List of donors with total amount of gifts >$250/year for 5 consecutive years with exclusions on campaign and appeals

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Hi all!

Like many beginners, I am very confused with queries.

I am asked to compile a list of donors who have given a total of $250 or more each year for the past 5 years, excluding event gifts but including outright gifts at a certain event (Fund-A-Need)... Is it even possible to report on such specific criteria for such a large number of years? I have tried doing it year by year but I don't know how to reconcile the data... Can anyone help?...

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  • JoAnn Strommen
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    Isabelle,



    Here's link to posts that cover pretty much same question.  You may want to start reading this if you haven't yet.

    https://community.blackbaud.com/forums/viewtopic/158/14779?post_id=43612#p43612



    If Consecutive Years Report doesn't pull what you need, I'd try constituent query > Summary Info  with criteria for gift amount and funds and dates for each of past five years you're looking for.
  • Isabelle - 

    I have recieved a similar request - I wrote a Constituent query using the Total Amount of Gifts field under the Summary Information. Once you select that field you get a dailog box asking if you wish to apply criteria to the field - say Yes - and then add your criteria.

    Total Amount of Gifts >$250, with filters of the Date Range of your first year and the appropriate Campaigns, Funds and Appeals.

    Select Total Amount of Gifts again - with criteria of Total Amount >$250 and filters of the Date Range of the second year with the corresponding Campaigns, Funds and Appeals.  

    Once you have selected your Summary Criteria - be sure that you have joined each criteria with an AND - other wise you will get people who gave >$250 in two of the five years - but not all five years.

    I've attached a copy of the Query Control Report for the query I wrote for our DOD to review the giving patterns of a certain level of donors for each of the past five Fiscal Years.  

    Even though the query contains very detailed information - I still wrote an export so that I could pull out additional information about each of the donors, in addition to the total giving. 

    Hope this helps!  

     
  • Thank you JoAnn for the link, somehow I had missed that when researching the topic. 

    And thank you Candace, this was very helpful. 

    I feel much more confident now!

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