What matters? What is needed? How can I help?
Gudsy is a social enterprise built on a simple belief: many of the challenges communities face are best addressed from the ground up, by the people closest to them. But acting locally is not always easy. The needs are real, the willingness to help is often there, and yet the path between the two is fragmented.
That path often runs through nonprofits. Nonprofits are how communities organize around what matters — whether that means feeding families, supporting schools, protecting the environment, advancing the arts, or responding to hardship and disasters. They often know what is needed, but reaching the right people, sustaining attention, and turning goodwill into action is where the burden grows.
We built Gudsy to help close that gap. Gudsy gives every nonprofit a living digital presence — a place where people can discover an organization, follow its work, donate, volunteer, and return for ongoing updates. Instead of relying on scattered tools and disconnected channels, nonprofits gain a more direct line to the communities around them.
With nonprofit profiles as its foundation, Gudsy makes community activity easier to see and easier to join. Someone searching for education nonprofits in a town should not find a static directory and dead ends. They should find organizations, visible momentum, and clear ways to help. That is what makes Gudsy the GPS for Social Good.
How It Comes to Life
Gudsy helps communities find local causes, participate more easily, and build visible momentum around the work that matters.
Discovery
Gudsy helps communities find the nonprofits already working on local needs, so people can more easily see what matters close to home.
Participation
Gudsy makes it easier for people to turn intent into action through support, volunteering, and ongoing engagement.
Momentum
Gudsy helps community activity become more visible, so support does not stay hidden in disconnected channels and isolated moments.
Who We Are
Abrar Qureshi is a technologist with 20+ years in software engineering and product. A former Presidential Innovation Fellow at the U.S. General Services Administration, he has built systems across Fortune 500s and startups — always focused on making technology work for real people. Gudsy is where that experience meets a problem he saw firsthand: the disconnect between people's willingness to help and the infrastructure available to act on it. The aim is straightforward — cut through the scattered tools and information fog so supporters and nonprofits can find each other faster and stay connected longer.
Advisors
Johnny is a Silicon Valley Entrepreneur who has helped many organizations innovate and build software and development teams. He has spent his entire career developing software during which time he has started five new businesses, participated in one IPO, helped with acquisitions, and worked to improve government technology adoption.
Johnny served as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow in Washington DC; has led software architect teams for PayPal and Adobe Systems; and has started and led five of his own start-up companies in Silicon Valley. Part-time, he has contributed to the educational growth of hundreds of students while teaching graduate and undergraduate Computer Science at San Jose State University and the National University of Singapore. He also practices and teaches traditional Japanese karate.
Johnny holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota.
Al Lavassani is the Chief Privacy Officer at University of California. Al has had leading roles in the privacy, security, and technology governance risk and compliance (GRC) field for over 20 years. He led programs in risk management, security, privacy, and GRC at Wells Fargo, Visa, Lyft, SoFi, and Meta. He was also a consultant in the same field to clients in various industries, from financial services and pharma to IT, retail, and non-profit.
Al holds a BA in Public Administration, and an MBA from UC Davis. He also holds a collection of professional certifications in Security, IT, Privacy, Sustainability, and lately in AI (AIGP).
Where We Stand
Live Today
- 1.8M+ nonprofit profiles derived from IRS public data
- Semantic and location-aware search across organizations, events, updates, and volunteer opportunities
- One-time and recurring donations via Square and PayPal
- Simpler pathways for claiming nonprofit profiles, like linking your Square account with Gudsy
- Volunteer opportunity discovery and signup
- Organization updates and follower feeds
- Free supporter dashboard to manage all giving activity
Building Now
- Authorize.net and Stripe payment processor integrations
On the Horizon
- Workplace giving programs
- Brand cause-marketing partnerships
Your Community Is Already Here
We've mapped 1.8 million nonprofit profiles across 324 metro areas from public IRS data. Your community's page is live. Your organization's profile is waiting.