This is a guest blog from Bill Tedesco, CEO and Managing Partner for DonorSearch, a company that provides wealth screening, philanthropic reviews, and online prospect research tools exclusively to the nonprofit market. — Prospect research is exactly as it sounds: research that nonprofits gather on their donor prospects. Once you compile this information, you can analyze it to determine a prospect’s ability to give to your organization (their giving capacity), as well as their affinity to give to your nonprofit.