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Feed America (EIN 92-1761881) publishes open directory data and integration interfaces. The organizations and platforms below illustrate possible use cases, not confirmed partners or customers. Compatibility, configuration and actual adoption must be established separately.

Healthcare social-determinants-of-health (SDOH)

Findhelp (formerly Aunt Bertha)

Referral-platform example · adoption not confirmed

Findhelp is an example of a referral platform whose integration requirements would need to be evaluated. This page does not establish that Findhelp or any of its hospital customers imports Feed America data.

Unite Us

Community-care coordination · National network

Unite Us is an example of a community-care referral platform. Feed America offers directory interfaces for evaluation; use within a Unite Us network is not established by publishing a compatible feed.

211 networks

United Way Worldwide 211

Referral-network example · no reach attributed

People seeking local assistance can call 211. Our public directory feed is available for network administrators to evaluate, but this page does not establish that United Way Worldwide or a 211 dispatcher uses Feed America data.

State 211 networks

211.org state implementations

Texas, Florida, California and other 211 networks operate their own referral services. Each network would need to review and configure any Feed America import. No state-network adoption is claimed here.

AI assistants & LLMs

Anthropic Claude (via Model Context Protocol)

MCP server at /mcp/v1 · 7 native tools

Feed America runs a Model Context Protocol server for configured MCP clients, with resource search, resource details and state-benefit guidance. SNAP benefit estimates are unavailable. The discovery manifest describes the callable tools; availability does not mean a general-purpose assistant has enabled them.

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

Open Referral Initiative publishes the HSDS standard at docs.openreferral.org. Our HSDS feed is available for technical evaluation. This page does not claim registry membership, certification or endorsement.

public-apis directory

github.com/public-apis/public-apis

The public-apis repository is an external directory of APIs. Developers can use our OpenAPI description to evaluate Feed America directly; no external-directory listing is asserted here.

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. It is available for research on food access. Published usage or outcome claims require attributable research evidence.

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. Public read access is available without a license fee. Each receiving organization must assess its integration, privacy and contractual requirements. Use cases: 211 networks, healthcare SDOH, AI assistants, academic research, civic-tech apps. Email info@feedam.org with your use case and we'll prioritize support.

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