Nexis for Development Professionals
Donor prospect research software
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What is Nexis for Development Professionals
Nexis for Development Professionals is a prospect research and due diligence tool that helps fundraising teams find and monitor information about individuals, organizations, and related entities. It provides access to aggregated public-records and news sources to support donor qualification, wealth screening inputs, and risk review workflows. The product is typically used by prospect researchers, advancement services, and development officers who need documented sources and audit trails for research outputs. It differentiates through broad content coverage and search capabilities oriented to investigative and compliance-style research rather than CRM-native fundraising operations.
Broad public-records coverage
The platform aggregates a wide range of news, business, and public-record sources that can support biographical, affiliation, and asset-related research. This breadth can help teams corroborate details across multiple source types without switching tools. It is useful for building research packets and documenting citations for internal review. Coverage is generally oriented to research depth rather than fundraising workflow management.
Strong search and filtering
Nexis emphasizes advanced search, entity-based queries, and filtering to narrow large result sets. These capabilities support complex research questions such as relationship mapping and identifying relevant mentions across time. Researchers can use structured queries to improve repeatability of searches. This is helpful when compared with tools that focus primarily on pre-built wealth indicators.
Monitoring and alerts support
The product supports ongoing monitoring of people and organizations through alerts on new content. This can help development teams track reputational risk signals or major life and business events relevant to cultivation. Monitoring can also support stewardship and portfolio management by surfacing timely updates. It is particularly relevant for organizations with formal due diligence processes.
Not a fundraising CRM
Nexis is primarily a research content platform and does not replace donor management, gift processing, or moves management systems. Organizations typically need separate systems for constituent records, solicitation tracking, and reporting. As a result, teams may need manual steps or custom processes to move findings into their fundraising database. This can increase operational overhead compared with CRM-integrated prospecting tools.
Wealth scoring not primary
While it can provide inputs for wealth and capacity assessment, it is not primarily designed around nonprofit-specific wealth models and pre-scored capacity ratings. Users may need to interpret raw findings and translate them into internal scoring frameworks. This can require more analyst time than products that deliver purpose-built philanthropic propensity indicators. Outcomes depend heavily on researcher skill and organizational standards.
Licensing and access complexity
Content availability and permitted use can vary by subscription, geography, and source licensing terms. Teams may need governance around who can access the tool and how outputs can be shared internally. Budgeting can be less predictable when different user roles require different access levels. These factors can complicate rollout for smaller development shops.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Essentials | Custom pricing — request info | Prospect research, prospect screening, donor validation & tracking, company & executive information, biographies, news coverage, access to U.S. public records. (Listed on vendor pricing page.) |
| Premium (Nexis Diligence+™) | Custom pricing — request info | Everything in Essentials plus reputational risk screening, ethical gift management, donor values & affiliations; bundles Nexis Diligence+ for enhanced due diligence. |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing — contact sales | Built for large teams: specialized content & data packages, flexible API delivery, scalable/custom integrations; pricing noted as custom on vendor site. |
Note: The vendor’s official pricing pages state that subscriptions are tailored to each organization (pricing varies by size, dataset access, and number of users) and advise contacting LexisNexis for a custom quote.
Seller details
LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Alpharetta, Georgia, USA
1997
Subsidiary
https://risk.lexisnexis.com/
https://x.com/LexisNexisRisk
https://www.linkedin.com/company/lexisnexis-risk-solutions/
