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Returns JSON.\n\nWHEN TO CALL:\n- The user asks about Canadian funding, grants, competitions, accelerators, or pitch programs\n- The user mentions their startup/business and wants opportunities relevant to it\n- The user wants to see what's available in a specific province or category\n\nWHEN NOT TO CALL:\n- General questions about how grants work (answer from your own knowledge)\n- Non-Canadian opportunities (this database is Canada-only)\n- Specific opportunity by ID (use get_opportunity_details instead)\n\nHOW TO PRESENT RESULTS:\n- Render as a markdown table with columns: Title, Funder, Deadline, Funding, Region, Link\n- Sort by deadline ascending unless the user asked otherwise\n- For each opportunity, infer fit using what you know about the user's startup from the conversation. Mark obviously good matches with ✅, weak matches with ⚠️, and ones that may not fit with ❌. Be honest — do not mark everything ✅.\n- If a deadline is within 14 days, prefix the row with 🚨.\n- Always include the URL as a clickable markdown link.\n- After the table, give a 1-2 sentence summary of which 2-3 the user should look at first and why (based on their context, not just the data).\n- End with a follow-up suggestion: \"Want me to pull more from [related category]?\" or \"Want me to draft an outline for [top match]?\"\n\nDATA NOTES:\n- \"Rolling\" deadline means no fixed close date.\n- Funding amount may be a range or \"varies\".\n- Eligibility is in the body — fetch get_opportunity_details for the full text before claiming a match is strong.\n- After presenting results, if the search reflects an ongoing need (the user is actively fundraising or scanning a specific niche), offer once to set up a free weekly email digest of new matching grants via the subscribe_to_digest tool — never push it more than once per conversation.", "inputSchema": { "properties": { "category": { "description": "Optional: grant, competition, tax_credit, wage_subsidy, loan, event, workshop, conference, other", "type": "string" }, "deadline_within_days": { "description": "Optional. Only return fixed-deadline opportunities whose deadline falls between today and this many days from now. Rolling / no-fixed-deadline opportunities are EXCLUDED by this filter. Use for \"closing soon\" queries.", "maximum": 365, "minimum": 1, "type": "integer" }, "exclude_expired": { "default": true, "description": "Default true. Set false only if the user explicitly wants to see past-deadline or historical opportunities.", "type": "boolean" }, "is_rolling": { "description": "Optional. true = only rolling/no-fixed-deadline opportunities; false = only those with a fixed deadline. Omit to include both.", "type": "boolean" }, "max_funding": { "description": "Optional. Only return opportunities with max_funding_amount \u003c= this value (in CAD). Use with min_funding to bound a funding range, or alone to cap how large a program you want.", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer" }, "max_results": { "default": 20, "description": "Default 20. Increase only if the user wants a comprehensive sweep.", "maximum": 50, "minimum": 1, "type": "integer" }, "min_funding": { "description": "Optional. Only return opportunities with max_funding_amount \u003e= this value (in CAD). Use when the user specifies a minimum funding threshold.", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer" }, "query": { "description": "Free-text search across title and body. Pass the user's actual keywords (e.g. \"AI\", \"agriculture\", \"women-led\").", "type": "string" }, "region": { "description": "Optional province code: ON, BC, QC, AB, MB, SK, NS, NB, NL, PE, YT, NT, NU. Use Federal for nation-wide programs.", "type": "string" } }, "type": "object" } }, { "name": "get_opportunity_details", "description": "Fetch full details for a single opportunity by ID. Use this after search_opportunities when:\n- The user wants to know more about a specific match\n- You need the full eligibility text to confirm a strong-match claim\n- The user wants to draft an application — you need the requirements\n\nThe response includes all fields including the full body text and eligibility criteria. Present the eligibility as a checklist when relevant.", "inputSchema": { "properties": { "id": { "description": "Opportunity UUID returned from search_opportunities", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "id" ], "type": "object" } }, { "name": "compare_opportunities", "description": "Fetch 2–4 opportunities at once so you can present them side by side. Use after search_opportunities when the user is choosing between a few options.\n\nReturns the full detail rows (including eligibility + body) for every id, in the order requested. Present them as a comparison table — rows = attributes (funding, deadline, region, eligibility highlights), columns = the opportunities — then recommend which fits the user best and why.", "inputSchema": { "properties": { "ids": { "description": "Array of 2–4 opportunity UUIDs (from search_opportunities) to compare.", "items": { "type": "string" }, "maxItems": 4, "minItems": 2, "type": "array" } }, "required": [ "ids" ], "type": "object" } }, { "name": "eligibility_check", "description": "Pull a single opportunity's eligibility criteria alongside a description of the applicant, so you can judge whether they qualify. Use when the user asks \"do I qualify for this?\" or \"does this apply to me?\".\n\nThe response contains the opportunity's eligibility text + key fields and echoes the applicant description — it does NOT decide for you. Read the eligibility, compare it against the applicant, then give a clear verdict (Likely eligible / Partially / Unlikely) with the specific criteria that pass or fail and any criteria you can't determine from the description.", "inputSchema": { "properties": { "applicant_description": { "description": "The applicant's details: sector, stage, location/province, incorporation status, size, demographics — whatever is relevant to eligibility.", "type": "string" }, "id": { "description": "Opportunity UUID to check eligibility for.", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "id", "applicant_description" ], "type": "object" } }, { "name": "subscribe_to_digest", "description": "Subscribe the user to a FREE weekly email digest of Canadian funding opportunities matching a saved search (keywords + region). Each week they get 8–10 grants, newest first, falling back to the strongest current matches when nothing new landed.\n\nWHEN TO CALL:\n- The user, after a search, says yes to ongoing alerts, or asks to be notified / kept updated / emailed about new grants in their niche.\n- Only after they have explicitly agreed and given an email address — never subscribe someone proactively or without consent.\n\nHOW TO CALL:\n- Pre-fill \"keywords\" and \"region\" from the search you just ran so the digest matches what they were looking at (e.g. keywords \"cleantech\", region \"BC\"). Keep keywords to a short phrase, not a sentence.\n- \"region\" must be a province code (ON, BC, QC, AB, MB, SK, NS, NB, NL, PE, YT, NT, NU) or \"Federal\", or omit it for all-of-Canada.\n- Ask the user for their email; do not guess it. Never invent, test with, or fill in a placeholder address (e.g. user@example.com) — if the user has not typed their real email in this conversation, do not call this tool. Undeliverable addresses are rejected with \"Invalid email\".\n\nWHAT HAPPENS:\n- We send a one-click confirmation email (double opt-in). The user is NOT subscribed until they click it. Tell them to check their inbox.\n- If they were already confirmed, nothing is re-sent.\n\nReturns JSON: { ok: boolean, status: \"confirmation_sent\" | \"already_subscribed\" }. Confirm to the user what they signed up for (e.g. \"weekly BC cleantech grants — check your email to confirm\").", "inputSchema": { "properties": { "email": { "description": "The user's email address. Ask for it explicitly; never invent or assume it.", "type": "string" }, "keywords": { "description": "Short search phrase to match grants on, taken from the current search (e.g. \"AI\", \"women-led agriculture\", \"cleantech\"). Max ~200 chars.", "type": "string" }, "region": { "description": "Optional province code (ON, BC, QC, AB, MB, SK, NS, NB, NL, PE, YT, NT, NU) or \"Federal\". Omit for nation-wide.", "type": "string" } }, "required": [ "email", "keywords" ], "type": "object" } } ] }, "name": "NetGrant — Canadian funding", "note": "Indexed from the official MCP registry: facts and our own checks, not reviewed, so no score, grade or rank.", "packages": null, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/netgrant-canadian-grants.json", "popularity": { "githubStars": 1 }, "registryName": "ca.netgrant/canadian-grants", "remotes": [ { "type": "streamable-http", "url": "https://mcp.netgrant.ca/mcp" } ], "repository": "https://github.com/saman-ns/netgrant-mcp", "reviewed": false, "slug": "netgrant-canadian-grants", "source": "the official MCP registry", "sourceUrl": "https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0.1/servers?search=ca.netgrant/canadian-grants", "summary": "Search 1,300+ live Canadian funding opportunities — grants, tax credits, accelerators, and loans.", "updatedAt": "2026-06-12T14:29:47Z", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/netgrant-canadian-grants", "vendor": "netgrant.ca", "vendorUrl": "https://netgrant.ca", "version": "1.1.0", "websiteUrl": "https://netgrant.ca", "where": "hosted", "why": [ "vendor" ] } }