# Candid — AI Connector Candid publishes 6 MCP tools to Claude. Marketplace availability, tool surface, verification tier, and what Node8 measured against the live endpoint. Source: https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/nonprofit/candid/ --- [AI Connectors](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/) · [Nonprofit](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/nonprofit/) # Candid Nonprofit and funder research with grant and sector data Listed in Claude · 6 published tools · Verified partner [Claude connector docs](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12923235-using-the-candid-connector-in-claude) [candid.org](https://candid.org/) 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. ### Who it is for Grant seekers and researchers investigating nonprofits, funders and funding opportunities. ### 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 `https://mcp.candid.org/mcp` Documentation [Publisher setup docs](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12923235-using-the-candid-connector-in-claude) 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. Nearby ## Other Nonprofit connectors ### [Benevity](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/nonprofit/benevity/) Search a database of vetted nonprofits to donate to or volunteer with Claude ### [Kindora Funder Discovery](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/nonprofit/kindora-funder-discovery/) Funder research across 168,000+ foundations and their giving patterns Claude ### [Chariot](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/nonprofit/chariot/) Nonprofit gift processing: DAF donations, deposits and reconciliation Claude ### [Givebutter](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/nonprofit/givebutter/) Conversational access to Givebutter fundraising and donor data Claude · ChatGPT ### [Granted](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/nonprofit/granted/) Grant search across federal, state and private foundation sources Claude ### [Zeck MCP](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/nonprofit/zeck-mcp/) Read-only access to published Zeck board materials Claude [All 8 Nonprofit connectors](https://node8.ai/ai-connectors/nonprofit/) 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. ## Want your company reachable inside ChatGPT and Claude? Node8 builds MCP servers end to end: deciding which tools are worth exposing, the authentication and permission model, the review submissions, and the onboarding that gets them used. One server serves ChatGPT, Claude, and Microsoft Copilot. [See how it works](https://node8.ai/mcp) Book a strategy session