# One Degree

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/one-degree/  
**Website:** https://www.1degree.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

One Degree is a California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit technology organization that empowers low-income and underserved individuals, families, and social-service professionals to find and access life-changing benefits and services. Its Resource Server API exposes a curated, community- maintained database of social-service resources — organizations and the opportunities (programs and services) they offer, along with locations, phones, schedules, ratings, tags, comments, images, properties, guides, and housing properties. The API is designed for interoperability with third-party services so communities can coordinate and deliver social services more effectively. It is a read-focused REST API served at data.1degree.org/v1, authenticated with an api_key query parameter and HMAC-SHA256 request signatures for write verbs. Resource data is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

## Kin Score — 43.1 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 43.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 52.3 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 51.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 27.6 |
| Access Clarity | 27.6 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 46.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 37.5 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (6)

- **One Degree Housing API** — Housing properties.
- **One Degree Locations API** — Physical locations, phones, and schedules.
- **One Degree Opportunities API** — Programs/services offered by organizations.
- **One Degree Organizations API** — Social-service organizations.
- **One Degree Reference API** — Property types, rating types, and guides.
- **One Degree Submissions API** — Community submissions.

## MCP servers (1)

- **One Degree MCP Server**

## Security (2)

- **One Degree Authentication** — apiKey/custom-signature · 2 schemes
- **One Degree Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Non-Profit, Social Services, Community Resources, Human Services, Public Benefit, Housing, Open Data, Civic Tech

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