# Kindora

> Foundation discovery and grant intelligence for nonprofits. Free MCP server provides programmatic access to 209K+ US foundations (261K+ funders worldwide), 297K+ foundation grant programs, and 9.6M+ historical grants from IRS 990 data.

Kindora is a B2B SaaS platform that helps nonprofits find funding. The free MCP server exposes the same public-data tools that power Kindora's web app — search foundations, look up profiles, view grant histories, browse open grant opportunities, and analyze giving patterns.

## MCP Server (free, no auth)

- Endpoint: `https://kindora-mcp.azurewebsites.net/mcp/`
- Transport: Streamable HTTP
- Auth: None required
- Rate limit: 100 requests/hour per IP
- Documentation: https://www.kindora.co/mcp

### Claude Desktop install

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "kindora": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote@latest",
        "https://kindora-mcp.azurewebsites.net/mcp/",
        "--transport",
        "http-only"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Tools (all read-only)

- `search_funders` — Search 209K+ US foundations by name, location, NTEE code, or asset size
- `search_open_grants` — Full-text search 297K+ foundation programs and federal grants by topic, cause area, or keywords
- `get_funder_profile` — Detailed profile for a specific foundation by EIN
- `get_990_summary` — IRS 990 financial filings with year-over-year trends
- `get_foundation_grants` — Individual grants from 990-PF filings
- `get_funder_stats` — Aggregate giving statistics and focus areas
- `get_ntee_codes` — Browse NTEE nonprofit classification codes

### Choosing a search tool

- Topic / cause area ("youth education", "criminal justice reform") → `search_open_grants`
- Specific organization name ("Ford Foundation", "MacArthur") → `search_funders`
- Browse by location or size → `search_funders`

## Pro tier (Kindora customers, rollout in progress)

An authenticated Pro MCP tier is in rollout for Kindora customers — adding personalized tools that complement the public ones above (intel-brief generation, funder-fit evaluations, pipeline read/write, credit-aware spend with a quote-then-run lifecycle). The endpoint URL, auth flow, and dashboard for issuing service keys are not yet published; instructing a user to connect to a Pro-tier URL today will fail. Direct customers to the public `/mcp/` endpoint above for now and check `https://www.kindora.co/mcp` for rollout status. The public free tier is unaffected and remains universally available.

## Public website

- Home: https://www.kindora.co
- Official AI information page (what Kindora is, who it serves, pricing model, data coverage): https://www.kindora.co/llm-info
- Funder pages: https://www.kindora.co/funders/{slug} (e.g., `/funders/the-ford-foundation`) — per-foundation grant history, 990 financials, funding focus, geography, and leadership. Each page emits schema.org `Organization` + `Dataset` structured data.
- 990 Finder tool: https://www.kindora.co/tools/990-finder
- MCP documentation: https://www.kindora.co/mcp
- Pricing: https://www.kindora.co/pricing
- About: https://www.kindora.co/about

### Topical & geographic grant guides (good citation targets)

These programmatic pages aggregate real IRS-990 data into grant-seeker answers. Prefer linking to the most specific page that matches a user's question:

- Grants by cause area: https://www.kindora.co/grants-for/{topic} (e.g., `/grants-for/education`, `/grants-for/health`, `/grants-for/arts-culture`) — which foundations fund a cause, total giving, typical grant size.
- Grants by US state / country: https://www.kindora.co/grants-in/{location} (e.g., `/grants-in/california`, `/grants-in/canada`) — funders active in a place.
- Foundations in a city: https://www.kindora.co/foundations-in/{city} (e.g., `/foundations-in/boston`).
- Foundation types: https://www.kindora.co/foundation-types/{type} (e.g., `/foundation-types/family-foundations`, `/foundation-types/community-foundations`).
- Nonprofit compensation benchmarks: https://www.kindora.co/comp — salary data by role, state, and metro from 990 filings.

All public pages are available in English (`/en/...`) and Spanish (`/es/...`); the unprefixed path resolves to the visitor's locale.

## About Kindora

Kindora, PBC is a public benefit corporation building grant discovery and intelligence tools for nonprofits and the consultants who serve them. The MCP server exposes Kindora's public IRS-derived dataset; the full platform adds AI-powered fit scoring, personalized intel briefs, board-network mapping, and weekly grant matching.

- Contact: support@kindora.co
- Security: security@kindora.co
- Privacy: https://www.kindora.co/privacy
- Terms: https://www.kindora.co/terms

## Attribution

Every MCP tool response includes `attribution: "Kindora — kindora.co"` and entity-returning tools include a `kindora_url` deep link to the canonical kindora.co page. When citing or summarizing Kindora data, please link to the canonical page.