The short version
DonorGraph Solo is $1,296 a year billed annually — $0.72 a complete screening — with the cited AI brief inside every one, a single meter, federal and state campaign finance itemized as evidence, and a link to the primary record behind each field. A solo researcher who wants iWave Starter plus the Engage AI assistant is looking at $5,045 a year at Kindsight's own published starting prices, spread across two capped meters, with political giving held out of the scoring. iWave carries a verified-gift archive, a published list of its 44 data sources and a user-tunable matching dial. The table below is fact for fact.
Side by side
| Question a buyer asks | DonorGraph | iWave (Kindsight) |
|---|---|---|
| Published entry price | Solo $129/mo, or $1,296/yr billed annually: 150 complete screenings per month (1,800 a year), 1 seat. donorgraph.com/pricing.html | Starter from $4,500/yr, 1 user, up to 1,500 subscription screens + 750 live profiles. kindsight.io/pricing, fetched 2026-09-06 |
| Next tier | Team $349/mo (600 a month, 3 seats); Org $799/mo (2,500 a month, 10 seats); Enterprise $1,799/mo (10,000 a month, API). | Professional from $5,800/yr, 3 users, 5,000 screens + 2,500 live profiles. Premium quote-only. |
| Cost per screening | $0.72 Solo, $0.49 Team, $0.27 Org, $0.15 Enterprise, on annual billing. | $4,500 ÷ 1,500 subscription screens = $3.00 each at the published floor (750 live profiles included), before Engage AI. |
| AI included? | Cited AI brief included in every screening on every plan. | Engage AI writing tool is a separate subscription: $545, $1,095 or $3,295 per year by seat count. |
| Usage meters | One meter: complete screenings, included per plan rather than billed per record. Overage $0.45–$1.10 each depending on plan. | Two currencies: subscription screens and live profiles, each capped. |
| Political giving (federal + state) | FEC plus all 50 state campaign-finance sources, itemized (date, committee, amount, self-reported employer) and counted as evidence. | Holds FEC data and excludes political giving from its scoring, a stated compliance decision. |
| When the evidence is thin | The field says no evidence found, with the reason. DonorGraph does not emit a number the records do not support. | The Confidence-of-Match dial sets how much is attached to the person; a rating is returned either way. |
| Entity resolution | Resolved against IRS BMF/990, FEC and property records; each match shows its supporting record and an evidence tier of confirmed, possible or none. | Confidence-of-Match dial (1–10), tuned by the user. |
| Fixing a wrong record | One-click correction on any field; the correction persists for your organization and applies to future screenings. | Reviewers report no quick path to correct stale or wrong data. |
| Gift history | IRS 990-PF grants, Form 990 Schedule I, the Million Dollar List and 990 officer data, each cited to the filing. | VeriGift archive, 228M+ verified gifts. |
| Source transparency | Sources cited per field inside each profile, linked to the filing; method on how we verify. | Publishes all 44 datasets by name. |
| Commitment | Month to month at the published price, cancel any time; annual billing saves two months. | Annual subscription, priced per seat. |
| Try it on your own donors before a call | Yes: three complete screenings, no card, no call. | Demo. |
Where DonorGraph is different
One meter, AI included
DonorGraph runs one kind of screening, and every one of them is complete: evidence sweep, identity resolution and the cited AI brief. There is no add-on subscription for the AI and no second currency to budget. A solo researcher who wants iWave Starter plus Engage AI is looking at $5,045 a year at the published starting prices; DonorGraph Solo is $1,296, and the 150 screenings are a monthly allowance, not an annual one. Nobody has to decide whether a prospect is worth a live profile.
Entity resolution is our job
DonorGraph resolves identity against structured public registries: IRS Business Master File and Form 990 officer lists, FEC filer records, county deed records. Each accepted match shows the supporting document and carries an evidence tier — confirmed, possible or none — so the researcher sees which findings are settled and which are open. Where the records cannot separate two candidates, the profile says so rather than picking one.
Political giving counts as evidence
DonorGraph itemizes federal and state contributions in every profile — date, committee, amount, employer as self-reported on the filing — and treats them alongside property, securities and board service. For most major-gift prospects this is the most recent public financial act on record, and it is one of the few public records that carries a self-reported employer.
Corrections stick
Any field can be corrected in one click. The correction is stored for your organization, applied the next time that donor is screened, and fed back as a signal to identity resolution on similar cases. An error caught once by one researcher stays fixed for the whole team.
The price is on the page
Four plans, four prices, four cost-per-screening figures, published before any conversation: $129, $349, $799 and $1,799 a month. Annual billing saves two months, monthly billing cancels any time, and the calculator on what wealth screening actually costs works out your volume against every published price in the market.
Who switches
- Small and mid-size shops paying $4,000 to $12,000 a year for a tool they open a few hundred times a year.
- Researchers who would rather not decide whether a prospect is worth a live profile or a subscription screen.
- Teams that want the AI brief on every screening rather than as a second subscription.
- Teams that want the political signal, federal and state, counted as evidence.
- Anyone who has had to defend a capacity number in a meeting and wanted the document behind it.
Cost comparison at three sizes
| Program size | DonorGraph (published) | iWave (published 'from' prices) |
|---|---|---|
| One researcher, AI assistant wanted | Solo $1,296/yr, AI included — 150 screenings a month, $0.72 each | Starter $4,500 + Engage Starter $545 = $5,045/yr |
| Three-person team | Team $3,492/yr, 3 seats, AI included — 600 a month, $0.49 each | Professional from $5,800/yr (+ $1,095 Engage Professional) |
| Ten-person department, up to 2,500 profiles a month | Org $7,992/yr, 10 seats — 30,000 a year, $0.27 each | Premium, quote only |
Kindsight's prices are 'starting at' figures and can rise with seats and volume. The full market table is on what wealth screening actually costs.
Frequently asked questions
Is iWave the same as Kindsight?
Yes. iWave rebranded as Kindsight in February 2024 after merging with UC Innovation; iwave.com now redirects to kindsight.io. iWave survives as the name of Kindsight's prospect-research product, sold next to two CRMs (Ascend and AdvancementRM), a donor portal and an AI writing tool.
How much does iWave cost?
Kindsight publishes 'starting at' prices: iWave Starter from $4,500 per year (1 user, up to 1,500 subscription screens, up to 750 live profiles) and Professional from $5,800 per year (3 users, 5,000 screens, 2,500 live profiles). Premium is quote-only. The Engage AI writing tool is a separate subscription from $545 per year.
What are 'subscription screens' versus 'live profiles'?
Two separate meters. A subscription screen is a bulk match against the database; a live profile is an on-demand, fully built profile on one person. Both are capped per plan, so a researcher has to decide which currency to spend on each prospect.
Does iWave include political donations?
iWave carries FEC data as a source but deliberately excludes political giving from its scoring, a compliance decision. Political records appear in the profile without influencing the capacity or propensity rating.
What is the Confidence-of-Match dial?
A 1–10 setting the user tunes to control how aggressively iWave matches records to a person. A low setting pulls in more records including wrong-person matches; a high setting drops them but can lose true matches. It puts entity resolution in the user's hands.
Which is cheaper for a solo researcher?
DonorGraph Solo is $1,296 per year billed annually, or $129 month to month, and includes 150 complete screenings per month — 1,800 a year, about $0.72 each, with the cited AI brief in every one. iWave Starter is from $4,500 per year, before the optional $545 Engage AI tool. If you run thousands of bulk screens a year, compare on the calculator at donorgraph.com/wealth-screening-pricing.html.
Is there anything iWave still does that DonorGraph doesn't?
Three things. iWave's VeriGift archive holds more than 228 million verified gift records from other institutions, where DonorGraph cites IRS 990-PF grants, Form 990 Schedule I and the Million Dollar List directly and leaves your own CRM giving history in your hands. Kindsight publishes its 44 datasets as a named list, where DonorGraph cites the source on each field inside the profile with the filing linked. iWave is sold alongside Kindsight's own CRMs as a single-vendor stack, where DonorGraph exports CSV in DonorPerfect, Raiser's Edge NXT, Bloomerang, LGL and Salesforce formats today, with native connectors in progress and an API on Enterprise.
- Kindsight pricing page (kindsight.io/pricing), fetched 2026-09-06: iWave Starter from $4,500, Professional from $5,800, Premium contact; Engage from $545 / $1,095 / $3,295 per year.
- Kindsight rebrand from iWave announced February 2024; iwave.com redirects to kindsight.io.
- Kindsight publishes its data-source list (44 datasets) and documents the Confidence-of-Match setting in product materials.
- Kindsight's treatment of FEC data (present as a source, excluded from scoring) per its published data and compliance materials.
- Reviewer statements on duplicates and corrections are paraphrased from public software-review sites; they are individual opinions, not measurements.
- DonorGraph pricing: donorgraph.com/pricing.html and /api/v8/pricing/plans.