Charity Registry MCP server
online · 96% uptimecom.giveradar/charity-registry·v1.2.0Search, verify and compare 7.9M+ nonprofits from official charity registries in 100+ countries.
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Charity Registry tools (4)
write = sends, deletes, buys or postscompare_charitiesFreeSide-by-side comparison of 2-5 charities by slug. Returns their integrity scores, program/admin/fundraising ratios, annual revenue, founding year, foundation type, and a deterministic verdict on which has the strongest transparency signal. Use this when the user wants to choose between named charities.
find_similarFreeGiven one charity's slug, return up to `limit` other charities in the same country + category. Useful for 'find more like this' recommendations. Excludes the input charity from the result.
search_charitiesFreeSearch the charity registry by free-text name. Returns up to `limit` matches, each with slug, name, country, city/state, foundation_type, integrity_score, and the canonical page URL. Use this BEFORE resources/read when the user names a charity but you don't know its slug. The match is case-insensitive substring on the charity's name.
verify_charityFreeLook up a charity by its official registry identifier - EIN (US), Charity Commission number (GB), RSIN (NL), AHU/Kemenkumham reg number (ID), or a generic registration_number for other countries. Returns the matched charity or null. Use this when the user provides a registry number and wants to confirm what's registered under it.
Public scan report
scanner v0.1.10 · 2026-10-16 · same rubric, same numbers if you re-run it
- –Code scanremote-only server, no package to scann/a
- Live reliabilityremote reachable in 2044ms17/20
- Tool poisoning4 tool descriptions checked15/15
- Auth qualityopen endpoint, read-only tools10/15
- Maintenancelast push 41 days ago12/15
- Maintainer identityendpoint served from the registry-verified namespace domain8/10
How Charity Registry compares
Against every graded Web search MCP server, from our own scans and uptime checks. Updated after each scan run.
- Safety score
- 83/100
- higher than 70% of 3,471 Web search servers
- Tools
- 4
- the typical Web search server has 5
- Tools that change things
- 0%
- typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break
- Uptime
- 96%
- of our recent checks; the typical remote Web search server answers 100%
- Response time
- 104 ms
- faster than 85% of 2,238 Web search servers
What its tools let an agent do: 4 read
Install Charity Registry in Claude Code, Cursor or VS Code
claude mcp add --transport http charity-registry https://giveradar.com/mcp/
What the publisher says
From the Charity Registry repository's README, as published. We do not edit it. Read it on GitHub
GiveRadar MCP Server
Remote MCP server exposing 7.9 million+ nonprofits across 100+ countries, sourced from official government charity registries and tax authorities (IRS, Charity Commission, ACNC, and dozens more). Read-only, no key required to start.
Endpoint: https://giveradar.com/mcp/ (JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTPS) Docs: giveradar.com/mcp | Manifest: /.well-known/mcp.json
Tools
Plus resources/list / resources/read for full schema.org JSON-LD per charity (incl. FAQs). All tools are read-only (readOnlyHint: true).
Connect
Clients with native streamable-HTTP support connect directly to https://giveradar.com/mcp/. Setup for every client with screenshots: giveradar.com/for-developers/#ai.
Claude Code (one line):
claude mcp add giveradar --transport http https://giveradar.com/mcp/Claude Desktop (claudedesktopconfig.json), via the generic remote bridge:
{
"mcpServers": {
"giveradar": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote", "https://giveradar.com/mcp/"]
}
}
}or via the zero-dependency stdio bridge in this repo (index.js):
{
"mcpServers": {
"giveradar": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "github:matt-timmermans/giveradar-mcp"]
}
}
}Cursor (.cursor/mcp.json): {"mcpServers": {"giveradar": {"url": "https://giveradar.com/mcp/"}}}
Gemini CLI (~/.gemini/settings.json): {"mcpServers": {"giveradar": {"httpUrl": "https://giveradar.com/mcp/"}}}
ChatGPT: Settings, Connectors, Advanced, enable Developer mode, then Create with server URL https://giveradar.com/mcp/ and authentication none (paid plans).
Optional: set GIVERADARAPIKEY=gr_xxxxx in the environment to raise the daily quota and unlock Pro fields.
Try it
curl -s -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"verify_charity","arguments":{"country":"US","id_value":"13-1760110"}}}' \
https://giveradar.com/mcp/Quotas & tiers
Handshake methods (initialize, ping, tools/list) are free and do not count; tools/call and resources/read do. tools/call is also capped at 60 per minute per IP. Authenticate with Authorization: Bearer gr_xxxxx; get a key at giveradar.com/api. Email, phone, and officer names are never exposed, at any tier.
Also available
- Python client and CLI: pip install giveradar (giveradar-python); its verify() calls this server's verify_charity tool.
- REST API: giveradar.com/api/docs, OpenAPI spec at /api/openapi.yaml.
- For LLMs: /llms.txt (index) and /llms-full.txt (complete reference: endpoints, tools, integrity method, data sources by country).
About
Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.
Nothing above is checked by us. What we check is on the safety report.
Grade history
- 2026-10-16downgradeA → Bscore 83
Charity Registry: common questions
- Is Charity Registry MCP server safe?
- Mostly: it is graded B (83/100). Read the Charity Registry safety report
- How do I install Charity Registry?
- It runs remotely at giveradar.com. Add it to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.
- Does Charity Registry need an API key?
- Not as far as the registry entry and our scan can tell: no credentials are declared or required.
- Is Charity Registry maintained?
- The last commit was 61 days ago (2026-09-05). The latest release is v1.2.0.
- Is Charity Registry up?
- 96% of our last 28 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.
- What can I use instead of Charity Registry?
- Servers from other publishers that do the same job: The Company Atlas MCP server, Legal Data Hunter MCP server and M3 Memory MCP server.
- How does Charity Registry compare with other Web search MCP servers?
- safety score 83/100 (higher than 70% of 3,471 Web search servers); tools 4 (the typical Web search server has 5); tools that change things 0% (typical: 0%. Fewer write tools means less an agent can break). Full comparison.
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