Route nonprofit-of-choice donations into digital experiences - e-commerce, online banking, rewards programs, and charitable gift cards. Postpaid company donations settle monthly against a donation report; prepaid donations are captured immediately by credit card (via a BlueSnap-backed tokenized payment flow), with optional company/peer matching and Gift Aid (UK) handling.
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
title: Benevity API
description: >-
Modeled from the public Benevity API documentation at
developer.benevity.org. Covers the confirmed Causes, Giving (donations),
Receipts, and Spark (giving/volunteer opportunities) endpoints. Credentials
are partner-gated (request-a-demo); this document reflects publicly
documented paths and fields only - it does not fabricate an unverified
full surface. The Location Services API is intentionally omitted here
(see review.yml) because its exact request/response schema beyond the
overview guide was not independently confirmed.
version: '2024.8'
contact:
name: Benevity
url: https://developer.benevity.org/
externalDocs:
description: Benevity API Documentation
url: https://developer.benevity.org/
servers:
- url: https://skyline.benevity.org
description: Giving, Causes, and Receipts API host
- url: https://api.benevity.org
description: Spark API host (production)
- url: https://api.benevity-staging.org
description: Spark API host (sandbox)
tags:
- name: Authorization
- name: Causes
- name: Giving
- name: Receipts
- name: Spark
security:
- bearerAuth: []
paths:
/oauth2/token:
post:
operationId: getAccessToken
tags:
- Authorization
summary: Obtain an OAuth 2.0 client-credentials access token
description: >-
Server-to-server OAuth 2.0 client credentials grant. Send Basic
Authentication with base64-encoded `client_id:client_secret`. Tokens
are valid for `expires_in` seconds (typically 3600) and should be
reused until expiry rather than fetched per request.
security:
- basicAuth: []
responses:
'200':
description: Access token issued
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
access_token:
type: string
description: JWT bearer token
token_type:
type: string
example: Bearer
expires_in:
type: integer
example: 3600
/search/causes:
get:
operationId: searchCauses
tags:
- Causes
summary: Search the Benevity Cause Database
parameters:
- name: q
in: query
required: true
schema:
type: string
description: Search term matched against cause name, description, and tags.
- name: visibility
in: query
schema:
type: string
enum: [match, donate, program, nominate, ineligible, inactive]
- name: category
in: query
schema:
type: string
description: NTEE category/subcategory filter.
- name: country
in: query
schema:
type: string
description: ISO 3166 country code.
- name: state
in: query
schema:
type: string
description: ISO 3166-2 state/province code.
- name: search_location
in: query
schema:
type: string
description: '"latitude,longitude" for proximity search.'
- name: autocorrect
in: query
schema:
type: boolean
- name: page
in: query
schema:
type: integer
- name: page_size
in: query
schema:
type: integer
default: 25
- name: sort
in: query
schema:
type: string
responses:
'200':
description: Matching causes
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
data:
type: array
items:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: string
type:
type: string
attributes:
type: object
properties:
name:
type: string
city:
type: string
state:
type: string
country:
type: string
categories:
type: array
items:
type: string
visibility:
type: string
status:
type: object
snippets:
type: array
items:
type: string
meta:
type: object
links:
type: object
/donations:
post:
operationId: createPostpaidDonation
tags:
- Giving
summary: Create a postpaid company donation
description: >-
Submits a donation settled monthly against a donation report invoiced
to the client company, rather than captured immediately by card.
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
destination:
type: object
properties:
recipientId:
type: string
foundationId:
type: string
funds:
type: object
properties:
paymentType:
type: string
currencyCode:
type: string
amount:
type: integer
description: Amount in lowest currency denomination (e.g. cents).
donor:
type: object
properties:
fullName:
type: string
email:
type: string
receipted:
type: boolean
address:
type: object
metadata:
type: object
additionalProperties:
type: string
description: Up to 100 custom key/value pairs.
required:
- destination
- funds
responses:
'201':
description: Donation accepted
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: string
description: UUID
type:
type: string
example: donations
destination:
type: object
funds:
type: object
donor:
type: object
metadata:
type: object
state:
type: object
properties:
processingStatus:
type: string
example: ACCEPTED
statusLastUpdated:
type: string
format: date-time
/payments/card/transactions:
post:
operationId: createCreditCardDonation
tags:
- Giving
summary: Create a prepaid credit card donation
description: >-
Captures a donation immediately via a tokenized card payment
(BlueSnap-backed processor), optionally split across multiple cause
allocations, with optional Gift Aid (UK) handling.
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
companyCode:
type: string
total:
type: integer
currencyCode:
type: string
paymentConfig:
type: object
properties:
token:
type: string
merchantAccountId:
type: string
processor:
type: string
example: BLUESNAP
cardHolder:
type: object
referenceNumber:
type: string
adapter:
type: string
example: Adapter.General
purchaseItems:
type: array
items:
type: object
properties:
itemTotalAmountCents:
type: integer
allocations:
type: array
items:
type: object
properties:
causeCode:
type: string
amountCents:
type: integer
giftAid:
type: boolean
description:
type: string
softDescriptor:
type: string
payerBusinessName:
type: string
required:
- companyCode
- total
- currencyCode
- paymentConfig
- referenceNumber
- purchaseItems
responses:
'201':
description: Transaction created
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
transactionId:
type: string
creditCardId:
type: string
processorTransactionId:
type: string
referenceNumber:
type: string
backendReceiptId:
type: string
amount:
type: object
properties:
totalAmountCents:
type: integer
currencyCode:
type: string
transactionFee:
type: number
/receipts/{backendReceiptId}:
get:
operationId: getReceiptPdf
tags:
- Receipts
summary: Download a donation receipt as PDF
parameters:
- name: backendReceiptId
in: path
required: true
schema:
type: string
example: test_receipt_id_4G801PXR6W
responses:
'200':
description: Receipt PDF
content:
application/pdf:
schema:
type: string
format: binary
/receipts/{backendReceiptId}/email:
post:
operationId: emailReceipt
tags:
- Receipts
summary: Email a donation receipt to the donor
parameters:
- name: backendReceiptId
in: path
required: true
schema:
type: string
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
email:
type: string
required:
- email
responses:
'202':
description: Receipt email queued for delivery
/search/givingopportunities:
get:
operationId: searchGivingOpportunities
tags:
- Spark
summary: Search a company's giving opportunities (Spark API)
parameters:
- name: q
in: query
required: true
schema:
type: string
- name: search_location
in: query
schema:
type: string
- name: autocorrect
in: query
schema:
type: boolean
responses:
'200':
description: Matching giving opportunities
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
data:
type: array
items:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: integer
title:
type: string
description:
type: string
image_url:
type: string
creator_id:
type: string
creator_name:
type: string
creator_type:
type: string
peer_match:
type: boolean
company_match:
type: boolean
portfolio_code:
type: string
projects:
type: array
items:
type: object
causes:
type: array
items:
type: object
snippets:
type: array
items:
type: string
/search/volunteeropportunities:
get:
operationId: searchVolunteerOpportunities
tags:
- Spark
summary: Search a company's volunteer opportunities (Spark API)
parameters:
- name: q
in: query
required: true
schema:
type: string
- name: search_location
in: query
schema:
type: string
- name: autocorrect
in: query
schema:
type: boolean
- name: filter[ends_after]
in: query
schema:
type: string
format: date-time
- name: filter[starts_before]
in: query
schema:
type: string
format: date-time
- name: filter[minimum_open_spots]
in: query
schema:
type: integer
- name: filter[has_location]
in: query
schema:
type: boolean
- name: filter[interests]
in: query
schema:
type: string
- name: filter[skills]
in: query
schema:
type: string
- name: filter[temporal_type]
in: query
schema:
type: string
enum: [ongoing, time_bounded]
responses:
'200':
description: Matching volunteer opportunities
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
volunteer_opportunities:
type: array
items:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: integer
title:
type: string
description:
type: string
location_notes:
type: string
start_timestamp:
type: string
format: date-time
end_timestamp:
type: string
format: date-time
time_zone:
type: string
cause_id:
type: string
cause_name:
type: string
image_url:
type: string
hero_image_url:
type: string
cause_logo_url:
type: string
address:
type: object
characteristics:
type: array
items:
type: string
interests:
type: array
items:
type: string
skills:
type: array
items:
type: string
shifts:
type: array
items:
type: object
geo_coordinates:
type: object
components:
securitySchemes:
bearerAuth:
type: http
scheme: bearer
bearerFormat: JWT
basicAuth:
type: http
scheme: basic