When AI Only Sees the Biggest: Fixing Philanthropy's Broken Data Infrastructure

AI now shapes how foundations discover nonprofits — and how nonprofits find funders. But both sides learn from the same broken data: grant records dominated by large, English-language institutions. AI surfaces the biggest organizations and flattens everything else into a statistical average, erasing individual context and lived mission.
This session brings three perspectives: a philanthropic data infrastructure builder (1,000+ organizations across 66 countries); a foundation practitioner rethinking responsible AI in grantmaking; and an AI technologist showing how verified nonprofit data can plug into general-purpose AI tools through open protocols — making equitable discovery possible inside systems funders already use.