Open Philanthropic Toolset & Evolving Knowledge Base · ARIA PBC

Deploy capital with purpose—through your AI agent.

Built for new technology donors—navigating post-IPO equity matches and Donor-Advised Funds—and everyday givers alike. Copy one instruction to equip Claude, Muse, Claude Code, or Codex with curated frontier funds, modular external tools, and live due-diligence pointers.

Copy this prompt and send it to your AI assistant—it reads the open setup guide and configures itself:

Read https://philanthropic.tools/setup.md (if blocked, use https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ariapbc/philanthropic.tools/main/skills/setup-philanthropic-tools/SKILL.md) and set up philanthropic.tools to help me plan, verify, and deploy my giving.

Works with Claude · Muse · Claude Code · OpenAI Codex · Cursor · Gemini CLI · and any MCP or web-browsing LLM llms.txt llms-full.txt

42 Curated High-Signal Funds & Leads

32 Modular External Tools (.md)

7 Deep Frontier & Civic Domains

0% Custody, Fees, or Dogmatic Scores

Why philanthropic.tools

Philanthropic AI — before and after

Give any personal or coding agent direct access to curated thesis-driven funds, fiscal-sponsor unrolling, live grant ledgers, and non-custodial execution rails.

Without philanthropic.tools

Generic LLM relying on stale training weights

Donor: "I have matched equity in a DAF—where can I back open-source science, AI/bio safety, and Bay Area housing?"

Generic AI: "Based on my training data, consider donating to major universities, Red Cross, or local housing advocacy groups..." [misses thesis funds, confuses c3/c4 DAF rules]

×Misses specialist thesis-driven funds (like Renaissance Philanthropy) and Focused Research Organizations (FROs).
×Blind to projects inside multi-entity fiscal sponsors—only sees parent 501(c)(3) tax wrappers.
×Repeats naive "low admin overhead %" charity myths that penalize R&D and policy teams.
×Cannot check recent anchor grants for crowding-out or prevent invalid 501(c)(4) DAF submissions.

With philanthropic.tools

Grounded in curated leads, live probes & safe rails

Donor: "Deploy my unlocked DAF tranche across open-source science, bio/AI resilience, and SF housing abundance."

pt_search() → pt_diligence_pointers() → ProPublica 990 + Grant Ledgers
Agent: "Shortlisted Open Source for Science Fund (EIN 99-1953380), SecureBio, METR, and YIMBY Law (501c3)—with live saturation checks & exact DAF designations."

✓Express one sentence of high-level intent—your agent maps pluralistic buckets without imposing dogma.
✓Starts from 42 curated high-signal leads and follows structured pointers for deeper live diligence.
✓Unrolls parent fiscal-sponsor EINs, 501(c)(3) vs. 501(c)(4) boundaries, and marginal funding room.
✓Composes purely non-custodial Every.org, Chariot DAFpay, Daffy, or custodian grant packets for your 1-click sign-off.

High-Level Intent

What can you ask your agent?

Real donor intents across incoming AI/tech liquidity events and everyday purposeful giving—click any referenced chip to inspect its modular Markdown spec.

Deep First-Wave Curation

Renaissance Philanthropy & Priority Domains

Deep day-one coverage starting with everything Renaissance Philanthropy touches—plus the highest-demand domains among AI/tech and everyday donors.

Anchor Ecosystem Coverage

Renaissance Philanthropy: Thesis-Driven Funds & ARPA-Style Initiatives

Every active fund, accelerator, and thematic domain operated or incubated by Renaissance Philanthropy (EIN 99-1953380)—enabling donors and their agents to delegate granular R&D grantmaking to specialist fund directors across math, open-source biology, climate overshoot, geologic hydrogen, alternative proteins, housing abundance, and global jobs.

Modular External Affordances

Explore Tools by Category

32 modular Markdown tool specifications across 8 categories—designed for external contributors to extend via pull request and for agents to compose safely.

Open Knowledge Base & Toolset

Browse the Ecosystem

Inspect every curated lead, external tool affordance, and high-level agent guidance module. Press / to search, or click any card to view live diligence pointers and raw .md.

Integrations & Open Collaboration

Works Where Your Agent Already Lives

Zero copilot lock-in. Connect via Model Context Protocol (MCP), local CLI, or zero-install static Markdown endpoints—and collaborate via modular .md pull requests.

Personal Assistants

Claude & Muse

Zero-install static retrieval via /setup.md and /llms.txt, or one-line MCP config in Claude Desktop for conversational high-level intent.

Anthropic

Claude Code

Add our compact stdio MCP server and local skill in seconds to parallelize deep multi-source due diligence sweeps across subagents.

OpenAI

Codex CLI & Desktop

Native config.toml MCP integration and portable skill bundle for ChatGPT Work/Codex quantitative grant and 990 analysis.

Terminal & Scripts

`npx philanthropic-tools`

Dependency-free Node.js ESM CLI (pt search, pt leads, pt pointers, pt info --json) for reproducible local workflows.

Open Web Standard

Static `.md` & JSON Layer

Every lead, tool, domain, and rubric compiles to individual /md/*.md and /api/*.json files so agents load only what they need.

Community Curation

Modular `.md` PRs

Researchers, program officers, and agents add new tools or leads as standalone Markdown files validated automatically by CI.