Economic Development Administration

The U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that provides grants and technical assistance to economically distressed communities in order to generate new employment, help retain existing jobs and stimulate industrial and commercial growth through a variety of investment programs. EDA works with boards and communities across the country on economic development strategies.

Economic Development Administration is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Economic Development, Federal Government, Grants, Public Sector, and Regional Development.

Economic Development Administration’s developer surface includes YouTube channel, engineering blog, support, authentication, and 13 more developer resources.

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18.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 13/100 agent aware Heartbeat 100/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Economic Development Federal Government Grants Public Sector Regional Development Economic Data

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 18.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.2 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 13/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 19.0 — up to +16.2 composite points
Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
US Federal API Programs (api.data.gov, Login.gov, GSA MAS, FedRAMP)	undeclared	-	-	-

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Dynamic Client Registration

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Economic Development Administration API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Economic Development Administration Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Economic Development Administration Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Economic Development Administration Authentication

1 scheme

SECURITY

Economic Development Administration Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Economic Development Administration Scopes

36 scopes · authorization_code

36 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

YouTube

YouTube

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Plans

Plans

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Instagram

Instagram

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: economic-development-administration
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/economic-development-administration/main/apis.yml
name: Economic Development Administration
description: The U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that
  provides grants and technical assistance to economically distressed communities in order to generate new employment, help
  retain existing jobs and stimulate industrial and commercial growth through a variety of investment programs. EDA works
  with boards and communities across the country on economic development strategies.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: none
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/economic-development-administration.png
tags:
- Economic Development
- Federal Government
- Grants
- Public Sector
- Regional Development
- Economic Data
tags_raw:
- Economic Development
- Federal Government
- Grants
- Public Sector
- Regional Development
- Economic Data
- Federal-Government
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-07-11'
modified: '2026-09-06'
position: Consuming
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.eda.gov/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/us-economic-development-administration
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/US_EDA
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvowkb4AaAVx_oLlash6G9A
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/edagov/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.eda.gov/news
- type: Support
  url: https://www.eda.gov/about/contact
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.eda.gov/privacy/policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.eda.gov/about/operating-policies/disclaimer
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/economic-development-administration-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/economic-development-administration-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/economic-development-administration-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/economic-development-administration-scopes.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/economic-development-administration-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/economic-development-administration-llms.txt
- type: Plans
  url: plans/economic-development-administration-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/economic-development-administration-rate-limits.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-06'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 8
  pass: local-v3
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: EDA is a grant-making bureau with no developer program of any kind — its own Drupal sitemap lists 2,805 pages and
    not one /developers, /api, /docs or /data.json path, its published data are per-state PDFs at /impact/data and XLSX/XLSM
    files at /performance/tools, and the analytical tools it points at (StatsAmerica, the Regional Innovation Index, U.S.
    Cluster Mapping) are operated by Indiana University and Harvard Business School rather than by EDA; the only callable
    host EDA runs is the grantee-only Salesforce portal at sfgrants.eda.gov, whose data endpoints all return 401.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.eda.gov/sitemap.xml
    status: 403
  - url: http://web.archive.org/web/20260102124750/https://www.eda.gov/sitemap.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.eda.gov/data.json
    status: 403
  - url: https://sfgrants.eda.gov/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 200
  - url: https://sfgrants.eda.gov/services/data/v62.0/
    status: 401
  checked: '2026-09-06'

Economic Development Administration API — frequently asked questions

How do I authenticate with the Economic Development Administration API?

Economic Development Administration documents its authentication (1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Economic Development Administration Authentication.

Is the Economic Development Administration API ready for AI agents?

Economic Development Administration has a Kin Score of 18.2 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 13.3 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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