The world of charitable giving is complex. Donors want to support causes they care about, businesses want to embed philanthropy into their products, and charities need reliable, compliant ways to receive funds. Yet the underlying data and regulations are fragmented, technical, and constantly changing. OrgHunter exists to unravel that complexity.

We started by focusing on two core business problems in a charitable market exceeding $400 billion annually in the United States:

1. The rise of digital and mobile giving.
Mobile applications, SaaS platforms, and online experiences are rapidly reshaping how donations happen: round-ups at checkout, in-app giving, gaming and esports fundraisers, live events, access to people’s time and talents, and more. Visionary developers and product teams had powerful ideas — but lacked a reliable, developer-friendly way to search, vet, and support millions of charities in real time.

OrgHunter built a comprehensive charity database and real-time Charity API (now surfaced through CharityAPI.com) to solve this: enabling accurate charity search, eligibility checks, financial transparency, and donation routing in a way that developers and businesses could easily integrate. Today, more than a thousand technology platforms depend on our charity data and infrastructure every day.

2. The transformation of memorial giving and obituaries.
As newspaper circulation declined, meaningful obituaries moved online. Funeral homes’ websites became the primary place where family and friends read tributes, share memories, and learn about a loved one’s wishes for memorial donations. This created a new challenge: how to offer real-time, vetted charitable options, donation processing, and state-compliant fundraising directly from those pages.

OrgHunter responded with our In Memory Of and memorial-giving solutions, empowering hundreds of funeral homes to present families with a simple, dignified way to direct memorial donations to vetted charities. Our platform provides the charity data, real-time eligiblity checks, donation routing, and compliance backbone so funeral directors can focus on serving families.

These two problems — digital donation innovation and the shift to online memorial giving — became the foundation for OrgHunter’s broader mission: to be the trusted charity data and infrastructure layer behind modern philanthropy.

Today, OrgHunter.com offers:

• Comprehensive data and charity vetting on over 2.5 million U.S. charities, with rich profiles, mission information, classifications, and status indicators.
• Grant processing to over 1.9 million eligible organizations through our strategic partnership with Make My Donation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization that manages the donor-advised fund and grant distributions.
• Compliance support in all U.S. states that require registration for online charitable fundraising, helping our partners operate with confidence as regulations evolve.
• A dedicated developer experience via CharityAPI.com, including a robust Charity API, documentation, testing center, and affiliate programs.
• Ready-made building blocks for memorial donations, cause marketing campaigns, round-up programs, and other embedded philanthropy use cases.

Since our early launch, OrgHunter has powered charitable experiences for over 1,000 application developers, supported hundreds of funeral homes with memorial donation solutions, and helped connect donors with millions of vetted charities. We continue to invest in better data, smarter tools, and new integrations, including AI-ready data structures and analytics, so that the next generation of giving experiences can be even more personal, local, and impactful.

Whether you are building a new giving platform, operating a funeral home website, running a corporate social responsibility program, or developing AI-driven tools for philanthropy, OrgHunter is here to be your trusted partner in making generosity easier, safer, and more effective.