iWave has an extraordinary amount of data to pull from across a number of sources and areas. Personally, I found the Foundations information to be especially helpful in finding new places to submit grants to and to find more information about current grantors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There aren't many downsides to iWave. The profiles feature could be a bit better. If there was a better way to track relationships between people within iWave, that'd be helpful. the iWave score is a helpful metric, but the additional "strategies" they suggest aren't particularly useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use iWave for screening my donor database and building out my major gift pipeline. iWave helps me quickly segment new prospects and prioritize them as I surface them for our major gift officers. It has been instrumental for our organization, especially since our donor database is primarily our alumni. I'm able to use internal giving data with iWave's screening processes, which enhances iWave's analytics. It also offers cultivation techniques and engagement ideas that are beneficial not only for our major gift officers but for other departments as well, to engage and educate our graduate community. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like how I had to learn on my own about changes to the screening template because there wasn't a notification through email. This lack of communication and timing wasted some of my time, even though the screenings were refunded. I also found the knowledge base library not very intuitive to navigate, needing to open multiple tabs. It just wasn't very easy, leading to hits and misses while figuring out how to fully leverage iWave. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

iWave's VeriGift function is fantastic, and the exportability of foundation gifts as well is very helpful. I also absolutely love the screening options before each screening - it's thoughtful and very helpful to be able to change those ratings based on the purpose of each particular screening/project. That's huge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Their Foundations data is about a year behind oftentimes. It's still more current than the competition, but having to go elsewhere for 2024 Forms 990 and add those gifts manually for my team has been cumbersome. Also the orange-y format and thin lettering is a lot harder to read than their previous version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find being able to quickly research donors through the straightforward database is fantastic. The planned giving feature is becoming helpful for our organization, and pricing wise, it seems reasonable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find the addition of AI has not been helpful yet, and if you're not used to this system, it does have a steep learning curve to it to make it work as intended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love the fact that I can look up multiple real estate ownership. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dislike the fact that ZoomInfo no longer has archived bios. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use iWave for donor prospecting and research. It helps me find more information about donors and easily discover new prospects. I really like the Smart Sheet feature, which we use the most, along with Smart Search. Smart Search allows us to quickly and easily find new donor prospects along with their contact info. Additionally, the initial setup of iWave was pretty easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's not so easy to find emails for certain people and to also search funders of specific organizations. It would also be helpful to have a plugin for other CRMs like Raiser's Edge so that we can directly import people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very user friendly and has the features needed to do what I need to do as a prospect researcher I would say so, it is leading to more gifts and more accurate data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think it could be optimized more to handle false positives Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I use iWave for prospecting and research. I find its interface very accessible and everything works as advertised. The initial setup was very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think that the connections portion of mass screens doesn't work as well as it could. Connections are a big part of how we prospect, and the feature is confusing on the iWave platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It provides me with a comprehensive view of our donors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be really nice to have more filters on the foundation side Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like that once you're inside an iWave screening, it does a great job of getting in-depth information about donors. I appreciate that it provides kind of a global perspective on donor behavior, both politically and in terms of charitable donations. Once you upload data, iWave helps find a lot of useful information about those donors and can find comparable donors who exist in the same market space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In order to do an upload for iWave, you have to put the information in a very specific format, and it's not the format that your CRM or donor management platform will spit it out in. So that's really the only point of friction with the software. It's a little bit of a pain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.