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New in Insider Focus: M&A Potential Payout + 10b5-1 Plans

Two new SEC-sourced signals in Insider Focus — M&A Potential Payout and 10b5-1 Plans — surface capacity and timing in one view. Debuting at Apra PD26, Booth 212.

Nonprofit CEO Pay Rose 4.9% Last Year — in Every Single Industry

Every nonprofit CEO industry posted a raise last year — a median 4.9%, ahead of inflation, in a tight 3.9–6.1% band. A look at what's driving it, from 990iQ's analysis of 57,970 executives.

The Biggest Predictor of Nonprofit CEO Pay Isn't the Mission — It's the Budget

We analyzed 68,386 nonprofit CEO salaries from IRS Form 990 data. The median is $130K — but organization size, not mission, drives pay.

Why Most Wealth Screening Tools Miss the Actual Money

Most prospect research tools stop one step short of the money. Wealth screeners give modeled estimates. News monitors show headlines. Insider Focus works directly from primary SEC filings — delivering real share counts, vesting dates, and traceable wealth signals. Here’s how it compares to the tools advancement teams use today.

Ask Anything. Understand Everything. SEC Research, Finally Conversational with Kaleidoscope's MCP Server

Most SEC research tools make you do the work. Kaleidoscope gives you answers — cited, accurate, and in plain English

Beyond the Public Markets: Closing the Private Company Intelligence Gap

Identify the right people at the right moment — before they're on everyone else's radar.

Kaleidoscope at BattleFin Discovery Day

Kaleidoscope is building the next generation of financial signal intelligence with Provenance

Kaleidoscope and Avid Announce Preferred Partnership

We're excited to announce that Kaleidoscope has entered into a Preferred Partnership with Avid, the AI-powered Fundraising Operating System.

The Most Comprehensive Nonprofit Grants Intelligence Platform

The most comprehensive nonprofit grants intelligence platform

A First Look at What's Next...

6 Professional Reasons Your Nonprofit Needs Kaleidoscope

New Partnership Brings AI-Powered Donor Intelligence to More Nonprofits

Introducing Pre-IPO Funding Data in Kaleidoscope

Path Explorer Just Got Smarter: New Features to Uncover Deeper Connections

Surfacing Future Wealth Events like Stock Vesting Dates into Actionable Intelligence

Surfacing Future Wealth Events like Stock Vesting Dates into Actionable Intelligence

Path Explorer V3.1 Released

Path Explorer V3.1: Three New Features to Power Your Research

Navigate Faster with Our New Dashboard Design

A Fresh New Look For Better Navigation

Net Sales Calculator: From Hours to Seconds in SEC Analysis

Path Explorer: Relationship Mapping Tool Launched

Higher Ed’s Fundraising Challenge

Higher Ed's Fundraising Challenge: Doing More with Less The headlines are stark: "Funding Cuts Threaten Universities," "Prestigious Schools Freeze Hiring," "Enrollment Declines Impact Bottom Lines." Despite these pressures, universities still need donors for building campaigns, scholarships, and student support. The question: How do you find and cultivate donors without overwhelming your current pool or stretching limited resources?

New Feature Alert!

Watchlist Sharing is Now Available We're excited to announce a highly requested feature that will transform how you collaborate with your team: Watchlist Sharing! Share your watchlists instantly with any team member in just a few simple steps.How It Works:Step 1: Look for the new "Share" option directly from your...

Path Explorer: AI Relationship Mapping

Path Explorer – Coming Soon Path Explorer – Coming Soon The Future of Relationship Mapping Use the Power of AI to Explore Prospect Connections We're thrilled to give you an exclusive preview of our newest innovation: Path Explorer – an AI-driven mapping system that reveals hidden relationships and opens the...

Insider Focus and Watchlist Updates

The Watchlist and the Universities tabs are now combined.To access the watchlist and view them you can click on the arrow. This gives you a couple of options :You can set a new watchlist as a default dashboard OR click on the [ ] and view that watchlist on the...

Instant Clarity: AI That Cuts Through the Noise

Struggling with the dense legalese of SEC filing agreements? KALEIDOSCOPE’s cutting-edge AI solution is here to help! Our expert engineering team has harnessed AI within a secure, closed environment to distill complex legal documents into clear, concise bullet points.Look for the powerful AI Icon in the Options column—it automatically summarizes...

Surfacing Stock Vesting Dates into Actionable Intelligence

Transforming Stock Vesting Dates into Actionable Insights In fundraising . . . timing is everything. Although no one can predict life events, KALEIDOSCOPE has developed AI-driven technology, to help surface critical and somewhat elusive stock vesting dates in SEC filings. to “translate” convoluted text-based formulas disclosed in Form 4s . ....

Insider Focus: Enriched With 990 Connections

All results lists are cleaner and easier to read delivering vital information about each corporate insider with icons and  links to related 990 data.  Located under the Name are 2 icons representing: (L-R) Stock Gifts, Non-profit Foundation, plus the TICKER quick hover to quickly view the stock price history for each...

“Beat the Clock” on Insider Research? … Game On!

Insider Lists and Profiles in Seconds. . . Not Hours! If you're spending hours collecting corporate insider data from internet websites, news, stock prices and SEC filings, or if you're still doing manual calculations for “net” sales amounts and stock gift values. . . stop now, HELP is here!Time is...

Insider Focus Client Centric Features

New this summer, Kaleidoscope launched a webinar series and gained even more valuable insight into the needs of Advancement Teams and Researchers in an ever-changing landscape. From Data extracted into easily downloadable excel to more specific filters, search by title and industry, and specific time period search, we continue to...

The Expressway to Corporate Insider Wealth and Connections

Believe it or not, SEC filings are a rich source of wealth and relationship information on corporate insiders. Oh, you could manually scour EDGAR (sec.gov), but it's a time-intensive, soul-sucking journey. It's kinda like getting stuck behind a tractor on a 2-lane country road when you're in a hurry. Researching...

FinTech Sandbox Partnership​

FinTech Sandbox Partnership MAY 22, 2024 – DALLAS, TEXAS. Today, KALEIDOSCOPE becomes a Data Partner within the Fintech Sandbox Data Access Residency fulfilling a need for critical validation links from financial data to searchable, source securities filings. Fintech Sandbox is a unique, non-profit data source for entrepreneurs enabling them to...

Analyzing Past, Present and Future Insider’s Wealth

One of the key benefits of leveraging SEC filings is the ability to analyze past, present, and future insider wealth trends. By examining historical data, researchers can identify compensation trends, stock gift values and cycles of giving, which can impact fundraising strategies. This type of 'surfaced' analysis provides valuable insights...

Real-time Alerts on Corporate Insiders

There's nothing worse than giving a frontline officer 'stale' information on a prospect or donor. Imagine scheduling a visit only to find the prospect has changed jobs or companies, or the data you're working with is from two or three years ago. Your advancement teams need real-time alerts on Wealth...

Proxy Fights: Activist Investor’s Effect on Fundrasing

Spoiler alert! The growing pushback from activist investors towards corporate management is becoming more evident, with over 732 filings in the past 12 months providing insight into ongoing Board-level conflicts. The historic date of March 6th, 2024, marked a record-breaking number of proxy fight submissions to the SEC EDGAR system....

SEC Filings . . . a Garden of Charitable Giving

When it comes to charitable gifting, vital information about an insider's wealth and affinity for donating cash or gifting stock remains a valuable clue for foundation advancement teams.  One reliable source is SEC filings. It's a veritable garden of happy surprises, often buried in the footntotes of insider filings and...

Timing the ‘Ask’

One of the key elements of fundraising is having an up-to-date and accurate understanding of changes in a potential donor's financial situation. This information is critical to the timing of an "Ask". Our clients are clear about the necessity for timely and accurate data. So, let's review a few elements...

New features on Kaleidoscope’s Insider Focus

Kaleidoscope’s Insider Focus released new features over the past 6 months, communicating and innovating with our clients! Great strides have been accomplished because of your feedback. Net Value of Stock Sales – Insider Focus calculates the NET of the sale when a conversion occurs, deducting the exercise price from the gross...

Refresh Donor Prospect Lists and Wealth Profiles

Refresh Donor Prospect Lists and Wealth Profiles As we step into the new year, it presents a wonderful opportunity to re-examine and refresh those donor prospect lists. In 2023 alone, an astonishing 34,352 executive and director changes have taken place in public companies over the past 12 months.   How...

Export Insider Focus Results to Excel

Export Insider Focus Results to Excel When it comes to prospect research and development, having accurate and timely wealth data is crucial. Are you equipped with the most comprehensive and up-to-date list of wealth data extracted from SEC filings? And if you're looking to organize your list of prospects based...

Export Insider Profiles . . . 1-2-3

Export Insider Profiles . . . 1-2-3 Looking to give your Insider files a boost? It's a breeze to choose specific elements and export all the important data for insiders into a handy PDF file. The steps are straightforward. 1. In the Insider Focus section, navigate to the Profile view...

SEC Revamping Activist Investor Disclosures

SEC Revamping Activist Investor Disclosures SEC Adopts Final Rules Accelerating Beneficial Ownership Reporting The newly adopted rules greatly enhance the speed and efficiency of beneficial ownership reporting by activist investors and institutional investors, promoting transparency in a marketplace that has previously allowed certain investors to acquire significant amounts of a...

Key Elements for Corporate Website Disclosure & Compliance for US and Non-US Dual Listed Companies

Key Elements for Corporate Website Disclosure & Compliance for US and Non-US Dual Listed Companies Are you looking to expand your investor base by dual listing? Considering a merger or IPO? Or a re-design of the corporate website? In any of these situations, your corporate website can play a vital role...

Sunlight is the best disinfectant . . .

Sunlight is the best disinfectant If sunlight has the power to zap germs, then corporate transparency and seamless access to information should be the secret formula for captivating and enticing investors, especially for dual listed, non-US companies.  Investors in public companies are becoming quite the information connoisseurs these days. And...

Insider Focus Expands SEC Insider Research

Insider Focus Expands SEC Insider Research When clients speak . . . we listen and act. This month we've added a few great features to streamline prospect research with accurate, current and complete information extracted from SEC filings and stock prices. In addition to aggregated wealth data, detailed profiles, visual...

12 Prospect Research Essentials

12 Prospect Research Essentials . . . Liquid Cash (salary, bonus, non-equity incentives) "Net Value" of Stock Sales All Dates - Stock Sales Stock Gifting History Today's Value of Current Holdings (direct and indirect) Biographies & Pictures Board Relationships (current and historical) Alumni Discovery Employment/Severance Agreements Future Vesting Dates Import...

$26 Million Reasons to Avoid the SEC’s Naughty List

In just the last 30 days, the SEC imposed $26,168,078 in fines (civil penalties, disgorgements, and interest) on individuals and companies in nine cases with the largest fine being $18 million on Digital World SPAC followed by MusclePharm. Furthermore, the SEC also implemented measures to prohibit certain officers and directors...

Keep Your Eyes on Management Changes

It's Fruit Basket Turnover Time! Almost 200 industry sectors are currently undergoing wholesale management changes. In fact, over the last 7 days, almost 900 public companies announced changes to their board of directors and executive management, and 29 of those are in the S&P 500. That's more than 3 times...

SCOTUS Decision on Direct Listings Leave Investors without Recourse

SCOTUS Decision on Direct Listings Leave Investors without Recourse In a recent client alert from market leading law firm, Morrison & Forrester LLP, their experts opined on the recent decision by the SCOTUS to reject the Ninth Circuit Court's ruling citing that the plaintiff had no standing for a securities...

Kaleidoscope Using ChatGPT for Prospect Research & Wealth Screening

Kaleidoscope leverages ChatGPT and connects the dots for 99.99% accuracy in Insider Focus profiles! Tired of scouring SEC filings for elusive clues on potential donors? How about wealth screening on an executive or director. Or tracking down board relationships? Now you don't have to! Identify high-wealth individuals, alumni, or new...

2023 Bank Meltdown. Silicon Valley Bank . . . Silvergate Bank, Signature Bank. . .and more.

2023 Bank Meltdown. Silicon Valley Bank . . . Silvergate Bank, Signature Bank. . .and more. What do these three banks have in common? No, it’s not because their names all start with “S”. They’ve all failed in March 2023. Affecting 49 industry sectors, primarily pharmaceutical preparations, and biologics. FDIC...

Fast & Easy Peer Comparison and Analysis

No more wasting time visiting multiple sites to gather information on peers or competitors. Kaleidoscope collects and compares the data in seconds. In addition to creating custom peer groups, you’ll immediately see the comparative summary as you build the group. Streamline Analysis with Fast, Easy Comparisons: EOD Stock Prices for...

New! Alert Digest Feature

Overwhelmed by email alerts from all sources? We get it! Introducing Kaleidoscope’s Alert Digest for SEC filing alerts. Under My Alerts, select to receive a Daily or Weekly Digest of filings that meet your criteria. Set a time of day that’s convenient for you.   Going on vacation or PTO?...

New! Research Center API Solution

New! Research Center API Solution - Easy as 1-2-3 New! Research Center API Solution uses Kaleidoscope’s SEC public company and funds research platform to 1. search, 2. validate results and 3. convert to code in minutes. It’s a simple “cut & paste” from there.If you need it done today, Kaleidoscope...

What’s New

What's New? Our commitment to clients means frequent improvements. Below are the  changes implemented in the past few days. Please feel free to send us your feedback.  Improved Blurb Review.  The BLURB  column has been replaced.  Each blurb now has an individual lines below the company name to streamline the...

Announcing Kaleidoscope Version 2

Version 2.0 of Kaleidoscope has arrived! Kaleidoscope will be moving to Version 2 as of March 1, and we will convert any saved searches or alerts to the new system for your convenience. Here are a few items that are only available on Version 2. Our focus during our development has been...

Freedom of Speech Comes to a Rapid Boil

As early as 2006, disclosures by big tech companies show an increasing shareholder unease with censorship of free speech. This timeline shows the first shareholder proposal to the big tech companies on censorship of free speech in October of 2006. And 2012 saw the beginning of the ramp up. The...

FED Welcomes Proposal for Publication of USD-LIBOR Settings to Cease

The Federal Reserve Bank, in conjunction with regulators in the US, UK and ICE Benchmark Administrators for LIBOR, today welcomed a proposal that sets a clear, firm “end date” for the publication of one week and two month USD LIBOR settings after December 31, 2021. In addition, the plan includes...

Kaleidoscope Introduces New Content for Company Profiles

Kaleidoscope Introduces New Content for Company Profiles Over the summer our team has been extracting data from SEC filings to streamline your research. We are excited to introduce 3 new content components within a Company Profile. It's a one-stop shop for all things financial, legal and investor relations-related for a...

Hong Kong Situation & SEC Filers

Hong Kong Situation & SEC Filers Demonstrations in Hong Kong have been increasing over the continued encroachment by the Chinese government over Hong Kong residents’ civil rights, but now, US investors and US businesses with offices or subsidiaries must evaluate the impact on future revenue, tax and regulations and intellectual...

Chapter 11 for 31 Public Companies

Chapter 11 for 31 Public Companies Over 31 public companies in 20 industries have voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 since the beginning of 2020. Not all have been the result of COVID-19 pandemic, but there are a few that were hard hit due to the economy closing. The effects of...

Creates Your 360° View of Securities Research

Creates Your 360° View of Securities Research Focusing on your topic, seemingly disparate pieces of data coalesce to form a 360° view of your specific research. Whether your research centers around companies, industry sectors, people, stock trends, geographical locations, keyword trends or sample disclosure language, Kaleidoscope’s flexibility supports researchers of all experience...

25 Trading Suspensions Related to Covid-19 Disclosures!

25 Trading Suspensions Related to COVID-19 Disclosures! As of May 11, 2020, twenty-five (25) public companies’ stock has been suspended from trading on the stock exchanges due to claims made about their COVID-19 related products. Investors, brokers, dealers and Asset Management companies should be wary and warned regarding claims these...

Companies on the Road to Bankruptcy in 2020?

Companies on the Road to Bankruptcy in 2020? 2020 has been a difficult year so far. Just since Jan 1,500+ public companies in 283 industries have disclosed that they have “substantial doubt” about their ability to continue as a going concern. Reasons range far and wide, but cash flow, debt...

The Big Picture on Dividend Cuts

The Big Picture on Dividend Cuts While companies are announcing dividend suspensions, deferrals or just plain cuts, investors need to see the BIG PICTURE to immediately SEE and COMPREHEND investment decisions. Kaleidoscope delivers on the BIG PICTURE by layering quantitative metrics via intelligent charts and graphs over the SEC filings....

Paycheck Protection Plan

Paycheck Protection Plan (PPP) Incredible Greed?  Small business owners wonder what happened? Where did all the #ppploans money go?  The program designed to support the “little” guy with keeping their employees during the #Covid-19 isolation period was swallowed up by large public companies and endowment funds and disappeared in a...

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