Charity API

Name: Charity API API
Brand: Charity API
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✓ Official Vendor SpecE CommerceStorefrontoauth22 EndpointsREST

For Agents

Search and look up nonprofit organisations registered with eBay for Charity by keyword or charity_org_id. Two read-only endpoints.

Quickstart

Get started with Charity API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"search eBay charities by keyword"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Charity API API.

Search registered eBay charities by keyword across a marketplace to populate a picker UI

Retrieve full charity details — legal name, EIN, logo, mission — by charity_org_id

Filter charity search results by registration ID to disambiguate similarly named organisations

Validate a charity reference on a listing draft before submitting it to the Inventory API

GET STARTED

Start building with Charity API API

Explore with Jentic

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Use for: Search for animal-welfare charities registered with eBay for Charity in the US, Look up the charity with charity_org_id 12345, Find all charities matching the keyword 'cancer' on EBAY_GB, Retrieve the legal name and EIN for an eBay charity

Not supported: Does not handle charity registration, donation processing, or seller opt-in — use for searching and looking up registered eBay for Charity nonprofits only.

The eBay Charity API lets third-party applications search and look up nonprofit organisations registered with eBay for Charity, the donation programme that lets sellers route a percentage of sale proceeds to a vetted charity. Two endpoints cover the full surface — keyword search across all supported organisations on a marketplace, and detail lookup by charity_org_id — returning legal name, EIN/registration number, logo, and mission summary. Applications use it to power charity pickers in listing flows and to verify a charity reference attached to a listing or sale.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Charity API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Charity picker in a seller listing flow

Sellers building listings via the Inventory API need to attach a charity_org_id and a donation percentage. Listing tools call /charity_org with a search query to populate a typeahead picker, then resolve the chosen entry through /charity_org/{charity_org_id} to confirm the legal name displayed on the live listing matches what eBay holds on file.

Search /charity_org for keyword 'animal' on EBAY_US, return the top 5 results, and resolve the user's pick via /charity_org/{charity_org_id}

Donation transparency widget for buyers

Marketplaces and shopping agents that surface eBay listings can render a donation panel — 'this listing donates 10% to Charity X' — by calling /charity_org/{charity_org_id} with the ID returned on the listing. The endpoint provides the verified mission and logo, so the buyer-facing badge does not depend on free-text seller copy.

For listing item ID 123456789012 with charityId 5678, call /charity_org/5678 and render its name, mission, and logo in a donation panel

Periodic registry refresh for a CRM

Nonprofit-focused CRMs that maintain a directory of eBay-registered charities run a nightly sync — paging through /charity_org search results per marketplace and upserting changes into their database. Because the API only returns active organisations, deleted or delisted charities naturally fall out of the local mirror.

Page through /charity_org for EBAY_US with empty query and upsert every entry into the local nonprofits table

AI agent integration via Jentic

An AI agent that helps a seller list an item with a charity donation queries Jentic with 'search eBay charities by keyword'. Jentic returns the /charity_org operation, the agent loads its schema, and executes it with the seller's marketplace_id and the keyword the seller entered. The agent then resolves the picked charity_org_id via /charity_org/{charity_org_id} for confirmation before passing it to the Sell Inventory API.

Use Jentic to search 'find eBay charity by keyword', load /charity_org, execute it with q='wildlife' and marketplace_id=EBAY_US, then look up the chosen ID via /charity_org/{charity_org_id}

Key Endpoints

2 endpoints — the ebay charity api lets third-party applications search and look up nonprofit organisations registered with ebay for charity, the donation programme that lets sellers route a percentage of sale proceeds to a vetted charity.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/charity_org

Search registered eBay charities by keyword on a marketplace

GET

/charity_org/{charity_org_id}

Retrieve full detail for a specific charity organisation

GET

/charity_org

Search registered eBay charities by keyword on a marketplace

GET

/charity_org/{charity_org_id}

Retrieve full detail for a specific charity organisation

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

eBay OAuth 2.0 Application credentials are stored encrypted in the Jentic vault (MAXsystem). Agents receive scoped access tokens for the commerce.charity.readonly scope only — the raw client secret never enters the agent's context.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search by intent (e.g., 'search eBay charities') and Jentic returns the /charity_org operation with q and marketplace_id parameters, so the agent calls the right endpoint without browsing eBay's docs.

Time to first call

Direct integration: 1 day for OAuth setup, marketplace-scoping logic, and pagination handling. Through Jentic: under 30 minutes — search, load schema, execute.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Complementary

eBay Sell Account API

Sell Account opts a seller into the eBay for Charity programme; Charity API resolves which charity to attach.

Use Sell Account /program/opt_in to enrol a seller in eBay for Charity, then use Charity API to pick the specific charity_org_id.

Complementary

eBay Browse API

Browse returns the charityId on a listing; Charity API resolves it to legal name and mission.

Use Browse to fetch a listing's charityId, then use Charity API /charity_org/{charity_org_id} to display verified charity details to a buyer.

Complementary

eBay Sell Fulfillment API

Fulfillment returns charity attribution on completed orders; Charity API enriches it for reporting.

Use Sell Fulfillment to read which orders included a charity donation, then use Charity API to enrich each charity_org_id for tax-receipt reporting.

FAQs

Specific to using Charity API API through Jentic.

What authentication does the Charity API use?

The Charity API uses OAuth 2.0. The two read endpoints accept an Application access token issued via the Client_Credentials grant — no user-context token is required. Through Jentic, the OAuth client credentials sit in the MAXsystem vault and the agent receives only a scoped access token for the commerce.charity.readonly scope.

Can I create or register a charity through the Charity API?

No. The API is read-only — only GET /charity_org search and GET /charity_org/{charity_org_id} detail lookup are available. Charity registration with eBay for Charity happens through eBay's nonprofit onboarding process on charity.ebay.com, not through this API.

What are the rate limits for the Charity API?

Commerce APIs share an application-level daily quota issued per partner. Use the Developer Analytics API to see the live remaining quota for the commerce.charity resource. Because both endpoints are simple lookups, most integrations stay well within the default allowance.

How do I search for a charity by keyword through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'search eBay charities by keyword', load the /charity_org operation schema, and execute it with q (the keyword) and marketplace_id (e.g. EBAY_US). Install with pip install jentic. Sign up at https://app.jentic.com/sign-up.

Are the same charities returned on every marketplace?

No. The Charity API is marketplace-scoped — eBay for Charity registers organisations per marketplace, so a US-registered nonprofit will only appear when searching with marketplace_id=EBAY_US. Always pass an explicit marketplace_id rather than relying on a default.