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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.

agent aware

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles US African Development Foundation the way a machine reads it — 70 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.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — US African Development Foundation scores 53.4/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 53.4/100 · developing
Contract Quality 18.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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 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 2

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).

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 six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

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.

Us African Development Foundation Context

51 classes · 29 properties

JSON-LD

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.

US African Development Foundation API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

US African Development Foundation API Rules

31 rules · 7 errors · 15 warnings

SPECTRAL

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

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Opportunity

19 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OpportunitySearchRequest

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

OpportunitySearchResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AgencyAwardSummary

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

APIError

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Award

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AwardSearchRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AwardSearchResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

PlaceOfPerformance

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Recipient

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RecipientSummary

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SpendingByGeographyRequest

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SpendingByGeographyResponse

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Scroll 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.

Scroll 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.

Scroll within the panel for all 14 ·

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.

Us African Development Foundation Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

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.

Us African Development Foundation Agentic Access

7 operations · 3 acting

7 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

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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