.

That information usually exists. It sits in emails, call notes, board minutes and the head of whoever handled the relationship last. When a screening result lands on top of that and nothing happens, the missing piece is rarely more capacity data.

This is the layer [Gratefully](/fundraising-intelligence) works on, and it is worth being precise about the relationship: **we are not a wealth screening replacement, and we do not pretend to be.** We read the CRM you already have plus the unstructured material around it, and answer relationship questions with the source record cited. Several teams run us alongside a screener rather than instead of one, which is why we wrote [how the two fit together](/gratefully-vs-donorsearch) rather than a versus page.

If your screening scores are being worked properly every week, ignore this section entirely and pick the best data provider for your file. If they are not, a second screener will produce a second unworked list.

**What that looks like in practice.** A gift officer opens Gratefully before a call and gets the brief: lifetime giving, why the cultivation stalled, who spoke to this donor last and what was promised, a suggested ask tied to something the donor actually said, and the board member best placed to make it. Every fact links to the record it came from. Pricing is published, $400 a month billed annually with five seats included, and there is a four-week trial with no card required.

That is a different purchase from a screening subscription, and for some teams it is the one that was actually missing. [Start a trial](/free-trial) or [see how it works](/fundraising-intelligence).

## How to choose

- **Name which of the three problems you have.** Bad matches, wrong price, or unworked lists. Only the first two are solved by anything on this page.
- **Start with the vendor that publishes pricing.** Not because Kindsight is automatically best, but because you can size the decision in ten minutes instead of ten days, which gives you a baseline to judge every quote against.
- **Ask for the three numbers in writing.** Annual cost at your record count, cost per additional screen, and what happens at 1.5x your file size.
- **Test on donors you already know.** Screen fifty people whose capacity you can verify independently. Match rate on people you know beats any vendor benchmark.
- **Check who owns the vendor.** Kindsight, ascend and NonprofitOS share an owner in Incline Equity Partners, which also owns the RKD Group fundraising agency. That is not a reason to avoid anyone. It is a reason to know who you are buying from.
- **Decide who works the list before you buy it.** If you cannot name that person, buy the capacity to act before you buy more data.

## Frequently asked questions

### What are the best DonorSearch alternatives?

The main alternatives are Kindsight (formerly iWave), WealthEngine, Windfall, GivingDNA, DonorAtlas and Hatch. Kindsight is the closest like-for-like replacement and the only one that publishes pricing, from $4,500 a year. WealthEngine suits large shops, Windfall focuses on net worth accuracy, GivingDNA offers continuous screening, and DonorAtlas and Hatch are newer options aimed at smaller teams.

### Is iWave still available?

Yes, but not as an independent company. iWave combined with UC Innovation and NonprofitOS under the Kindsight brand in an announcement dated 20 February 2024, and iwave.com now redirects to kindsight.io. The iWave product continues as Kindsight's prospect research solution.

### How much does DonorSearch cost?

DonorSearch does not publish pricing. Its reseller DonorPerfect does: subscriptions from $19 to $179 a month and batch screening from $1,250 to $5,750, in a card dated January 2025. Full tables are on the Gratefully vs DonorSearch page.

### Who owns DonorSearch now?

DonorSearch was acquired by EverTrue on 4 September 2025 and now sits inside EverTrue's engagement platform. The product continues under the DonorSearch name. If you are evaluating alternatives because of an issue you had before that date, it is worth confirming whether it still applies.

### Which wealth screening tool publishes its prices?

Of the tools covered here, only Kindsight publishes its own rate card: iWave Starter from $4,500 a year, Professional from $5,800, and Premium on request. DonorSearch publishes none, though its reseller DonorPerfect does. WealthEngine, Windfall, GivingDNA, DonorAtlas and Hatch all route buyers to a demo first.

### Is Gratefully a DonorSearch alternative?

No, and it would be misleading to say otherwise. DonorSearch is wealth screening, which estimates capacity to give. Gratefully is a donor intelligence layer that sits on top of your CRM and answers relationship questions from the data you already hold, with the source record cited. Teams often run both. If your problem is that screening results are not being acted on, that is the gap we work on.

### Do I need wealth screening at all?

If you run a major gifts program, almost certainly. Screening tells you who has the capacity to give more than they currently do, which is difficult to determine any other way at scale. The question is not whether to screen but whether you have the capacity to act on what screening returns.


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