# CharityAPI, free, GET /api/public_charity_check/{ein}: Business verification API

> A single call that answers the question you actually have: are donations to this organization tax-deductible?

CharityAPI's business verification API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 companies. CharityAPI's docs list 1 of the 11 key fields we check: Tax ID.
You get up to 144,000 calls a month.
We haven't run CharityAPI through [our business verification API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 903 plans for business verification APIs by price. Half the plans cost $7.895 per 1,000 companies or less.
[CharityAPI's $15 monthly plan (/api/organizations/{ein})](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/charityapi/15-monthly-paid-get-api-organizations-ein/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 companies. CharityAPI's $15 monthly plan covers companies in the United States only. CharityAPI's $15 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many companies as CharityAPI's rate limit allows.
[Scoris's €19 pack](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/scoris/19-pack/llms.txt) covers any number of companies in 8 countries only. Scoris's €19 pack costs more up front than CharityAPI's $15 monthly plan.
[GovFiles](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/govfiles/top-up/llms.txt), [Didit](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/didit/top-up-from-50/llms.txt) and [CompanyData.com](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/companydata-com/249-monthly/llms.txt) are the best business verification API providers in the Datacircle benchmark for companies in any country.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/charityapi/free-get-api-public-charity-check-ein
- [Business verification API: the 12 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-business-verification-api.txt)
- Get it: https://charityapi.org/signup?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.charityapi.org/api/public_charity_check/{ein}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://charityapi.org/signup?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.charityapi.org/public_charity_check.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- Sold by: CharityAPI (https://charityapi.org?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 9%
- Tax ID: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 companies: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: List Nonprofit Organizations · Get Nonprofit Organization By EIN · Organization Schema · Search Nonprofits and Charities · Get Data Import By ID · Get Recent Data Imports · List NTEE Codes · Get NTEE category By Code

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: A single call that answers the question you actually have: are donations to this organization tax-deductible?

## Data

- Freshness: 1 month
- Countries: United States
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You will not collect content or information, or access the Website or use the Company’s services using an automated means such as harvesting bots, spiders, scrapers, or crawlers) without the Company’s prior permission. [...] You will not use the Company’s services to do anything unlawful, malicious, misleading, or discriminatory. [...] You will not access these services in order to compete with these services. You are absolutely not permitted to use any data provided via these services or any representative of these services in the service of a competing service. You are not permitted to employ or encourage others to use these services in order to gather information for a competing service, nor to do so on behalf of a competing service. [...] You will not share your password or key with anyone, let anyone else use or access your account, or do anything else that would endanger the security of your account.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 144,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.056
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: ein
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/public_charity_check/{ein}

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone of the legal age at which they can enter into a binding contract

## The 2 fields the plan's answer can hold

EIN, public charity

## CharityAPI's plans (2)

- [CharityAPI, free, GET /api/public_charity_check/{ein}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/charityapi/free-get-api-public-charity-check-ein/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 9% complete, 1 month
- [CharityAPI, $15 monthly, Paid, GET /api/public_charity_check/{ein}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/charityapi/15-monthly-paid-get-api-public-charity-check-ein/llms.txt): $0.0021 per 1,000, 9% complete, 1 month

## CharityAPI's calls for this API (4)

- `GET /api/organizations/{ein}`: [CharityAPI, free, GET /api/organizations/{ein}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/charityapi/free-get-api-organizations-ein/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/public_charity_check/{ein}`: [CharityAPI, free, GET /api/public_charity_check/{ein}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/charityapi/free-get-api-public-charity-check-ein/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/organizations/search/{term}`: [CharityAPI, free, GET /api/organizations/search/{term}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/charityapi/free-get-api-organizations-search-term/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/organizations/autocomplete/{term}`: [CharityAPI, $15 monthly, Paid, GET /api/organizations/autocomplete/{term}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/charityapi/15-monthly-paid-get-api-organizations-autocomplete-term/llms.txt)

## CharityAPI's APIs (2)

- [CharityAPI: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/charityapi/free/llms.txt)
- [CharityAPI: business verification API pricing, 2 plans, GET /api/public_charity_check/{ein}](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/charityapi/free-get-api-public-charity-check-ein/llms.txt)

## CharityAPI: business verification API alternatives

- [DaData, ₽14,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/dadata/14000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.0092 per 1,000, 64% complete, 3 days
- [EuroValidate, €1,428 yearly, Scale (annual), POST /v1/validate](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/eurovalidate/1428-yearly-scale-annual-post-v1-validate/llms.txt): $0.013 per 1,000, 18% complete, 24 hours
- [Scoris, €949 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/scoris/949-yearly/llms.txt): $0.017 per 1,000, 18% complete, 1 week
- [IsValid, €49 monthly, Pro, GET /v0/pl/ceidg](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/isvalid/49-monthly-pro-get-v0-pl-ceidg/llms.txt): $0.018 per 1,000, 55% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

- https://charityapi.org?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://charityapi.org/signup?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://charityapi.org/terms-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://charityapi.org/terms/cancellation-policy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.charityapi.org/authentication.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.charityapi.org/main.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing
- https://docs.charityapi.org/public_charity_check.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=business-verification-api-pricing