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Groundswell

Groundswell is a corporate social responsibility (CSR) platform that lets companies run employee giving, volunteering, grants, employee assistance funds, and corporate donor-advised funds from a single integrated system. The platform provides instant donation matching and payroll giving, volunteer event management and volunteer grants, AI-assisted grant application scoring and workflow configuration, confidential employee assistance fund applications with rapid funding, tax-efficient corporate DAFs, enterprise impact reporting and analytics, and web plus mobile employee experiences. Groundswell is backed by Felicis and GV and runs on AWS infrastructure with a published trust center and SOC 2 Type I and Type II attestations. It was added to the API Evangelist network as a portfolio-company lead; no public developer portal, API, or specification is currently published by the company.

Groundswell is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Giving, Volunteering, and Grants Management.

Groundswell’s developer surface includes pricing, signup flow, engineering blog, support, and 7 more developer resources.

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20.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
0 APIs
CompanyCorporate Social ResponsibilityEmployee GivingVolunteeringGrants ManagementDonor-Advised FundsPhilanthropyEmployee AssistanceNonprofitHR Tech

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 20.2/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 2

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

Groundswell Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Groundswell Trust Center

SOC 2 Type I, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, CCPA

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp
SignUp
 Login
Login

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter
TrustCenter
 Compliance
Compliance
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: groundswell
name: Groundswell
description: Groundswell is a corporate social responsibility (CSR) platform that lets companies run employee giving, volunteering,
  grants, employee assistance funds, and corporate donor-advised funds from a single integrated system. The platform provides
  instant donation matching and payroll giving, volunteer event management and volunteer grants, AI-assisted grant application
  scoring and workflow configuration, confidential employee assistance fund applications with rapid funding, tax-efficient
  corporate DAFs, enterprise impact reporting and analytics, and web plus mobile employee experiences. Groundswell is backed
  by Felicis and GV and runs on AWS infrastructure with a published trust center and SOC 2 Type I and Type II attestations.
  It was added to the API Evangelist network as a portfolio-company lead; no public developer portal, API, or specification
  is currently published by the company.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/groundswell/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- felicis
- gv
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
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specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
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tags:
- Company
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Employee Giving
- Volunteering
- Grants Management
- Donor-Advised Funds
- Philanthropy
- Employee Assistance
- Nonprofit
- HR Tech
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://groundswell.io
- type: Pricing
  url: https://groundswell.io/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://groundswell.io/request-a-demo
- type: Login
  url: https://app.groundswell.io
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://groundswell.io/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://groundswell.io/privacy
- type: Blog
  url: https://groundswell.io/resources?category=All%20Posts
- type: Support
  url: https://helpcenter.groundswell.io/hc/en-us
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/groundswell-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/groundswell-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/groundswell-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence