Accordant

What Accordant does

Accordant is a US-based professional services firm that provides philanthropy, governance, and community health consulting exclusively to healthcare organizations. Its clients are hospitals, health systems, and healthcare foundations seeking to build or scale fundraising programs, strengthen board governance, and develop philanthropy leadership. The firm is led by CEO Betsy Chapin Taylor and a team of principal consultants who are positioned as former practitioners (Chief Philanthropy Officers, Major Gift Officers, Planned Giving Officers) rather than career consultants, with an average of 27 years of healthcare leadership experience and most holding FAHP or CFRE credentials.

The firm operates through six service lines (Philanthropy + Grants, Boards + Governance, Accelerating Health Equity, Leadership + Talent, Creative + Communications, and Training + Facilitation) anchored by a proprietary Transformative Philanthropy™ methodology and branded tools including BoardAdvance (a board governance handbook) and CoreCentric®. There is no underlying technology platform; the core assets are codified methodologies, trademarks, and practitioner expertise. The firm is a member of The Giving Institute and contributes to Giving USA: The Annual Report on Philanthropy, and it generates demand primarily through thought leadership placements across healthcare and philanthropy publications and an annual Leadership Retreat event.

The business model is project-based and retainer professional services, with multi-year custom engagements priced by scope rather than standardized tiers. The customer base is concentrated in US enterprise healthcare, evidenced by a flagship case study at Baptist Health Louisville, which scaled from 1 employee to 37 staff and from $8M to over $25M in average annual fundraising under Accordant's engagement. The firm is privately held, bootstrapped with no disclosed institutional funding, and operates with a headcount in the 11-50 range.

Name

Accordant

Legal name

Accordant

Website

https://accordantphilanthropy.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Accordant is a US-based healthcare philanthropy consulting firm serving hospitals, health systems, and health foundations. It delivers custom advisory engagements across fundraising, board governance, health equity, and leadership development, anchored by its proprietary Transformative Philanthropy™ methodology.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Jacksonville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Philanthropy Consulting Services: Customized consulting engagements for healthcare organizations including campaign planning, fundraising infrastructure development, board governance, and leadership development. Revenue is generated through project-based and retainer consulting engagements with hospital systems and health foundations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Accordant provides customized consulting services to hospitals, health systems, and healthcare foundations focused on philanthropy, board governance, health equity, leadership development, and creative communications. Engagements cover campaign planning and execution, grateful patient engagement, major gift programs, planned giving, foundation governance, and capital campaigns, delivered by senior practitioners using the proprietary Transformative Philanthropy™ model and tools such as BoardAdvance and CoreCentric®.

Product overview

Accordant is a healthcare philanthropy consulting firm offering a portfolio of consulting services and proprietary tools. Their core services include Philanthropy + Grants, Boards + Governance, Accelerating Health Equity, Leadership + Talent, Creative + Communications, and Training + Facilitation. These services are supported by proprietary tools including BoardAdvance (board governance handbook), CoreCentric® (referenced in quick links), and the Transformative Philanthropy™ methodology model. The firm also hosts an annual Leadership Retreat event for the healthcare philanthropy community.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Transformative Philanthropy™: A holistic model that addresses important levers to performance in healthcare philanthropy.

Products and services

• Philanthropy + Grants Consulting Customized consulting engagements to help healthcare organizations harness generosity, uncover philanthropic opportunities, and integrate fundraising strategies including campaign planning, grateful patient engagement, major gift programs, and planned giving.
• Boards + Governance Consulting Consulting services to identify, engage, and empower volunteer board leaders and allies, with recognized expertise in elevating foundation and hospital board governance for healthcare organizations.
• Accelerating Health Equity Consulting Consulting services to develop purpose-driven partnerships and invigorate external investment that expands access to optimal health and well-being for healthcare organizations and their communities.
• Leadership + Talent Consulting Consulting services combining leadership strengths, integrity, and vision with values and purpose to benefit leaders, teams, and healthcare organizations, including executive coaching capabilities.
• Creative + Communications Consulting Consulting services to elevate communication initiatives and extend a healthcare organization's ability to engage and motivate prospective and current donor partners.
• Training + Facilitation Consulting Consulting services to guide and advance healthcare leaders through shared expertise, ideas, and structured facilitation that empowers health organizations and their teams.
• BoardAdvance A proprietary board governance tool and handbook for elevating foundation and hospital board governance, offered as part of Accordant's Boards + Governance service line.
• CoreCentric® A proprietary tool referenced in Accordant's service offerings, designed for healthcare philanthropy operations and supporting organizational alignment and performance measurement.
• Leadership Retreat An annual in-person leadership retreat event for healthcare philanthropy professionals held in Orlando, Florida, serving as a mid-funnel engagement and community-building offering for Accordant's clients and prospects.

Quantifiable outcome

• Baptist Health Louisville: Grew philanthropy program from $8M average annual fundraising to over $25M in most recent fiscal year
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• The Giving InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAccordant is a member firm of The Giving Institute, which produces Giving USA: The Annual Report on Philanthropy. As members, they contribute insights and analysis to the healthcare philanthropy section of this annual publication.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• KDG Development Consulting: Healthcare philanthropy and fundraising consulting firm specializing in campaign management, development assessments, and major gifts strategy for hospital systems — directly comparable in target market and service mix.
• CCS Fundraising: Large-scale fundraising consulting firm serving healthcare, higher education, and nonprofit clients with campaign and development strategy services — the most direct scale comparable to Accordant in the same buyer segment.
• Graham-Pelton Consulting: Direct competitor in nonprofit and healthcare fundraising consulting, offering campaign planning, feasibility studies, and development assessments — overlapping closely with Accordant's Philanthropy + Grants service line.
• Bentz Whaley Flessner: Boutique fundraising and advancement consulting firm serving healthcare, higher education, and nonprofits with campaign counsel and development diagnostics — competing for the same mid-sized hospital system philanthropy engagements.
• The Curtis Group: Healthcare philanthropy and nonprofit consulting firm offering campaign planning, fundraising assessments, and development counsel — overlapping with Accordant's core service portfolio and target customer base.

Broad incumbents

• Huron Consulting Group: Large diversified consulting firm with a healthcare practice that includes strategic and operational advisory for health systems — broader scope but competes for strategic philanthropy and governance engagements at enterprise health systems.
• The Advisory Board Company (Optum): Optum-owned healthcare research and consulting firm serving C-suite leaders at health systems — broad incumbent offering strategic advisory that can include development and governance topics relevant to Accordant's buyers.
• Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock: Healthcare strategic communications and change management consultancy serving hospitals and health systems — overlaps with Accordant's Creative + Communications and Leadership + Talent offerings for healthcare executives.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/accordantgiving
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@accordanthealth
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/accordant-philanthropy

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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