Who it is for
Grant seekers and researchers investigating nonprofits, funders and funding opportunities.
Candid
Nonprofit and funder research with grant and sector data
Overview
What Candid does
Candid holds the reference data for the US social sector: who the nonprofits are, who funds them, and what has been given. This connector searches that from a conversation.
Three things are named. Organisations can be searched at scale, funding opportunities discovered, and expert knowledge and social sector news reached through the same connection. For a grant seeker those steps run together, since identifying a funder is only useful alongside what that funder has actually supported. This connector carries the partner tier, meaning it passed a review step, and Candid publishes documentation.
Tool surface
Credentials gate the endpoint, so six is the listing's count. Organisation search, funding opportunity discovery, and access to sector knowledge and news are the groupings described.
Availability
Where Candid is listed
Candid is listed in the Claude connectors directory only. Candid has no app under the same domain in the ChatGPT directory; 392 of the 3,150 products here are on both marketplaces, and this is not one of them.
The MCP server behind a Claude connector is usually the same server a ChatGPT app would need, so the absence is a distribution decision rather than a technical one.
Claude listing
In the Claude connectors directory
Candid publishes 6 tools to Claude. That is a mid-sized surface: 28.1% of the 1,253 Claude-listed connectors expose fewer.
The median Claude-listed connector filed under Nonprofit publishes 5.5, so this one runs 0.5 tools above its bucket's median and ranks 3rd of 8 by tool count.
It falls in the 4-6 tools band, which holds 16.2% of the Claude directory.
Candid publishes a remote MCP endpoint. Claude connects to it over HTTP; there is nothing to install locally.
Every connector in the Claude directory is remote, all 1,253 of them, so transport is not a differentiator there.
- Publisher
- Candid
- Verification
- Verified partner (37.8% of the Claude directory)
- Filed under
- Nonprofit
- Endpoint
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https://mcp.candid.org/mcp - Documentation
- Publisher setup docs
- Published tools
- 6 · 4-6 tools band
- Depth rank in Nonprofit
- 3 of 8
- Snapshot
- August 2026
Candid carries partner verification in the Claude directory, which 474 of 1,253 listings do (37.8%). That is a review step past self-publishing, not an Anthropic-built server.
In the publisher's words
How Candid describes it
Bring the power of Candid's comprehensive nonprofit and funder data directly into Claude. Search millions of organizations, discover funding opportunities, and access expert knowledge and social sector news—all through natural conversation.
Quoted from the connector's own Claude directory listing as captured in August 2026. Node8 did not write it and does not vouch for it.
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This is an independent catalogue entry compiled by Node8 from Candid's public marketplace listing as it stood in August 2026. Listing facts come from the marketplaces; the comparisons against the rest of the directory and any live-endpoint measurements are Node8's. Node8 is not affiliated with Candid, and inclusion here is not an endorsement.
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