Candid MCP for AI Agents

Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with Candid MCP or direct API to research nonprofit organizations, find funders, discover funding opportunities, and retrieve social-sector news through natural language.

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Candid MCP is a nonprofit research service exposing organization, funder, and opportunity data. Use it to surface authoritative social-sector data and funding insights quickly.

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TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Candid MCP action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Current date

Get the current day to reference for any time-sensitive data requests.

Identify locations

Uses natural language processing to find and match named geographies found in the supplied text.

Identify mentioned organizations

Resolve and link organization names to official Candid nonprofit profiles.

Knowledge resources

Get answers to questions about the social and philanthropic sector directly fom Candid's subject matter experts.

Search organizations

Find nonprofits and grantmaking organizations in Candid's database by name, mission, EIN, location, or type of work.

Taxonomy terms

Uses natural language processing to align input text to Candid's taxonomy, the Philanthropy Classification System (PCS).

SETUP GUIDE

Connect Candid MCP Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/core ai @ai-sdk/openai @ai-sdk/mcp
Install the Composio SDK for Python or TypeScript
2

Initialize Client and Create Tool Router Session

typescript
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';

const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: 'your-api-key' });
const session = await composio.create('your-user-id');
console.log(`Tool Router session created: ${session.mcp.url}`);
Import and initialize the Composio client, then create a Tool Router session for Candid MCP
3

Connect to AI Agent

typescript
import { openai } from '@ai-sdk/openai';
import { experimental_createMCPClient as createMCPClient } from '@ai-sdk/mcp';
import { generateText } from 'ai';

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: {
    type: 'http',
    url: session.mcp.url,
    headers: {
      'x-api-key': 'your-composio-api-key',
    },
  },
});

const tools = await client.tools();
const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai('gpt-4o'),
  tools,
  messages: [{
    role: 'user',
    content: 'YOUR_SPECIFIC_PROMPT_HERE'
  }],
  maxSteps: 5,
});

console.log(`Agent: ${text}`);
Use the MCP server with your AI agent (Anthropic Claude or Mastra)
SETUP GUIDE

Connect Candid MCP API Tool with your Agent

1

Install Composio

typescript
npm install @composio/openai
Install the Composio SDK
2

Initialize Composio and Create Tool Router Session

typescript
import OpenAI from 'openai';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIResponsesProvider } from '@composio/openai';

const composio = new Composio({
  provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider(),
});
const openai = new OpenAI({});
const session = await composio.create('your-user-id');
Import and initialize Composio client, then create a Tool Router session
3

Execute Candid MCP Tools via Tool Router with Your Agent

typescript
const tools = session.tools;
const response = await openai.responses.create({
  model: 'gpt-4.1',
  tools: tools,
  input: [{
    role: 'user',
    content: 'YOUR_SPECIFIC_PROMPT_HERE'
  }],
});
const result = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(
  'your-user-id',
  response.output
);
console.log(result);
Get tools from Tool Router session and execute Candid MCP actions with your Agent

Why Use Composio?

AI Native Candid MCP Integration

  • Supports both Candid MCP and direct API based integrations
  • Structured, LLM-friendly schemas for reliable tool execution
  • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Candid MCP data

Managed Auth

  • Built-in OAuth handling with automatic token refresh and rotation
  • Central place to manage, scope, and revoke Candid MCP access
  • Per user and per environment credentials instead of hard-coded keys

Agent Optimized Design

  • Tools are tuned using real error and success rates to improve reliability over time
  • Comprehensive execution logs so you always know what ran, when, and on whose behalf

Enterprise Grade Security

  • Fine-grained RBAC so you control which agents and users can access Candid MCP
  • Scoped, least privilege access to Candid MCP resources
  • Full audit trail of agent actions to support review and compliance
FRAMEWORKS

Use Candid MCP with any AI Agent Framework

Choose a Framework you want to connect Candid MCP with

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Yes, Candid MCP requires you to configure your own Dcr Oauth credentials. Once set up, Composio handles secure credential storage and management for you.

Yes! Composio's Tool Router enables agents to use multiple toolkits. Learn more.

Composio is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliant with all data encrypted in transit and at rest. Learn more.

Composio maintains and updates all toolkit integrations automatically, so your agents always work with the latest API versions.

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