Meet the Team

C. Davis Parchment

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Davis is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Philanthropy Data Solutions, where she leads efforts to align funders, grants management systems, and data intermediaries with strategic data practices and cutting-edge technology. With over two decades of experience in data-driven philanthropy, she is dedicated to creating a seamless social sector data ecosystem that enhances efficiency, maximizes impact, and reduces the burden on nonprofits.

Before co-founding Philanthropy Data Solutions, she served as PEAK Grantmaking’s first Partnerships Director, spearheading initiatives to improve social sector data flows while positioning the grants community as change leaders. Prior to that she spent 15 years at Candid (formerly Foundation Center), leading global projects, developing data-driven strategies, and promoting transparency in philanthropy. As Director of Partnerships at Candid, she built strategic collaborations to strengthen the sector through data, training, and insights, including a key partnership with CHANGE Philanthropy, PEAK Grantmaking, and Candid to advance equitable grantmaking through better demographic data collection.

She began her career in nonprofit fundraising, management, education, and international development. Davis holds a B.A. in Political Philosophy and Economics from Mount Holyoke College and an Ed.M. in Education from Harvard University. Through Philanthropy Data Solutions, she continues to advance smarter data practices, innovative technology, and strategic partnerships to drive meaningful change in philanthropy.

When not working, you can find Davis chasing wind and waves in the Columbia Gorge or on camping adventures with her son.

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Kyle Renninger

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

Kyle Renninger is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Philanthropy Data Solutions, where he helps strengthen the global social sector’s data ecosystem through strategic data practices, shared standards, interoperability, AI readiness, and burden reduction.

He works across funders, philanthropy-serving organizations, grants management systems, data intermediaries, and civil society to help organizations move from fragmented, duplicative workflows toward reusable information infrastructure. His work spans data architecture, APIs, taxonomies, product strategy, AI adoption, stakeholder alignment, and implementation planning.

Throughout his career, Kyle has helped shape and build major philanthropy and civil society data initiatives, including co-authorship of PEAK Grantmaking’s Data Next-Level Practices, a sector framework for responsible data sharing, reuse, interoperability, and nonprofit burden reduction.

His broader work focuses on building public-interest data infrastructure that helps organizations find, share, reuse, and act on better information. He brings experience as a founder, product leader, technologist, and social sector data strategist, with a background spanning APIs, cloud infrastructure, AI, machine learning, data analytics, and mission-aligned technology.

Outside of his professional work, Kyle is deeply engaged in philanthropy and conservation. He served as Board Vice President at a regional funder and is a founding board member of the Oak Harbor Garry Oak Society, a grassroots nonprofit dedicated to preserving a keystone tree species for future generations. When he’s not behind a computer, he’s usually on his mountain bike or exploring the beaches, mountains, forests, and deserts of the West.

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Spark

Mascot

Spark is the friendly mascot of Philanthropy Data Solutions. They love connecting data, solving problems, and making new friends in the social sector. When they’re not helping organizations reuse and share data, you’ll find them working on ways to make everyone’s work a little easier.

We love to solve big problems in beautiful places.