CharityCAN

What CharityCAN is

CharityCAN provides fundraising and relationship data software for Canadian charitable organizations seeking, assessing, and connecting with donors. Its prospect search covers donation records, compensation records, and biographical information, and the service automatically builds profiles that bring an individual prospect’s data together. Users can map connections through boards and companies, create searchable maps, and look up relationship paths among people, charities, and companies. CharityCAN says its data includes current-year real estate value and donation estimates for every Canadian postal code, along with information on 85,000 registered charities.

Donor screening matches submitted names and addresses against CharityCAN data, then calculates capacity and affinity scores. Screening can include board affiliations, private foundation and federal political donations, public sector salaries, organizational links, and three household wealth data points. The Raiser’s Edge NXT integration displays relationship, donation, and postal-code data on constituent pages and lets users import multiple data points. Subscribers can use an API for donor screening results and database updates, while AI Summaries produce donor briefs for export or saving to a donor management system. Every subscription tier includes on-demand training and support, a dedicated account manager, and contact by email, phone, chat, or text. CharityCAN was created by Third Sector Publishing, a family-owned business; founder Anderson Charters founded it in 2008.

Who it suits

CharityCAN is for Canadian charitable organizations that want donor prospecting, screening, and relationship data for fundraising. Teams using Raiser’s Edge NXT can display CharityCAN information on constituent pages, while subscribers can also access screening results through an API.

Limits

The free trial lasts 24 hours, and there is no free plan. The one-user plan costs $3,400 USD per year for one user; the Teams plan costs $10,200 USD per year for up to five users and includes a choice of 5,000 annual Donor Screening credits or CharityCAN for Raiser’s Edge NXT.

Getting started

1. Open the CharityCAN website.
2. Start the free 24-hour trial.
3. Choose a subscription plan that fits your user count and screening needs.
4. For Raiser’s Edge NXT data, use the integration included in the Teams plan or an organizational integration plan.
5. For API access, choose the Organizations plan and contact CharityCAN for pricing.

Verdict

Choose CharityCAN if your Canadian charitable organization needs prospect searches, donor screening, relationship mapping, or Raiser’s Edge NXT data. The free trial lasts one day, and the one-user subscription is $3,400 USD per year; organizations seeking a free plan should look elsewhere.