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Daisy Sayre Garcia and the business that began with room to breathe
She wanted meaningful work and more time with her children. A solo Salesforce consultancy became ImagineCRM, where understanding grantmakers and making room for people became part of the same job.
LGT Venture Philanthropy and the art of staying
A Liechtenstein-backed foundation borrows the discipline of venture capital and gives it a longer clock. Its real investment is in the organisations that make good ideas survive.
Bonterra Bought the Plumbing of Philanthropy. Now It Wants to Make Giving Grow Again.
A $2 billion roll-up put fundraising, grants, casework and corporate giving under one roof. Bonterra's harder job is turning that collection into a network nonprofits can trust - and use without adding more work.
David Geilhufe Has Spent 30 Years Making Nonprofit Technology Less of a Chore
From an improvised missing-person database after Hurricane Katrina to AI built for grantmakers, the Resilia CEO keeps returning to one practical question: what can technology take off a nonprofit’s plate?
The Boston Foundation Built a $2.6 Billion Machine for Giving - Then Pointed It at Boston’s Hardest Problems
It looks after charitable money, but its real product is judgment: where Boston’s needs are sharpest, which local groups can respond, and how grants, research and policy can work together. In fiscal 2025, that judgment helped move $255 million through 12,472 grants.
Austin Community Foundation
Austin Community Foundation has turned one woman’s $30,000 bequest into a $669 million piece of civic infrastructure. Its real product is not charity paperwork - it is making local generosity easier to deploy, harder to waste and patient enough to outlive the donor.
Resilia
Resilia is a New Orleans-based B2B SaaS company that helps nonprofits build organizational capacity and helps funders - foundations, corporations, governments and banks - go beyond the grant with coaching, technical assistance, and impact intelligence. Founded by serial entrepreneur Sevetri Wilson (who first built the nonprofit-formation tool ExemptMeNow), the two-sided platform pairs on-demand courses, templates and fundraising tools for grassroots organizations with dashboards that let grantmakers track and scale impact across their portfolios. Resilia raised a $35M Series B in 2022 - the largest venture round ever for a solo Black-female-founded tech company.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is a philanthropy and technology organization founded in 2015 by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, structured as an LLC. Once spanning education, science, justice reform and housing, CZI has refocused on a single audacious goal: helping scientists cure, prevent or manage all disease by the end of the century. Its flagship CZ Biohub network now builds AI 'virtual cell' models, generates massive biological datasets, and ships free open-source tools so researchers everywhere can move faster.