Justin Steele

Co-Founder and CEO of Kindora

Justin Steele is co-founder and CEO of Kindora, a Public Benefit Corporation in Blackbaud's Social Good Startup Program. Kindora uses AI to help social sector organizations find and win funding. Justin previously directed nearly $700 million in philanthropy at Google.org over a decade. He serves as a trustee at The San Francisco Foundation and co-founded Outdoorithm Collective with his wife Sally. He lives in Oakland with Sally and their four daughters.

Articles by Justin Steele

Artificial Intelligence

We Raised $101K in 3 Weeks: Here’s Our AI-Assisted Board Fundraising Playbook

We ground out 58 grant applications over one year to net $108,000. Then we amazed ourselves by raising another $101,000 [...]

June 25, 2026 | 8 min Read