# Groundswell

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/groundswell/  
**Website:** https://groundswell.io  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 18.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 18.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 60.5 |
| Access Clarity | 60.5 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (2)

- **Groundswell Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Groundswell Trust Center** — SOC 2 Type I, SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, CCPA

## Tags

Company, Corporate Social Responsibility, Employee Giving, Volunteering, Grants Management, Donor-Advised Funds, Philanthropy, Employee Assistance, Non-Profit, HR Tech

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/groundswell/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.