YourCause API
YourCause from Blackbaud is a corporate philanthropy platform powering employee giving, volunteering, grantmaking, and impact reporting through CSRconnect, GrantsConnect, Impact Edge, and the NPOconnect nonprofit network. An unofficial API lets you programmatically pull donations, matching gifts, volunteer hours, grant applications, disbursements, and nonprofit records—and push updates like new pledges, volunteer events, grant decisions, and employee roster syncs back into YourCause.
What is YourCause?
YourCause from Blackbaud is a corporate social responsibility platform that helps companies run employee giving, volunteering, and grantmaking programs and measure their social impact. Employers use YourCause to centralize donations and matching gifts, coordinate volunteer campaigns and hour tracking, administer corporate grants, vet and disburse funds to nonprofits, and tell their impact story—across CSRconnect, GrantsConnect, Impact Edge, and the NPOconnect nonprofit network.
Core product areas include:
- CSRconnect (employee giving, matching gifts, payroll donations, volunteering, Dollars for Doers, Volunteer Time Off, Employee Resource Groups)
- GrantsConnect (corporate grantmaking, application intake, review workflows, and grant disbursements)
- Impact Edge (AI-powered impact reporting and storytelling)
- NPOconnect / Blackbaud Verified Network (vetted nonprofit discovery, compliance, and fund distribution via the Blackbaud Giving Fund)
Common data entities:
- Donations, Pledges, Matching Gifts, Payroll Deductions, Transactions
- Volunteer Events, Hours, Dollars for Doers, Volunteer Grants
- Grant Applications, Reviews, Awards, Disbursements
- Nonprofits, Vetting Status, Causes, Campaigns
- Employees, Users, Teams, Employee Resource Groups
The YourCause Integration Challenge
Companies run high-stakes giving, volunteering, and grantmaking workloads on YourCause, but turning portal-driven CSR workflows into API-driven automation is non-trivial:
- Multi-product spread: CSRconnect, GrantsConnect, Impact Edge, and NPOconnect each have their own object models, IDs, and lifecycle states that must be reconciled
- Partial API coverage: GrantsConnect exposes a modern SKY API, but employee giving, volunteering, and impact data are still largely portal- and report-driven
- HRIS and SSO gates: Employee rosters, eligibility, and authentication flow through enterprise HRIS and single sign-on, complicating headless automation
- Disbursement and compliance handling: Fund distributions through the Blackbaud Giving Fund and nonprofit vetting require precise status and reason-code tracking
- Campaign and currency variability: Year-round, seasonal, and disaster-relief campaigns across 170+ currencies and multiple donation methods complicate normalization
- Reporting-only surfaces: Much impact and volunteer data is exposed through Impact Edge dashboards and exports rather than transactional endpoints
How Supergood Creates YourCause APIs
Supergood reverse-engineers authenticated browser flows, the GrantsConnect SKY API, and report/export surfaces to deliver a resilient API layer for your YourCause environment—spanning CSRconnect giving and volunteering, GrantsConnect grantmaking, and Impact Edge reporting.
- Handles SSO, username/password, and MFA securely within a managed session
- Maintains session continuity with automated refresh and change detection
- Normalizes responses across donations, volunteer hours, grants, and nonprofit records so you integrate once and rely on consistent objects
- Aligns with your program configuration, matching rules, and entitlements to ensure compliant access
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Getting Started
- Schedule Integration Assessment
Book a 30-minute session to confirm your YourCause products, programs, and authentication model.
- Supergood Generates and Validates Your API
We deliver a production-ready YourCause adapter tailored to your CSRconnect, GrantsConnect, and reporting configuration.
- Deploy with Monitoring
Go live with continuous monitoring and automatic adjustments as YourCause evolves.
API Endpoints
Authentication
/authenticateAuthenticate to a YourCause environment using SSO, username/password, or MFA and obtain a session token for downstream calls.
Giving
/donationsList donations, pledges, and matching gifts across campaigns with filters for program, payment method, currency, and date range.
Giving
/create_donationRecord a new donation or pledge against a campaign and nonprofit, with optional company match and payroll deduction details.
Volunteering
/volunteer_hoursRetrieve volunteer events, logged hours, Dollars for Doers, and volunteer grant activity by employee, team, or campaign.
Grants
/grantsPull grant applications, reviews, awards, and disbursement status from GrantsConnect with program and stage filters.
Nonprofits
/nonprofitsLook up vetted nonprofit records, causes, and verification status from the NPOconnect / Blackbaud Verified Network.
Use Cases
Sync employee giving and matching data into your warehouse
- Pull donations, pledges, and matching gifts from CSRconnect into a single data warehouse - Reconcile payroll deductions and company match amounts across campaigns and currencies - Stream giving activity to BI and finance tools for impact and budget reporting
Automate grant intake and disbursement workflows
- Pull grant applications and review status from GrantsConnect into downstream approval systems - Push award decisions and disbursement records back without portal clicks - Reconcile fund distributions through the Blackbaud Giving Fund against your general ledger
Track volunteering and Dollars for Doers
- Pull volunteer events, logged hours, and recurring activity by employee and team - Trigger Volunteer Grants and Dollars for Doers payouts based on tracked hours - Surface participation metrics to engagement dashboards and ERG reporting
Keep employee rosters and nonprofit data in sync
- Sync employee, team, and eligibility data from HRIS into YourCause programs - Pull vetted nonprofit and cause records from NPOconnect for cause discovery - Surface compliance and vetting status to downstream finance and audit systems
Technical Specifications
Authentication
SSO, username/password, and MFA (SMS, email, TOTP) handled in a managed session
Connectivity
Authenticated browser flows plus the GrantsConnect SKY API and report/export surfaces where exposed
Response format
Normalized JSON across donations, volunteer hours, grants, and nonprofit objects
Rate limits
Adaptive throttling tuned to your environment to avoid platform-side limits
Session management
Automatic session refresh, MFA replay handling, and credential rotation
Data freshness
Near real-time pulls for donations, grants, and volunteer activity with optional scheduled batch syncs
Security
Encrypted credential vault, scoped access tokens, SOC 2-aligned controls, and audit logging
Webhooks
Event-style callbacks for new donations, matching gift approvals, volunteer logs, and grant status changes
Latency
Sub-second reads on cached entities; multi-second writes when posting through giving and grant workflows
Throughput
Horizontally scaled workers sized to enterprise campaign and grant volume across products
Reliability
Retry, backoff, and idempotency keys for donations, grant awards, and disbursements
Adaptation
Continuous monitoring of YourCause and Blackbaud SKY API releases and program configuration drift
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Supergood normalizes data across CSRconnect employee giving and volunteering and GrantsConnect grantmaking, so donations, volunteer hours, grants, and disbursements are available through a single API surface.
No. Where the SKY API is available, Supergood uses it; for CSRconnect giving, volunteering, and Impact Edge data that are portal- or report-driven, we work against your existing authenticated sessions and exports.
Donations, company match amounts, and payroll deduction details are preserved with their program rules and currency, so you can reconcile matching and payroll giving accurately across campaigns.
Yes. Volunteer events, logged hours, recurring activity, Dollars for Doers, and Volunteer Grants are exposed through the normalized API so you can drive payouts and engagement reporting.
Vetted nonprofit records, verification status, and fund distributions through the Blackbaud Giving Fund are surfaced with status and reason codes so finance and compliance teams can reconcile disbursements.