Note: The Celebrity Black Book is now Contact Any Celebrity, which allows us to update celebrities’ contact information in real-time.
Full Disclosure: I’m Jordan McAuley, founder of Contact Any Celebrity, one of the four services compared below. I’ve tried to be straight about where it wins and where it doesn’t.
If you run a 501(c), charity or nonprofit and you’ve ever tried to land a signed jersey for a silent auction or get a quote from a celebrity supporter, you’ve probably hit the same wall: most “celebrity contact” tools aren’t built for you.
They’re built for PR agencies pitching brand deals, or fans chasing autographs. Pricing pages are vague, trials auto-renew into charges nobody remembers agreeing to, and almost none of them let you search by cause to find who already supports work like yours.
Below are the four databases nonprofits actually run into: what each one costs today, what’s genuinely good about it, and where it falls short, verified against each vendor’s current pricing pages as of September 2026.
Quick Comparison:
| Contact Any Celebrity | The Handbook | IMDbPro | Booking Agent Info | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rate | $197/yr or $39/mo | Not published publicly | $149.99/yr ($12.50/mo) or $19.99/mo | $288/yr ($24/mo) to $588/yr ($49/mo) |
| Free Trial | 7 days | 21 days | 30 days | Not published |
| Database Size | 59,000+ celebrities | 560,000+ celebrities & influencers | 300,000+ industry professionals | 148,000+ verified profiles |
| Causes | Dedicated Celebrity Causes Database | No | No | Partial cause/charity data on higher tier |
| Built For | Fan/nonprofit/author outreach | Influencer marketing & brand deals | Film/TV industry networking | Talent booking & brand deals |
| Money-Back Guarantee | 180 days | Not published | 30-day trial only | Not published |
Contact Any Celebrity
(Most Popular)
$197/year or $39/month · 59,000+ celebrities · 7-day free trial · 180-day money-back guarantee
This is the one I built, so take the following with that in mind, but it’s also the only one on this list with a feature designed specifically for nonprofit outreach: a Celebrity Causes Database.
You can browse by cause category to find celebrities with a track record of supporting similar organizations, rather than cold-emailing a publicist and hoping for the best.
Beyond that, Membership includes verified email and mailing addresses, agent/manager/publicist/attorney contacts for 14,000+ reps, and daily database updates.
There’s also a Postage Refund Guarantee. If a piece of mail comes back, you send us the returned envelope, and we refund your first-class return postage, which matters when a nonprofit is mailing dozens of donation-request letters at a time.
Honest cons: we don’t provide celebrities’ personal phone numbers or email addresses — only their representatives’ contact info and mailing address (and we remove private information if the celebrity or their rep asks).
We can’t guarantee 100% accuracy since celebrities change addresses and representation constantly. And there’s no discounted multi-seat plan if several people on your team need logins.
Sandra Sims of Step-by-Step Fundraising called it “a great resource and very easy to use,” and Julie Stuckey of Justice For Our Neighbors in Houston specifically credited “the listing of causes each celebrity supports” for making it easy to find donors likely to care about her cause.
Her organization raised over $6,200 from the auction items it generated!
What Charities & Nonprofits Say
Contact Any Celebrity’s Charity, Fundraising & Nonprofit Success Stories page has hundreds of nonprofit stories going back years. Small community groups, hospital foundations, and school fundraisers describing what they got and what it raised.
A few representative ones:
- Becky Gomes, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (Pittsburgh, PA): for organizing autograph outreach, called it “the only place to go.”
- Steve Purcell, Founder, Look To The Stars: said the database gets a high response rate and reported: “no mail has been returned to us undelivered.”
- Diane Carter, Victory Junction Gang Camp Celebrity Charity Auction (Logansport, IN): sent 1,800 letters, received 219 donated items, and raised over $6,400 (about $1,400 past her goal).
- Lisa Bennett, Help Animal Lives Today: a request to Dolly Parton’s production company led to a donated item that helped raise $30,000, covering half a year of the organization’s expenses.
- Kathy Simpson, VP Special Events Fundraising, Anchor Bay Band Boosters: a small Michigan community group that raised more than $9,000 for students using the database.
- Randy Sellers, nonprofit fundraiser (Frankfort, KY): described it as “the best way to a wealth of celebrity contact information.”
The Handbook
Pricing not published publicly (sign-up required to see plans) · 560,000+ contacts · 21-day free trial
Founded in 2006 in the UK, The Handbook is the largest database on this list by contact count, and it leans hard into influencer marketing with audience insights, engagement data, and campaign tools alongside contact info.
If your nonprofit is running an influencer gifting campaign rather than a traditional donation ask, the scale here is real.
Honest cons: it’s priced and positioned for brands and PR agencies, not charities, and there’s no cause-based search to filter for celebrities who already support nonprofit work.
It’s also worth knowing before you sign up: one Trustpilot reviewer said they were billed monthly for over two years after what they thought was a trial signup. This is a useful reminder to calendar your trial end date with any of these services, not just this one.
Side note: With my service, Contact Any Celebrity, if you meant to cancel and forgot, just email us. We’ll happily refund the charge.
IMDbPro
$149.99/year ($12.50/mo) or $19.99/month · 300,000+ industry contacts · 30-day free trial
IMDbPro is the industry-standard tool for verified film and TV credits, and its 30-day trial is the longest of the four.
If you need to confirm someone’s current agent or production company for legitimacy purposes, it’s a solid reference.
Honest cons: it’s built for entertainment-industry networking: casting, representation, project tracking, not outreach for donations or endorsements.
One industry blog comparing the two services noted that directories like Contact Any Celebrity focus on fan engagement rather than IMDbPro’s creative-discovery focus, which is a fair way to draw the line: IMDbPro tells you who’s working on what; it’s not built to help you ask someone for a donation.
Booking Agent Info
$288/year ($24/mo) to $588/year ($49/mo), plus $0.30 per extra credit · 148,000+ verified profiles · trial length not published
This one is built around brand deals, endorsements, and event bookings, mapping which agent or manager represents which talent.
It does list “causes and charities celebrities actively support” as a data point, which is relevant for nonprofits, though based on the pricing plan structure, deeper data access appears tied to the higher-priced Professional tier rather than being included at the entry level, so confirm what’s included before you buy.
Honest cons: it’s a credit-based system on top of the subscription, which means costs can climb if your team does high-volume outreach, and (like the other three non-Contact Any Celebrity options here) it wasn’t built with charitable fundraising as the primary use case.
Which One Should Nonprofits Choose?
- Choose Contact Any Celebrity if: you’re doing direct donation asks, auction-item requests, or looking for celebrities who already support causes like yours, and you want cause-based search plus a guarantee built around mail accuracy.
- Choose The Handbook if: you’re running an influencer gifting or brand-style campaign and need the largest possible contact pool, and budget isn’t the main constraint.
- Choose IMDbPro if: you mainly need to verify someone’s current industry representation or production credits, not to make a cold outreach ask.
- Choose Booking Agent Info if: you’re pursuing paid appearances or formal endorsement deals rather than in-kind donations, and can justify the credit-based cost structure.
Frequently Asked Questions:
You can piece together addresses from talent agencies’ public rosters or production companies, but it’s slow, and the data goes stale fast. Agents, managers and publicists change often. Paid databases exist mainly to save that research time and keep the data current.
Many do, especially when there’s a clear, low-effort ask (a signed item, a short quote) and a genuine connection to the cause. Response rates are never guaranteed by any database. What a database gets you is the right address to try.
Agents typically handle bookings and deals, managers handle overall career strategy and are often more accessible for personal requests like donations, and publicists handle media and press. For a donation ask, the manager or a listed charitable-causes contact is usually the better first stop.