GiveRadar API
Programmatic access to 7 million+ charities. Integrity assessments, financials, officers, and contact data, all via a simple REST API.
View full documentation →Choose your plan
Free for individuals. Paid tiers for commercial use.
Free
- 100 requests/day
- Search charities
- Basic charity data
- Integrity signals
- Financial filings
- Officer data
- Contact details
Pro
- 10,000 requests/day
- Search charities
- Full charity data
- Integrity signals
- Financial filings
- Officer and executive data
- Contact details (email, phone)
- MCP server access with the same quota and Pro fields
Enterprise
- 100,000+ requests/day
- Everything in Pro
- Bulk data export with API access
- Webhook notifications
- Dedicated support
- Custom integrations
- SLA guarantee
“I specifically chose GiveRadar after discovering it was highly recommended alongside major sources like the IRS and ProPublica. The data quality is exceptional, the team is very competent and responsive, even facilitating a full dataset delivery directly to my S3 bucket, which saved me months of manual API calls and technical overhead.”
MCP server for AI agents
Building an AI assistant or agent? GiveRadar is also a remote
Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
at https://giveradar.com/mcp/ -
listed in the official MCP registry as com.giveradar/charity-registry.
Agents can search charities, verify registry numbers (EIN, Charity Number, RSIN), compare
integrity scores, and read full schema.org profiles - no scraping required.
Your API key works on both surfaces. MCP is included at every tier:
anonymous access gives 50 requests/day per IP, a free key raises it to 100/day, and
Pro unlocks the same 10,000 requests/day and the financial fields
(revenue, program/admin/fundraising ratios, donation and report URLs) through MCP exactly as through REST.
Authenticate with the same Authorization: Bearer gr_... header.
Setup instructions for Claude Desktop and other MCP clients are on the MCP server page; for an overview see the charity MCP server landing page.
Open data and research access
GiveRadar's methodology documentation and data schemas are published openly under CC-BY 4.0. Individual donors and researchers get free API access at the developer tier. Academic researchers, journalists, and verified nonprofit evaluators can request expanded free access by contacting us. Commercial developers and organizations sustain the platform through paid API tiers.
Quick Start
Up and running in under a minute.
Get your API key
Sign up and create a free API key at /api/keys/
Make your first request
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer gr_your_key_here" \
"https://giveradar.com/api/v1/search/?q=red+cross&country=US"
Endpoints
| GET /api/v1/search/ | Search charities by name or country |
| GET /api/v1/charity/{slug}/ | Full charity details |
| GET /api/v1/charity/{slug}/financials/ | Financial filings history |
| GET /api/v1/charity/{slug}/news/ | News articles and sentiment |
How the API supports the public mission
The paid API tiers fund the work that keeps GiveRadar free for donors, researchers, and public-interest use. Every dollar of commercial API revenue goes back into expanding coverage, improving data quality, building new transparency features, and maintaining the free donor-facing platform. We do not take advertising revenue from charities, nor do we allow charities to pay for improved integrity assessments.
This separation matters: if you are a donor researching a charity, the integrity assessment you see is never influenced by who paid for anything. If you are a commercial developer using our data at scale, you help sustain the platform for everyone else.