Search GrantCue from ChatGPT

Once GrantCue is added, ChatGPT can search GrantCue's open grant listings and public foundation profiles while it answers you, and open a grant's details or a foundation's profile. It reads the same listings and profiles anyone can see on grantcue.com, and nothing else.

https://www.grantcue.com/api/v1/mcp

There is no key, token or password. When ChatGPT asks how to sign in, choose no authentication.

OpenAI's help center lists custom MCP servers for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise and Edu, on ChatGPT on the web. In a Business workspace only admins and owners can add one; Enterprise and Edu admins can let other members do it. If your plan is not on that list, check OpenAI's article for the current rules.

1. Open ChatGPT on the web and go to Plugins.
2. Choose the plus button, then Add custom MCP server.
3. Enter the name GrantCue and, if you like, a description such as "Search open US grants and foundation profiles".
4. Under Connection, paste the address above.
5. Under Authentication, choose No authentication.
6. Read the warning about custom servers, tick I understand and want to continue, and choose Create as a plugin. ChatGPT shows the four tools it found.
7. Install the plugin. In a new chat, type @, choose GrantCue, and ask your question.

If your ChatGPT shows Apps instead of Plugins, it uses the older steps: in Settings, open Apps and choose Create, paste the address, pick no authentication, choose Scan Tools, then Create. In a Business or Enterprise workspace, an admin may need to publish the app before other members can use it.

OpenAI keeps the current steps in Connecting custom MCP servers in ChatGPT and its developer guide.

• “Find open grants for youth literacy programs that close in the next 60 days.”

  GrantCue searches its open listings for those words, closing within 60 days, and the assistant lists what comes back: title, funder, deadline and amount.

• “Show me the full details of the second one.”

  The assistant opens that grant: who can apply, award amounts, key dates and links to the funder’s own pages.

• “List environment grants over $100,000 that county governments can apply for.”

  The search uses the Environment category, a minimum amount and the county government applicant type. Grants whose rules exclude counties are left out.

• “Which Department of Agriculture grants are announced but not open yet?”

  It searches forecasted grants from that agency, so you can prepare before they open.

• “Which foundations mainly give in Ohio and say how to apply?”

  It lists foundations whose largest share of giving goes to Ohio and whose latest 990-PF says how to apply, largest givers first.

• “Tell me about the first one: its median grant, where it gives and how to apply.”

  The assistant opens the foundation’s public profile: giving by year, typical and median grant, the states it gives to most, its 25 largest grants and what its filing says about applying.

If ChatGPT answers from its own knowledge instead, ask it to use GrantCue by name, for example “Use GrantCue to find…”.

• See your GrantCue account, saved grants, pipeline, tasks or deadlines. It cannot tell you what your organization saved.
• Add a grant to your pipeline, or create, change or delete anything in GrantCue.
• Score grants for your organization. Fit and readiness scores are in the GrantCue app.
• Write a proposal. The assistant may write text for you, but the connector only supplies listings and profiles.
• Return every grant a foundation reported. It returns the 25 largest; the full list, with search and export, comes with a free GrantCue account.
• List every foundation. A foundation search needs a name, a city or state, an EIN, the state a foundation gives to, or the "says how to apply" filter.

• A grant search returns up to 25 grants a page, and only the first 100 results of one search can be reached. Narrow the search to see others.
• A foundation search returns 10 foundations a page, up to 10 pages.
• Long text is shortened: a grant's description, for example, at 2,500 characters.
• Each IP address can make 1,000 requests a minute, of which 300 can be searches or lookups. Over the limit, the connector asks the app to wait and try again.
• Grants come from GrantCue's catalog: Grants.gov, SBIR.gov topics, 188 state and state-agency sources across 49 states and the District of Columbia, and selected local, foundation and corporate programs.
• Foundation profiles cover private foundations that paid at least $1,000,000 and made at least 5 grants, and the community foundations and other charities that report grants on Form 990 Schedule I.
• Listings come from funders and change. Check the funder's own page before you apply.

The connector receives only the request ChatGPT sends, which is the tool to use and its search details (words, filters, a grant ID or an EIN), and the IP address the request comes from, normally OpenAI's server. It does not receive your conversation, uses no cookies, and is not linked to any GrantCue account. Its log records which tool ran and how many results it returned, not your search words. OpenAI handles your conversation under its own privacy policy.

Full details are in section 16 of the GrantCue Privacy Policy.

Email support@grantcue.com if the connector does not work for you. Technical details (protocol, the four tools and their limits) are on the API page. Using Claude as well? See how to add GrantCue to Claude.