A breakdown of Impala's cutting edge sector research tool
What is Ecosystems?
Ecosystems is one of Impala's premium products, designed to help you to analyze any nonprofit sector anywhere in the US! By consolidating information, Ecosystems translates raw data into highly detailed trends and comparisons to help minimize your effort and maximize your research.
Ecosystems can be built three different ways. You'll get the same types of reports in each one, the type just determines how we decide which organizations to include in the Ecosystem.
A sector - Choose geographies, causes, and/or keywords, and we’ll reveal insights about the nonprofits who fit your criteria and the funders that support them - learn how to build one
A set of funders - Choose specific funders, and we’ll reveal insights about them and their grantees - learn how to build one
A set of nonprofits - Choose specific nonprofits, and we’ll reveal insights about them and their funders - learn how to build one
Learn how to build your first Ecosystem here.
Dashboard
This is your Ecosystem, at a glance! View Key Indicators about the stability of your ecosystem across size, sustainability, staffing, and support from institutional philanthropy.
Funding
With comprehensive visualizations of funding trends and distinct data on individual funders and their grants, building a prospect or peer list has never been easier.
- Grant Distribution: see where grants in your network are going, with information on funders, grantees, grant amount, and years given.
- Comparison: see how funders stack up. View direct data comparisons between funders in your ecosystem, including their total Ecosystem Focus, Time in Ecosystem, Grantee Reliance, and more.
- Overlap: view matched sets of funders who have funded the same organizations, within the same years. See lists of their overlapping grantees and total combined funding.
Nonprofits
Now take a look at the flip side of your sector, the Nonprofits. Identify growth trends of your defined Ecosystem, or compare individual organization data.
- Comparison: see how an organization is doing in reference to its peers. Compare changes in Total Revenue, Expenses, and number of Funders.
- Growth: prepare for the future by checking growth trends across your Ecosystem. See which organizations are growing the fastest in Operating Budgets, Staff size, and more across several years of data.
Insights
See where the funding in your Ecosystem is going. View the Top Cities and Top Causes receiving the most funding in your network. Or check out the Funding Distribution tab to identify how those funds are spread through your Ecosystem. Identify organizations on the tail end of funding, or those receiving the largest percentage.
View Map
See how far your Ecosystem reaches. View the distribution of nonprofits, funders, and programs within your ecosystem.
