Fundraise4U

What Fundraise4U does

Fundraise4U is a privately held, Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based fundraising consultancy founded in 2020 by Ted Priestly. The firm provides outsourced fundraising services to collegiate and youth athletic programs, fraternities, private schools, and non-profits across the United States. Its service portfolio includes Friends and Family campaigns, Alumni Mentoring Nights, fundraising dinners and special events, corporate sponsorship acquisition, planned giving programs, facility naming opportunities, donor recognition and stewardship, professional writing services, and brick campaigns. The company states it has "raised millions of dollars" for client organizations since inception, with a flagship Friends and Family campaign that reportedly generates an average of $264 per team member in one hour. Named customers span Temple University, Boston College, UMASS Amherst, Assumption University, Bryant University, Plymouth State University, Southern New Hampshire University, Bates College, American International College, several youth soccer clubs, a fraternity chapter, and a private school.

The business is operated as a founder-led professional services practice with no proprietary technology platform disclosed. Service delivery relies on direct consultation, campaign management, and personal engagement, supported only by a simple data-collection form for Friends and Family contacts hosted on a Wix-based website. Revenue is generated through quote-based service fees on multi-year engagements; no publicly disclosed pricing exists. The go-to-market motion is sales-led, with founder Ted Priestly personally developing relationships via phone, email, LinkedIn, and referrals from existing athletic-program clients. The company has no external funding, is bootstrapped, and holds a single disclosed vendor partnership with Bricks R Us for engraved brick products used in Brick Campaigns.

As of the available data, the company has a stated headcount of three, including the founder, a Business Development Specialist, and a freelance team member. There are no APIs, integrations, or AI/ML capabilities disclosed, and the firm has not raised any institutional capital. The competitive position rests on the founder's rare combination of two decades of collegiate coaching experience and a decade of fundraising and marketing expertise, supported by a portfolio of repeatable campaign templates and a relationship-driven referral motion.

Name

Fundraise4U

Legal name

Fundraise4U

Website

https://fundraise4u.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2020

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Fundraise4U is a Chelmsford, MA-based fundraising consultancy that provides outsourced campaign management, alumni engagement, and corporate sponsorship services to U.S. collegiate athletic programs, youth sports organizations, and fraternities, founded in 2020 by Ted Priestly.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Athletic Fundraising Consulting

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321)

SIC

Services-Advertising Agencies (7311)

akta.pro primary industry

Philanthropy & Foundations Advisory (Donor-Advised Funds, Endowments) (FSAAABAH)

Keywords

• Athletic fundraising services
• Alumni engagement programs
• Donor stewardship services
• Corporate sponsorship acquisition
• Planned giving programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Chelmsford

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Fundraising Consulting and Campaign Services: Professional fundraising services for athletic programs, including Friends and Family campaigns, Alumni Mentoring Nights, corporate sponsorships, planned giving programs, and event management. Revenue appears to be generated through service fees for campaign execution and consulting.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Fundraise4U is a service-based fundraising consultancy that designs and executes fundraising campaigns for athletic programs, schools, fraternities, and affinity groups across the United States. Its flagship service is the Friends and Family Campaign, complemented by alumni engagement events, corporate sponsorship acquisition, planned giving program development, donor stewardship, and professional writing services. The company is built on the dual expertise of founder Ted Priestly, a former collegiate soccer coach turned fundraiser, who delivers engagements personally alongside a small support team.

Product overview

Fundraise4U is a service-based fundraising consultancy offering a portfolio of specialized services for athletic programs, schools, fraternities, and affinity groups. The core offering includes Friends and Family Campaigns as a flagship high-volume fundraising service, complemented by Alumni Mentoring Nights, Fundraising Dinners and Special Events, Corporate Sponsorships, Planned Giving programs, Alumni and Donor Engagement, Facility Naming Opportunities, Donor Recognition and Stewardship Programs, Professional Writing Services, and Brick Campaigns. The company also provides Fundraising 101 training for coaches and staff, and offers a Friends and Family Contact Form for data collection. Services are delivered by a small team led by founder Ted Priestly, who brings decades of college coaching and fundraising experience.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Fundraising 101 for Coaches, Staff and Administrators

Quantifiable outcome

• Average $264 raised per team member in one hour through Friends and Family campaigns
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers16 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Bricks R UsminorOthersBricks R Us provides personalized engraved bricks and tiles used in Fundraise4U's Brick Campaigns. The partnership allows organizations to raise funds through donor recognition bricks while Bricks R Us supplies the physical products at low net prices, with the difference between selling price and cost going to the charity.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• The Alford Group: Nonprofit fundraising, communications, and executive search consultancy. Comparable because they deliver fundraising campaign planning, feasibility studies, and development audits comparable to Fundraise4U's consultancy work for athletic and nonprofit clients.
• Alexander Haas: One of the largest U.S. fundraising and advancement consulting firms serving colleges, universities, healthcare and arts nonprofits. Comparable because their services — campaign planning, major gifts, planned giving, prospect research — directly overlap with Fundraise4U's planned giving and donor engagement offerings.
• Russ Reid (Changing Our World): Cause-driven fundraising and marketing agency that designs and executes fundraising campaigns for nonprofits. Comparable because they deliver similar strategic campaign, donor messaging, and engagement services to nonprofits and schools as Fundraise4U does for athletics.
• Bentz Whaley Flessner: Fundraising counsel and campaign consulting firm serving higher education and nonprofit clients. Comparable because they offer similar campaign strategy, planned giving, and alumni engagement advisory services to the same nonprofit and college/university buyer that Fundraise4U targets.

Emerging players

• Givebutter: Free online fundraising and donor management platform for nonprofits, teams, and schools. Comparable because they offer Schools/Teams plans purpose-built for athletic booster clubs and youth sports, overlapping with Fundraise4U's Friends & Family, brick, and peer-to-peer campaign use cases.
• OrgVault / Booster / Arreva: Online fundraising and CRM platform used by nonprofits, churches, schools, and athletic programs for campaign management and donor stewardship. Comparable because they offer tech-enabled equivalents to Fundraise4U's Friends & Family and brick campaign services at lower price points.
• Front Rush (JumpForward): Athletic department operations, compliance, and fundraising management platform. Comparable because they target the same D1/D2/D3 athletics market with a software approach to donor management, sponsorship procurement, and alumni outreach — a technology-led alternative to Fundraise4U's services-led model.

Others

• Playfly Sports / NIL Collectives: College athletics-focused sports marketing, sponsorship, and Name-Image-Likeness collective operator. Comparable because they sit at the intersection of athletic programs, alumni funding, and corporate sponsorships — a sponsoring/adjacent ecosystem to Fundraise4U's corporate sponsorship and donor engagement services.

Regional players

• CDS (Counsult Development Solutions): Donor engagement and prospect research firm serving higher education and nonprofits in North America. Comparable because they deliver alumni/donor research and engagement capabilities overlapping with Fundraise4U's Alumni Mentoring Nights and donor engagement service line.

Broad incumbents

• Bonterra (Network for Good, CauseCraft, etc.): Suite of nonprofit fundraising and grantmaking software brands including Network for Good and GiveSign. Comparable because they serve the same nonprofit, school, and athletic booster buyer with donor CRM, campaign management, and event tools that compete for part of Fundraise4U's wallet.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Fundraise4Unet
• Facebookfacebook.com/Fundraise4Unet
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fundraise4unet
• Instagraminstagram.com/fundraise4unet

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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