Claude Kindora Funder Discovery connectorWhat Claude can find with Kindora Funder Discovery.
The Claude Kindora Funder Discovery connector exposes 8 tools. All 8 read public data on foundations and their grants, 0 change anything, and 0 are left undocumented. Below: what Claude can dig up for a fundraiser, the hourly request cap, and who controls access.
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What changes once Claude can search Kindora
Prospect research usually means hopping between foundation websites, tax filings and spreadsheets. With this connector, a development officer describes the cause and the place, and Claude queries Kindora's funder data itself, then lays out who gives, how much and to whom, right in the conversation.
Build a first prospect list. A youth literacy charity asks for foundations active in education nearby: Claude runs search_funders by topic and location, then opens the promising names with get_funder_profile.
Read a foundation's track record before writing. With get_foundation_grants, Claude lists grants a funder has actually made, and get_funder_stats sums up its lifetime giving, focus areas and geography, so the pitch matches what the foundation really supports.
Check the money behind the name. get_990_summary pulls a summary of a foundation's IRS 990 filings with its financial trends.
Now what it does not do. Every listed tool reads: none is described as drafting or submitting an application, saving a prospect or storing notes in Kindora. And for live calls for proposals, Kindora points to a separate search tool that does not appear on the directory sheet. Nothing runs by itself either; Claude only searches while it answers you. For repeated monitoring, the Integrations hub covers automation platforms.
Five words before you connect
The vocabulary around this connector, in one minute.
- Connector
- A link you set up once between Claude and an outside service, so Claude can draw on it while it answers you in the chat.
- Tool
- One named capability a connector hands to Claude. Claude chooses which to call on its own, and the directory sheet lists each one.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before an action that changes something, shown in the conversation at the moment it applies.
- Directory
- The official catalogue of connectors, where each one has a sheet naming its publisher, its purpose and the tools it exposes.
- MCP
- The shared standard connectors are built on: it lets an assistant like Claude talk to an outside service such as Kindora.
Connect Kindora to Claude in three steps
- 01
Find Kindora in Claude
Open Claude's settings, go to Customize then Connectors, and search for Kindora Funder Discovery. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner enables it for the organization before members can each connect.
- 02
Add it to your connectors
Click Connect on its row and complete whatever window the service opens. Kindora says no account is needed and there is no address to paste. If the link breaks later, Disconnect and connect again.
- 03
Read any screen before accepting
If the service shows an authorization screen, read it before you accept. That screen belongs to the service, not to Claude, and it sets what the access covers. You can withdraw it later the same way.
The 8 tools, all on the reading side
Kindora Funder Discovery gives Claude 8 tools: 8 that read your account, 0 that change something in it.
Eight tools, all of them lookups on public data. Names stay exactly as Claude shows them.
- 8 read
What Claude reads (8)
8 toolsEight tools that query Kindora and change nothing, according to the publisher's own tool list.
search_funders
Looks up grantmaking organizations by name, by topic or by location and returns the matches, the first step toward a prospect list.
get_funder_profile
Opens the detailed profile of one funder once you have it from a search. Claude reads it to decide whether the name is worth pursuing.
get_990_summary
Retrieves a summary of a foundation's IRS 990 filings along with its financial trends, so you see how its finances have moved over the years.
get_foundation_grants
Lists the grants a funder has actually made, merging tax filings, records gathered from funder websites and public grant registries. Claude can then point out recipients that resemble your organization.
get_ntee_codes
Browses the NTEE classification, the codes used to sort nonprofits by primary purpose, so Claude can pick the right one to narrow a search or explain a foundation's focus area.
get_funder_stats
Calculates aggregate figures on a funder's giving: lifetime totals, focus areas, geographic spread and trends year over year. It turns a long grant history into a profile Claude can explain in a few lines.
list_tools
Returns the tools available on the Kindora connector along with detailed help on them. Claude uses it to work out which lookup suits your question.
health_check
Reports whether the Kindora service is up and reachable, and its connectivity. It tells Claude the connection works, not anything about funders.
What Claude checks with you first
By default, Claude stops and asks before each action it takes on an account on someone's behalf. The prompt shows up in the chat when it matters.
Every tool listed here only reads, so there is no write to confirm on this sheet. On Team and Enterprise workspaces, owners still decide whether a member may let some actions pass without being asked again, and they can limit what a connector may do for the whole organization. That choice binds everyone and nobody lifts it from a personal account. Claude also works with the rights of whoever connected, nothing more.
Which plans include it
None of the 819 sheets in the official directory states its plan availability. That answer is not published anywhere, connector by connector.
Anthropic publishes the general rule: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile, and desktop extensions install on Claude Desktop. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner opens a connector for the organization before members can connect. The connector's sheet in the official directory is the one place that shows its current state.
Where this connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you, so nothing fires when a foundation files a new return or publishes a grant.
Only Kindora documents this connector; neither the Claude help center nor Anthropic's developer docs has a page about it. The partner badge in the directory is not a security audit, and Anthropic says on every sheet that it neither picks the tools a publisher exposes nor guarantees they behave as described. Connect only what comes from a publisher you know. What this page says about the tools comes from Kindora's own page and from the tool list its server publishes.
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