Charity Search

To try a test and directly interact with the API endpoint click "Test It" and use an embedded API client to send requests with custom headers and variables, then see the live response; essentially letting you test this API directly within this page. When testing please use our Demo URL: https://demo-payments.frontstream.com/api/CharitySearch

Nonprofit Charity Search

get

Query parameters

Namestring · max: 70Optional

optional - Charity Name - partial or full name

EINstring · min: 9 · max: 15Optional

optional - Valid US/CA Nonprofit EIN/Tax ID. For US EINs, the dash proceeding the first two numbers is optional; the endpoint will handle it either way (i.e. 12-3456789 and 123456789 are both valid and will result in the same record being returned)

CharitySourceinteger · int32Optional

optional - This should be either 1 (US) or 2 (Canada) - Default to US

Citystring · max: 30Optional

optional - Searches the city name of charity addresses

Statestring · max: 2Optional

optional - Searches the state code of charity addresses - ISO Standard two digit State code. (VA, NY)

PageIndexinteger · int32Optional

Defaults to 1 - The page of results to display (i.e. if there are 100 overall results to your search and you provide this as 3 with a PageSize=10, this will return results #21 through #30)

PageSizeinteger · int32Optional

Defaults to 10 - The number of results to display per page.

SortColumnstringOptional

Default SortColumn NpoName - Indicates which SearchResults field to sort by (see response example for valid values). Only supports sorting by one column.

SortDescbooleanOptional

true/false - Determine to order the results by descending values of the selected column (or NpoName if not selected).

Responses

200

Returns Charity Search Data

application/json

TotalResultCountinteger · int32Optional

How many total possible results there are for your search.

TotalPagesinteger · int32Optional

How many pages of data exist based on your selected PageSize.

PageIndexinteger · int32Optional

Confirms what you passed in the querystring.

PageSizeinteger · int32Optional

Confirms what you passed in the querystring.

400

Bad Request

application/json

404

If Charity Search Data not found

application/json

get/api/CharitySearch

GET /api/CharitySearch HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*

{
  "TotalResultCount": 1,
  "TotalPages": 1,
  "PageIndex": 1,
  "PageSize": 1,
  "SearchResults": [
    {
      "CharityId": "text",
      "NpoName": "text",
      "EIN": "text",
      "Address1": "text",
      "Address2": "text",
      "City": "text",
      "State": "text",
      "Zip": "text",
      "Country": "text",
      "NpoEligibilityFlag": true,
      "ParentOrgName": "text",
      "NTEEcode": "text"
    }
  ]
}

Charity Search Example

Take a look at how you may call this method:

C#

using System;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Newtonsoft.Json;

public class CharitySearchParams
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string EIN { get; set; }
    public int? CharitySource { get; set; }
    public string City { get; set; }
    public string State { get; set; }
    public int PageIndex { get; set; } = 1;
    public int PageSize { get; set; } = 10;
    public string SortColumn { get; set; } = "NpoName";
    public bool SortDesc { get; set; } = false;
}

public class CharitySearchResponse
{
    public int TotalResultCount { get; set; }
    public int TotalPages { get; set; }
    public int PageIndex { get; set; }
    public int PageSize { get; set; }
    public object[] SearchResults { get; set; }
}

public class Program
{
    private static async Task Main(string[] args)
    {
        var charitySearchParams = new CharitySearchParams
        {
            Name = "Red Cross",
            EIN = "123456789",
            City = "New York",
            State = "NY",
            PageIndex = 1,
            PageSize = 10
        };

        var url = "https://demo-payments.frontstream.com/api/CharitySearch";

        using (var client = new HttpClient())
        {
            var query = $"?Name={charitySearchParams.Name}&EIN={charitySearchParams.EIN}&City={charitySearchParams.City}&State={charitySearchParams.State}&PageIndex={charitySearchParams.PageIndex}&PageSize={charitySearchParams.PageSize}&SortColumn={charitySearchParams.SortColumn}&SortDesc={charitySearchParams.SortDesc}";
            var response = await client.GetAsync(url + query);

            if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
            {
                var data = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
                var charitySearchResponse = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<CharitySearchResponse>(data);
                Console.WriteLine($"Total Results: {charitySearchResponse.TotalResultCount}");
            }
            else
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Error: " + response.StatusCode);
            }
        }
    }
}

Postman

Postman Example for CharitySearch API:

1. Method: GET

2. URL: https://demo-payments.fronstream.com/api/CharitySearch

3. Params:

   • Name: Red Cross (optional, charity name)

   • EIN: 123456789 (optional, EIN or Tax ID)

   • City: New York (optional, city)

   • State: NY (optional, state code)

   • PageIndex: 1 (optional, default 1)

   • PageSize: 10 (optional, default 10)

   • SortColumn: NpoName (optional, default sorting by name)

   • SortDesc: false (optional, sort order)

After setting these parameters, click Send to view the results.