Know how well your giving is working, without turning it into a bureaucracy.

Why it is hard to know

Everyone around your giving has a reason to tell you it is going well.

The people you fund need the next gift, so their reports arrive warm. The advisors around you would rather encourage than second-guess. Asking for hard proof can feel like distrust of people you have chosen to believe in. So the giving runs on relationships and good intentions, and the honest answer, how much it is actually changing, stays just out of view.

Most donors would never put money into an investment this blindly. The difference has been cost: real evaluation has been slow, expensive, and built for institutions, so the philanthropic side of the balance sheet has gone without the scrutiny the rest of it takes for granted.

What Prova does

An honest read, held close, that respects the people you fund.

Prova gives you an independent answer to a simple question: how much is your giving actually changing. We work from what the organizations you fund already record, so we add almost nothing to their load and ask nothing of them they would resent. We establish the strongest claim the evidence honestly supports, and tell you plainly where it falls short.

We are independent. We do not run the programs we assess, and we do not gain from a flattering answer. That is the point: a read you can trust precisely because no one giving it wants anything from you.

What we find is yours alone. It is held in confidence, for your judgment, and goes no further without your word.

None of this asks you to build a department or become a foundation in the bureaucratic sense. It is meant to give you the opposite: the confidence to give more, and to put more behind the work that is genuinely changing lives.

AI does the heavy lifting behind this, which is what keeps it light and affordable; the judgment, and the care owed to the people in the records, stays human. How the method works →

How to start

Start with a Read.

A Read is a short, contained first step, measured in weeks, with no commitment beyond it. It gives you an honest picture of how much a program is changing. Many donors begin with one program they care about, or fund a Read for an organization they back, as a gift rather than a test.

When a program is worth following over time, that becomes Field: a light, ongoing read built into how the work runs. Both hold to the same standard.

See the Reads → Field →