What is The Generous Archive?
TGA is a philanthropic advisory firm that helps individuals, families, foundations, and advisors turn personal history into thoughtful, meaningful philanthropy.
Meet Kristin Giant
I created this practice after fifteen years working across law, philanthropy, nonprofit leadership, impact investing, and community development. I have advised families on complex giving decisions, managed grantmaking portfolios, helped build impact investment funds, led nonprofit organizations, and worked alongside communities translating generosity into practical change.
Across every role, I kept coming back to the same truth: the most meaningful giving rarely begins with a spreadsheet.
It begins with a story.
A family business built over generations. A teacher who changed the course of someone’s life. A hometown that shaped a person’s values. A loss, an injustice, a second chance, or a question that never quite went away.
These stories are often present in philanthropic conversations, but they are not always treated as strategic assets. The Generous Archive helps uncover them, preserve them, and turn them into a framework for action.
often, the story is the framework.
Whether the philanthropist, trustees, or next generation want to acknowledge it or not.
Why this work, and why now?
Many families and individuals are already giving, but the process can still feel heavy, disconnected, or harder than it should. The Generous Archive works directly with donors to bring their stories, values, and relationships into the heart of their philanthropy, creating more clarity, freedom, and joy.
We also work alongside existing financial, legal, and philanthropic advisory teams as a specialized overlay, helping clients move beyond charitable structures and tax strategy into questions of meaning, identity, family, legacy, and impact. The goal is for clients to leave saying, “I didn’t know philanthropy could feel this personal, creative, connected, or fun.”
Intuitively Designed for Families and Their Trusted Advisors
Families & individuals
We help you capture the stories and anchoring parables already shaping your giving, then turn them into a practical philanthropic framework, family archive, or decision-making guide.
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advisors
We train philanthropic advisors in this method or work directly alongside you and your clients to capture story, build the archive, and translate it into strategy.
Results
For the a family or individual -- we help reconnect you to the story that shapes your philanthropy and makes the decisions easy, fulfilling, and impactful. For the advisors? We help you attract and retain clients who have a vision for legacy beyond checkbook philanthropy.
The Diligent Archivist
Help you or your Client's maintain their Archive throughout your engagement, adding data, parable, and context as necessary and appropriate.
Use the Framework
Support families and their advisors in practical ongoing use-cases for engaging the Archive for strategic direction and day-to-day decisions.
Set the Direction
We use your or your client's newly established archive to guide conversations and decisions surrounding philanthropy -- past, present, and future.
Build the Archive
Through our structured interview process, we establish you or your client's personalized framework for giving within a "Closed World" Notebook style LLM.
Let's write a story
our process