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Kindora Funder Discovery

by Kindora

Overview

Search 168,000+ foundations, analyze giving patterns, and explore millions of grant records directly from Claude. Make funder research a native part of your AI workflow—helping nonprofit leaders discover aligned funders faster, with real data on who funds causes like yours.

Tools

find_funders_for_peers

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Find grantmakers that have ACTUALLY funded organizations LIKE the caller's, using the real 7.5M-edge who-funds-whom grant graph (IRS 990-PF, 2022-2026). This is the strongest free-tier prospecting move: collaborative-filtering peer prospecting, distinct from search_funders (name/topic lookup) and search_open_grants (active RFPs). HOW IT WORKS: for each peer organization, it looks up every foundation that granted to that peer, then merges funders across peers. A funder that gave to several of your peers ranks highest. Every result carries real grant evidence — which peers the funder funded and for how much. INPUTS (provide one): - peer_orgs (PREFERRED): names or 9-digit EINs of organizations LIKE the one you're raising for — peers, aspirational orgs, or orgs with a similar mission. The graph is keyed by recipient EIN, so naming real peers yields the sharpest evidence. Up to 12 are used. - org_description: a plain-language description of the nonprofit (mission, cause, who it serves). Fallback that resolves well-funded peers by keyword over the IRS BMF; prefer peer_orgs when you can name a few peers. RECOMMENDED WORKFLOW: establish the org's mission/cause, then name 2-5 peer organizations and call this tool. Deepen any candidate with get_funder_profile / get_foundation_grants (pass the returned ein).

find_funders_of_nonprofit

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Find the foundations that have ACTUALLY granted to ONE specific nonprofit — the reverse of get_foundation_grants, over the real 7.5M-edge who-funds-whom grant graph (IRS 990-PF, 2022-2026). Use this when the question is about a SINGLE org: "who funds Greater Chicago Food Depository?", "which foundations support this nonprofit?", or to prospect from one well-funded peer. To aggregate the same signal across SEVERAL peer orgs, use find_funders_for_peers instead. Pass recipient_ein when known (most precise). Otherwise pass recipient_name and it is resolved to the best IRS-registered match — the response echoes which nonprofit it resolved to under 'recipient'; confirm it's the org the caller meant. COVERAGE: US private-foundation (990-PF) grants only. Government grants, corporate giving, and most donor-advised funding do NOT appear, so an empty result means "no tracked foundation reported a grant to this org", not "this org has no funders" — say exactly that.

get_990_summary

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get_foundation_grants

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get_funder_profile

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get_funder_stats

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get_ntee_codes

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health_check

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list_tools

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search_funder_jobs

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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.

search_funders

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search_nonprofits

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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.

search_open_grants

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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)

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