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GrantScout MCP Server

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GrantScout is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Search open and upcoming US federal grant opportunities on Grants.gov and get full grant details.

Uptime history 5 days of history
5 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
151 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check GrantScout every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add grantscout --transport http https://grantscout.salesup.workers.dev/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grantscout": {
      "url": "https://grantscout.salesup.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.grantscout]
url = "https://grantscout.salesup.workers.dev/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grantscout": {
      "url": "https://grantscout.salesup.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grantscout": {
      "url": "https://grantscout.salesup.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

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

grant
get_grant_details
Get the full Grants.gov record for one federal grant opportunity by its numeric opportunity ID (from search_grants), its funding opportunity number, or its Grants.gov URL. Returns the description, eligibility text, eligible applicant types, award floor and ceiling, total funding, expected number of awards, cost-sharing, open and close dates (or forecast dates), agency contact, assistance listing numbers and how to apply. Use when the user asks about a specific grant, whether they qualify, or how to apply. Descriptions are clipped; the full announcement on Grants.gov is authoritative.
list_grant_filters
List the valid values for search_grants filters: applicant eligibility types and funding categories (with Grants.gov codes and how many open or forecasted grants each has right now) and federal agencies with their codes. Pass an agency code to also list its sub-agencies. Use to map a user's description of their organization, topic or preferred agency onto valid filter values before searching.
grants
search_grants
Search open (posted) or upcoming (forecasted) US federal grant opportunities on Grants.gov by keyword, applicant eligibility type, funding category and agency. Returns each grant's title, opportunity number, agency, open and close dates, award floor and ceiling, eligible applicant types and Grants.gov link, sorted by soonest close date by default (among the 30 best keyword matches when a keyword is given). Use when the user wants to find federal grants for an organization, project or topic. Covers federal grants listed on Grants.gov only, not state, local, foundation or corporate grants. Eligibility filtering uses Grants.gov's applicant-type codes; always confirm eligibility with get_grant_details or the full announcement.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://grantscout.salesup.workers.dev/mcp streamable-http answering 198 ms 3 min ago

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GrantScout — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can GrantScout do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: get_grant_details, list_grant_filters, 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 GrantScout working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 151 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect GrantScout?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does GrantScout need an API key?
No. GrantScout completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is GrantScout?
It answers our handshake in 151 ms on average, which is faster than 71% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.