specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
provider: Every.org
providerId: every-org
created: '2026-05-04'
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: searched
source: https://docs.every.org/docs/endpoints/nonprofits#rate-limits
modified: '2026-08-28'
tags:
  - Charities
  - Donations
  - Fundraising
  - Rate Limiting
  - Quotas
description: >-
  Rate limits Every.org publishes for its Partner (Charity) API. Replaces the 2026-05-04 generated
  scaffold: the tiered per-minute/per-month figures in that scaffold were invented defaults and did
  not correspond to anything Every.org publishes. Every.org's real model is per-endpoint,
  per-API-key, with no tiers and no monthly quota. Verbatim framing from the docs: "We strive to
  keep this API open and available for use without restrictions. However in order to prevent abuse
  we apply the following limits to each endpoint by default."
limit_count: 3
headers:
  limit: null
  remaining: null
  reset: null
  retryAfter: null
  policy: null
  observed: none
  note: >-
    No rate-limit response headers are documented, and none were present on live unauthenticated
    responses probed 2026-08-28 (HTTP 400 on /v0.2/search/pets, HTTP 404 on /). Only Cloudflare
    edge headers (cf-ray, alt-svc) are returned. The published numbers are readable by a human
    from the docs but are not machine-readable at runtime.
responseCodes:
  throttled: unknown
  note: >-
    Every.org does not document the status code returned when a limit is exceeded, and it could
    not be observed without a valid key. Not asserted.
limits:
  - name: Nonprofit details
    scope: api-key
    per_endpoint: GET /v0.2/nonprofit/{identifier}
    metric: requests_per_minute
    limit: 100
    timeFrame: minute
    burst: null
    applies:
      - Every.org API
    source: https://docs.every.org/docs/endpoints/nonprofits#rate-limits
  - name: Nonprofit search
    scope: api-key
    per_endpoint: GET /v0.2/search/{searchTerm}
    metric: requests_per_minute
    limit: 500
    timeFrame: minute
    burst: null
    applies:
      - Every.org API
    source: https://docs.every.org/docs/endpoints/nonprofits#rate-limits
    note: >-
      Every.org explicitly designs this endpoint for high throughput and recommends calling it
      client-side on every keystroke for type-ahead nonprofit search.
  - name: Nonprofit browse
    scope: api-key
    per_endpoint: GET /v0.2/browse/{cause}
    metric: requests_per_minute
    limit: 500
    timeFrame: minute
    burst: null
    applies:
      - Every.org API
    source: https://docs.every.org/docs/endpoints/nonprofits#rate-limits
undocumented_endpoints:
  endpoints:
    - GET /v0.2/nonprofit/{nonprofitIdentifier}/fundraiser/{fundraiserIdentifier}
    - GET /v0.2/nonprofit/{nonprofitIdentifier}/fundraiser/{fundraiserIdentifier}/raised
    - POST /v0.2/fundraiser
  note: >-
    The published rate-limit table covers only the three Nonprofits endpoints. No limit is stated
    for the Fundraisers endpoints. Absence of a published figure is recorded, not guessed.
policies:
  - name: Higher limits
    description: >-
      "If you need higher rate limits, please contact us at partners@every.org." There is no
      self-serve tier and no published paid ceiling.
    contact: partners@every.org
    source: https://docs.every.org/docs/endpoints/nonprofits#rate-limits
  - name: Result-size caps
    description: >-
      Independent of request rate, response size is capped: search take max 50, browse take max
      100 per page.
    source: https://docs.every.org/docs/endpoints/nonprofits
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com