Stephen Clouse & Associates

Name

Stephen Clouse & Associates

Legal name

Stephen Clouse & Associates, Inc.

Website

https://stephenclouse.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Non-profit fundraising services

NAICS

Advertising Material Distribution Services (541870), Public Relations Agencies (541820)

SIC

Services-Direct Mail Advertising Services (7331), Services-Advertising Agencies (7311)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYMPADADAK

Branded Documentary / Nonfiction (Corporate & NGO)

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Film & Video Production/Distribution/Documentary & Nonfiction Production

Keywords

• Major gift fundraising
• Non-profit development
• Multi-media video storytelling
• Direct response fundraising
• Donor cultivation

Headquarters

HQ city

Ashburn

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Major Gift Fundraising Programs: SCA creates and produces high-impact multi-media direct mail packages for non-profit organizations. Revenue is generated through project fees based on quantity mailed. The single largest cost is creating and producing the video documentary component. They offer standard design and high-design program levels. ROI is demonstrated through donor upgrades and transformational gifts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Stephen Clouse & Associates designs and produces multi-media major gift fundraising campaigns for non-profit organizations. Each engagement centers on a Hollywood-quality, high-definition documentary-style video that is packaged into a high-impact direct mail piece with supporting letters, prospectus, and enclosures, then activated through pre-announcement and follow-up appeals. The firm identifies and targets hidden major donors within a client's existing file (typically a minimum of 3,500 donors who have given $100+ in the last 18 months) and compresses an industry-average multi-year cultivation cycle into a roughly six-week project that yields documented 3x to 10x gift upgrades.

Product overview

Stephen Clouse & Associates (SCA) is a strategic communications and major gifts fundraising firm that offers a single integrated service: multi-media major gift video storytelling campaigns. The core offering combines high-quality documentary-style video production with direct response mailing packages to help non-profit organizations identify and upgrade donors. The service includes video creation, printed presentation materials (letters, prospectus, enclosures), and strategic campaign execution to compress the traditional multi-year donor cultivation process into weeks. The company primarily serves conservative non-profits, political organizations, and public policy foundations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Multi-Media Major Gift Fundraising Campaigns End-to-end multi-media fundraising campaign service for non-profit organizations combining a documentary-style, high-definition video with a high-impact direct mail package (letters, prospectus, enclosures), pre-announcement and follow-up appeals, and donor identification and targeting. The campaign identifies hidden major donors within the client's existing housefile (minimum 3,500 donors who have given $100+ in the last 18 months) and compresses the typical multi-year donor cultivation cycle into roughly six weeks. Engagement covers creative conception, video production, print package design, mailing execution, and donor response tracking. The service is delivered at Standard Design and High-Design tier levels under multi-year contracts and is intended for development and capital campaign teams at conservative non-profits, public policy organizations, and historical preservation institutions.

Quantifiable outcome

• Compresses 8.9-year donor cultivation process into weeks
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Bonterra: Large social-good software and services platform that includes fundraising, CRM, and donor engagement tools serving a broad nonprofit base. Broader incumbent with overlapping nonprofit fundraising capabilities but as part of a much wider portfolio.

Direct peers

• TrueSense Marketing: Fundraising marketing agency with particular strength in faith-based and conservative-leaning nonprofits. Closely comparable client overlap with SCA and similar direct response fundraising model.
• CCS Fundraising: One of the largest fundraising consulting firms in the US, providing major gifts, capital campaign, and development strategy services to nonprofits. Directly comparable in offering major gift fundraising consulting, though broader in vertical and service line than SCA.
• Pursuant: Direct response fundraising agency serving nonprofits across channels including direct mail and digital. Closest comparable in combining multi-channel fundraising campaign execution with nonprofit strategic consulting; much larger scale than SCA.
• The Lautman Group: Major gifts fundraising consulting firm focused on helping nonprofits build sustainable development programs. Directly comparable in major gift strategy and campaign execution.
• Bentz Whaley Flessner: Major gift fundraising and capital campaign consulting firm serving universities, healthcare systems, arts organizations, and other nonprofits. Directly comparable in providing strategic fundraising counsel for transformational gifts.
• Graham-Pelton Consulting: Fundraising and campaign strategy consulting firm focused on major gifts, capital campaigns, and development assessments for nonprofits. Direct peer in major gift fundraising consulting.
• Campbell & Company: Fundraising consulting and executive search firm serving nonprofits across healthcare, education, arts, and social services. Direct peer offering major gift and campaign consulting services.

Emerging players

• MissionWired: Digital-first fundraising and advertising agency for nonprofits and political organizations. Represents the digital-native evolution of fundraising services that SCA's direct mail-centric model has not yet adopted.
• FreeWill: Digital fundraising platform focused on planned giving and major gift tools for nonprofits. Emerging player offering digital-first alternatives to traditional major gift fundraising approaches.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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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