Acquire AI is the funding discovery and grant intelligence suite within Aubree, the Philanthropic Intelligence Platform. It autonomously searches funding databases, scores opportunities by mission alignment using an Intelligent Fit Score algorithm, and surfaces the highest-probability grant prospects for your organization — eliminating the manual, high-friction grant hunt that consumes development staff time with low-yield results.

How does Acquire AI's Intelligent Fit Score work?

Acquire AI uses natural language processing (NLP) to analyze your organization's mission statement, program descriptions, geographic focus, and population served, then matches these against the stated priorities of thousands of foundations and government funding sources. Each opportunity receives an Intelligent Fit Score that ranks alignment — so your team only pursues grants where the probability of success is high.

How does Acquire AI fit into the Philanthropic Intelligence Platform?

Acquire AI is the funding growth layer of Aubree's four-suite Philanthropic Intelligence Platform. It works in direct partnership with StewardWise AI — insights about which programs are resonating most with current donors inform the funding searches Acquire AI runs, creating a synergistic growth loop between donor retention and new funding acquisition.

How is Acquire AI different from grant databases nonprofits already use?

Traditional grant databases require a development director to manually search, read, and evaluate each opportunity. Acquire AI inverts this: instead of your staff hunting through hundreds of listings, an autonomous AI engine continuously monitors funding landscapes and proactively delivers ranked, mission-matched opportunities directly to your team — turning a reactive research process into a predictive intelligence function.

What types of funding does Acquire AI discover?

Acquire AI searches across foundation grants, corporate philanthropy programs, government funding sources, and community foundation opportunities. It continuously monitors for new funding announcements and deadline alerts, ensuring your organization never misses a high-fit opportunity due to limited research bandwidth.

What results can nonprofits expect from Acquire AI?

Organizations using Acquire AI typically see a significant reduction in time spent on grant prospecting, an increase in application quality due to better mission alignment, and access to funding opportunities they would not have discovered through manual research. The platform is designed to function as a full-time grant research analyst operating 24/7.

Is Acquire AI available in a bundle?

Yes. Acquire AI is the core of the Revenue Optimizer bundle, paired with StewardWise AI to create a complete retention-plus-acquisition growth engine. It is also included in the full Aubree Philanthropic Intelligence Platform.

Donor Prioritization · Agent 03 · StewardWise AI | Aubree

Agent 03 · Major Gift Intelligence · StewardWise AI

$84,300 Is Sitting in Your
Existing Donor Database Right Now.

Not from new donors. From donors who are already giving, below their actual capacity. Donor Prioritization identifies the gap, builds the 24-month upgrade path, and tells you exactly how to ask at each step without losing the relationship.

Your most valuable donors are already in your database. They are just waiting to be asked correctly.

Wealth indicator cross-reference: professional background, real estate, board memberships.
Current gift vs. capacity gap surfaced per donor automatically.
24-month step-upgrade ladder with framing for each ask.
Same methodology major gift consultants charge $50,000 to run manually.

$84,300 Hidden in existing database

24 months Upgrade path built

$50,000 Consultant cost replaced

3 to 5 Hidden major donors per file

Get Started

Your Major Gift Program Is Chasing Strangers While the Gifts You Already Have Are Sitting Uncultivated.

Traditional major gift fundraising looks outward. Wealth screening lists. Cold prospect research. Events designed to attract new faces with high net worth and no relationship to the mission. Meanwhile, James Okafor has given your organization $1,200 every year for eight consecutive years. He has never missed a gift. He has attended every event. He has referred two other donors. And he has $25,000 giving capacity that no one on your development team knows about, because no one has ever run the numbers on James.

The prospect research methodology that surfaces James costs between $30,000 and $50,000 when done by a major gift consulting firm. It involves cross-referencing professional history, real estate holdings, board memberships, SEC filings, and giving patterns to peer organizations. Most nonprofits with two-person development teams never do it. The result is that James gives $1,200 every year while a donor at a peer organization with similar capacity gives $18,000, because that organization asked.

Donor Prioritization runs that methodology across your entire donor file automatically. It surfaces the gap between current giving and actual capacity for every donor, ranks them by upgrade priority, and builds the 24-month cultivation path that moves each relationship from where it is to where it could be. Not a bigger ask. A properly framed step-upgrade sequence that protects the relationship at every stage.

$84,300. In Your Existing Database. Count the Gap.

Donor Prioritization · Major Gift Intelligence · Full File Analysis

StewardWise AI · Agent 03 · Major Gift Intelligence

Hidden Capacity Identified · Existing Donor File

$84,300

Not new donors. Not new campaigns. Your current donors giving below their actual capacity.

Upgrade candidates

$14,050

Avg capacity gap

24 mo

Cultivation path

Sarah Chen

VP Engineering, TechCorp · MIT Alumna · Foundation Board Member · 3-year donor

$50K

Capacity

Current: $5,000/yr → Capacity: $50,000 $45K gap

TechCorp VP compensation tier confirms $2.5M plus estimated capacity.

Foundation board membership signals active philanthropic identity at major gift level.

Prior giving to 3 STEM organizations at $10K to $25K range documented.

MIT Alumni Network engagement confirms peer giving norms at $25K plus.

James Okafor

Senior Project Manager, Baltimore City · Homeowner · 8-year consecutive donor

$25K

Capacity

Current: $1,200/yr → Capacity: $25,000 $23.8K gap

8 consecutive years of giving. Zero missed gifts. Highest loyalty score in file.

Real estate holdings: primary residence plus rental property. Estimated net worth $680K.

Referred two donors in 2024. Active mission advocate well beyond giving level.

Never been personally cultivated. No major gift conversation on record.

24-Month Upgrade Ladder · James Okafor · $1,200 to $25,000

Month 1 to 3

Cultivation

Executive Director personal call. Framing: "James, you have been with us for eight years. I want to personally thank you and share something we have been building that I think you should know about." No ask. Recognition first. Relationship deepening before any conversation about giving.

No ask yet

Month 4 to 6

First Ask

First upgrade ask. Framing: "We are naming the new mentorship cohort after the donors who make it possible at the $5,000 level. Given what you have meant to this organization, I wanted to ask you first." Not a bigger gift. A naming opportunity. The ask is an invitation, not a solicitation.

$5,000

First step

Month 10 to 12

Second Ask

Impact report from the named cohort delivered in person. Framing: "The cohort you made possible just produced its first symposium presenter. Here is what that looked like." Second ask follows the impact delivery. Ask: "Would you consider funding the full cohort next year at $12,000?"

$12,000

Second step

Month 20 to 24

Major Gift

Major gift conversation. By month 20, James has seen two cohorts, received two personal impact reports, and has been recognized publicly at two events. Framing: "We are building an endowed scholarship in James Okafor's name. A $25,000 commitment funds one student annually in perpetuity." The relationship is ready for this conversation. The upgrade ladder made sure of it.

$25,000

Major gift

The Three Signals That Surface a Hidden Major Donor.

No single data point reveals major gift capacity. The pattern across three dimensions does. Donor Prioritization reads all three simultaneously across your entire donor file.

Signal 01 · Capacity

What the numbers say they can give.

Professional title and employer compensation tier. Real estate holdings and property records. Board memberships at other organizations. SEC filings for stock grants and equity vesting. Giving history to peer organizations at higher levels. The capacity data is public. Most organizations never aggregate it.

Signal 02 · Affinity

What the behavior says they care about.

Eight consecutive years of giving without a missed gift. Every event attended. Two donor referrals made. Survey responses with language of personal ownership over the mission. These are not metrics. They are signs of a donor who has already decided this organization matters more than their current giving level reflects.

Signal 03 · Readiness

What the cultivation history says about timing.

Has this donor ever been personally cultivated? Has an Executive Director ever called them to say thank you without an ask attached? Have they ever been invited to a behind-the-scenes program visit? James Okafor has been giving for eight years and the answer to all three questions is no. Readiness is not about the donor. It is about what the organization has done to earn the conversation.

The Methodology. Without the $50,000 Consultant.

Full File Capacity Screening

Donor Prioritization runs wealth screening across every donor in your file simultaneously, not just the top 50 by giving level. James Okafor gives $1,200 per year. A wealth screening of top givers would never find him. A full file capacity scan surfaces the $23,800 gap between what he gives and what he can give.

Step-Upgrade Framing Built In

The first ask for James Okafor is not $25,000. It is $5,000 framed as a naming opportunity. That is the difference between a solicitation and an invitation. Donor Prioritization builds the framing for every step of the upgrade ladder, not just the dollar amounts. The relationship is protected at each stage of the sequence.

24-Month Cultivation Path

Major gifts do not happen from cold asks. They happen at the end of a cultivation sequence that earns the relationship depth required for a transformational conversation. Donor Prioritization builds the 24-month path with specific touchpoints, framing for each ask, and timing calibrated to the relationship's current depth.

Same Methodology. $50,000 Less.

Major gift consulting firms charge $30,000 to $50,000 to run prospect research across a donor file. They cross-reference professional background, real estate holdings, board memberships, SEC filings, and peer organization giving. Donor Prioritization runs that same methodology across your full file automatically and updates it continuously as new data becomes available.

Every Database Has 3 to 5 James Okafor Donors

Every donor file has 3 to 5 donors giving at $1,000 per year who have $25,000 giving capacity. The question is whether you find them before they give that major gift to another cause that cultivated them properly. Donor Prioritization finds them. The cultivation path earns the conversation. The ask follows the relationship.

Chasing Cold Prospects While Your Best Donors Go Uncultivated.

Traditional prospect research looks outward. This looks inward.

Strangers with high net worth and no connection to your mission cost more to cultivate and convert at lower rates than donors who already love you and are waiting to be invited into something bigger. Donor Prioritization finds the donors who already chose you. They just have not been asked correctly yet.

From Undiscovered Capacity to Major Gift Conversation

Without Donor Prioritization

James Okafor gives $1,200 per year for 8 years. No one runs the numbers on James.
Development team focuses major gift effort on cold prospect research lists
$84,300 in hidden capacity sits undiscovered in the existing donor file
No cultivation plan exists for mid-level donors with high affinity scores
James never receives a personal call without an ask attached
Major gift conversation never happens because no one knew to have it
James eventually gives a $20,000 gift to another organization that asked him

With Donor Prioritization

James Okafor flagged. $25,000 capacity. $23,800 gap. Highest loyalty score in file.
Executive Director personal cultivation call scheduled. No ask attached.
$84,300 in hidden capacity surfaced and ranked by upgrade priority
24-month cultivation path built with framing for every step of the ladder
Month 4 first ask: $5,000 as a naming opportunity for the mentorship cohort
Month 24 major gift conversation: $25,000 endowed scholarship in James Okafor's name
James gives the major gift to your organization because you cultivated the relationship

James Okafor Has Given You $1,200 Every Year for 8 Years. He Has $25,000 Capacity. He Has Never Been Properly Cultivated.

That is the conversation this agent starts.

Your Best Major Gift Prospects Are Already in Your Database. They Are Waiting to Be Asked Correctly.

Get started and see Donor Prioritization surface the hidden capacity in your existing donor file today.