Funders Index

Three ways in

Claude on the web or desktop

Add this address as a custom connector in claude.ai:

https://mcp.fundersindex.com/mcp

Claude sends you to a sign-in page. Paste your club's key there once and the connector stays signed in.

Claude Code

Install the plugin from the marketplace, then give it your key.

1. Set FUNDERS_INDEX_KEY to your club's key, and FUNDERS_INDEX_URL to this site's address with no trailing slash.
2. Run /plugin marketplace add with the repository address the district gave you.
3. Run /plugin install funders-index.

Anything else (REST)

Send your key as Authorization: Bearer <your key> to any path under /api/v1. The OpenAPI description needs no key, and the reference lists every endpoint.

Five questions to try

1. Which funders gave the most to arts organizations in Evanston?
2. Which causes in Skokie receive the least money compared with how many organizations work on them?
3. Show how one foundation's giving changed year by year, as a chart.
4. Who else funds the organizations that a given foundation supports?
5. List gifts over $25,000 in Winnetka in the most recent year, grouped by cause.

What it will and will not do

• It lists organizations only: nonprofits, foundations, companies and public bodies.
• Gifts from individuals are counted in totals but the people are never named.
• It does not draft or send outreach. You decide who to contact and how.
• It reads data and cannot change any of it.

Getting a key

Each club has its own key. To request one, write to the district contact with your club's name.