Wielding intelligence for good.

EST. 2026

NOT SOFTWARE YOU LICENCE.
CAPACITY YOU OWN.

We build AI with the third sector, not just for it. Non-profits, foundations, family offices and philanthropists get bespoke agentic systems, built with their own teams, on their own data, and theirs to run afterwards.

IN OUR ORBIT — ADVISOR AND FOUNDER EXPERIENCE

ABOUT

The organisations solving the world's hardest problems should not be the last to hold real intelligence capacity. Ambition is not what is missing. Capacity is. Philanthropel exists to build it inside them rather than to sell it to them.

Bespoke agentic systems, built around how you already work.

Not software you licence and then bend your organisation around. We build the agentic capacity to run these functions inside your organisation, on your data, your processes and your constraints. The system is built with your team rather than delivered to them, and it stays yours to run.

Donor engagement

Agents that hold every supporter relationship in view and act on it: personalised approaches, timed follow-ups and next steps drawn from what your team already knows, at a scale no manual process reaches.

Campaigns and supporter marketing

Systems that plan, draft, segment and run appeals end to end in your house voice, and carry what each audience responded to into the next campaign rather than starting again.

Prospect research

Agents that read across public records, giving histories and stated interests to surface the people with genuine affinity for your cause. Each name arrives as a worked profile: why them, why you, and the route in.

Grantmaking

For funders: intake, triage, assessment and reporting run against your own criteria, so programme staff spend their time on judgement rather than administration.

Scholarships and awards

Application, review and selection as one system, with eligibility, scoring and panel workflow built around your rules rather than a vendor's defaults.

Employee giving and volunteering

Corporate giving, matching and volunteering handled end to end, with the reporting a CSR team is asked for already assembled rather than reconstructed each quarter.

Membership and visitor operations

For arts and cultural organisations: ticketing, membership and the supporter relationship behind them joined into one system, instead of three that do not speak to each other.

Catalyst is how the people who will use these systems learn to lead with them. The capability and the system are built together, or neither holds.

THE PHILANTHROPEL DIFFERENCE

Sector experienceIntelligenceImpact

✦ SECTOR-NATIVE. BUILT WITH CLIENTS. PROVEN IN PRACTICE.

01We know the work

Our team has raised funds, built campaigns, advised leadership teams and sat in the rooms where critical decisions are made. That experience shapes every system we build, grounding it in how philanthropy actually works rather than in how commercial software assumes it does.

02Built in practice, not in theory

Every system is built alongside a real organisation and refined through live use. We are live in competitive engagements, and the systems we have built already run in daily workflows.

03Intelligence across the ecosystem

Our work spans both sides of philanthropy: organisations seeking and deploying resources, and the funders and philanthropists behind them. Each system we build is informed by both ends of the relationship it has to serve.

04Capacity that compounds

An engagement leaves more behind than a working system. The data model, the patterns and the practice of running it stay with the organisation, so building capacity in a second area starts from what the first established rather than from nothing.

Data

Your donors are not our dataset.

Your data stays yours.

Client data stays inside the engagement. We work to GDPR standards, and donor records are never used to train models shared with anyone else. If a system cannot meet that bar, we do not build it.

What clients say

Evidence over adjectives. The work speaks in our clients' words.

The value made sense financially

Marco VitaleFINANCE DIRECTOR

The capability stayed with our team

Beatrice OwusuFOUNDING TRUSTEE

They understood what we were building

Monisha ThyagarajanCREATIVE PRODUCER · AWEDACIOUS ORIGINALS

They deeply understood how nonprofits work

Yuki SatoPROGRAMME DIRECTOR

More time with donors, finally

James TurnbullMAJOR GIFTS OFFICER

We could pursue more opportunities

Amara DialloFOUNDER · GLOBAL SOUTH NGO

Ten years of data became useful

Jae-won ParkHEAD OF STRATEGY

Our trustees started asking better questions

Sarah KimaniGOVERNANCE LEAD

Donor follow-up became much easier

Anika SharmaMAJOR GIFTS

We found the right partners faster

Robert EllisonDIRECTOR OF PARTNERSHIPS

Practical solutions which work

Abhinav BansalRETAIL ADVISOR & OPERATOR · ALIXPARTNERS

Made a complex change feel manageable

Arun MirchandaniMANAGING DIRECTOR, HR

We saw opportunities we'd missed

Kwame BoatengPARTNERSHIPS

The efficiency justified the investment

Lin ZhaoFINANCE LEAD

It understood our sector and audience

Nkechi ObiCOMMUNICATIONS LEAD

Gave our board something concrete

Joseph MensahTRUSTEE

We stopped rebuilding bids from scratch

Peter NakamuraHEAD OF BIDS

They understood our operating reality

Yusuf KarimCOUNTRY DIRECTOR

Finally, something built around programmes

Fatima Al-RashidPROGRAMME LEAD

We moved from brief to live

Ines FerreiraGRANTS MANAGER

It made the process much simpler

Vaishnavi BadamHR OPERATIONS · MEDWAY CARE SERVICES

Governance stayed part of the conversation

Margaret DoyleCOMPANY SECRETARY

Our board got clearer on the capability of AI

Takeshi MoriBOARD CHAIR

Our case for support got sharper

Hannah VogelHEAD OF PHILANTHROPY

It understood how our funders think

Karim AzizDIRECTOR · MENA REGION

Better intelligence on the right funders

Ravi MenonPHILANTHROPY ADVISOR

We were part of building it

Grace MbekiTRUSTEE · GRANT-MAKING BODY

We knew where to focus

Kenji WatanabeCAMPAIGN CHAIR

Built for our sector, not adapted

Alan PritchardCHIEF EXECUTIVE

They got to the solution so quickly

Runjhun SrivastavaSTRATEGY & MARKETING

Evidence our trustees could act on

David OkonkwoDEVELOPMENT LEAD

They made the data make sense

Bani Ghei AhluwaliaMEDICAL AFFAIRS · NORDBERG MEDICAL

We got the bid out faster

Rafael DuarteDIRECTOR OF FUNDRAISING

Every application had a head start

Mei-Lin ChenHEAD OF GRANTS

Research our fundraisers could use

Hiroshi TanakaHEAD OF DEVELOPMENT

We could compete with bigger teams

Adaeze NwosuFOUNDER · WEST AFRICA

PHILANTHROPEL

The full bench

TEAM

Srishti Bakshi

Philanthropic strategist and technologist

Partner · Philanthropel

Turns fundraising practice into working systems — every build began with a problem met on the floor

TEAM

Anmol Pratap Singh

AI engineer and systems architect

Head of AI · Philanthropel

Builds the agentic infrastructure these systems run on, so each engagement starts further along than the last

ADVISORY

Ben Morton Wright

President & Group CEO, Global Philanthropic

Global Philanthropic Worldwide · International advisory

Anchoring the work in how philanthropy is actually commissioned and delivered worldwide

ADVISORY

Seymour Banks

Deputy Chair, Global Philanthropic Holdings

Global Philanthropic Holdings · Former Chair

Holding the venture to the governance standard the sector expects of its advisers

ADVISORY

Rohit Bakshi

Enterprise AI & product leader

Cisco · Box · Google · BCG

Turning sophisticated AI into practical, scalable intelligence for the sector

ADVISORY

Archana Ramana

Sales strategy & operations leader

Meta · Global technology

Helping build the operating models that take good ideas to scale

ADVISORY

Deepak Ramola

Wisdom historian & educator

Project FUEL · Stanford · MIT

Keeping human intelligence at the heart of what we build

ADVISORY

Abha Shri Saxena

Gender equality & development specialist

Global Center for Gender Equality · USAID · UN ecosystem · Global development

Ensuring the intelligence we build works for the communities it is designed to serve

ADVISORY

Lisa Heinrichs

Global campaigns & mobilisation leader

United Nations SDG Action Campaign · Global Goals

Bringing the lens of global movements to how ideas mobilise people and scale impact

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