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Grants

Create Grant

Create and submit a new grant. This should be used to capture a grant intent from an authorized DAFpay workflow session and submit the grant request to the DAF sponsor.

<Warning> Error handling: - The grant must be captured within 15 minutes of authorization otherwise the request will return status `410 Gone`. - A grant can only be captured once from any given workflow session so any duplicate requests will return status `409 Conflict`. - The amount must be in whole dollar increments (rounded to the nearest hundred) as currently DAFs only accept whole dollar grants otherwise the request will return status `400 Bad Request`. - The amount must be greater than or equal to the minimum grant amount for the DAF otherwise the request will return status `400 Bad Request`. - The amount must be less than or equal to the user's DAF account balance otherwise the request will return status `400 Bad Request`. - Any inputs exceeding the maximum allowed length will be automatically truncated. </Warning>
post/v1/grants

Request body

workflowSessionIdstring required

The identifier of the donor's DAFpay Workflow Session. See Capturing Grant Intents for how to get this value from the DAFpay CHARIOT_SUCCESS event.

amountnumber required

The grant amount in cents that will be processed by Chariot and submitted to the DAF. This amount must be in whole dollar increments (rounded to the nearest hundred) as currently all DAFs only accept whole dollar grant amounts.

applicationFeeAmountnumber

This parameter specifies the fee your platform plans to take from the grant in cents. This is a fee in addition to Chariot's processing fee. With application fees, Chariot collects the fee you determine from the nonprofit and passes it to your platform. Please note that platform fees are only taken when the grant is successfully received by the Nonprofit. The sum of Chariot's fee and the applicationFeeAmount cannot exceed 5% of the grant's amount. If the fee limit is exceeded, a 400 Bad Request error will be returned.

notestring

A note the donor wants to send to the nonprofit. Maximum length: 400 characters.

designationstring

The designation to include on the grant. If this is left blank, "Where needed most" will be used. Note that including a custom designation may cause the grant approval process to take longer. Maximum length: 100 characters.

Example request

{
  "amount": 15000,
  "applicationFeeAmount": 3000
}

Response

Created

idstring uuid required

The unique identifier for the object

userFriendlyIdstring

Often referred to as the "Chariot ID", this is the ID that will be included in the payment from the DAF provider.

trackingIdstring

The tracking ID for the grant

workflowSessionIdstring uuid required

ID of the Connect Workflow Session associated with this grant

fundIdstring required

ID of the donor advised fund

externalGrantIdstring

ID of the grant associated with the donor advised fund

createdAtstring date-time

Time when this object was created; expressed in RFC 3339 format

updatedAtstring date-time

Time when this object was last updated; expressed in RFC 3339 format

amountnumber required

The grant amount expressed in units of whole cents

statusstring

The status of the grant

metadataobject

A map of arbitrary string keys and values to store information about the object

firstNamestring

The donor's first name

lastNamestring

The donor's last name

phonestring

The donor's phone number

emailstring

The donor's email

notestring

An note inputted by the user at submisson

paymentChannel'dafpay_network' | 'direct'

The payment channel for the grant. This is useful to know how the grant will be sent. The payment channel will be one of the following:

  • dafpay_network: Grant will be sent to the DAFPay Network 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (EIN: 93-1372175). The DAFPay Network will then review and process the grant and send the funds to the intended recipient.
  • direct: Grant will be sent directly to the intended recipient.

Example response

{
  "id": "cfe09e64-6a74-4dab-a565-361185a6f248",
  "userFriendlyId": "chariot-1234455",
  "trackingId": "L9E182VBGP",
  "workflowSessionId": "2d4b2a43-a5b4-4be1-ad1f-f932016ca4a6",
  "fundId": "daf-id",
  "externalGrantId": "897823sdjf8sfjs",
  "createdAt": "2020-01-31T23:00:00Z",
  "updatedAt": "2020-01-31T23:59:59Z",
  "amount": 15000,
  "status": "Initiated",
  "feeDetail": {
    "total": 1500,
    "contributions": [
      {
        "name": "Chariot",
        "amount": 1500,
        "feeType": "chariot"
      }
    ]
  },
  "firstName": "Warren",
  "lastName": "Buffet",
  "phone": "1237861020",
  "email": "warrenBuffet@example.com",
  "note": "Please dedicate in memory of grandma",
  "statuses": [
    {
      "id": "cfe09e64-6a74-4dab-a565-361185a6f248",
      "createdAt": "2020-01-31T23:00:00Z",
      "status": "Initiated",
      "comment": "The grant has been received by the nonprofit"
    }
  ],
  "paymentChannel": "direct"
}