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N-CEN fund census API

The annual census that registered investment companies file on Form N-CEN, covering the fund's series, share classes and service providers. Free on the Community tier: 10,000 requests per day, 600 per minute.

What is in it

  • ·N-CEN filings, filterable by registrant
  • ·The registrant index
  • ·Per-filing detail with fund series and share classes

Endpoints

3 endpoints on https://api.3spread.com. Full parameters and response schemas are in the API reference.

MethodEndpointReturns
GET/v1/fund-censusList filings
GET/v1/fund-census/entitiesList registrants
GET/v1/fund-census/{filing_id}Get a filing

Query it

Every dataset is available on the free Community tier. Sign up, provision a key, and query it. No credit card.

curl
curl "https://api.3spread.com/v1/fund-census?limit=10" \
  -H "apikey: $THREESPREAD_API_KEY"
Python (py3spread)
from py3spread import Client

client = Client()  # reads THREESPREAD_API_KEY
page = client.fund_census.list(limit=10)

for row in page["data"]:
    print(row)

What people build with it

  • ·Resolve a fund complex's full series and share-class structure
  • ·Track service providers, auditors and custodians across a fund family
  • ·Join fund identifiers to the portfolio data in N-PORT

The other datasets

All of them are included, free, on the same key.

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Read the docs

Every endpoint, parameter, and response schema.

Get a free key

The Community tier is free: 10,000 requests per day (600 per minute), every dataset.

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