For foundations picking grantees and colleges measuring outcomes: we make public data — IRS 990s, IPEDS, foundation reports — usable in a week, not three months.
Azimuth builds products around social impact data. The information to answer almost any philanthropic question exists somewhere — in 990 filings, foundation reports, IPEDS, academic research, federal rosters. Accessing it has required large research teams or six-figure consulting engagements. Our bet is that it shouldn't.
A real question — "which Chicago organizations work on veteran services, and who funds them at a program level?" — touches 990 filings, nonprofit websites, foundation reports, academic papers, and federal rosters. We build the links between those records, so you can follow the thread from a funder to what they fund to who else funds the same work.
The vision: products that let a nonprofit, a program officer, or a researcher use the full breadth of information available about the social impact sector — without a consulting engagement, a research department, or months of data engineering. Information access as a product, not a privilege.
Every Azimuth product starts with a partner facing a specific problem — scoping a veteran-services strategy, untangling what college actually costs, making foundation research legible to the nonprofits doing the work. AI and data infrastructure are how we solve them, not why we exist.
Two active efforts, each testing a different version of the same bet: public data, done right, changes what's possible for the people using it.
Useful answers and working tools for the social sector.
Common Sense is an Emerald South project, built with Azimuth and supported by an OpenAI grant. It brings 990 filings, foundation reports, academic evidence, and field knowledge together so nonprofits can scope programs, find aligned funders, and put practical tools to work without building the underlying research infrastructure themselves.
Explore Common Sense →Find timely consulting opportunities from public nonprofit signals.
A working prototype that turns a market thesis into a ranked queue of organizations, decision-maker hypotheses, leadership-capacity signals, calibration feedback, and enrichment actions. The first workflow focuses on social impact organizations with meaningful revenue and missing or uncertain senior operating capacity.
Open the BD Engine →Find your way through college cost.
Rebuilding the college-decision conversation around real financial outcomes — affordability, debt burden, loan repayment risk, post-graduation earnings. Independent analysis drawn from College Scorecard, IPEDS, and institutional filings, written for families who want the actual numbers instead of brochure copy. The consumer-facing thesis of what happens when public data is treated seriously.
Visit collegeazimuth.com →Foundation staff rethinking a strategy. Nonprofits building a program that needs to land with the right funders. College administrators trying to tell a real story about outcomes. If that sounds like what you're doing, send a note.
daniel@collegeazimuth.com