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OpenGrant UK grants MCP Server

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OpenGrant UK grants is answering right now. Last checked 10 min ago. It exposes 6 tools.

Search UK grant schemes and funders: deadlines, awards, eligibility and official guidance links.

Uptime history 6 days of history · worst day 14%
6 days agonow
22.0%
Uptime 24h
20 of 91 checks
6
Tools
read from the server
288 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

OpenGrant UK grants does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 30.4% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

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Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 10 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add opengrant --transport http https://opengrant.co.uk/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://opengrant.co.uk/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.opengrant]
url = "https://opengrant.co.uk/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "opengrant": {
      "url": "https://opengrant.co.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "opengrant": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://opengrant.co.uk/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

example
get_example_grant
Read one showcase grant's full record by UUID. For any other grant use get_grant, which returns its public facts.
list_example_grants
List up to three showcase grants whose full record (summary, criteria and contacts) is public. These are fixed examples, not search results; use search_grants to find schemes.
count
count_matching_grants
Count open, rolling and forthcoming UK grant schemes matching optional filters, with the same rules as search_grants. Returns a number and a link to the matching search on the website. Use search_grants to see the schemes themselves.
funder
get_funder
Read a UK funder's public profile: type, charity or company number, website, register description and income, published 360Giving totals, its open, rolling and forthcoming schemes and its recently closed ones, each with its URL. Look a funder up by OpenGrant slug (from a funderUrl), UK charity number, or name (returns the closest matches if there is more than one).
grant
get_grant
Read the public facts for one grant scheme by its OpenGrant id (the UUID in https://opengrant.co.uk/opportunities/{id}). Works for open, forthcoming and recently closed schemes; a scheme whose deadline has passed is reported as closed.
grants
search_grants
Search open, rolling and forthcoming UK grant schemes (deadline not yet passed) and return their public facts, soonest deadline first: funder, status, deadline, award range, where it applies, who can apply, the official guidance link and OpenGrant's canonical URL. Results are sorted soonest deadline first. Use closes_before for 'closing this month' questions. These are the same free facts listed in https://opengrant.co.uk/llms-full.txt; detailed criteria and application steps are on the funder's own guidance page (officialGuidanceUrl). Always tell users to confirm deadlines and eligibility there before applying. Set include_recently_closed to also find schemes that closed in the last 90 days (e.g. to answer 'what was the deadline for X'). `deadline` is a UK date (YYYY-MM-DD) when the source gave no time, otherwise an ISO instant; `deadlineUk` is the same in words. Page through results with offset; `total` is the full count.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://opengrant.co.uk/mcp streamable-http answering 242 ms 10 min ago

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OpenGrant UK grants — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can OpenGrant UK grants do?
It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: count_matching_grants, get_example_grant, get_funder, get_grant, list_example_grants, search_grants. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is OpenGrant UK grants working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 20 of 91 checks got a reply (22.0%), average response time 288 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect OpenGrant UK grants?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does OpenGrant UK grants need an API key?
No. OpenGrant UK grants completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is OpenGrant UK grants?
It answers our handshake in 288 ms on average, which is faster than 57% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.