Grantconnect Au MCP server

@pipeworx/grantconnect-au

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

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1476+ live data sources.

Tools

• augrantssearch(query, agency, category, recipientstate, selectionprocess, minvalue, maxvalue, awardedfrom, awardedto, sort, order, limit, offset) — awarded grants. Free text is a case-insensitive substring across recipientname, purpose, grantprogram, grant_activity; multiple words are AND-ed. Newest first by default, sort: "value" ranks by AUD.
• augrantaward(gaid) — one award in full, with the linked grant opportunity inlined when the award records a goid. GrantConnect publishes awards and opportunities as separate reports; this is the join.
• augrantsbyrecipient(recipientname | abn, awardedfrom, awardedto, 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.
• augrantopportunitiesopen(query, agency, category, closingwithindays, limit, offset) — opportunities whose closedate is still in the future, soonest first, with daysuntilclose computed at request time.
• augrantstoprecipients(agency, category, recipientstate, awardedfrom, awardedto, limit, scanlimit) — recipients ranked by total AUD. Reports rowsscanned, totalmatchingawards and rankingcoversallmatchingawards.
• grantconnect_coverage() — which reports/date windows are actually loaded, row counts, min/max dates, and any ingest windows in error.

Auth

None.

Data sources

• GrantConnect — https://www.grants.gov.au (Commonwealth Grants Rules and Guidelines reporting: grant opportunities + grants awarded)

Gotchas

GrantConnect has no JSON API — it publishes dated report downloads only, which is why grantconnectcoverage 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 recipientabn is published spaced and is blank on some rows — augrantsbyrecipient normalises the ABN and reports matchedrecipientnames so you can see what was actually aggregated. isaggregate rows bundle many small grants into one record (aggregatenumber says how many), so award counts are not payment counts. Because PostgREST aggregate functions are disabled on this project, augrantstoprecipients ranks from a bounded scan taken largest-award-first and states rowsscanned versus totalmatchingawards — treat a ranking with rankingcoversallmatchingawards: false as a ranking of the big-ticket end, not the whole table. Finally, closedate 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"
    }
  }
}

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/grantconnect-au/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — askpipeworx, discovertools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.