Komselj is a fundraising strategy consultancy that works with both nonprofits and philanthropists — to make the relationship between them honest, capable, and worth the capital on the table.
Built on more than seventeen years of practice across thirteen countries, our advisory work navigates across health, human rights, education, conservation, disability inclusion, and community-led entrepreneurship.
Fundraising Strategy and Philanthropic Advisory
Based in New York. Working globally.
Good philanthropy is a relationship
WHAT WE DOStrategic counsel for nonprofits and philanthropists — bilateral by design.
Komselj is a fundraising strategy consultancy and philanthropic advisory firm based in New York, working in over 13 countries across the world .
Our practice covers fundraising audits, donor strategy, campaign architecture, case-for-support development, board engagement, and philanthropic alignment work — held together by a five-pillar methodology and a peer environment called the Mirror Cohort, where serious operators on both sides do real work alongside each other.
CONVICTION -Most fundraising fails for lack of design,
not lack of effort.
Nonprofits chase capital they cannot absorb.
Donors fund work they cannot follow.
Stories get told that flatten the people they claim to serve.
Boards disengage.
Fundraising campaigns launch without alignment.
The waste is enormous, and almost none of it is the result of bad intent.It is the result of a relationship that was never properly designed.
KOMSELJ exists to design it
THE BILATERAL MODEL-Two sides. One practice.
No conflicts of interest.
We advise nonprofits on fundraising capacity.
We advise philanthropists on aligned giving.
Same firm, same methodology, two distinct client relationships — held apart with care. We do this because the asymmetry of information between funders and fundees is the single largest source of waste in the philanthropic sector.
Closing it is the most useful work we can do.
Strategic counsel for executive directors, development directors, and nonprofit boards who are ready to fundraise as a discipline rather than a scramble.
We provide nonprofit fundraising audits, donor strategy, campaign architecture, case-for-support development, and board engagement programs.
Foundation engagements begin at $3,500 per month.
Strategic partnerships at $8,500 per month
FOR NON PROFITS-Fundraising consulting for nonprofits
Advisory for donors deploying $250K to $10M+ annually who want their giving to do real work — and who are willing to interrogate their own assumptions about whatreal work means.
Our philanthropic advisory practice includes giving alignment, portfolio strategy, grantee due diligence, and family or board governance.
Aligned Giving retainers begin at $5,000 per month.
Strategic Portfolio engagements at $10,000 per month include portfolio review, family and board governance work, and one gifted 74-point audits to grantees of your choosing
FOR PHILANTHROPISTS-