Your Ecosystem is a Landscape Markers Ecosystem based on the geographies and cause areas identified in your Prospecting Criteria. You can think of it as a consolidated view of your specific nonprofit sector: see the other nonprofits in your area, who’s funding them, and more. Importantly, it’s also the main source for the suggestions in your Funders of My Ecosystem list.
If you want to learn more about your Ecosystem, you can access the Ecosystem data right from your homepage. You can do this on the Impala For Fundraisers homepage by selecting the Explore my ecosystem tile in the bottom left of the screen. This will give you three options for what you can do in your ecosystem:
How does my organization compare to others?
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1) Who are the top funders?
Here, you can see all the institutional funders supporting your ecosystem, with specific data points and insights into their giving to help compare them.
2) What grants have been given?
This is a consolidated listing of all grants given in your ecosystem, with details like the funder that gave the grant, the nonprofit that received it, the description, year, and size.
You can also use the charts at the top of the page as filters on the listing below.
3) How does my organization compare to others?
This will list out all the nonprofits within your ecosystem, with key financial data available at a glance. If you’re linked with a 501(c)3 profile on impala, you'll be able to see where your organization falls in the list and how you compare to nonprofits in your ecosystem.*
* Note - if your organization is not populating in this section, you might need to update your Prospecting Criteria to better align with your organization (instructions here) or edit the cause areas on your own profile to ensure they're correctly representing your organization's focus (instructions here).
Build Custom Ecosystem
Want to build a different ecosystem to explore? This button will take you to the main Ecosystems landing page where you can create a new ecosystem. Check out our main Ecosystems help section here for more information.