Nonprofit MCP Server — AI Agents, Federal Grants, Compliance & Accounting

The first MCP server built for nonprofits. Connect Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or Cursor to a full nonprofit management platform with AI agents, federal grant search (Grants.gov + USAspending), 501(c)(3) compliance, fund accounting, and 11 federal data connectors.

17 tools for nonprofit operations, grant writing, donor management, governance, and institutional memory — all accessible via the Model Context Protocol.

Quick Start

npx @ainative/institutionos-mcp

Claude Desktop

Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nonprofit": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@ainative/institutionos-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "AINATIVE_NGO_API_KEY": "your-api-key",
        "DEFAULT_INSTITUTION_ID": "your-institution-id"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add nonprofit -- npx -y @ainative/institutionos-mcp

Cursor

Add to MCP settings with the same config as Claude Desktop.

What You Can Do

Ask Claude to:

• "Search for federal grants related to STEM education for nonprofits"
• "Run the grant writer agent to draft a proposal for this NSF opportunity"
• "Check our 501(c)(3) tax compliance status"
• "Sync the latest grants from Grants.gov and USAspending"
• "What are the funding trends for education grants over the last 5 years?"
• "Evaluate whether our AI agent should approve this $50K expense"
• "Search our institutional memory for past board decisions about DEI programs"

Available Tools (17)

AI Agent Operations

| Tool | Description | |------|-------------| | ngo_run_agent | Run an AI agent — 12 roles: grant writer, fund accountant, case manager, tax specialist, crisis communicator, advocacy campaigner, DEI officer, revenue strategist, partnership manager, board secretary, policy researcher, program designer | | ngo_list_roles | List all available agent roles |

Federal Grants (Grants.gov + USAspending)

| Tool | Description | |------|-------------| | ngo_search_grants | Search 82,000+ federal grant opportunities — filter by keyword, status, eligibility, agency | | ngo_sync_grants | Sync all grants into the AINative data lakehouse (posted, closed, archived, forecasted) | | ngo_list_opportunities | Browse synced grant opportunities with filters | | ngo_grant_trends | Analyze funding trends — yearly totals, average award size, top agencies by CFDA |

Federal Data Connectors (11 Sources)

| Tool | Description | |------|-------------| | ngo_sync_federal_data | Sync all 11 data sources at once — IRS, Census, FRED, SEC, BLS, ProPublica, Regulations.gov, OpenStates, Semantic Scholar, USAspending | | ngo_sync_source | Sync a specific source (e.g., "irs-bmf", "census", "fred", "sec", "research") |

Nonprofit Operations

| Tool | Description | |------|-------------| | ngo_create_institution | Register a new nonprofit institution | | ngo_list_institutions | List all registered institutions | | ngo_provision_memory | Set up 59 memory tables for a new institution | | ngo_search_memory | Semantic search across institutional memory | | ngo_store_memory | Store knowledge, decisions, or context in institutional memory |

Governance & Compliance

| Tool | Description | |------|-------------| | ngo_evaluate_action | Evaluate any agent action against governance policies (permissions, risk scoring, audit trail) | | ngo_check_compliance | Run 501(c)(3) tax compliance check — filings, state registrations, deadlines |

Health

| Tool | Description | |------|-------------| | ngo_health | Check backend API health |

Data Sources

The platform connects to 11 free federal data sources that flow into the AINative data lakehouse:

| Source | Data | Records | |--------|------|---------| | Grants.gov | Federal grant opportunities (open, closed, archived) | 82,000+ | | USAspending.gov | Grant award data (amounts, recipients, agencies) | 343,000+ | | IRS BMF | Every tax-exempt organization in the US | 1,700,000+ | | ProPublica | Nonprofit 990 filings (revenue, expenses, assets) | 1,800,000+ | | Census ACS | Demographics by state, county, and tract | All US geographies | | FRED | Economic indicators (GDP, unemployment, CPI) | 800,000+ series | | SEC EDGAR | Company filings, Form D, XBRL financials | All public filings | | Semantic Scholar | Academic papers, citations, authors | 200,000,000+ | | BLS | Employment, wages, CPI by area | All states/counties | | Regulations.gov | Federal rulemaking documents | 500,000+ | | OpenStates | State legislation tracking | All 50 states |

Architecture

Claude Desktop / Code / Cursor
        |
        | MCP (stdio, JSON-RPC)
        v
  @ainative/institutionos-mcp
        |
        | HTTP REST
        v
  ┌─────────────────────┐     ┌──────────────────────┐
  | Backend API          |     | Agent Runtime         |
  | ngo.ainative.studio  |     | (12 AI agents on      |
  | FastAPI + Python     |     |  @ainative/agent-      |
  | 200+ endpoints       |     |  runtime + GPT-4o)    |
  └────────┬────────────┘     └──────────────────────┘
           |
           v
  ┌─────────────────────┐
  | AINative Lakehouse   |
  | MinIO + Parquet      |
  | 160K+ rows, 14       |
  | datasets from 11     |
  | federal data sources  |
  └─────────────────────┘

Environment Variables

| Variable | Default | Description | |----------|---------|-------------| | NGO_API_URL | https://ngo.ainative.studio/api/v1 | Backend API URL | | NGO_AGENT_URL | https://institutionos-agents-production.up.railway.app | Agent server URL | | AINATIVE_NGO_API_KEY | — | API key for authentication | | DEFAULT_INSTITUTION_ID | ainative-foundation | Default institution ID |

Built With

• AINative Agent Cloud — Agent execution platform
• @ainative/agent-runtime — Embeddable agent engine
• ZeroDB — Unified data platform
• Model Context Protocol — Anthropic's agent-to-tool standard

License

MIT