The OpenGrants OS server provides tools for discovering, evaluating, and drafting proposals for grants and public-goods funding, with a focus on open-source AI projects.

• Search federal grants: Search live U.S. federal grant opportunities on Grants.gov by keyword, with full provenance metadata.

• Get grant details: Retrieve detailed information for a specific grant opportunity by its ID.

• Discover open-source relevant grants: Find grants particularly relevant to open-source AI and public goods, with a built-in open-source bias in ranking.

• List public-goods funding sources: Browse donation, sponsorship, quadratic funding, and open-source fund opportunities from platforms like GitHub Sponsors, Open Collective, Gitcoin, OpenSSF, NumFOCUS, PSF, and more.

• Search NSF awards: Query the NSF Awards public API for historical and active awards by keyword.

• Refresh grant corpus: Trigger a continuous-ingestion refresh of the local grant corpus using configurable keywords.

• Run evaluation harness: Execute the built-in evaluation harness to assess discovery quality and open-source relevance.

• Manage profiles: Create or update project or researcher profiles, including focus areas and GitHub URLs, to power personalized grant matching and drafting.

• Draft proposal outlines: Generate grounded proposal outlines and short pitches tailored to a specific profile and funding opportunity — works for both traditional grants and public-goods/sponsorship vehicles.

Enables discovery and application for GitHub Sponsors as a public-goods and donation funding source for open-source AI and public-goods projects.

Enables discovery and application for Open Collective funding, treating it as a first-class public-goods and donation funding opportunity.

1. Click on "Install Server".

2. Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state.

3. In the chat, type @ followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@OpenGOS Find grants for my open-source AI project and draft a pitch"

That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed.

Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.