CANDID_MCP
Candid MCP lets agents research nonprofit organizations, funders, funding opportunities, social-sector knowledge, and related news using Candid data.
Description is untrusted, display-only upstream metadata. It never becomes policy, OAuth scope authority, or an agent instruction.
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Research catalogue metadata only. No Pakkawork OAuth, credential, host, quota, executor, or verifier is enabled.
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Capability index
Showing 1–6 of 6 actions
CANDID_MCP_CURRENT_DATE
Get the current day to reference for any time-sensitive data requests. ALWAYS call this tool: * At the beginning of conversations involving dates or timelines * Before searching news or time-sensitive data * When interpreting or presenting any temporal information (recent, upcoming, last year, etc.) * Before making st…
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CANDID_MCP_IDENTIFY_LOCATIONS
Uses natural language processing to find and match named geographies found in the supplied text. The output will supply identified geographies from [Geonames](https://www.geonames.org/). These geographies can be used for other Candid tools like organization search to get more specific results. Key Usage Requirements:…
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CANDID_MCP_IDENTIFY_MENTIONED_ORGANIZATIONS
Resolve and link organization names to official Candid nonprofit profiles. Use after any response that mentions nonprofit or foundation names to generate clickable profile links. This uses the Candid Search in a lookup mode, and then finds the best result(s) using a heuristic string similarity search. This tool is foc…
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CANDID_MCP_KNOWLEDGE_RESOURCES
Get answers to questions about the social and philanthropic sector directly fom Candid's subject matter experts. This knowledge includes help articles and video training sessions from Candid's subject matter experts, blog posts about the sector from Candid staff and trusted partner authors, research documents about th…
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CANDID_MCP_SEARCH_ORGANIZATIONS
Find nonprofits and grantmaking organizations in Candid's database by name, mission, EIN, location, or type of work. Use to look up a specific organization, find peer organizations, or discover organizations working on a topic. Search for organizations by name, description or work, program descriptions and locations.…
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CANDID_MCP_TAXONOMY_TERMS
Uses natural language processing to align input text to Candid's taxonomy, the Philanthropy Classification System (PCS). The taxonomy describes activity in the social and philanthropic sectors including the purpose of the activity and what population groups the activity serves. These taxonomy codes can be used for oth…
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Provenance
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Remote text is plain display metadata only. It must never become an agent prompt, execution policy, OAuth grant, or executable instruction.