# HandUp

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

HandUp is a San Francisco-based public-benefit crowdfunding platform that makes giving to nonprofit organizations and the people they serve easy, secure, and transparent. Launched in 2013 and backed by 500 Global and Version One Ventures, HandUp partners with 501(c)(3) nonprofits whose mission is to serve people experiencing poverty and homelessness. Donors give directly to individual campaigns or to pooled funds such as the National Fund and the HandUp Fund; partner nonprofits then distribute the donations to cover basics like food, clothing, and housing, and report progress and metrics back to donors.

## Kin Score — 15.4 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 15.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 17.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

## 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 (1)

- **Handup Domain Security** — TLSv1.2

## Tags

Company, Crowdfunding, Non-Profit, Donations, Philanthropy, Fundraising, Homelessness, Poverty, Social Impact

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