Benevity API
Benevity is an AI-native corporate purpose platform that unifies employee giving, volunteering, grants management, employee groups, challenges, and impact reporting for nearly 1,000 companies. While Benevity publishes a public Giving, Causes, and Spark API, much of the program data that runs CSR teams—volunteer hours, grant applications and disbursements, ERG membership, and consolidated impact metrics—lives behind the authenticated platform. An unofficial API lets you programmatically pull donations, volunteer activity, grants, and reporting data—and push records back into Benevity.
What is Benevity?
Benevity is an AI-native corporate purpose platform that unifies corporate social responsibility programs—employee giving, volunteering, grants management, employee groups, challenges, and impact reporting—in one place. Companies use Benevity to run donation matching and payroll giving, connect staff to in-person, virtual, and skills-based volunteer opportunities, streamline grant applications and disbursement, mobilize employees through ERGs and gamified challenges, and consolidate program data into unified impact metrics. The platform serves nearly 1,000 companies and reports $16.6B total donated, 122.9M volunteer hours, and $20.1B total grants managed.
Core product areas include:
- Donate (employee giving, matching, payroll giving, and seeded giving programs)
- Volunteer (in-person, virtual, and skills-based volunteer opportunities and hour tracking)
- Grants Management (applications, scoring, disbursement, and compliance)
- Employee Groups (ERG tools) and Challenges (gamified engagement)
- Reporting Suite (consolidated impact metrics and audit trails)
- Public Giving API, Causes API, Location Services API, and Spark API for embedding giving and volunteering experiences
Common data entities:
- Donations, Matches, Gift Cards, Disbursements, Donor-Advised Fund records
- Causes, Nonprofits, Foundation Partners, Cause Search results
- Volunteer Opportunities, Sign-ups, Hours, Skills-based engagements
- Grants, Applications, Scores, Awards, Compliance records
- Employee Groups, Members, Challenges, Participation events
- Impact Reports, Program metrics, Audit trails
The Benevity Integration Challenge
CSR and social-impact teams run mission-critical programs on Benevity, but turning portal-driven program data into API-driven automation is non-trivial:
- Public API is giving-scoped: The Giving, Causes, and Spark APIs cover donation embedding and cause search, but volunteering, grants, ERG, and consolidated reporting data largely live behind the authenticated platform
- Module spread: Donate, Volunteer, Grants, Employee Groups, Challenges, and Reporting each have their own object models, IDs, and lifecycle states
- Foundation-partner and DAF model: Funds flow through a global network of foundation partners using donor-advised funds with monthly disbursement cycles, so payment and disbursement data is multi-party
- Authentication complexity: Enterprise SSO and MFA are common in CSR admin environments and complicate headless automation
- Compliance and tax nuances: Gift Aid, 3-D Secure strong customer authentication, and jurisdiction-specific nonprofit vetting add per-region handling
- Reporting exports: Consolidated impact metrics and audit trails are often surfaced through scheduled reports rather than real-time endpoints
How Supergood Creates Benevity APIs
Supergood reverse-engineers authenticated browser flows alongside Benevity's public Giving, Causes, and Spark APIs to deliver a resilient API layer that spans every module—Donate, Volunteer, Grants, Employee Groups, and the Reporting Suite—not just the giving-scoped public surface.
- Handles enterprise SSO, username/password, and MFA (SMS, email, TOTP) securely
- Maintains session continuity with automated refresh and change detection
- Normalizes responses across donations, volunteer hours, grants, ERG membership, and impact reporting so you integrate once and rely on consistent objects
- Aligns with foundation-partner disbursement, DAF records, and jurisdiction-specific compliance fields to ensure accurate access
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Getting Started
- Schedule Integration Assessment
Book a 30-minute session to confirm your modules, programs, and authentication model.
- Supergood Generates and Validates Your API
We deliver a hardened Benevity adapter tailored to your program configuration and entitlements.
- Deploy with Monitoring
Go live with continuous monitoring and automatic adjustments as Benevity evolves.
API Endpoints
Authentication
/authenticateAuthenticate to a Benevity tenant using SSO, username/password, or MFA and obtain a session token for downstream calls.
Giving
/donationsList donations across post-paid and prepaid programs with filters for cause, program, match status, and date range.
Giving
/create_donationCreate a company or matched donation against a vetted cause through the donor-advised fund model.
Causes
/causesSearch the global Benevity cause database by keyword, location, and category to resolve vetted nonprofits.
Volunteering
/volunteer_opportunitiesRetrieve in-person, virtual, and skills-based volunteer opportunities, sign-ups, and logged hours.
Grants
/grantsPull grant applications, scores, awards, disbursements, and compliance records from Grants Management.
Use Cases
Consolidate giving and matching data into a warehouse
- Pull donations, matches, and gift card activity across post-paid and prepaid programs - Reconcile foundation-partner disbursements and DAF records into finance systems - Stream donation events to BI and impact dashboards
Sync volunteer hours and engagement
- Capture volunteer sign-ups, logged hours, and skills-based engagements - Push participation data into HRIS and recognition systems - Surface ERG and challenge participation for engagement reporting
Automate grants application and disbursement tracking
- Pull grant applications, scores, and awards from Grants Management - Track disbursements and compliance records against program budgets - Route status changes to finance and program-management workflows
Unify impact reporting across modules
- Aggregate donations, volunteer hours, and grants into consolidated impact metrics - Export audit trails for compliance and ESG reporting - Benchmark program performance across regions and business units
Technical Specifications
Authentication
Enterprise SSO, username/password, and MFA (SMS, email, TOTP) handled in a managed session, plus public API key auth where exposed
Connectivity
Authenticated browser flows plus Benevity's RESTful OpenAPI Giving, Causes, Location Services, and Spark APIs where available
Response format
Normalized JSON across donations, volunteering, grants, ERG, and reporting objects
Rate limits
Adaptive throttling tuned to your tenant to stay within Benevity-side limits
Session management
Automatic session refresh, MFA replay handling, and credential rotation
Data freshness
Near real-time pulls for donations and volunteer activity with optional scheduled batch syncs for reporting exports
Security
Encrypted credential vault, scoped access tokens, SOC 2-aligned controls, and audit logging
Webhooks
Event-style callbacks for donation processing, match approval, volunteer sign-ups, and grant status changes
Latency
Sub-second reads on cached entities; multi-second writes when posting donations through the DAF disbursement model
Throughput
Horizontally scaled workers sized to enterprise giving and volunteering volume across nearly 1,000-company scale
Reliability
Retry, backoff, and idempotency keys for donation creation, matches, and disbursements
Adaptation
Continuous monitoring of Benevity releases, public API changes, and tenant-specific program configuration drift
Frequently asked questions
Yes—Benevity publishes Giving, Causes, Location Services, and Spark APIs for embedding donations and cause search. Supergood complements those by reaching the volunteering, grants, ERG, and consolidated reporting data that largely lives behind the authenticated platform, and normalizes everything into one consistent surface.
Yes. Supergood normalizes data across Donate, Volunteer, Grants Management, Employee Groups, and the Reporting Suite, so volunteer hours, grant applications, awards, and ERG participation sit alongside donation entities.
Donations flow through Benevity's global foundation partners using a donor-advised fund model with monthly disbursement cycles. Supergood preserves the disbursement, DAF, and foundation-partner records so your finance and ESG reporting reconciles accurately.
Yes. Jurisdiction-specific handling—UK Gift Aid, 3-D Secure strong customer authentication, and local nonprofit vetting—is preserved per region rather than flattened into a generic schema.
Supergood works with your existing Benevity entitlements and authenticated sessions, handling enterprise SSO and MFA in a managed session with automatic refresh and credential rotation.