Giving Compass Insights API

Build Better Experiences with Comprehensive Nonprofit Data

People evaluating nonprofits need more than basic Form 990 information. With the Giving Compass API, you can provide users context, credibility, and clarity.

Enhance Discovery, Understanding, and Engagement

Our intelligent data engine puts trusted, publicly available nonprofit data, impact narratives, and discovery tools in one place. Whether you’re building donor platforms, advisor tools, research products, or impact reporting systems, Giving Compass helps you integrate reliable nonprofit insights directly into the workflows people already use.

Use one product or combine all three to support discovery, understanding, and engagement across the nonprofit ecosystem.

The Giving Compass API gathering nonprofit data, such as 990 filings, NTEE codes, articles and impact stories, into a website on a desktop and a tablet

  • Nonprofit Discovery

    Help users quickly and intuitively discover organizations that align with their values and priorities.

    Finding the right nonprofit shouldn’t require expert knowledge of tax codes or filtering logic. The Nonprofit Search API allows users to describe what they’re looking for in plain language and receive relevant, ranked results.

    By translating natural language into structured search criteria, this API helps people explore causes, geographies, and organizational characteristics with confidence and ease.

    What this enables

    • Faster discovery of relevant nonprofits
    • More intuitive search experiences for non-technical users
    • Reduced friction in donor and advisor research workflows

    How teams use it

    • Power search across donation platforms and advisor tools
    • Support exploratory research and cause-based discovery
    • Easier comparison across organizations and issue areas
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  • Impact Report Insights

    Bring nonprofit outcomes to life with verified impact stories and metrics drawn directly from annual reports.

    Impact is more than numbers, and stories are stronger when they’re grounded in evidence. The Nonprofit Impact API helps you present both.

    This product provides access to AI-extracted impact narratives and outcome metrics sourced directly from nonprofit annual reports, make it easier to see the difference nonprofits are making.

    What this enables

    • Clearer understanding of nonprofit outcomes
    • Stronger storytelling backed by verified sources
    • Easier comparison across organizations and issue areas
    • Due diligence without placing reporting burdens on nonprofits

    How teams use it

    • Evaluate nonprofit effectiveness with data and stories
    • Aggregate and compare impact metrics to identify trends and benchmark performance
    • Track and compare outcomes across similar organizations
    • Source compelling stories to help shape a narrative
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  • Nonprofit Newsfeed

    Keep users informed and engaged with timely updates straight from nonprofits themselves.

    Nonprofits regularly share updates, insights, and opportunities, but that information is often scattered across websites and channels. The Nonprofit Feed API brings this content together in one place.

    By surfacing articles, videos, events, job postings, and other updates directly from nonprofits, this API helps users stay informed and engaged over time.

    What this enables

    • Ongoing engagement beyond one-time research
    • Timely visibility into nonprofit activity and priorities
    • Richer, more current nonprofit profiles

    How teams use it

    • Populate content feeds within donor or advisor platforms
    • Highlight nonprofit updates alongside data and impact
    • Support discovery through real-time organizational activity
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Plans are fit to your platform and the volume it needs, so pricing starts with a conversation with our team.

Listen: Product Briefing

Learn about the Giving Compass API, an AI-ready nonprofit data API.

In this previously recorded Product Briefing, Dale Nirvani Pfeifer and Director of Engineering Joe Alonso walk through:

  • Data types and sources
  • Tool and workflow integration
  • How teams are using the API today

If you’re exploring better ways to evaluate nonprofits or support others in their giving, this is your chance to learn what’s possible with unified, decision-ready data.

Access the recording
Meet the New API: Embed AI-Ready Nonprofit Data Where Giving Happens

Documentation and API Key

Explore the API documentation, then get a key yourself: sign in to Giving Compass, and the developer page gives you a free sandbox key for all three products and shows your usage.

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Special Projects or Custom Integrations

Looking for something tailored to your unique needs, whether that’s a custom API solution, white-labeled integration, or deeper collaboration? Let’s build something impactful together. We’ll explore your goals and how Giving Compass can support them.

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