Overview
Essentials API is Candid's nonprofit search engine, where you can use the most common set of data about nonprofits to quickly find organizations relevant to your users, and then use those results to get more data from our other APIs.
- Search by organization name or EIN to help users find nonprofits.
- Research nonprofits most relevant to your users based on keyword search terms, location, financials & more.
- Surface organizations with recently updated data to keep your records up to date.
- Create advanced search capabilities for your users to search by cause area, within a location and radius, and between a range of revenue, assets and expenses.
- Display results with nonprofit branding including mission, website, logo, and contact information to help users easily recognize their favorite nonprofits.
- Identify organizations who have submitted demographic data to Candid.
- Allow users to filter results based on Pub78 Verification, audits performed, and form types filed with the IRS.
- Using Essentials API
Search Candid’s most common set of data about nonprofits to quickly find organizations most relevant to your users, and use those results to get more data from our other APIs. API returns search result in JSON format.
Easily Build Your Essentials Search Query
Take all the guess-work out of building your search query by using the built-in query generator on the Essentials API Docs page.
Taxonomy API
- Get started with Taxonomy API
Use the Taxonomy API to return a list of values that can be used in search queries with the Essentials endpoints
