# philanthropic.tools

> An open, modular toolset and evolving knowledge base for AI agents (Claude, Muse, Claude Code, Codex) and human donors to deploy philanthropic capital with purpose. Strictly informational and non-custodial; zero precomputed dogmatic scores—curates high-signal leads and provides live verification pointers and external affordances for your agent.

## Quick Start for AI Agents

- [Agent Setup & Orientation](/setup.md): Step-by-step instructions to configure MCP, CLI, or zero-install web retrieval.
- [Full Knowledge Base Bundle](/llms-full.txt): Single-file concatenation of high-level guidance, domains, curated leads, and modular tools.
- [JSON Catalog Endpoint](/api/catalog.json): Complete structured index of domains, curated leads, modular tools, and guidance.

## High-Level Guidance for Agents (Read First)

- [Translating High-Level Donor Intent](/md/guidance/01-high-level-intent-alignment.md): How to turn a human's broad values, life context, and bandwidth constraints into a clear giving compass without interrogation or bias.
- [Pluralistic Worldviews & Epistemic Diversity](/md/guidance/02-pluralistic-worldviews.md): Why distinct philanthropic domains operate under fundamentally different theories of change—and how to diversify across worldviews instead of forcing one metric.
- [Live Agentic Due Diligence (Leads & Pointers, Never Precomputed Scores)](/md/guidance/03-agentic-due-diligence.md): How user agents should treat curated leads as starting hypotheses and execute live, context-specific verification using modular external probes.
- [Navigating Vehicles, DAFs, Equity Matches & Fiscal Sponsors](/md/guidance/04-vehicles-and-tax-mechanics.md): Practical orientation on Donor-Advised Funds, post-IPO equity matching tranches, thesis-driven funds, FROs, fiscal sponsorships, and 501(c)(3) vs. 501(c)(4) rules.
- [Strictly Non-Custodial Posture & Composing External Rails](/md/guidance/05-non-custodial-composability.md): Safety, legal, and operational boundaries—compose external rails cleanly while keeping 100% of custody and execution authority with the human donor.

## Priority Cause Domains & Scouting Overviews

- [Renaissance Philanthropy & Thesis-Driven Funds](/md/domains/renaissance-ecosystem.md): Specialist-led, time-bound philanthropic funds and initiatives spanning AI for Math, Open Source for Science, ARPA-style research design, Arctic & climate emergencies, geologic hydrogen, alternative protein asset rescue, talent acceleration, housing abundance, and global job creation.
- [AI Safety, Evaluations & Societal Resilience](/md/domains/ai-safety-and-resilience.md): Independent frontier capability evaluations, adversarial alignment & control research, compute & benchmark observatories, safety talent pipelines, and nimble technical regranting.
- [Biosecurity & Pandemic Preparedness](/md/domains/biosecurity-and-pandemics.md): Pathogen-agnostic metagenomic early warning, far-UVC indoor air safety, DNA synthesis screening infrastructure, next-generation PPE, and bio-risk governance.
- [Metascience, AI-for-Science & Focused Research Organizations (FROs)](/md/domains/metascience-and-fros.md): Mid-scale nonprofit engineering teams (FROs), autonomous scientific discovery agents, formal mathematical verification, and science-funding policy reform.
- [Climate R&D, Clean Tech Catalysis & Overshoot Research](/md/domains/climate-rd-and-overshoot.md): Neglected industrial decarbonization (steel, cement, aviation, shipping), superhot rock geothermal, ocean CDR verification, LMIC power grids, and catastrophic tipping-point governance.
- [Global Health, Extreme Poverty & Economic Mobility](/md/domains/global-health-and-poverty.md): High-certainty RCT-backed life-saving interventions, unconditional cash transfers, neglected health R&D, global lead elimination, and catalytic African job creation.
- [San Francisco Bay Area Local Impact & Civic Abundance](/md/domains/bay-area-local-impact.md): High-accountability poverty-fighting grantmaking, pro-housing zoning & abundance litigation (YIMBY), regional transit/water urbanism, and frontline food & youth shelter.

## Curated High-Signal Leads (Funds, FROs & Flagship Initiatives)

- [Coefficient Giving (fka Open Philanthropy) — Advanced AI & Multi-Donor Funds](/md/leads/coefficient-ai-safety-funds.md) (Multi-Donor Institutional Grantmaking Platform · ai-safety-and-resilience): Multi-donor platform evolved from Open Philanthropy ($8B+ historical grants) enabling aligned philanthropists to co-fund technical AI safety, governance, biosecurity, and R&D.
- [Epoch AI](/md/leads/epoch-ai.md) (Empirical AI Observatory & Benchmark Nonprofit · ai-safety-and-resilience): Independent 501(c)(3) research institute producing public datasets on AI training compute, hardware/energy bottlenecks, economic impacts, FrontierMath, and the Epoch Capabilities Index.
- [FAR AI (Frontier Alignment Research & Safety Grantmaking Fund)](/md/leads/far-ai-and-grantmaking-fund.md) (Independent Research Lab & Academic Regrantor · ai-safety-and-resilience): Berkeley-based 501(c)(3) alignment lab and academic safety regrantor leading multi-layer jailbreak/red-teaming defenses, CBRN risk evals, and weak-to-strong generalization research.
- [Kairos (SPAR, Generator Residency & Pathfinder Fellowship)](/md/leads/kairos-talent-programs.md) (Talent Pipeline & Fellowship Nonprofit · ai-safety-and-resilience): High-throughput talent accelerator running SPAR (800+ mentees/round mentored by frontier safety researchers), Generator Residency, and university AI safety/biosecurity fellowships.
- [METR (Model Evaluation & Threat Research)](/md/leads/metr.md) (Independent Research & Evaluation Nonprofit · ai-safety-and-resilience): Independent frontier AI evaluation organization measuring autonomous task horizons, loss-of-control risks, and responsible-scaling commitments across leading AI labs.
- [Redwood Research](/md/leads/redwood-research.md) (Technical AI Safety Research Lab · ai-safety-and-resilience): Applied alignment and "AI Control" research lab designing monitoring, sandboxing, and adversarial red-team protocols so untrusted frontier models cannot cause catastrophic harm.
- [Survival and Flourishing Fund (SFF) & EA Long-Term Future Fund](/md/leads/survival-and-flourishing-fund.md) (Specialist Regranting Pools · ai-safety-and-resilience): High-velocity, transparent regranting pools backing independent alignment researchers, early-stage technical AI safety orgs, and existential-risk resilience projects.
- [SF-Marin Food Bank, Second Harvest Silicon Valley & Larkin Street Youth Services](/md/leads/sf-marin-food-bank-and-larkin-street.md) (Frontline Direct-Service Nonprofits · bay-area-local-impact): High-scale, audited frontline safety-net institutions delivering wholesale food security and transitional youth housing across San Francisco and Silicon Valley.
- [SPUR (San Francisco Bay Area Planning & Urban Research Association)](/md/leads/spur-bay-area.md) (Regional Civic Policy & Urban Research Nonprofit · bay-area-local-impact): Non-partisan urban policy institute across San Francisco, San José, and Oakland driving technical reforms on housing abundance, regional transit integration, water resilience, and municipal governance.
- [Tipping Point Community](/md/leads/tipping-point-community.md) (Accountable Regional Poverty-Fighting Grantmaker · bay-area-local-impact): Data-driven San Francisco Bay Area grantmaker vetting and scaling top local housing, homelessness-prevention, early childhood, and employment nonprofits—with board underwriting 100% of internal operating costs.
- [YIMBY Law (501c3) & YIMBY Action (501c4)](/md/leads/yimby-action-and-yimby-law.md) (Pro-Housing Legal Enforcement & Grassroots Advocacy · bay-area-local-impact): Enforces California's pro-housing zoning and Housing Element laws through strategic litigation (YIMBY Law, 501c3) alongside grassroots legislative organizing (YIMBY Action, 501c4).
- [Blueprint Biosecurity](/md/leads/blueprint-biosecurity.md) (Technical Roadmap & Catalysis Nonprofit · biosecurity-and-pandemics): Produces engineering-grade technical blueprints and market-catalysis programs to suppress airborne pathogen transmission via 222nm far-UVC light, clean indoor air, and superior PPE.
- [Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security](/md/leads/johns-hopkins-center-for-health-security.md) (University Policy & Preparedness Research Center · biosecurity-and-pandemics): Premier biosecurity policy, tabletop-exercise, and governance center translating technical bio-surveillance, synthesis screening, and AI-bio safeguards into federal and global standards.
- [Nucleic Acid Observatory (NAO)](/md/leads/nucleic-acid-observatory.md) (Pathogen Surveillance Research Consortium · biosecurity-and-pandemics): Develops untargeted metagenomic sequencing and computational exponential-growth detection across wastewater and air samples to spot novel pandemics before clinical spread.
- [SecureBio (SecureDNA, Far-UVC & Bio-Risk Defense)](/md/leads/securebio.md) (Biosecurity Engineering Nonprofit · biosecurity-and-pandemics): Nonprofit biosecurity engineering team building cryptographic DNA synthesis screening (SecureDNA), AI bio-safeguard evaluations, next-gen PPE, and metagenomic early warning.
- [Clean Air Task Force (CATF) & Future Cleantech Architects](/md/leads/clean-air-task-force.md) (Technical Climate Policy & R&D Catalysis Nonprofits · climate-rd-and-overshoot): Pragmatic engineering and policy organizations catalyzing superhot rock geothermal, advanced nuclear, zero-carbon fuels, transmission permitting, and global methane abatement.
- [[C]Worthy (Ocean Carbon Removal Verification FRO)](/md/leads/cworthy-ocean-cdr-fro.md) (Focused Research Organization (FRO) · climate-rd-and-overshoot): Focused Research Organization building open-source oceanographic modeling software to verify the durability, additionality, and ecological safety of marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR).
- [Giving Green & The Giving Green Fund](/md/leads/giving-green-fund.md) (Independent Climate Evaluator & Regranting Fund · climate-rd-and-overshoot): Evidence-driven climate research team and regranting fund (~$27M–$30M/yr) targeting neglected industrial steel/cement, aviation/shipping fuels, LMIC grids, CDR, and overshoot governance.
- [SRM360 & SilverLining (Climate Overshoot Evidence & Governance)](/md/leads/srm360-and-overshoot-governance.md) (Scientific Assessment & Research Nonprofits · climate-rd-and-overshoot): Non-advocacy scientific synthesis, atmospheric modeling grants, and Global South research capacity evaluating solar radiation management and climate tipping-point risks.
- [Coefficient Giving — Science & Global Health R&D Fund](/md/leads/coefficient-global-health-rd.md) (Multi-Donor Scientific & Health R&D Platform · global-health-and-poverty): Hits-based scientific grantmaking targeting transformative biomedical tools—malaria/TB vaccines, oral antivirals, vector control, and neglected tropical disease R&D.
- [GiveDirectly (Unconditional Mobile Cash Transfers)](/md/leads/givedirectly.md) (Direct Cash Transfer Nonprofit · global-health-and-poverty): Delivers direct, unconditional mobile-money transfers to families living in extreme poverty across East/West Africa and emergency crisis zones, backed by 30+ independent RCTs.
- [GiveWell Maximum Impact Fund & Top Charities](/md/leads/givewell-maximum-impact-fund.md) (RCT-Grounded Grantmaking Fund · global-health-and-poverty): Quarterly-allocated pool directing 100% of donor funds to the highest-marginal-return, RCT-verified global health gaps across Malaria Consortium, Against Malaria Foundation, New Incentives, and Helen Keller Intl.
- [Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP) & Global Lead-Free Coalitions](/md/leads/lead-exposure-elimination-leep.md) (High-Leverage Policy & Technical Assistance Nonprofit · global-health-and-poverty): Partners with LMIC governments and manufacturers to test, regulate, and reformulate lead-contaminated paints, spices, and consumer goods—preventing irreversible childhood IQ loss at ~$1–$10 per child protected.
- [Convergent Research (FRO Studio & FROST UK)](/md/leads/convergent-research.md) (Focused Research Organization Incubator · metascience-and-fros): Nonprofit science studio (chaired by Tom Kalil) that pioneered the Focused Research Organization (FRO) model—launching 15+ full-time engineering teams in the US and UK (with ARIA).
- [Cultivarium (Non-Model Organism Microbiology FRO)](/md/leads/cultivarium-fro.md) (Focused Research Organization (FRO) · metascience-and-fros): Focused Research Organization building open-source genetic, culturing, and bio-informatic tools to unlock 170,000+ non-model microorganisms beyond E. coli and yeast.
- [E11 Bio & EvE Bio (Connectomics & Drug-Target Atlas FROs)](/md/leads/e11-and-eve-bio-fros.md) (Focused Research Organizations (FROs) · metascience-and-fros): Exemplary biomedical FROs building scalable optical mammalian brain-circuit mapping (E11 Bio) and open high-throughput drug-target interaction atlases for AI pharmacology (EvE Bio).
- [FutureHouse (AI Scientists for Biology)](/md/leads/futurehouse.md) (Philanthropically Funded R&D Institute · metascience-and-fros): Nonprofit research lab building autonomous "AI Scientists" capable of literature synthesis, hypothesis generation, molecular design, and wet-lab reasoning in biology.
- [Institute for Progress (IFP)](/md/leads/institute-for-progress.md) (Non-Partisan Metascience & Innovation Think Tank · metascience-and-fros): High-leverage Washington, D.C. think tank advancing federal metascience experiments, FRO/ARPA procurement, high-skill STEM immigration, biosecurity, AI policy, and clean-energy permitting.
- [Lean Focused Research Organization (Lean FRO)](/md/leads/lean-fro.md) (Focused Research Organization (FRO) · metascience-and-fros): Dedicated nonprofit engineering organization scaling the Lean 4 proof assistant and Mathlib ecosystem for formalized mathematics, AI theorem proving, and verified critical software.
- [Africa Jobs Fund](/md/leads/africa-jobs-fund.md) (Catalytic Economic Mobility Fund · renaissance-ecosystem): Philanthropy-backed patient capital initiative ($100M 5-year target) catalyzing export manufacturing, industrial clusters, and high-productivity employment in Sub-Saharan Africa.
- [AI for Math Fund](/md/leads/ai-for-math-fund.md) (Thesis-Driven Fund · renaissance-ecosystem): $31.5M+ thesis-driven fund launched with XTX Markets supporting open-source automated theorem proving, Lean formalization datasets, and AI co-pilots for mathematicians.
- [AI Talent Accelerator & AI Foundations Studio](/md/leads/ai-talent-accelerator-and-studio.md) (Engineering & Talent Deployment Initiative · renaissance-ecosystem): Embeds applied AI engineers from Renaissance Philanthropy's Engineering Hub into high-impact education, scientific, and social-sector nonprofits.
- [Alternative Protein Rescue Fund](/md/leads/alternative-protein-rescue-fund.md) (Thesis-Driven Scientific Asset Rescue Fund · renaissance-ecosystem): Giving Green-backed fund acquiring and open-sourcing high-value cell lines, bioprocess datasets, and tacit scientific knowledge from winding-down food-tech startups.
- [Advanced Research for Climate Emergencies (ARC) Fund](/md/leads/arc-climate-emergencies-fund.md) (Thesis-Driven Fund · renaissance-ecosystem): Thesis-driven fund scouting and incubating scientific tools to manage catastrophic climate overshoot, super-pollutant abatement, ocean/glacier observation, and biosphere stability.
- [Arctic Stabilization Initiative (ASI)](/md/leads/arctic-stabilization-initiative.md) (Stage-Gated Climate Research Initiative · renaissance-ecosystem): Stage-gated atmospheric modeling and observational research ($55M 5-year plan, ~$6.5M launch seed) evaluating targeted Arctic tipping-point interventions such as mixed-phase cloud thinning.
- [Big if True Science (BiTS) Accelerator & Biohub Virtual Biology Partnership](/md/leads/big-if-true-science-accelerator.md) (R&D Program Design Accelerator · renaissance-ecosystem): Trains entrepreneurial scientists and technologists in the US and Europe (with SPRIND) to architect ARPA/FRO-scale coordinated multi-team scientific roadmaps.
- [Chimaera Fund (Geologic Hydrogen R&D)](/md/leads/chimaera-geologic-hydrogen-fund.md) (Thesis-Driven Fund · renaissance-ecosystem): Catalyzes scientific research, subsurface sensing, and field demonstrations for naturally occurring geologic (white/stimulated) clean hydrogen and energy resilience.
- [Housing Abundance Philanthropy Fund](/md/leads/housing-abundance-philanthropy-fund.md) (Thesis-Driven Policy & Innovation Fund · renaissance-ecosystem): Thesis-driven fund accelerating construction productivity, AI-assisted permitting modernization, and pro-housing supply research to tackle structural housing scarcity.
- [Open Source for Science Fund](/md/leads/open-source-for-science-fund.md) (Thesis-Driven Fund · renaissance-ecosystem): Continuation and expansion of the Essential Open Source Software for Science (EOSS) model—funding maintenance and AI-ready tooling for foundational scientific open-source packages.
- [Public Benefit Innovation Fund & Global Health Diagnostics TPPs](/md/leads/public-benefit-innovation-fund.md) (Thesis-Driven Civic & Health Innovation Fund · renaissance-ecosystem): Modernizes public-benefits delivery using safe AI/digital tooling and catalyzes market-shaping Target Product Profiles (such as point-of-care blood lead testing with CHAI).
- [Renaissance Philanthropy (Platform & New Fund Incubation)](/md/leads/renaissance-philanthropy-core.md) (Thesis-Driven Fund Incubator · renaissance-ecosystem): Science, technology, and policy philanthropic incubator founded by Tom Kalil and Kumar Garg that designs and operates specialist-led, time-bound thesis-driven funds ($533M+ mobilized).
- [UK Dynamism Fund & Regional Innovation Funds (Catalyze479 / Launch479)](/md/leads/uk-and-regional-dynamism-funds.md) (National & Regional R&D Ecosystem Funds · renaissance-ecosystem): Place-based scientific dynamism, talent fellowships, and pre-VC revolving innovation funds across the UK (ARIA ecosystem) and emerging US hubs like Northwest Arkansas.

## Modular External Tools & Non-Custodial Affordances

- [Compositional Workflow — High-Level Intent to Diversified Shortlist](/md/tools/high-level-intent-to-shortlist.md) (Multi-Step Agent Chain · compositional-workflows): End-to-end chain turning a 1-sentence donor prompt into worldview-explicit buckets, curated candidate leads, and broader scouting queries.
- [Compositional Workflow — Live Multi-Source Due Diligence Sweep](/md/tools/live-lead-deep-diligence-sweep.md) (Multi-Step Agent Chain · compositional-workflows): Parallelize registry checks, fiscal-sponsor unrolling, grant-ledger saturation, output verification, and red-team critique on any shortlisted lead.
- [Compositional Workflow — Safe Non-Custodial Disbursement Handoff](/md/tools/non-custodial-disbursement-handoff.md) (Multi-Step Agent Chain · compositional-workflows): Package donor-approved allocations into verified Every.org links, Chariot/Daffy electronic DAF paths, or error-free Custodian DAF Grant Packets.
- [Appreciated Stock, Lockup Tranche & Employer Match Planner](/md/tools/appreciated-stock-and-match-planner.md) (Analytical Framework · donor-strategy-affordances): Informational framework for sequencing appreciated equity gifts, post-IPO lockup releases, AGI deduction limits, and 1:1 to 3:1 employer DAF matches.
- [501(c)(3) vs. 501(c)(4) & DAF Compliance Guardrail](/md/tools/c3-vs-c4-lobbying-guardrail.md) (Compliance Guardrail · donor-strategy-affordances): Prevent invalid DAF recommendations by distinguishing 501(c)(3) research/litigation charities from 501(c)(4) legislative advocacy siblings.
- [Worldview-Explicit Portfolio Diversification Framework](/md/tools/worldview-diversification-allocator.md) (Allocation Framework · donor-strategy-affordances): Structure a donor's budget across distinct epistemic buckets (certainty, ARPA/FRO moonshots, tail-risk resilience, and local abundance) without false precision.
- [Co-Funder Saturation & Room-for-More-Funding (RFMF) Probe](/md/tools/cofunder-saturation-and-rfmf-probe.md) (Diligence Probe Recipe · due-diligence-probes): Estimate what a donor's marginal check actually unlocks by cross-referencing recent institutional grants, fundraising targets, and hiring/execution bottlenecks.
- [990 Financial Reserve, Runway & Governance Probe](/md/tools/financial-reserve-and-runway-probe.md) (Diligence Probe Recipe · due-diligence-probes): Compute unrestricted net-asset runway, revenue concentration, and governance signals from Form 990 filings without falling for the naive overhead myth.
- [Adversarial Red-Team & Failure-Mode Probe](/md/tools/governance-and-red-team-probe.md) (Diligence Probe Recipe · due-diligence-probes): Structured skeptic pass prompting the user's agent to surface key-person risk, theory-of-change cruxes, dual-use/safety governance, and stronger alternatives.
- [Scholarly, Preprint, Clinical & Open-Source Output Verifier](/md/tools/scholarly-and-open-source-output-probe.md) (External APIs & Probe · due-diligence-probes): Cross-check R&D nonprofits, FROs, AI safety labs, and open-source science grantees against verifiable publications, code commits, benchmarks, and trials.
- [Convergent Research Scientific Bottleneck & FRO Atlas](/md/tools/convergent-fro-bottleneck-atlas.md) (Roadmap Catalog · evaluators-and-benchmarks): Roadmaps and technical bottleneck analyses for mid-scale scientific public goods suited to Focused Research Organizations (FROs) in the US and UK (ARIA FROST).
- [Founders Pledge Cause-Area Research Library](/md/tools/founders-pledge-research-library.md) (Research Hub · evaluators-and-benchmarks): Entrepreneur-oriented cause prioritization reports across global health, climate technology innovation, biosecurity, AI governance, and mental health.
- [Giving Green Strategy Reports & Grantee Spotlights](/md/tools/giving-green-climate-research.md) (Evaluator Library · evaluators-and-benchmarks): Deep sector evaluations across clean energy policy, industrial steel/cement, aviation/maritime fuels, alternative proteins, CDR, LMIC grids, and overshoot risks.
- [METR Frontier Risk Reports & Epoch AI Capabilities Index](/md/tools/metr-and-epoch-ai-benchmarks.md) (Empirical Benchmarks & Data · evaluators-and-benchmarks): Ground AI safety, compute governance, and societal-resilience giving in empirical capability trajectories, training compute data, and autonomous risk evaluations.
- [Multiplier, New Venture Fund & Science Fiscal Sponsor Navigator](/md/tools/multiplier-and-new-venture-unroller.md) (Structural Navigator · fiscal-sponsorship-navigators): Unroll climate R&D, ocean CDR, metascience, civic tech, and open-source software initiatives housed inside major science and policy fiscal sponsors.
- [Rethink Priorities & Players Philanthropy Fund (PPF) Project Unroller](/md/tools/rethink-and-ppf-fiscal-routing.md) (Structural Navigator · fiscal-sponsorship-navigators): Identify parent EINs, administrative fee structures, and mandatory designation strings for AI safety, biosecurity, and global health fiscal sponsees.
- [Thesis-Driven Philanthropic Fund Unroller](/md/tools/thesis-driven-fund-unroller.md) (Structural Navigator · fiscal-sponsorship-navigators): Pattern for inspecting and routing grants into specialist-led, time-bound funds hosted inside multi-initiative platforms such as Renaissance Philanthropy Fund.
- [Candid (GuideStar) Seal & Demographics Lookup](/md/tools/candid-foundation-directory-pointer.md) (Registry & API Pointer · grant-ledgers): Lookup organizational profiles, self-reported strategic goals, leadership demographics, and institutional foundation grant histories across mainstream US philanthropy.
- [Coefficient Giving (fka Open Philanthropy) Grants Archive](/md/tools/coefficient-giving-grants-archive.md) (Public CSV & Search Index · grant-ledgers): Query 3,200+ historical and recent grants ($8B+ directed) across AI safety, biosecurity, transformative basic science, global health R&D, and housing abundance.
- [EA Funds API, Survival and Flourishing Fund & Manifund Ledgers](/md/tools/ea-funds-and-sff-ledgers.md) (Public API & Ledgers · grant-ledgers): Track nimble early-stage regranting flows across AI alignment, biosecurity, animal welfare, global development, and independent researchers.
- [GiveWell Grants Ledger & Cost-Effectiveness Models](/md/tools/givewell-grants-and-cea-ledger.md) (Public Ledger & Spreadsheets · grant-ledgers): Inspect GiveWell's complete grant history, published Cost-Effectiveness Analyses (CEAs), and marginal Room for More Funding thresholds in global health.
- [EA Grants Database & Org Financials Aggregator](/md/tools/trace-ea-grants-database.md) (Aggregated Dataset · grant-ledgers): Cross-funder deduplicated view of 7,600+ grants ($7.6B+) across Coefficient Giving, GiveWell, SFF, EA Funds, ACE, FLI, Audacious, and OpenAI Foundation.
- [Chariot DAFpay & Electronic DAF Disbursement Rail](/md/tools/chariot-dafpay-disbursement-rail.md) (DAF Payment Rail · non-custodial-giving-rails): Check electronic Donor-Advised Fund checkout support (DAFpay) and Chariot Disbursements connectivity across Fidelity, Schwab/DAFgiving360, Daffy, and Endaoment.
- [Custodian DAF Grant Packet Composer (Fidelity, Schwab/DAFgiving360, Vanguard)](/md/tools/custodian-daf-grant-packet-composer.md) (Structured Output Template · non-custodial-giving-rails): Standardize error-free grant recommendation instructions (parent EIN, address, exact fund/project memo, and IRS compliance checks) for any DAF portal.
- [Daffy Developer APIs & Tech Equity Matching Navigator](/md/tools/daffy-api-and-workplace-match.md) (DAF Platform & API · non-custodial-giving-rails): Navigate modern flat-fee Donor-Advised Funds, workplace private/public stock donation matching programs, family giving, and Daffy developer APIs.
- [Endaoment DAF & Complex Asset Giving Protocol](/md/tools/endaoment-onchain-and-stock-daf.md) (DAF & API Protocol · non-custodial-giving-rails): Open-API 501(c)(3) Donor-Advised Fund and direct grant platform supporting appreciated securities, complex assets, wire transfers, and digital assets.
- [Every.org Charity Search & Non-Custodial Donate Link API](/md/tools/every-org-charity-and-donate-api.md) (REST API & Checkout Link · non-custodial-giving-rails): Search 1M+ verified 501(c)(3) charities and construct pre-filled, human-approved donation links supporting card, ACH, public stock, crypto, and DAFpay.
- [Federal Audit Clearinghouse (FAC) Single Audit API](/md/tools/federal-audit-clearinghouse.md) (REST API & Database · registries-and-filings): Inspect independent CPA Single Audit findings and internal-control material weaknesses for nonprofits expending federal research or aid grants.
- [IRS Publication 78 & Auto-Revocation Bulk Check](/md/tools/irs-pub78-exempt-check.md) (Bulk Registry · registries-and-filings): Authoritative check of active US 501(c)(3) public charity deductibility status, private foundation classification, and automatic revocation history.
- [IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search (TEOS) & Bulk 990 XMLs](/md/tools/irs-teos-990-xml-filings.md) (Dataset & Portal · registries-and-filings): Primary source IRS e-file Form 990 XML schedules (Schedule I outbound grants, Schedule J executive compensation, Schedule L related-party transactions).
- [ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer API v2](/md/tools/propublica-nonprofit-explorer-api.md) (REST API · registries-and-filings): Query US 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) IRS Form 990 summaries, EINs, multi-year revenue/expense histories, and full filing links without an API key.
- [UK Charity Commission & 360Giving GrantNav API](/md/tools/uk-charity-and-360giving-api.md) (REST API · registries-and-filings): Verify UK-registered charities, Wellcome/ARIA-adjacent scientific grantees, and open UK/European philanthropic grant flows.

## Portable Agent Skills

- [philanthropic-tools-claude-code](/skills/claude-code-plugin/SKILL.md): Dedicated self-installer and workflow skill for Claude Code users to connect philanthropic.tools via MCP and CLI.
- [philanthropic-tools-codex](/skills/codex-plugin/SKILL.md): Dedicated self-installer and workflow skill for OpenAI Codex CLI and ChatGPT Desktop (Codex & Work modes).
- [contribute-philanthropic-tools](/skills/contribute-to-kb/SKILL.md): Guide for external contributors and their AI agents to add modular tool .md files or curated philanthropic leads via pull request.
- [philanthropic-tools-personal-assistant](/skills/personal-assistant/SKILL.md): Zero-install workflow for personal assistants (Muse, Claude Web/Mobile, ChatGPT, Perplexity) using static Markdown and JSON endpoints.
- [setup-philanthropic-tools](/skills/setup-philanthropic-tools/SKILL.md): Universal setup and orientation skill for philanthropic.tools. Configures MCP, CLI, or zero-install static Markdown/JSON access for Claude, Muse, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and any AI assistant.