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Federal Grants — find funding you are actually eligible for

by wyattpalm2-eng · remote · no sign-in to list tools · v1.0.0 · published by GitHub user wyattpalm2-eng

Find US federal grants your organization is actually eligible to apply for. Free, no API key.

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3 tools: 2 change things and 1 only read.

Scanned Oct 21, 2026

No check matched anything in the tool definitions. No finding is not a safety guarantee. How the checks work.

claude mcp add --transport http federal-grants https://x402-seller-m8nx.onrender.com/grants/mcp

Tools

Open a tool for its reasons and full description. Descriptions are the publisher's own words, shown as they are.

3 tools

Changes things 2Claude Code: ask
  • check_grant_eligibilityGiven a Grants.gov opportunity ID and an organization type, return a definitive eligibility verdict with the reason.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Given a Grants.gov opportunity ID and an organization type, return a definitive eligibility verdict with the reason. ELIGIBLE / INELIGIBLE / NEEDS_REVIEW. Never guesses: an opportunity that publishes no applicant types, or only 'Others (see text)', returns NEEDS_REVIEW rather than a false green light.
  • grant_program_historyWhat a federal grant program has actually awarded before, by CFDA/assistance-listing number: median award, largest award, and recent recipients from USAspending.gov.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    What a federal grant program has actually awarded before, by CFDA/assistance-listing number: median award, largest award, and recent recipients from USAspending.gov. Use it to sanity-check whether a request is realistic — a $150k ask against a program with a $40M median means competing with major institutions.
Only reads 1Claude Code: allow
  • find_federal_grantsFind open U.S.No findings

    Why it is in this group

    • The name "find_federal_grants" says "find": a word for reading.
    Description, as the server wrote it
    Find open U.S. federal grant opportunities an organization is ACTUALLY eligible to apply for. Filters by the machine-readable applicant-type code Grants.gov publishes on every opportunity, so ineligible opportunities are excluded rather than ranked low. Returns deadlines, award ceilings, cost-sharing requirements, and what prior winners of the same program actually received. Free, no key, live federal data.

This is not a safety rating, and no finding is not a safety guarantee. The groups and findings come from fixed checks of the tool definitions the server returned on the date shown, not from its code or what it does when called. How the checks work.

Install

Pinned to version 1.0.0. Values in angle brackets are yours to fill in.

claude mcp add --transport http federal-grants https://x402-seller-m8nx.onrender.com/grants/mcp

Run in a terminal.

Claude Code permissions

Allow the reads, ask before a change, deny the deletes. Paste into .claude/settings.json.

.claude/settings.json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__federal-grants__find_federal_grants"
    ],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__federal-grants__check_grant_eligibility",
      "mcp__federal-grants__grant_program_history"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}

Tools that only read are allowed, tools that change things ask first, tools that delete or cancel are denied. It assumes the server is installed as federal-grants. Review it before you use it.