Sanctions and AML Screening for NGOs

Screen grantees, implementing partners, donors and field vendors against comprehensive sanctions, PEP, adverse media and criminal watchlists. Upload an Excel file to sweep an entire partner register, or use the ~350 ms API.

Or rate a grant or donation in 60 seconds
~350 ms
Avg API response
Hourly
Data updates
400+
Customers
SOC 2
Type II compliant
Grant approval chain
 
 
 
Every party screened against global watchlists refreshed every 60 minutes.

Five Things That Break Screening for NGOs

The pressures differ by what your organization does. Choose one to see what applies.

Interactive

Rate a grant or donation

Set the funding source, the amount, where it is going and who receives it. The rating returns a risk tier, the due diligence level that follows from it, and the specific checks to run before funds move.

Screening Across the Grant Lifecycle

Six moments where a designated party can reach your funds or your name. Select one to see what gets screened, and what it costs to miss it.

Screening That Fits an NGO Budget

No implementation needed to start

Screen partners one by one in the portal, or upload an Excel template to screen a whole register at once. Reports come back in several formats, with no engineering time required.

High-volume batch screening

Concurrent processing of large batches with webhook notifications for the results. Built for periodic sweeps of an entire grantee, partner and vendor register.

Matching built for non-Latin names

Arabic, Cyrillic and Chinese name variants, transliteration differences, nicknames and spelling errors resolved consistently. Essential when partner names arrive in a dozen scripts.

Evidence your funders accept

Auditable timestamps on every alert, clear and override against the list snapshot used, exportable to CSV, JSON or PDF for a grant report or a bank review. SOC 2 compliant.

POST /v2/search
{
  "name": "Sahel Relief Initiative",
  "entity_type": "organization",
  "jurisdiction": "ML",
  "data_source": "SDN,EU,UN,HMT,PEP",
  "min_score": 0.88
}
REST + webhooksBatch endpointSandbox keySOC 2 compliant

Hear From Our Customers

"We couldn't be happier with sanctions.io. The team is super responsive to our requests for help. In short, total satisfaction!"

Randy Trigg
Director of Information Management, Global Fund for Women

"The product is amazing and the tech is tight. We integrated the sanctions.io API within a couple of days and now perform daily screenings of our entire customer base."

Dan Westgarth
COO, Deel Inc.

"Our experience with sanctions.io has been transformative for our compliance processes. Their reliable and comprehensive data feeds give us the peace of mind that comes from operating within international compliance standards."

Armand Brunelle
CTO, WeFi Technology Group
Next step

Twenty Minutes on Your Partner Vetting Process

Bring your partner register and your program countries. We'll map where screening fits, what it costs at your volume, and what changes for whoever currently owns it. No deck.

What happens next
A 20-minute call
Your partner register, your program countries, your volume. No discovery deck.
A sandbox key the same day
Screen real names against live lists before any contract.
Live in just days
Most teams ship in under a week.

The practical guide to sanctions screening

How screening programs are built, tuned and defended: list selection across OFAC, EU, UN and HMT/OFSI, thresholds you can defend in an examination, false-positive management, and the evidence examiners ask for.

AML guide for NGOs

All organizations, including NGOs, must comply with anti-money laundering regulations. The AML risks NGOs face, why the sector is exposed, and the practical measures that address it.

sanctions.io product data sheet

The one-pager procurement and IT ask for: full list inventory, refresh cadence, endpoint reference, latency and uptime figures, security posture, data residency and deployment options.

Sanctions and AML Screening for NGOs, Answered

The questions program, finance and compliance leads ask before getting started.