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How to connect Granted MCP to Claude Cowork

Connect Claude Cowork to Granted MCP. Find grants matching our nonprofit mission, list upcoming grant deadlines this month, and more using natural language, with authentication handled for you.

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Granted MCP is a grant discovery service for finding funding opportunities across funders. It helps teams compare eligibility details and deadlines without digging through scattered grant portals.

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Introduction

Cowork is Anthropic's AI agent for knowledge work. Think of it as Claude Code for everything else. It works autonomously with your computer, local files, and applications to accomplish complex tasks.

This guide walks you through the easiest and most secure way to connect your Granted account to Cowork via Composio Connect, enabling it to find grants matching our nonprofit mission, list upcoming grant deadlines this month, check eligibility for federal research grants, and more such actions on your behalf without compromising your account security.

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Connecting Granted to Claude Cowork

1. Open Customize

In Claude Desktop, click Customize in the left sidebar, then select Connectors and click the + icon at the top.

Claude Desktop connectors screen with Add custom connector selected

2. Add the Composio MCP server

Click Add custom connector and paste in the Composio MCP server URL:

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https://connect.composio.dev/mcp
Add custom connector dialog with Composio MCP server URL

3. Authorize in your browser

Click Connect. You'll be redirected to a browser window where you can authorize Composio to continue.

Composio authorization screen for Claude Cowork

4. Connect your Granted account

Back in Cowork, ask the agent to connect to Granted or give it any Granted-related task.

For example, ask Cowork to:

  • "Find grants matching our nonprofit mission"
  • "List upcoming grant deadlines this month"
  • "Check eligibility for federal research grants"

It will prompt you to authenticate and authorize access.

That's it. Composio's tools are now available in Cowork, and your Granted account is ready to use.

What is Claude Cowork?

Claude Cowork is Anthropic's agent for general knowledge work. It can use your computer, files, and connected applications to complete longer-running tasks across your work tools.

With Composio Connect, Cowork can securely access apps like Granted through MCP without you sharing account credentials directly with the agent.

What is the Granted MCP server, and what's possible with it?

The Granted MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to your Granted account. It provides structured and secure access so your agent can perform Granted operations on your behalf.

TOOLS

Supported Tools

Every Granted MCP action and event your agent gets out of the box.

Get funder

Get a full foundation profile including mission, 5-year financials, recent grants awarded, key officers, and application info.

Get grant

Get full details for a specific grant by its slug.

Get past winners

Competitive intelligence: see who has won a specific federal grant program.

Search funders

Search 133,000+ US foundations by name, state, NTEE code, asset range, and annual income range.

Search grants

Search 140,000+ grant opportunities by keyword, state, source type, funder, and more.

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

With a standalone Granted MCP server, the agents and LLMs can only access a fixed set of Granted tools tied to that server. However, with the Composio Tool Router, agents can dynamically load tools from Granted and many other apps based on the task at hand, all through a single MCP endpoint.

Yes, you can. Claude Cowork fully supports MCP integration. You get structured tool calling, message history handling, and model orchestration while Tool Router takes care of discovering and serving the right Granted tools.

Yes, absolutely. You can configure which Granted scopes and actions are allowed when connecting your account to Composio. You can also bring your own OAuth credentials or API configuration so you keep full control over what the agent can do.

All sensitive data such as tokens, keys, and configuration is fully encrypted at rest and in transit. Composio is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant and follows strict security practices so your Granted data and credentials are handled as safely as possible.

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