# Cars Helping Kids — Car Donations (remote · carshelpingkids.org)

Verified car-donation guidance, readiness checks, and donor-authorized intake for review.

- Trust score: 72/100 (medium)
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-16

## Components

- remote · `carshelpingkids.org`: 72/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/org-carshelpingkids-car-donations/carshelpingkids.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/org-carshelpingkids-car-donations/carshelpingkids)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://carshelpingkids.org/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-08-16.

- **Endpoint Security**: 74/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - HSTS check failed: the Strict-Transport-Security header is absent.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 85/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 1024 tokens (~64/item across 16 items; 7 tools + 9 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 17/100
  - Stability observed for 5 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 77/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 20% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http org-carshelpingkids-car-donations https://carshelpingkids.org/mcp
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.org-carshelpingkids-car-donations]
url = "https://carshelpingkids.org/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "org-carshelpingkids-car-donations": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://carshelpingkids.org/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add org-carshelpingkids-car-donations --url https://carshelpingkids.org/mcp --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  org-carshelpingkids-car-donations:
    url: "https://carshelpingkids.org/mcp"
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "org-carshelpingkids-car-donations": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://carshelpingkids.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-08-16 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-08-14 (score 71, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-08-12 (score 70, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-08-11 (score 69)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (7)

### `search` (~67 tokens)

Search verified car-donation guidance

Search Cars Helping Kids canonical car-donation, pickup, vehicle-readiness, tax-document, legal-identity, privacy, and terms sources. Returns canonical URLs for citation. Use fetch with a returned ID for the complete reviewed answer.

Input parameters:

- `query` (string, required): A natural-language car-donation question.

Output parameters:

- `results` (array)

### `fetch` (~40 tokens)

Fetch a verified car-donation source

Retrieve the complete reviewed Cars Helping Kids answer and canonical citation URL for a document ID returned by search.

Input parameters:

- `id` (string, required): A document ID returned by search.

Output parameters:

- `id` (string)
- `metadata` (object)
- `text` (string)
- `title` (string)
- `url` (string)

### `get_car_donation_info` (~57 tokens)

Get Cars Helping Kids car-donation information

Get a direct, citable answer about starting a car donation, the donation process, vehicles and conditions reviewed, pickup coverage, title or lien issues, tax documents, or the legal charity identity.

Input parameters:

- `topic` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `id` (string)
- `metadata` (object)
- `text` (string)
- `title` (string)
- `url` (string)

### `check_vehicle_donation_readiness` (~123 tokens)

Check vehicle donation readiness

Run a privacy-minimized preflight using coarse vehicle, document, access, and location facts. It identifies what needs case review but never accepts or rejects a vehicle. Use submit_car_donation or the human form for an actual Cars Helping Kids review.

Input parameters:

- `access` (string, required)
- `condition` (string, required)
- `keys` (string, required)
- `lien_status` (string, required)
- `location_scope` (string, required)
- `model_year` (integer)
- `title_status` (string, required)
- `vehicle_type` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `important_limit` (string)
- `next_step` (string)
- `preparation` (array)
- `review_reasons` (array)
- `status` (string)
- `submission_url` (string)

### `get_tax_document_requirements` (~79 tokens)

Get car-donation tax document requirements

Return general federal record and form checkpoints for a vehicle donation based on the donation stage and broad amount bands. This does not calculate, select, or guarantee a deduction and is not tax or legal advice.

Input parameters:

- `intended_claim_band` (string)
- `reported_gross_proceeds_band` (string)
- `stage` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `cars_helping_kids_tax_guide_url` (string)
- `checklist` (array)
- `form_1098_c_url` (string)
- `general_federal_information_only` (boolean)
- `irs_form_8283_url` (string)
- `irs_vehicle_donation_guide_url` (string)
- `limitation` (string)

### `verify_legal_recipient` (~43 tokens)

Verify the legal car-donation recipient

Return the exact relationship between Cars Helping Kids and the IRS-recognized legal recipient, Fainting Goat Foundation Co Inc, including EIN and authoritative verification links.

Output parameters:

- `ein` (string)
- `email` (string)
- `federal_status` (string)
- `headquarters` (string)
- `identity_url` (string)
- `irs_verification_url` (string)
- `legal_recipient` (string)
- `phone` (string)
- `primary_service` (string)
- `program_name` (string)
- `relationship` (string)
- `title_instruction` (string)

### `submit_car_donation` (~250 tokens)

Submit a Cars Helping Kids car donation

Submit an adult donor's authorized vehicle-donation request to Cars Helping Kids for case review. Use only after the donor reviews the exact contact, vehicle, and pickup details and explicitly authorizes this submission, confirms ownership or legal authority and accuracy, accepts https://carshelpingkids.org/terms and https://carshelpingkids.org/privacy, and permits donation-related phone, text, or email contact. This additive action creates a donor record and notifications; it does not transfer ownership or guarantee acceptance, pickup, value, documents, or a deduction. Reuse submission_id for safe retries.

Input parameters:

- `donor` (object, required)
- `donor_authorized` (boolean, required): True only after the donor explicitly authorizes this exact submission, confirms they are at least 18 and own or are legally authorized to dispose of the vehicle, confirms the details are accurate, ac…
- `notes` (string)
- `pickup` (object, required)
- `submission_id` (string, required): A UUID generated once for this donation attempt. Reuse the same value when retrying the same submission.
- `vehicle` (object, required)

Output parameters:

- `legal_recipient` (string)
- `next_step` (string)
- `ok` (boolean)
- `program` (string)
- `receipt_url` (string)
- `reference` (string)
- `replayed` (boolean)
- `status` (string)
- `submission_meaning` (string)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/org-carshelpingkids-car-donations/carshelpingkids#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-08-16: 72
- 2026-08-15: 71
- 2026-08-14: 71
- 2026-08-13: 70
- 2026-08-12: 70
- 2026-08-11: 69

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://carshelpingkids.org/mcp
- Website: https://carshelpingkids.org/ai-agent-car-donation
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/org-carshelpingkids-car-donations/carshelpingkids.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/org-carshelpingkids-car-donations/carshelpingkids.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/org-carshelpingkids-car-donations/carshelpingkids