Granted

Name: Granted MCP Server
Availability: InStock
Author: Granted

Data & Research5 toolsNo Auth Required

Search federal, state and foundation grant opportunities, research US foundations from their IRS 990 filings, and see who has already won a federal program. 5 tools, all read-only, no sign-in.

Verified connector

Listed by Anthropic as a partner connector in its Connectors Directory.

Connection checked by Agentman on 17 August 2026.

Anthropic states this reflects the level of review a connector received, not a security audit.

Connect Granted via MCP

https://grantedai.com/api/mcp/mcp

Works in any MCP-compatible client. In Agentman Studio it is one click — no config file to edit.

Granted Tools & Capabilities (5)

search_grantsRead-only

Search 140,000+ grant opportunities by keyword, state, source type, funder, and more. Uses semantic search (embeddings + full-text + scoring) combined with live AI-powered web discovery for comprehensive results. Returns active grants ranked by relevance with fit scores, deadlines, amounts, and application links. Use this as the starting point to find relevant grants.

get_grantRead-only

Get full details for a specific grant by its slug. Returns eligibility criteria, application link, deadline, amount, funder info, and tags. Use search_grants first to find valid slugs.

search_fundersRead-only

Search 133,000+ US foundations by name, state, NTEE code, asset range, and annual income range. Returns key metrics: name, state, total assets, annual income (from IRS 990), NTEE category, and mission. Use get_funder with the returned slug for full profiles including actual giving history.

get_funderRead-only

Get a full foundation profile including mission, 5-year financials, recent grants awarded, key officers, and application info. Accepts a foundation slug (from search_funders results) or EIN (e.g. '13-1684331').

get_past_winnersRead-only

Competitive intelligence: see who has won a specific federal grant program. Shows top recipients grouped by organization with award counts, total funding, and year-over-year trends. Filter by CFDA number, agency, program name, or state. Supports agency abbreviations: NIH, NSF, EPA, DOE, DOD, USDA, NASA, SBA, etc.

Read from the server on 2026-08-17, including each tool's own safety annotations.

Limits

Read-only, with no application path. All five tools are annotated read-only and non-destructive. No schema saves a grant, edits a pipeline, drafts text or submits anything. The application itself happens on the funder's portal, through the link get_grant returns.
Foundation financials lag one to two years. Granted's methodology page states that IRS Form 990 filings are released on roughly a one-to-two-year delay, so a foundation's most recent giving may not appear. A profile showing modest giving may simply be showing an old filing.
Federal award records are mirrored as published. Granted states that its federal award data reflects USAspending.gov as reported by agencies, and that it does not independently restate that data. Errors upstream propagate downstream.
The vendor discloses that AI-assisted processing can err. Granted's methodology page says it uses AI to summarise and structure funding data and that it "occasionally gets a detail wrong", adding that when a source and a listing disagree, the source wins. Verify a deadline or an award ceiling against the funder's posting before you rely on it.
Results cap at 15 per call. Every tool's limit parameter maxes at 15. Broad questions need narrower filters, not a larger page size.
Detail lookups need an identifier from a search. get_grant requires a slug and says to run search_grants first. get_funder is the only exception, because it also accepts an EIN.
get_past_winners covers federal programmes only. Its schema takes CFDA numbers, federal agency abbreviations and programme names. There is no equivalent award history for state programmes or private foundations — foundation giving history arrives through get_funder instead, from Schedule I of the 990.
Prior awards describe history, not eligibility or likelihood. The tool reports who received funding and how much. It does not model selection, and neither this page nor the connector makes any claim about improving an applicant's chance of being funded.
Free-tier calls are shared and capped. 200 tool calls and 25 live AI searches per day across anonymous clients, per Granted's MCP page. A higher limit needs an API key, which needs a client that can send custom headers — so it is unavailable in claude.ai's hosted connector interface.
Funder profiles surface named individuals from public filings. Granted's privacy policy states that officer names, titles and reported compensation come from Schedule J of Form 990 and are published through its APIs and MCP integrations. This is public-record data, but it is data about people, and it warrants the same care as any other.
We did not exercise any tool. Our check was a read-only initialize and tools/list handshake. Every capability described above comes from the server's own tool descriptions and schemas plus Granted's published documentation — not from calling anything, and not from inspecting any result set.
Coverage figures on this page are the vendor's own. The 140,000-plus grants, 133,000 foundations, 7 million award records and 144 sources are Granted's published numbers, restated with attribution. We did not independently verify any of them, and no completeness claim should be read into them.

Frequently asked questions

Does the Granted MCP server need an account or API key?

No. We opened an anonymous handshake against the endpoint on 2026-08-17 and the server returned all five tool definitions without a credential. Granted's own MCP page states the server is unauthenticated and free, with no API key, account creation or credit card. An optional API key exists only to raise the daily call limits.

Where does the Granted connector's grant and funder data come from?

Public federal and IRS sources. Granted's methodology page names Grants.gov, the Federal Register, SAM.gov assistance listings, SBIR.gov, more than 100 state and international feeds, USAspending.gov federal award records and IRS Form 990 filings. Its coverage page puts the total at 144 data sources. Every listing links back to the funder's own posting.

How many Granted tool calls can I make per day for free?

Granted's MCP page states that anonymous clients share 200 tool calls and 25 live AI-discovery searches per day. Past the search budget, grant search keeps returning results from the database without the live AI blend. The 200-call figure is a hard daily ceiling that resets within 24 hours.

Why do Granted results change between two identical searches?

Because search_grants blends a live web pass with the stored database. All five tools carry openWorldHint set to true, meaning results come from an external world that changes. Granted's developer page describes live web search across multiple LLM providers blended with database results, and its methodology page describes rolling re-verification and a nightly staleness sweep.

How current are the foundation financials in Granted's funder profiles?

They lag by roughly one to two years. Granted's methodology page states that foundation financials come from IRS Form 990 filings, which the IRS releases on a one-to-two-year delay, so a foundation's most recent giving may not yet be reflected. Treat asset and income figures from search_funders and get_funder as historical rather than current.

Can the Granted MCP server write to my grant pipeline or submit an application?

No. All five tools returned by the live handshake on 2026-08-17 are annotated readOnlyHint true and destructiveHint false. Nothing in the schemas saves a grant, edits a pipeline, drafts a proposal or files an application. The connector is a research surface; applying still happens on the funder's own portal.

Why should I pass an organisation type to Granted's grant search?

Because without it results cannot be filtered for eligibility. The live search_grants schema marks the org_type parameter as strongly recommended and warns that omitting it may return grants the applicant is statutorily ineligible for, naming SBIR and STTR programmes for nonprofits and 501(c)(3)-only grants for businesses as examples.