Search grants

TOOL

Slug

GRANTED_MCP_SEARCH_GRANTS

Version

20261018_00

Toolkit

GRANTED_MCP

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, deadline…

limit

INTEGER

Max results to return (default 15)

queryrequired

STRING

Search terms (e.g. 'watershed restoration', 'SBIR Phase I', 'cancer research')

state

STRING

US state abbreviation filter (e.g. 'CA', 'NY')

funder

STRING

Funder name filter (partial match)

source

STRING

Grant source type filter

Options: federal, state, international, foundation

org_type

STRING

STRONGLY RECOMMENDED — the applicant's organization type. Without it, results cannot be filtered for eligibility and may include grants the applicant is statutorily ineligible for (e.g. SBIR/STTR for nonprofits, 501(c)(3)-only grants for businesses). Pass it whenever the applicant's identity is known or inferable from conversation. One of: 'Nonprofit', 'University', 'Small Business', 'Individual', 'Community Group', 'HBCU', 'Tribal', 'FFRDC', 'Government'. Raw values like '501(c)(3)' or 'for-profit' are also accepted and normalized.

include_historical

BOOLEAN

Include expired/closed grants in results (default: false). Useful for historical research.