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summitflow-mcp

Grant management MCP server — deadline planning, business-day math, grant budgets, volunteer valuation. No API key.

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Use tool

Set up

Runs on your computer. Pick your agent and operating system.

Before you start

uv (`curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh`)

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "summitflow-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "summitflow-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

same format Cursor, GitHub Copilot CLI, Junie, JetBrains AI Assistant, Augment (Auggie CLI), Factory Droid, Kiro, Devin CLI +12

Values in angle brackets are placeholders. Restart Claude Desktop after editing its config.Claude Desktop docs

README

synced Oct 17, 2026

SummitFlow MCP

Grant management tools for AI agents. Plan backward from a funder deadline, count business days around federal holidays, build a grant budget with indirect on the correct base, and value volunteer and in-kind contributions.

No API key. No account. No network calls. Every tool is a pure function.

Web versions of these tools live at summitflow.co/tools.

Install

Claude Desktop — add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "summitflow": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["summitflow-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Or pip install summitflow-mcp. No environment variables required.

Tools

Tool	What it does
`grant_deadline_plan`	Works backward from a deadline to start-drafting, internal-review and packet-complete dates
`grant_lead_times`	The lead times behind that plan, with the reasoning for each
`business_days_between`	Business days between two dates, skipping weekends and US federal holidays
`add_business_days`	Add or subtract business days from a date
`federal_holidays`	US federal holidays for a year, with observed dates
`grant_budget`	Full budget with fringe and indirect calculated on MTDC or TDC
`volunteer_time_value`	Volunteer hours valued at the published national rate
`in_kind_value`	Totals donated goods and services at fair market value
`summitflow_resources`	Free templates, guides and calculators on the web

Why the details matter

Indirect goes on the right base. grant_budget defaults to Modified Total Direct Cost, which excludes equipment and the portion of each contract above the first $25,000. Applying your rate to total direct costs instead is the most common budget error and it inflates the ask in a way reviewers notice. The tool reports which base it used and what it excluded.

Observed holiday dates, not nominal ones. A federal holiday falling on a Saturday closes offices the Friday before. For a deadline calculation that is the difference between submitting on time and submitting late, so all the date math uses observed dates.

The volunteer rate is cited, not invented. volunteer_time_value defaults to Independent Sector's published national value of volunteer time (2025), and says so in its output, because a match figure you cannot source is a figure you cannot defend. Skilled volunteers doing professional work should be valued at the rate for that work instead.

Deadlines are not plans. grant_deadline_plan returns three earlier dates because those are the ones that go on a calendar with a person's name attached. The deadline itself should be uneventful.

Development

git clone https://github.com/RyanKramer/summitflow-mcp
cd summitflow-mcp
pip install -e .
summitflow-mcp

About

Built by SummitFlow — the grant deadline safety net for small nonprofits. Free templates, guides and calculators.

MIT licensed.