# foundation-discovery MCP server

Foundation discovery and grant intelligence for nonprofits. 174K+ US funders, IRS 990 data.

## Links
- Registry page: https://www.getdrio.com/mcp/io-github-kindora-pbc-foundation-discovery
- Repository: https://github.com/Kindora-PBC/kindora
- Website: https://www.kindora.co/mcp

## Install
- Endpoint: https://kindora-mcp.azurewebsites.net/mcp/
- Auth: Not captured

## Setup notes
- Remote endpoint: https://kindora-mcp.azurewebsites.net/mcp/

## Tools
- health_check (Health Check) - Check server health and connectivity.

Returns:
    Dictionary with health status including:
    - status: "healthy" or "unhealthy"
    - version: Server version
    - environment: Current environment (dev/staging/prod) Endpoint: https://kindora-mcp.azurewebsites.net/mcp/
- list_tools (List Available Tools) - List available MCP tools and get detailed help.

Use this tool to discover what tools are available and how to use them.
Call without parameters to see all tools, or provide a tool name to get
detailed help including parameters, examples, and related tools. Endpoint: https://kindora-mcp.azurewebsites.net/mcp/
- search_funders (Search Grantmakers) - Look up grantmaking organizations by name, topic, or location.

This tool searches 174K+ grantmaking organizations from IRS data using
organization names plus grant-purpose/topic signals. Use it when you know
the funder's name, want aligned funders for a cause area, or want to browse
by location/size/NTEE code. Multi-word searches are ranked by relevance;
simple browse/name fallback results are ordered by total assets.

IMPORTANT: Use search_open_grants when the user needs active grant programs
or RFPs. search_funders is for finding aligned grantmakers, including ones
that may fund by relationship, LOI, or annual cycle rather than a live call. Endpoint: https://kindora-mcp.azurewebsites.net/mcp/
- get_funder_profile (Get Funder Profile) - Get detailed profile information for a specific funder.

Polymorphic identifier — pass ``ein`` for US 990 foundations OR
``funder_id`` (bare UUID / ``n9f:<uuid>``) for non-990 funders such as
European, UK 360Giving, and Canadian CRA T3010 funders. ``search_funders``
returns both fields on every hit, so the caller can hand either one back
here. At least one identifier must be supplied.

Use this after searching for funders to get detailed information about a
specific one. Endpoint: https://kindora-mcp.azurewebsites.net/mcp/
- get_990_summary (Get IRS 990 Summary) - Get IRS 990 filing summary and financial trends for a foundation.

This tool retrieves IRS 990 filing data (Form 990 or 990-PF) for a foundation,
showing financial information over time. It calculates year-over-year trends
for assets, grants, and revenue. Endpoint: https://kindora-mcp.azurewebsites.net/mcp/
- get_foundation_grants (Get Foundation Grants) - View grants made by a funder across IRS, web-extracted, and registry records.

Merges five stores. **(1) IRS 990-PF filings** — structured grant lines from
the ~143K US private foundations that file 990s, keyed by EIN. **(2)
Web-extracted grant records** — our enrichment pipeline crawls funder
websites and an LLM extracts their grant lists. This second store covers
~15K additional US foundations AND ~17K non-990 funders (European
foundations, US community foundations, DAFs, corporate giving programs).
**(3) 360Giving** UK GrantNav rows, **(4) CRA T3010** Canadian rows, and
**(5) ACRI** Italian banking-foundation erogazioni are structured registry
sources with original-currency amounts preserved.

Use this for ANY funder when the user asks about grants given, including
European funders without an EIN (pass ``funder_id`` instead of ``ein``).
Each row in the response carries a ``source`` field (``"990"`` for IRS
data, ``"discovered_web"`` for crawled, plus ``"360giving"``, ``"t3010"``,
and ``"acri"`` for structured registries). When web-extracted rows for a
funder lack captured amounts (common for European funders that publish PDFs
rather than open data), the response includes an ``amount_coverage_note``
in ``data_quality`` — surface that caveat in your reply.

Note: ``recipient_country`` reflects the recipient organization's HQ
country (where the grantee is registered), not necessarily where the
program work is implemented. Endpoint: https://kindora-mcp.azurewebsites.net/mcp/
- get_ntee_codes (Browse NTEE Codes) - Browse NTEE (National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities) classification codes.

NTEE codes are used to classify nonprofit organizations by their primary
purpose. This tool helps you find the right NTEE code for searching or
understanding a foundation's focus area. Endpoint: https://kindora-mcp.azurewebsites.net/mcp/
- search_open_grants (Search Open Grants) - Search open grant opportunities from Kindora's active foundation-program corpus and federal government grants.

Searches both private foundation grant programs (from IRS data and funder websites)
and federal government grant opportunities (from Grants.gov). Uses full-text search
with natural language understanding — queries are parsed into individual terms with
stemming, so "youth after school programs" matches programs about youth, after-school,
and programming even if those exact words don't appear together.

Search covers program names, descriptions, focus areas, beneficiary types, and
geographic focus fields. Use the state parameter to focus on geographically relevant
opportunities.

Query syntax:
- Natural language: "affordable housing for seniors" (matches any of these terms)
- Quoted phrases: '"after school"' (matches exact phrase)
- Exclusion: "education -higher" (matches education, excludes higher education)
- Combine: '"mental health" youth -adult' (phrase + term + exclusion)
- No query: returns broadly open programs sorted by upcoming deadlines (browsing mode) Endpoint: https://kindora-mcp.azurewebsites.net/mcp/
- search_funder_jobs (Search Funder Jobs) - Search OPEN PHILANTHROPY JOBS at grantmaking foundations.

Surfaces roles involved in giving away money, running philanthropic
programs, or executive leadership of philanthropic work. Backed by a
weekly scrape of ~50K funder careers pages + GPT-5.4-mini
classification against an 8-category taxonomy.

Categories (use the `category` param to filter):
  - grantmaking: Program officers, grants managers, RFP reviewers
  - program_leadership: VP Programs, Chief Program Officer, Program
    Director (cause-area)
  - executive_leadership: CEO, President, Executive Director at a
    foundation or community foundation
  - philanthropy_operations: Foundation finance/HR/IT/COO
  - program_support: Program associates, M&E officers, learning
    officers, program coordinators
  - development_for_grantmaking: Major gifts officers and development
    roles at community foundations and other regranting entities
    (NOT university or hospital development for the parent's
    operations)
  - philanthropy_communications: Foundation comms staff
  - philanthropy_strategy: Chief Strategy Officer, impact officer,
    equity & inclusion at a foundation

What's excluded by design: clinical/medical, retail, academic
teaching, university advancement for the university itself,
hospital fundraising for hospital ops, construction/facilities. Endpoint: https://kindora-mcp.azurewebsites.net/mcp/
- search_nonprofits (Search Nonprofits (Grantee Benchmarking)) - Search the ~2M-org universe of US nonprofits (IRS Business Master File) —
the RECIPIENT / grantee side, distinct from search_funders (the grantmaker
side). Use this to benchmark peer organizations, research a cause's
landscape, or find well-funded peers and then look up WHO funds them.

Each result carries 990 financials (revenue, program-expense ratio,
employees, governance score) and recipient-side funding signals:
`total_grants_received` (tracked foundation $ received), `funder_count`
(distinct funders), `avg_grant_size_received`, and `funder_concentration_hhi`.

CHOOSING THE RIGHT TOOL:
- Want FUNDERS to apply to → use search_funders.
- Want to research/benchmark RECIPIENT nonprofits (peers, "who received
  $X", landscape of a cause) → use search_nonprofits.
- Found a well-funded peer and want their funders → note its `funder_count`,
  then use get_foundation_grants / search_funders to find who funds that work. Endpoint: https://kindora-mcp.azurewebsites.net/mcp/
- get_funder_stats (Get Funder Statistics) - Get comprehensive giving statistics for a funder.

This tool calculates aggregate statistics about a funder's grantmaking
from IRS 990-PF data, web-extracted grant records, 360Giving rows, CRA
T3010 rows, and ACRI rows. It provides lifetime totals, focus areas, geographic
distribution, and year-over-year trends.
Pass ``ein`` for US 990 foundations, or ``funder_id`` (bare UUID /
``n9f:<uuid>``) for non-990 funders. Endpoint: https://kindora-mcp.azurewebsites.net/mcp/

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## Metadata
- Owner: io.github.Kindora-PBC
- Version: 0.1.0
- Runtime: Streamable Http
- Transports: HTTP
- License: Not captured
- Language: Not captured
- Stars: Not captured
- Updated: Apr 28, 2026
- Source: https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io