How to use Grant Atlas

Grant Atlas helps you explore U.S. philanthropy data using AI-powered search across IRS 990PF filings.

Natural Language Search

Ask questions in plain English about foundations, nonprofits, and grants. Results are pulled from IRS 990PF filings.

AI Analysis

Each search includes an AI-generated narrative that summarizes findings and highlights key insights.

Voice Search

Click the microphone button to speak your query instead of typing. Available in supported browsers.

Research Tray

Bookmark entities to save them for later. Your bookmarks are saved to your account and persist across sessions.

Tips

  • Try specific queries like "foundations funding education in California"
  • Use filters to narrow results by entity type
  • Click any result to see detailed information
  • Press Enter to search, Shift+Enter for a new line
AI Agents for Nonprofit Fundraising · Works in Claude & ChatGPT

Stop hunting for grants.
Ask an agent.

AI agents that find funders, draft proposals, and handle the grant grunt work — inside the AI tools you already use. Try it right here, then take it with you to Claude or ChatGPT.

ASK IN PLAIN ENGLISH·140,221 filings · $1.2T tracked
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TRY AN EXAMPLE
Prefer to stay in your AI tool?Add the agent to Claude or ChatGPT
01 — THE SHIFT

AI handles the busywork.
You handle what matters.

Fundraising is relationships, storytelling, and judgement — work only your team can do. Everything around it — the searching, the drafting, the tracking, the follow-ups — is grunt work an agent should be doing for you.

01
Your team is not being replaced.
You still build the relationships. You still tell the story. You still close the grants. The agents just handle everything before and after.
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Talk to it, don't configure it.
No filters, no dropdowns, no boolean gymnastics. Ask “who funded our peers last year?” and the agent figures the rest out.
03
Lives where you already work.
Use it inside Claude or ChatGPT. No 13th tool to log into. No new interface to learn.
04
Grounded in real filings.
Every funder, every grant, every dollar figure links back to the actual 990-PF. Nothing hallucinated.
02 — YOUR AGENT TEAM

Two agents live today.
Four more shipping soon.

Each agent owns one part of the fundraising lifecycle — the grunt-work parts. They run inside Claude, ChatGPT, or right here. We're shipping in the open: live means you can use it today.

// PROSPECTING AGENT01
LIVE
Find funders who actually fund what you do.
Built on every IRS 990-PF filing on record. Ask in plain English — by cause area, geography, check size, peer-funder networks — and get a ranked, cited prospect list in seconds. Skip the database wrangling.
Family foundations under $50M that funded youth literacy in the Midwest
Foundations that funded our peers in the climate justice space last year
Build a tiered prospect list for a $2M capital campaign
// CLAUDE · prospecting agent activeLIVE
Who funds literacy programs in Ohio under $10M in assets?
→grow.prospect({geo: "OH", cause: "literacy", assets_lt: 10_000_000})
Found 23 foundations. Top three by recent giving: Cleveland Foundation ($842k, 2024), George Gund Foundation ($640k, 2023), and Nord Family Foundation ($480k, 2024). Each figure links to its 990-PF. Want me to draft outreach for the top five?
// WRITING AGENT02
LIVE
Draft proposals and LOIs in your voice.
Turn your program details into LOIs, narratives, and full proposals. The agent learns your past submissions and matches the funder's priorities.
Draft an LOI to the Hewlett Foundation
Tighten this proposal for a family funder
// MANAGEMENT AGENT03
COMING SOON
Track every application, never miss a deadline.
A pipeline that updates itself. Statuses, deadlines, decisions, renewals — all maintained by the agent so your team never has to babysit a spreadsheet again.
Show me what's due this week
Which proposals haven't heard back?
// WATCHER AGENT04
COMING SOON
Get pinged the moment a fit appears.
The agent watches for new RFPs, fresh 990 filings, and funder priority shifts — and surfaces only the ones that match your work.
Ping me when funders open climate RFPs
Alert me on new local family foundations
// REPORTER AGENT05
COMING SOON
Milestone reports, drafted for you.
Pulls your program data, matches it to the grant agreement, and drafts the report. You review, edit, send.
Draft our Q3 report to the Ford Foundation
Summarize milestone progress for funders
// DONATIONS AGENT06
COMING SOON
Accept donations through ChatGPT and Claude.
Donors give in the same chat where they discovered you. No checkout pages, no friction — the agent handles intent, payment, and receipts.
Donate $50 to this nonprofit
Set up a recurring gift through Claude
03 — HOW IT WORKS

Three steps to
get an agent working for you.

No new dashboard to learn. The agents live inside the AI tools you already use — so the workflow is just a chat.

→ STEP 01 / CONNECT
SCREENSHOT
Claude → Settings → Connectors → Add Grow Nonprofit
Add the connector. One time.
In Claude: paste the MCP URL into Connectors. In ChatGPT: install the Grow Nonprofit app from the directory. Sign in once and you're done.
→ STEP 02 / ASK
you “Find funders for our youth literacy program in Ohio”
you “Now draft an LOI to the top three”
you “Remind me to follow up in two weeks”
no forms · no filters · no dropdowns
Talk like you would to a colleague.
The agent understands fundraising vocabulary. “Small foundations” means <$10M. “Recent” means last 24 months. Edit any assumption inline.
→ STEP 03 / DONE
prospect_list.csv · 23 funders
loi_hewlett.docx · draft
followup · scheduled 2 weeks
every figure cited · every source linked
The agent does the work, you do the review.
Lists, drafts, reminders, follow-ups — delivered in the chat. You review, edit, send. The grunt work is done before you sit down to think.
04 — NO NEW LOGIN

You already have 12 tools.
We're not the 13th.

Most fundraising software wants to be the place you live. We don't. Grow Nonprofit lives inside Claude and ChatGPT — the AI tool already open in your browser. No new tab, no new interface, no migration.

×Yet another dashboard with filters and exports→Just chat in Claude or ChatGPT
×A login your team will forget→Connect once, agent is always there
×Training sessions and onboarding decks→If you can text, you can use it
×Copy-pasting between tabs→Prospect, draft, follow up — same chat
05 — ADD THE AGENT

One connector,
and the agents are yours.

Add Grow Nonprofit to Claude or ChatGPT in under a minute. From then on, every fundraising question you ask — in any chat — goes through the agents.

CLAUDE DESKTOP CLAUDE.AI CHATGPT CURSOR REST / SDK
~60s
To set up
0
New logins
100%
Cited answers
// CHATGPT · grow nonprofit agent activeLIVE
Find foundations that funded our peers in climate justice last year, then draft an LOI to the top three.
→grow.prospect → grow.draft_loi
Pulled 14 peer-funded foundations. Drafted three LOIs in your voice, tailored to each funder's priorities. Review them here, or have me push to Google Docs.
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Open Claude → Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
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Paste the MCP server URL below. You'll be prompted to sign in with your Grow Nonprofit account.
https://mcp.grant-atlas.example/v1/sse
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Start a chat. Ask “find funders for …” or “draft an LOI for …” — the agent takes it from there.
Supports Claude 3.5 Sonnet and newer · MCP spec 2025-03
06 — THE DATA

Every 990-PF.
Every foundation. Every grant.

Every U.S. private foundation files a 990-PF each year. We've indexed all of them — and we keep it current. Every answer the agent gives is grounded in a real filing you can open and verify.

140,221
990-PF filings indexed
$1.2T
In philanthropic assets tracked
7yrs
Of historical giving
100%
Cited back to source
07 — BUILT FOR

For the people who
need this most.

Lean teams and solo operators benefit the most from delegating grunt work. If you're three people doing the work of ten, this is for you.

// EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS01
EDs running small to mid-size nonprofits
You wear five hats. Fundraising is one of them. Hand the prospecting and drafting grunt work to an agent and put your hours back into program, board, and team.
Find funders we should be talking to this quarter
Draft a board memo on our top three prospects
// DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS02
Development officers and grant writers
More throughput, same headcount. Run prospect research overnight, get drafts to review in the morning, spend your day on the relationships only you can build.
Build a prospect list for the youth program in Q2
Draft an LOI to the Hewlett Foundation in our voice
// SOLO NONPROFITS03
Founders and one-person fundraising shops
You don&apos;t have a development team. The agents are it. Start with prospecting and drafting today; let the rest of the team show up as they ship.
What funders should I approach for a $250k operating grant?
Help me write a compelling LOI in 30 minutes
08 — START

Two ways in.
Both take less than a minute.

PATH 02 · INTEGRATED
Add the agents to Claude or ChatGPT.
About 60 seconds to connect. From then on, every fundraising chat in your AI tool has the agents ready.
See setup steps