Instrumentl

Instrumentl is the all-in-one grant management platform for nonprofits and grant-writing consultants, helping 5,500+ organizations discover, apply for, and manage grants across the full funding lifecycle. Its Discover capability uses AI-powered matching across 35,000+ active grant opportunities; Apply provides AI-assisted proposal drafting trained on an organization's own winning proposals and funder insights; and Manage handles post-award administration, spend-down tracking, compliance monitoring, and deadline management. Instrumentl maintains a grants database and a 450,000+ funder Foundation Directory built from IRS Form 990 filings, and exposes an authenticated remote MCP server (mcp.instrumentl.com) for agent access.

Instrumentl is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Grants, Non-Profit, Fundraising, and Grant Management.

Instrumentl’s developer surface includes authentication, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 16 more developer resources.

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26.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 22/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessSelf serve

1 API 1 MCP Servers

Company Grants Non-Profit FundraisingGrant ManagementFoundation DataPhilanthropy MCP

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 26.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.2 / 17

Access Clarity 7.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 3.5 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 22/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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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
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)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)

8 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
Contract Governance scores 0.0 — up to +12.0 composite points

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Instrumentl MCP Server

Instrumentl's authenticated remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, exposing the grant-management platform to AI agents. Access is gated by OAuth 2.0 (authorization code + P...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Instrumentl MCP Server

Remote MCP server at mcp.instrumentl.com over HTTP.

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 3

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

Instrumentl Authentication

oauth2/apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Instrumentl Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Instrumentl Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Instrumentl Scopes

2 scopes · authorizationCode

2 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

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

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: instrumentl
name: Instrumentl
description: Instrumentl is the all-in-one grant management platform for nonprofits and grant-writing consultants, helping
  5,500+ organizations discover, apply for, and manage grants across the full funding lifecycle. Its Discover capability uses
  AI-powered matching across 35,000+ active grant opportunities; Apply provides AI-assisted proposal drafting trained on an
  organization's own winning proposals and funder insights; and Manage handles post-award administration, spend-down tracking,
  compliance monitoring, and deadline management. Instrumentl maintains a grants database and a 450,000+ funder Foundation
  Directory built from IRS Form 990 filings, and exposes an authenticated remote MCP server (mcp.instrumentl.com) for agent
  access.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/instrumentl/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://static-assets.instrumentl.com/assets/open-graph-image-7aeb77fce8b2e99a998345583d30006a4f24546304a720cb2a2c7c97372f6212.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Grants
- Non-Profit
- Fundraising
- Grant Management
- Foundation Data
- Philanthropy
- MCP
tags_raw:
- Company
- Grants
- Nonprofit
- Fundraising
- Grant Management
- Foundation Data
- Philanthropy
- MCP
apis:
- name: Instrumentl MCP Server
  description: Instrumentl's authenticated remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, exposing the grant-management platform
    to AI agents. Access is gated by OAuth 2.0 (authorization code + PKCE, dynamic client registration) with mcp:read / mcp:write
    scopes.
  humanURL: https://www.instrumentl.com/product-overview
  baseURL: https://mcp.instrumentl.com
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/instrumentl-mcp.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/instrumentl-mcp.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/instrumentl-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/instrumentl-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/instrumentl-conventions.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/instrumentl-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/instrumentl-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/instrumentl-security.txt
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/instrumentl-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.instrumentl.com
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/instrumentl-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://instrumentl.com/.well-known/security.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/instrumentl-domain-security.yml
- type: Support
  url: https://help.instrumentl.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.instrumentl.com/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/instrumentl
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.instrumentl.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.instrumentl.com/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://www.instrumentl.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.instrumentl.com/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.instrumentl.com/privacy-policy
- type: Website
  url: https://instrumentl.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Instrumentl API — frequently asked questions

Does Instrumentl have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Instrumentl, including Instrumentl MCP Server.

How do I authenticate with the Instrumentl API?

Instrumentl documents its authentication (oauth2/apiKey · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Instrumentl Authentication.

Does Instrumentl have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Instrumentl: Remote MCP server at mcp.instrumentl.com over HTTP.

Is the Instrumentl API ready for AI agents?

Instrumentl has a Kin Score of 26.4 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 22.2 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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