Get your Benevity disbursements through an API

What you can build on the Causes Portal

• Get the donations in a disbursement

  Build this

  Opens one disbursement report in the Causes Portal and reads every donation and match it pays out, with fees and donor details where the donor shared them.

  Takes

  Disbursement ID or Bank Reference ID

  Returns

  Disbursement ID, disbursement date and, per transaction: transaction ID, donation date, company, project, donation and match amount, currency, cause support fee, merchant fee, donor name and email

• List recent disbursements

  Build this

  Reads your disbursements in the Causes Portal for a date range, with the identifiers and dates each disbursement report carries.

  Takes

  From date, to date (optional)

  Returns

  Disbursement ID, Bank Reference ID, disbursement date, bank date, payment method

• Create a project

  Build this

  Opens Projects, selects Create New Project, fills in the project and saves it as Published or as an Unpublished draft.

  Takes

  Project name, description, expiry date (optional), goal amount (optional), published or draft

  Returns

  Project name, status, goal amount, expiry date

Automate the Causes Portal with a workflow

A workflow runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use.

• New disbursements, posted to your donor database

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 8:00

  Step 1

  List recent disbursements and keep the ones that were not there on the last run.

  Step 2

  For each one, get the donations in the disbursement.

  Step 3

  Post each transaction with company, project, amounts, fees and shared donor details to your donor database or accounting webhook.

• Weekly thank-you list from new disbursements

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Monday at 9:00

  Step 1

  List the disbursements from the past 7 days.

  Step 2

  For each one, get the donations and keep those where the donor shared a name or email.

  Step 3

  Email you the list, grouped by company, with each donor, amount, match and project.

• Monthly giving summary by company

  Build this

  Starts

  On the 1st of every month at 9:00

  Step 1

  List last month's disbursements and get the donations in each.

  Step 2

  Have an AI step total donations, matches and fees by company and by project.

  Step 3

  Email you the summary.

You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month.

Once built, one call from your code

Once you have built a method, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get the donations in a disbursement” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "causes.benevity.org/get_disbursement_donations",
    "input": {
      "disbursement_id": "4QX8ZK21LM"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "disbursement_id": "4QX8ZK21LM",
    "disbursement_date": "2026-11-06",
    "transactions": [
      {
        "transaction_id": "T-55102931",
        "donation_date": "2026-10-14",
        "company_name": "Acme",
        "project_name": "Winter coat drive",
        "donation_amount": 100,
        "match_amount": 100,
        "donation_currency": "USD",
        "cause_support_fee": 5,
        "merchant_fee": 2.2,
        "donor_name": "Jordan Example",
        "donor_email": "Not shared by donor"
      }
    ]
  }
}

An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request.

The Causes Portal’s own options

Benevity's pages for nonprofits describe no API for causes. What it gives you is the Causes Portal: a profile, projects, volunteering opportunities, a dashboard for grant application status and disbursement reports that show who donated and how much. Registering and receiving donations are free.

Read on November 12, 2026: Benevity for nonprofits, How to connect with donors and volunteers through the Benevity Causes Portal.

Signing in to the Causes Portal

The Causes Portal signs you in with your username or email and a password. With Fous you sign in once through the portal's own sign-in with your own account: the login is sealed with AES-256, code and agents never see it, and an expired session is signed back in.

Worth knowing

Donor details only when shared

In the disbursement report, donor name, email and address read Not shared by donor when the donor is anonymous, and Company Name does when it is withheld.

Two report formats

The Causes Portal exports the new disbursement report and the legacy one from the previous portal. The new one includes a Foreign Exchange Rate column.

Edits take up to 24 hours

Edits in the Causes Portal can take up to 24 hours to appear. Allow for that delay after you create or change a project.

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