GiveCampus Makes the Inc. 5000 List for the Third Year in a Row
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 13, 2024 – Inc. announced today that GiveCampus made the 2024 Inc. 5000 annual list of the fastest-growing private companies in America—the third consecutive year that GiveCampus has received this honor The prestigious ranking provides a data-driven look at the most successful companies within the economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent, entrepreneurial businesses. Microsoft, Meta, Chobani, Under Armour, Timberland, Oracle, Patagonia, and many other household-name brands gained their first national exposure as honorees on the Inc. 5000.
“This exciting news comes on the heels of our 8th annual GiveCampus Partners Conference,” says Co-Founder and CEO Kestrel Linder. “We’re still riding the high of a joyful gathering that convened hundreds of fundraisers from our 1300+ Partner schools and over a thousand livestream viewers. That GiveCampus is now a three-time Inc. 5000 honoree is truly the icing on the cake.”
Kestrel and his co-founder Mike Kong started GiveCampus nearly 10 years ago with a simple goal in mind: to make it much easier, and maybe even a little fun, for someone to make an online donation to their alma mater. “Today,” Kestrel says, “the GiveCampus platform includes capabilities designed to help educational fundraisers enhance every touchpoint, with every donor, at every stage of engagement and every level of the donor pyramid.”
The Inc. 5000 class of 2024 represents companies that have driven rapid revenue growth while navigating inflationary pressure, the rising costs of capital, and seemingly intractable hiring challenges. Among this year’s top 500 companies, the average median three-year revenue growth rate is 1,637 percent. In all, this year’s Inc. 5000 companies have added 874,458 jobs to the economy over the past three years.
GiveCampus remains committed to sustainable growth. The company has been profitable 8 of the last 9 years, and continues to leverage its growth and success to aggressively invest in building technology designed to help advance the quality, the affordability, and the accessibility of education.
At its July Partners Conference, Kestrel announced that the company will deploy $100 million dollars over the next several years to further enhance and expand the GiveCampus platform. Kestrel explains, “At GiveCampus, we believe in the transformative power of high-quality education and the need for more philanthropy to support it.”
The company also announced major new capabilities in GC Gift Officer, a solution to help frontline fundraisers build more pipeline, book more visits, and close more gifts, and it launched a new segmentation and outreach solution called GC Outreach.
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Companies on the 2024 Inc. 5000 are ranked according to percentage revenue growth from 2020 to 2023. To qualify, companies must have been founded and generating revenue by March 31, 2020. They must be U.S.-based, privately held, for-profit, and independent—not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies—as of December 31, 2023. (Since then, some on the list may have gone public or been acquired.) The minimum revenue required for 2020 is $100,000; the minimum for 2023 is $2 million. As always, Inc. reserves the right to decline applicants for subjective reasons. Growth rates used to determine company rankings were calculated to four decimal places.
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