Connect Claude or ChatGPT to Giving Compass and ask in plain English. Your assistant gets everything behind Compass Explorer: 1.9 million nonprofits with every 990 on file, plus impact reports, Charity Navigator ratings, grants, leadership and pay, programs, community data, and Giving Compass articles. Every answer says what it assumed and what it ran.
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Included with Giving Compass Pro.Works withCClaudeandGChatGPT
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Your assistant isn't guessing from training data. A Giving Compass analyst runs the question against the data and reports back with its assumptions, its changes, and its queries.
Where your question leaves room, the analyst decides and says so. Each choice is labeled: you specified it, or we interpreted it. Disagree, and you refine.
Every analysis has an id. Say what to change, and everything else is preserved exactly. Each refinement lists what changed since the last revision.
Each research reply ends with the exact queries that ran. Ask your assistant to check a number and it can, against the actual data.
3 queries run · see auditYou need a Giving Compass Pro account and one URL. The rest is a few clicks inside your assistant, and you sign in to Giving Compass once to approve it.
https://mcp.givingcompass.org/mcp In Claude on the web or desktop, go to Customize › Connectors.
Choose Add custom connector. Name it Giving Compass and paste the URL above. Claude detects that sign-in is required; leave the other settings as they are.
Click Add, then Connect. Claude sends you to Giving Compass, where you sign in if you aren't already.
Review what Claude will and won't be able to do, then click Connect Claude. You're returned to Claude, connected.
In any chat, open the + menu › Connectors and make sure Giving Compass is switched on. Then ask your question.
Team and Enterprise plans: an owner adds the connector once under Organization settings › Connectors (Add › Custom › Web). Each member then clicks Connect under Customize › Connectors. Works on Claude Free, Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise.
What the form looks like filled in.
In ChatGPT on the web, open Settings › Security and login and switch on Developer mode. You only do this once.
Go to chatgpt.com/plugins and click +. Name it Giving Compass, add a one-line description, and under Connection paste the URL above. Choose OAuth for authentication.
Click Scan Tools. ChatGPT sends you to Giving Compass, where you sign in if you aren't already.
Review what ChatGPT will and won't be able to do and click Connect ChatGPT. Back in ChatGPT, the scan finishes and you click Create.
In a chat, open the + menu, choose Developer mode, and select Giving Compass, or just mention it with @Giving Compass in your message. Then ask.
Plans: ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu, on the web (not the mobile apps). On Business, Enterprise, and Edu workspaces an admin turns developer mode on for the workspace first; your own switch may then sit under Settings › Apps › Advanced settings.
What the form looks like filled in.
Both assistants send you to the same Giving Compass page. It shows exactly what the connection can and can't do before you allow it, and you can disconnect any time from your assistant's connector settings.
Anything Compass Explorer can answer, now inside the assistant you already use. Research questions run real queries; lookups are instant.
Counts, screens, rankings, trends, and comparisons across the whole sector. Takes 15 to 90 seconds.
How many food banks in Washington reported revenue over $5M on their latest 990, and which are the ten largest? Which states have the most nonprofits working on clean water, and which are the largest? What do executive directors earn at environmental nonprofits with revenue over $30M?
One organization's facts on record: profile, ratings, every 990, grants, people, programs. Seconds.
Who funded Feeding America last year, and how much did each give? Show me every 990 the Seattle Foundation has filed, with revenue and net assets by year. Who are the officers at Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, and what are they paid?
Impact reports in the organization's own words, community data, and Giving Compass articles.
What does Feeding America say it accomplished in its latest impact report? Where in Washington state are seniors struggling the most, and which nonprofits are helping them? Find recent commentary on donor-advised funds and where the money is going.
The connector is part of Pro. No separate plan, no API key to manage. You sign in with your Giving Compass account when your assistant asks, and you're connected.
Copy the URL, follow the steps for your assistant, and sign in when asked. Nothing to enable on Giving Compass.
Pro includes Compass Explorer, advanced nonprofit search, lists, the insights dashboard, and this connector for Claude and ChatGPT.
Claude on the web and desktop (and on your phone once it's added), and ChatGPT on the web with developer mode on. Any assistant that supports remote MCP connectors with sign-in can connect to the same URL.
Yes, a Giving Compass Pro account. You sign in once while connecting. Free accounts can't connect yet.
Yes. Same data, same analyst. The difference is where you ask and which assistant writes the final answer.
Lookups return in seconds. Research questions run real queries and usually take 15 to 90 seconds; your assistant shows progress while it works.
No. It reads nonprofit data on your behalf and nothing else. It can't edit your account, your lists, or your settings.
Remove the connector in Claude or ChatGPT. Access ends there; there's nothing to undo on Giving Compass.
Every research reply ends with a manifest of its assumptions and the exact queries it ran. Ask your assistant to show them.
The Model Context Protocol, an open standard that lets AI assistants use outside tools and data. Giving Compass runs an MCP server; your assistant connects to it.
Email support@givingcompass.org and we'll walk you through it.