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How We Compare

iWave vs. CharityCAN

When it comes to reliable data, real-time insights, and award-winning support, iWave leads the way. Unlike CharityCAN’s limited focus on Canadian data, iWave offers the industry’s most accurate and comprehensive wealth and philanthropic intelligence—trusted by top fundraising teams worldwide.

iWave is chosen by these organizations (and thousands more!)

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Depth & Quality of Data

Fuel your fundraising with the industry's most robust and accurate intelligence, featuring the largest verified charitable giving database and comprehensive wealth indicators.
iWave
CharityCAN
Data Coverage

Billions of biographic, wealth, and philanthropic records across Canada, U.S., and international sources.

Main focus on Canadian data only.

Charitable Giving Data

Powered by VeriGift, the largest and most up-to-date database of charitable gift donations, recipients, and donors— over 200M records.

Offers a charitable giving dataset, but with less scale and transparency compared to VeriGift (based on publicly available descriptions).

Donor Profiles

Intelligent Profiles with robust wealth, philanthropic, and biographic data, AI-driven analytics and predictive modeling, and automated intelligence delivery.

Profiles may not refresh in real time and product materials do not advertise automated intelligence alerts.

iWave
CharityCAN
Data Coverage

Billions of biographic, wealth, and philanthropic records across Canada, U.S., and international sources.

Main focus on Canadian data only.

Charitable Giving Data

Powered by VeriGift, the largest and most up-to-date database of charitable gift donations, recipients, and donors— over 200M records.

Offers a charitable giving dataset, but with less scale and transparency compared to VeriGift (based on publicly available descriptions).

Donor Profiles

Intelligent Profiles with robust wealth, philanthropic, and biographic data, AI-driven analytics and predictive modeling, and automated intelligence delivery.

Profiles may not refresh in real time and product materials do not advertise automated intelligence alerts.

Innovation

Innovation

As the industry-leading data engine within the Kindsight platform, iWave empowers you to engage prospects at the perfect moment with exclusive, real-time Live Profiles and interactive dashboards.
iWave
CharityCAN
Data Coverage

Evaluate donors against multiple goals to develop highly-personalized campaigns, identify opportunities for increased membership, and more.

Multi-Lens Modeling is not available.

Charitable Giving Data

Full transparency of giving capacity calculations, data sources, and actual verifiable data points.

Publicly promoted giving data appears limited to Canadian foundation and corporate screening.

iWave
CharityCAN
Data Coverage

Evaluate donors against multiple goals to develop highly-personalized campaigns, identify opportunities for increased membership, and more.

Multi-Lens Modeling is not available.

Charitable Giving Data

Full transparency of giving capacity calculations, data sources, and actual verifiable data points.

Publicly promoted giving data appears limited to Canadian foundation and corporate screening.

Customization & Flexibility

Customization & Flexibility

Pinpoint your perfect prospects with unparalleled flexibility, using the only Affinity Scores in the industry and deep-dive searches across unlimited lists.
iWave
CharityCAN
Screening & Scoring Customization

Adjustable parameters for capacity, affinity, propensity, and RFM scores.

Propensity and RFM scoring not publicly documented.

Profile Customization

Receive a complete profile in just a few clicks, add and delete records as required, and refresh prospect scores when new information is added.

Limited customization options based on public product information.

Affinity Data & Modeling

External charitable giving data is used to evaluate prospective donors across over 30 affinity categories; affinity scores evaluate the strength of their linkage to your cause.

Offers a pre-configured Canadian model with less flexibility based on available documentation.

iWave
CharityCAN
Screening & Scoring Customization

Adjustable parameters for capacity, affinity, propensity, and RFM scores.

Propensity and RFM scoring not publicly documented.

Profile Customization

Receive a complete profile in just a few clicks, add and delete records as required, and refresh prospect scores when new information is added.

Limited customization options based on public product information.

Affinity Data & Modeling

External charitable giving data is used to evaluate prospective donors across over 30 affinity categories; affinity scores evaluate the strength of their linkage to your cause.

Offers a pre-configured Canadian model with less flexibility based on available documentation.

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Customer Experience

Trust the platform rated #1 by industry clients for ease of use and customer satisfaction, backed by award-winning service and hundreds of verified reviews.
iWave
CharityCAN
Customer Support

4.6-star average rating on G2* across 400+ reviews and a seven-time recipient of the Stevie Award for Sales and Customer Service.

No published reviews or third-party ratings available.

Ease of Use

‘Fastest Implementation Mid-Market’ category leader on G2, as ranked by industry clients.*

No verified reviews on G2.*

iWave
CharityCAN
Customer Support

4.6-star average rating on G2* across 400+ reviews and a seven-time recipient of the Stevie Award for Sales and Customer Service.

No published reviews or third-party ratings available.

Ease of Use

‘Fastest Implementation Mid-Market’ category leader on G2, as ranked by industry clients.*

No verified reviews on G2.*

Winter 2026 Fastest Implementation

G2 Winter 2026 Fastest Implementation

G2 high performer badge

G2 Winter 2026 High Performer

Bronze Stevie award 2025

2025 Stevie Award for Sales & Customer Service

Stevie 2026 Bronze Winner

2026 Stevie Award for Sales & Customer Service

*As of Jan 2026. Scores are out of 5.