US African Development Foundation
The US African Development Foundation (USADF) is an independent federal agency established by Congress in 1980 to invest directly in African grassroots enterprises and social entrepreneurs. USADF provides grant capital of up to $250,000, capacity-building assistance, and convening opportunities to develop, grow, and scale African enterprises and entrepreneurs. USADF grant data is publicly accessible via the USASpending.gov API, and grant opportunities are posted to Grants.gov. Between 2019 and 2023, USADF awarded more than $141 million in grants to over 1,050 community enterprises in Africa, directly affecting 6.2 million people.
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API Evangelist profiles US African Development Foundation the way a machine reads it — 76 machine-readable artifacts across 5 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
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Kin Score
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Kin Score
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How we profile US African Development Foundation
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for US African Development Foundation. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 5
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
US African Development Foundation Agency API
USADF agency spending and budget data
US African Development Foundation Awards API
USADF grant award data
US African Development Foundation Opportunities API
USADF grant opportunity listings on Grants.gov
US African Development Foundation Recipients API
Organizations receiving USADF grants
US African Development Foundation Spending API
USADF spending breakdowns and analytics
Open Collections 8
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONUSADF Grant Opportunities Agency API
OPEN COLLECTIONUSADF Grant Opportunities Agency Awards API
OPEN COLLECTIONUSADF Grant Agency Opportunities API
OPEN COLLECTIONUSADF Grant Opportunities Agency Recipients API
OPEN COLLECTIONUSADF Grant Opportunities Agency Spending API
OPEN COLLECTIONUSADF Grant Opportunities API
OPEN COLLECTIONUSADF Grants Data API
OPEN COLLECTIONScroll within the panel for all 8 ·
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
FinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 4
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Grant Award Transparency
USADF grant award data publicly accessible via USASpending.gov API, including recipient, country, amount, and award period for all USADF grants.
Grant Opportunity Listings
USADF posts open grant solicitations on Grants.gov for African grassroots enterprises seeking funding up to $250,000.
Agency Spending Profile
Comprehensive USADF spending data accessible through USASpending.gov including account data, award breakdowns, and budget authority.
Recipient Data
Data on organizations receiving USADF grants across 24 African countries, including grant amounts, periods of performance, and program areas.
Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Spectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
JSON Schema 14
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
APIError
JSON SCHEMAOpportunity
JSON SCHEMAOpportunitySearchRequest
JSON SCHEMAOpportunitySearchResponse
JSON SCHEMAAgencyAwardSummary
JSON SCHEMAAPIError
JSON SCHEMAAward
JSON SCHEMAAwardSearchRequest
JSON SCHEMAAwardSearchResponse
JSON SCHEMAPlaceOfPerformance
JSON SCHEMARecipient
JSON SCHEMARecipientSummary
JSON SCHEMASpendingByGeographyRequest
JSON SCHEMASpendingByGeographyResponse
JSON SCHEMAScroll within the panel for all 14 ·
JSON Structure 14
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Grant Opportunities Api Apierror Structure
JSON STRUCTUREGrant Opportunities Api Opportunity Structure
JSON STRUCTUREGrants Api Agencyawardsummary Structure
JSON STRUCTUREGrants Api Apierror Structure
JSON STRUCTUREGrants Api Award Structure
JSON STRUCTUREGrants Api Awardsearchrequest Structure
JSON STRUCTUREGrants Api Awardsearchresponse Structure
JSON STRUCTUREGrants Api Placeofperformance Structure
JSON STRUCTUREGrants Api Recipient Structure
JSON STRUCTUREGrants Api Recipientsummary Structure
JSON STRUCTUREGrants Api Spendingbygeographyrequest Structure
JSON STRUCTUREGrants Api Spendingbygeographyresponse Structure
JSON STRUCTUREScroll within the panel for all 14 ·
Examples 14
Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
Grants Api Apierror Example
EXAMPLEGrants Api Award Example
EXAMPLEGrants Api Recipient Example
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Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 4
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Grant Transparency Research
Researchers and journalists accessing USADF grant award data through USASpending API to analyze funding patterns across African countries.
Grant Opportunity Discovery
African enterprises and NGOs finding and applying for USADF grant opportunities through Grants.gov listings.
Federal Spending Analysis
Policy analysts tracking USADF budget authority, obligations, and outlays through USASpending federal account data.
Development Impact Tracking
Development finance institutions and donors assessing USADF program reach and impact through award data and recipient profiles.
Integrations 5
Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.
Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.
USASpending.gov
Federal awards transparency platform providing API access to all USADF grant awards, recipient data, and spending profiles.
Grants.gov
Federal grant opportunity portal where USADF posts open solicitations for African grassroots enterprise grants.
SAM.gov
System for Award Management where USADF grant recipients register to receive federal award funding.
FPDS-NG
Federal Procurement Data System tracking USADF contract and interagency agreement spending.
USAID OIG
USAID Office of Inspector General providing independent oversight of USADF grants administration and partnerships.
Resources
Every other property we hold for US African Development Foundation — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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