Ca Grants
NPM · @PIPEWORX/MCP-CA-GRANTS · 2 COMPONENTS
California Grants Portal MCP — open State of California grant funding opportunities (keyless).
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Last scanned (17 hours ago)
Scores higher than 72% of npm servers
Category Finance and Payments
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security100
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess. View diagnostics → Pass
Provenance & Transparency97
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-ca-grants). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 4 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability64
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 1194 tokens (~238/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params. See how to fix → Fail
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management20
- Stability observed for 6 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 6 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Checks we ran (16)
- Malware scan
- Known CVEs
- Install scripts
- Dependency health
- Source repository
- Provenance
- License
- Maintenance
- Security disclosure
- Schema quality
- Stability
- Tool coverage
- Injection markers
- Destructive annotations
- Judged manipulation
- MCP protocol
Does not apply to this package (2)
- Endpoint SecurityScored on hosted endpoints only. A package has no live endpoint of its own for us to probe.
- Transport & ReachabilityScored on hosted endpoints only. A package has no live endpoint of its own for us to probe.
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Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 5 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 17 to 20. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 5 days of observed history at the previous scan, 6 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 3 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 10 to 13. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 3 days of observed history at the previous scan, 4 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 1 Nov 26 +16
- Malware scan: unverified → pass ▲ security
- 31 Oct 26 −15
- Malware scan: pass → unverified ▼ security
- Stability: unverified → 0.03 ▲ functional
- Package version: 0.2.1 → 0.2.2 functional
- 30 Oct 26 79
First indexed and scored.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 5 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/@pipeworx/mcp-ca-grants@0.2.2
Provenance Verified
A signed build attestation was found and verified, binding this exact artifact to the source repository it claims to come from.
| Result | Verified |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
| Reason | Verified |
| Discovered via | Registry attestation endpoint |
| Source repo | pipeworx-io/mcp-ca-grants |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-ca-grants/.github/workflows/publish.yml@refs/heads/main |
| Rekor log index | 3606642153 |
| Predicate type | SLSA build provenance https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha512:b82410df646261dcce1b64f98a18b96121c33761c27d8d9d2c32771e042b5d16cd116caa27e9c165a47995db2ba70dd53df7984004854d61c68d9ec5b |
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Dependencies 0 packages
| Packages resolved | 0 |
|---|---|
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
ca_get_grant ~147
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 and eligibility notes, geography served, funding source, whether matching funds are required, estimated funds available and per-award amounts, funding method (reimbursement vs advance), the open date and application deadline, whether electronic submission is accepted, agency contact information, and links to the official grant page and agency site. Use after ca_search_grants to read the full terms of a specific California state grant.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| portal_id | string|number | yes | The California Grants Portal ID from a search result, e.g. "189801". |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
ca_grants_by_agency ~224
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 names like "Water Resources" or "Recycling" work. Returns the matched official agency names, a count breakdown by status, and the grant records with title, categories, eligible applicants, estimated funding, and deadline. Answers "what grants does CalRecycle offer", "grant programs from the California Energy Commission", "Department of Parks and Recreation funding opportunities".
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| agency | string | yes | California state department / agency name or fragment, case-insensitive, e.g. "Recycling", "Energy Commission", "Parks and Recreation", "Fish and Wildlife". |
| limit | number|string | – | Max records to return (default 25, max 100). |
| offset | number|string | – | Number of matching records to skip, for pagination (default 0). |
| status | string | – | Which opportunities to include (default "all"; use "active" for only what is open now). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
ca_grants_closing_soon ~235
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 each grant with its days remaining, deadline timestamp, administering California state department, eligible applicant types, estimated funding available, and official link. Also reports separately how many active grants accept applications on a rolling "Ongoing" basis with no fixed due date, and how many rows carried an unreadable deadline. Answers "which California state grants close this month", "urgent CA grant deadlines", "what should I apply for before it closes".
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| applicant_type | string | – | Optional: restrict to one eligible-applicant type, case-insensitive, e.g. "Nonprofit", "Tribal Government". |
| category | string | – | Optional: restrict to one grant category, case-insensitive, e.g. "Environment & Water". |
| days | number|string | – | Deadline window in days from today (default 30, max 365). |
| limit | number|string | – | Max records to return (default 25, max 100). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
ca_list_grant_categories ~144
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, so filter values for ca_search_grants can be chosen from real data rather than guessed. Categories and applicant types are stored as semicolon-joined lists and are split into individual values here. Also reports the total row count and the count of currently-active opportunities. Call this first when a category or applicant-type filter returns nothing.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| status | string | – | Tally values over only this status (default "all"); use "active" to see what is available among currently-open grants. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
ca_search_grants ~390
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, with optional filters for status, category, and eligible applicant type. Each result returns the grant title, the administering California state department or agency, its categories, who is eligible to apply, estimated funding available, the application deadline, and a link to the official grant page. Defaults to currently-open (active) opportunities. Answers questions like "what California state grants can a nonprofit apply for right now", "state climate resilience funding in California", or "CalRecycle grant opportunities for tribal governments". This is CALIFORNIA STATE grant data, refreshed daily.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| applicant_type | string | – | Match one eligible-applicant type, case-insensitive, against the semicolon-joined ApplicantType list. Known values: "Nonprofit", "Public Agency", "Tribal Government", "Business", "Individual", "Other… |
| category | string | – | Match one grant category, case-insensitive, against the semicolon-joined Categories list, e.g. "Environment & Water", "Housing", "Education". Call ca_list_grant_categories to see the values present i… |
| limit | number|string | – | Max records to return (default 20, max 100). |
| offset | number|string | – | Number of matching records to skip, for pagination (default 0). |
| query | string | – | Free-text search across every field (title, purpose, description, agency), e.g. "climate", "wildfire resilience", "youth literacy". |
| status | string | – | Which opportunities to include: "active" = currently open for applications (default), "forecasted" = announced but not yet open, "closed" = past deadline, "all" = every status. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Ca Grants MCP server?
Ca Grants runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-ca-grants. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · @pipeworx/mcp-ca-grants
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-ca-grants -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-ca-grants
What is the Ca Grants MCP server?
Ca Grants is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/ca-grants. California Grants Portal MCP, open State of California grant funding opportunities (keyless). This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-ca-grants).
Is the Ca Grants MCP server safe to use?
Ca Grants scores 82 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. Its build provenance is signed and verified. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the Ca Grants MCP server expose?
Ca Grants exposes 5 tools: ca_search_grants, ca_get_grant, ca_grants_closing_soon, ca_grants_by_agency, ca_list_grant_categories. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 1,140 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the Ca Grants MCP server still maintained?
Ca Grants is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.
What licence is the Ca Grants MCP server under?
Ca Grants declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.
What did VerifyMCP test on the Ca Grants MCP server?
VerifyMCP ran 16 checks on Ca Grants, covering Malware scan, Known CVEs, Install scripts, Dependency health and 12 more. Endpoint Security and Transport & Reachability do not apply to an npm package, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.