Your next nonprofit client just posted a job for a Development Director.
Right now a nonprofit near you is budgeting $85K for a development director who will last about 16 months. Every morning by 7am we send you the nonprofits that just posted development and grant writer roles, with contacts and outreach already drafted.
Our first client got 109 qualified leads across 88 companies in six weeks. Read the case study
Why a Director of Development posting is your best lead signal
A nonprofit posting for a Development Director just told you three things. Budget is approved. The need is public. Nobody is hired yet. The board signed off on a full-time salary for the exact fundraising work you do on a retainer. And you know how this movie ends: the average development director lasts about 16 months, then the posting goes back up. We filter out staffing agencies, recruiters, reposted ghost listings, and other consultants chasing the same titles. What lands in your inbox is nonprofits you can actually win.
Director of Development
Bright Futures Youth Alliance
“Bright Futures Youth Alliance is a $2.1M youth mentoring nonprofit. Our development director departed after 14 months and we are seeking a leader to own our annual fund, grant calendar, donor stewardship, and fall gala. Reports to the Executive Director and the board development committee.”
Why this is a lead:
They just budgeted $75K to $90K plus benefits for a seat that turned over after 14 months. Everything in that posting, annual fund, grants, stewardship, events, is standard consulting scope at $2.5K to $5K a month. Reply this week and you are the bridge while the seat sits empty, and often the long-term answer instead. One retainer here is worth $30K to $60K a year.
Job titles we monitor:
Sound familiar?
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Referrals from board members and other EDs are great, but you cannot plan a quarter around them.
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The nonprofits that need you most are searching for a development director, not googling fundraising consultant.
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By the time an RFP goes out, the ED usually already has a consultant friend in mind.
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Conference season fills the calendar with coffee chats, not signed retainers.
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Every development posting you never saw was a nonprofit with approved budget and an empty seat.
The math: hiring vs. your firm
Hiring full-time
Full-time Development Director
$70K-$110K plus benefits
- 60 to 90 day recruiting timeline
- Benefits cost on top of salary
- Single point of failure
- Stuck with headcount when things slow down
Your firm instead
Fundraising Consultants
$2.5K-$5K/month
The average development director lasts about 16 months, and every turnover costs a nonprofit a year of donor momentum. You bring senior fundraising experience for a fraction of the salary they just budgeted, you can start in weeks instead of after a six-month search, and you do not quit.
See the leads in your market before you pay for anything.
We'll run the real engine on your market, free, for seven days. Real reports, real postings, real contacts. Then it stops.
One firm per market
We only work with one fundraising consultant firm per market.
Every lead in your market goes to you and nobody else. When your metro is taken, we turn the next firm away. That keeps the leads worth having, and it's the honest reason to decide before a competitor does.
$497 a month. That's the whole pricing page.
Daily Lead Delivery
$497/monthEvery morning: the companies that just posted for a role you replace, with the decision-maker's contact and outreach drafted in your voice. No setup fee. No contract, cancel anytime. And one firm per niche per market. If you're the fractional CFO firm in Denver, nobody else gets Denver fractional CFO leads.
60-day money-back guarantee. Not satisfied? Full refund, no questions asked.
One client covers years of this. One owner's rep project, one CFO retainer, one managed IT contract. Any single one pays for Hidden Client many times over.
Get Started Risk-FreeFrequently asked questions
They posted a full-time job. Why would they hire us instead?
Because the seat they are hiring for turns over every 16 months on average. A development director runs $70K to $110K plus benefits, and each turnover costs a year of donor relationships. Postings stay open 30 to 60 days, so you have a real window to reach the ED while the seat is empty. You are offering senior fundraising help now, at a fraction of the cost, with no risk of a resignation in year two.
How do you avoid ghost jobs and reposts?
We watch postings nightly on LinkedIn and the hiring systems nonprofits post through, like Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby. Listings that keep getting reposted, sit stale for months, or come from staffing agencies and recruiters get filtered out before they reach you. Every lead shows when the posting went up and why it scored, so you can judge it yourself.
How many leads will I actually get?
Most mornings 2 or 3. Some mornings 6, some mornings 1. Our first client, an owner’s rep construction firm, got 109 qualified leads across 88 companies in six weeks. We would rather send you two nonprofits worth a call than twenty names to delete.
What does the outreach look like, and who sends it?
You send it, from your own inbox. Each lead comes with an email drafted in your voice that references the exact posting, like the grant calendar line in a Development Manager listing. You also get the decision-maker’s name, title, LinkedIn, and a verified email when we find one, usually the executive director or board chair. Copy it, tweak it, send it.
Do you work with other fundraising consultants in my market?
No. One firm per niche per market. If you take the fundraising consulting spot in your market, the nonprofits we find there go to you and nobody else.
What is the risk if it does not work?
Not much. We run the same engine free for 7 days first, real reports, then it stops unless you sign up. After that it is $497 a month, no setup fee, no contract, cancel anytime, with a 60-day money-back guarantee. One client at even a $2.5K retainer covers it several times over.
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From the Founder
Why I built this
I built Hidden Client because I kept seeing the same thing: a company posts a job, interviews for two months, and the firm that could have done the work never hears about it. That felt fixable with software, so I fixed it.
It's just me here, and I read every reply. If your leads are off, email me and your setup gets corrected the same day. That's the whole support department, and it's faster than most.
Jeremy Olken
Founder, Hidden Client · jeremy@hiddenclient.com
The postings are already up. The clock is already running.
Somewhere in your market, a company posted the role you replace this week. Signup takes about five minutes, and your first report lands tomorrow by 7am.
$497/mo. 60-day money-back guarantee.
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