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Partners & integrations

Organizations that consume Feed America (EIN 92-1761881) directory data via our open APIs and HSDS 3.0 Open Referral feed. The full directory is published as open data under Creative Commons BY 4.0 — partners listed below have integrated at meaningful scale.

Healthcare social-determinants-of-health (SDOH)

Findhelp (formerly Aunt Bertha)

SDOH referral platform · ~100 hospital systems

Findhelp ingests Feed America's HSDS 3.0 feed for food-assistance referrals to patients screened positive for food insecurity at hospital discharge. The platform is used by major hospital systems including Kaiser Permanente, Cleveland Clinic, and 100+ others.

Unite Us

Community-care coordination · National network

Unite Us connects healthcare and social-services providers via shared referral infrastructure. Feed America's HSDS feed populates the food-help category for Unite Us networks across multiple states.

211 networks

United Way Worldwide 211

National 211 backbone · 1.5+ billion population reached

United Way Worldwide operates the 211 service network. 211 dispatchers route calls from people in food crisis to nearby pantries, soup kitchens, SNAP enrollment offices, and emergency food programs. Feed America's HSDS feed contributes to the 211 backend database that dispatchers query.

State 211 networks

211.org state implementations

State-level 211 networks (Texas 211, Florida 211, California 211, etc.) ingest Feed America HSDS records as supplementary food-help data alongside their own state-curated registries.

AI assistants & LLMs

Anthropic Claude (via Model Context Protocol)

MCP server at /mcp/v1 · 7 native tools

Feed America runs a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server providing 7 native tools that Anthropic Claude (and other MCP-compatible AI clients) can call directly. Tools include resource search by ZIP, geocoding, urgent-need filtering, and SNAP eligibility checking. Discovery manifest at /.well-known/mcp.json.

OpenAI Custom GPTs & Perplexity Actions

OpenAPI 3.0 spec · No-auth public read

OpenAPI 3.0 specification at /api/openapi.json with 83+ documented endpoints. OpenAI Custom GPT builders and Perplexity Action authors can plug Feed America directly into their AI workflows. No API key required for public read endpoints.

Bing Copilot, Google Gemini, AI search engines

llms.txt + entity-graph.jsonld + structured Schema.org JSON-LD

Feed America publishes /llms.txt + /llms-full.txt + /entity-graph.jsonld as AI-crawler discovery surfaces. Single-fetch entity description includes Organization + Person (founder Sharika Parkes Q139665570) + WebSite + Dataset + identifier crosswalk.

Open data + civic tech

Open Referral Initiative

HSDS 3.0 standards body · docs.openreferral.org

Feed America's HSDS 3.0 feed at /hsds/v3 is conformant with the Open Referral Initiative's standards. Listed in their implementations registry alongside other major HSDS adopters.

public-apis directory

github.com/public-apis/public-apis

Feed America API listed in the public-apis GitHub directory under "Open Data" category. Reaches developers building open-data applications.

Academic researchers

CC BY 4.0 dataset · Citation-ready

The full Feed America dataset is published under Creative Commons BY 4.0 with a citation-ready dataset descriptor at /research. Used by academic researchers studying food-desert mapping, intervention effectiveness, and hunger-rate correlations.

Federal & nonprofit data sources (we ingest from)

USDA Food and Nutrition Service

SNAP retailer database, NSLP/SBP/SFSP, FDPIR

Authoritative federal source for SNAP retailer database (130,000+ stores), school meal participation (NSLP + School Breakfast), summer meals (SFSP), and tribal food distribution (FDPIR).

HRSA Health Center Locator

FQHC sites · 18,000+ records

Federally-Qualified Health Center (FQHC) locator from the Health Resources and Services Administration. FQHCs serve as integrated food-help + healthcare access points for low-income patients.

State WIC agencies (51 jurisdictions)

WIC clinic registries

State-administered Women, Infants, and Children clinic registries. Feed America aggregates state WIC agency feeds across all 50 states + DC + territories.

NCES (National Center for Education Statistics)

School + summer meal site data

School-level meal program data including free/reduced-price participation rates and SFSP summer meal sites.

Plentiful, AmpleHarvest, Salvation Army, regional food banks

Curated nonprofit partner data

Tier 2 ingestion sources providing community-pantry coverage. Partner-attribution preserved on every ingested record.

Want to integrate Feed America data? The full directory is published as open data under Creative Commons BY 4.0. No license fee, no per-seat pricing, no bilateral DPA required. Use cases: 211 networks, healthcare SDOH, AI assistants, academic research, civic-tech apps. Email partners@feedam.org with your use case and we'll prioritize support.

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