Grantconnect Au MCP Server

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GrantConnect (Australia) MCP — Commonwealth grant opportunities and grants awarded, from grants.gov.au. Keyless (Pipeworx-hosted).

Tools

• au_grants_search(query, agency, category, recipient_state, selection_process, min_value, max_value, awarded_from, awarded_to, sort, order, limit, offset) — awarded grants. Free text is a case-insensitive substring across recipient_name, purpose, grant_program, grant_activity; multiple words are AND-ed. Newest first by default, sort: "value" ranks by AUD.
• au_grant_award(ga_id) — one award in full, with the linked grant opportunity inlined when the award records a go_id. GrantConnect publishes awards and opportunities as separate reports; this is the join.
• au_grants_by_recipient(recipient_name | abn, awarded_from, awarded_to, limit, offset) — every award to one organisation plus the funding total: total AUD, award count, first/last award date, per-agency breakdown. ABN is accepted spaced (48 008 389 151) or unspaced.
• au_grant_opportunities_open(query, agency, category, closing_within_days, limit, offset) — opportunities whose close_date is still in the future, soonest first, with days_until_close computed at request time.
• au_grants_top_recipients(agency, category, recipient_state, awarded_from, awarded_to, limit, scan_limit) — recipients ranked by total AUD. Reports rows_scanned, total_matching_awards and ranking_covers_all_matching_awards.
• grantconnect_coverage() — which reports/date windows are actually loaded, row counts, min/max dates, and any ingest windows in error.

Auth

None. Pipeworx hosts the data; the gateway injects _supabaseUrl / _supabaseKey.

Data sources

• GrantConnect — https://www.grants.gov.au (Commonwealth Grants Rules and Guidelines reporting: grant opportunities + grants awarded)
• Mirrored into Pipeworx Postgres by workers/grantconnect-ingest; queried here through PostgREST (au_grant_awards, au_grant_opportunities, grantconnect_ingest_state)

Gotchas

GrantConnect has no JSON API — it publishes dated report downloads only, which is why this pack reads a Pipeworx mirror rather than the site, and why grantconnect_coverage matters: while the ingest backfills, a year you ask about may simply not be loaded yet, and every tool returns { found: false, reason, hint } rather than an empty-looking answer. Recipient identity is messy at source: names are the legal entity as the recipient typed it (so one organisation appears under several spellings), and recipient_abn is published spaced and is blank on some rows — au_grants_by_recipient normalises the ABN and reports matched_recipient_names so you can see what was actually aggregated. is_aggregate rows bundle many small grants into one record (aggregate_number says how many), so award counts are not payment counts. Because PostgREST aggregate functions are disabled on this project, au_grants_top_recipients ranks from a bounded scan taken largest-award-first and states rows_scanned versus total_matching_awards — treat a ranking with ranking_covers_all_matching_awards: false as a ranking of the big-ticket end, not the whole table. Finally, close_date on opportunities carries a real time of day and addenda can move it: addenda_count > 0 means the notice was amended after publication.

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grantconnect-au": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/grantconnect-au/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway for access to all 1394+ data sources:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about GrantConnect (Australia) data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

More

• All tools and guides
• pipeworx.io

License

MIT