California Grants Portal

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Open State of California grant funding opportunities — who is offering money, to which applicant types, how much, and by when.

5 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

ca_search_grants

Search open State of California grant funding opportunities from the official California Grants Portal (grants.ca.gov) on data.ca.gov. Free-text search across grant titles, purposes and descriptions,

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ca_get_grant

Fetch the complete detail record for one California state grant opportunity by its California Grants Portal ID (PortalID). Returns the full narrative purpose and description, eligible applicant types

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ca_grants_closing_soon

List currently-open State of California grant opportunities whose application deadline falls within the next N days, soonest deadline first, so an applicant can see what is about to expire. Returns ea

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ca_grants_by_agency

List the grant opportunities administered by a given California state department, agency, commission, or conservancy, matching the agency name as a forgiving case-insensitive substring so partial name

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ca_list_grant_categories

Enumerate the grant category values, eligible-applicant-type values, and administering agency names that actually occur in the California Grants Portal data, each with the number of grants carrying it

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ca-grants/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ca-grants/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"ca_search_grants","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("ca_search_grants", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("open state of california grant funding opportunities — who is offering money, to which applicant types, how much, and by when");