How do I get a Donately API Key?

Log in to your Donately dashboard, navigate to **Settings > API Key**, and you can retrieve your unique API Key from there. Ensure you have the necessary permissions within your organization.

Can the agent process new donations?

This integration currently focuses on listing and auditing donations, donors, and campaigns. Processing new donations with credit card details should be managed via your Donately forms or donation pages.

Does the integration show recurring donations?

Yes, you can use the list_all_donations or get_donation_details tools to identify and retrieve information for both one-time and recurring contributions.

Donately MCP Server for VS Code Copilot 10 tools — connect in under 2 minutes

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GitHub Copilot in VS Code is the most widely adopted AI coding assistant, embedded directly into the world's most popular code editor. With MCP support in Agent mode, Copilot can access external data and APIs to generate context-aware code grounded in real-time information.

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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "donately": {
      "url": "https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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About Donately MCP Server

Integrate Donately, the simplest online fundraising platform, directly into your AI workflow. Manage your donations and recurring contributions, track donor profiles and lifetime giving, monitor fundraising campaigns and progress, and oversee your fundraisers using natural language.

GitHub Copilot Agent mode brings Donately data directly into your VS Code workflow. With a project-scoped config, the entire team shares access to 10 tools. Copilot queries live data, generates typed code, and writes tests from actual API responses, all without leaving the editor.

What you can do

Donation Oversight — List and retrieve detailed information and payment status for all your received contributions.
Donor Intelligence — Monitor real-time donor profiles, contact details, and lifetime giving history across your organization.
Campaign Monitoring — Track fundraising campaigns, goals, and current progress metrics to ensure successful outcomes.
Contribution Auditing — Retrieve high-level summaries of fundraising performance and identify your most impactful contributors instantly.

The Donately MCP Server exposes 10 tools through the Vinkius. Connect it to VS Code Copilot in under two minutes — no API keys to rotate, no infrastructure to provision, no vendor lock-in. Your configuration, your data, your control.

How to Connect Donately to VS Code Copilot via MCP

Follow these steps to integrate the Donately MCP Server with VS Code Copilot.

Create MCP config

Create a .vscode/mcp.json file in your project root

Add the server config

Paste the JSON configuration above

Enable Agent mode

Open GitHub Copilot Chat and switch to Agent mode using the dropdown

Start using Donately

Ask Copilot: "Using Donately, help me...". 10 tools available

Why Use VS Code Copilot with the Donately MCP Server

GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio Code provides unique advantages when paired with Donately through the Model Context Protocol.

VS Code is used by over 70% of developers. adding MCP tools to Copilot means your team can leverage external data without leaving their primary editor

Project-scoped MCP configs (`.vscode/mcp.json`) let you commit server configurations to your repository, ensuring the entire team shares the same tool access

Copilot's Agent mode integrates MCP tools seamlessly with file editing, terminal commands, and workspace search in a single agentic loop

GitHub's enterprise compliance and audit features extend to MCP tool usage, providing visibility into how AI interacts with external services

Donately + VS Code Copilot Use Cases

Practical scenarios where VS Code Copilot combined with the Donately MCP Server delivers measurable value.

Live API integration: Copilot can query an MCP server, inspect the response schema, and generate typed API client code in the same step

DevSecOps workflows: security teams can give developers access to domain intelligence tools directly in their editor for real-time vulnerability assessment during code review

Data pipeline development: Copilot fetches sample data via MCP and generates transformation scripts, validators, and test fixtures from actual API responses

Documentation generation: Copilot queries available tools and auto-generates README sections, API reference docs, and usage examples

Donately MCP Tools for VS Code Copilot (10)

These 10 tools become available when you connect Donately to VS Code Copilot via MCP:

get_campaign_performance_summary

Retrieve a high-level summary of a specific campaigns performance

get_donately_account_metadata

Retrieve metadata and limits for your Donately account

get_donation_details

Get detailed information for a specific donation

get_donor_profile

Get full profile and giving history for a specific donor

list_active_donors

List all donors registered in your Donately organization

list_all_donations

List all donations received in your Donately account

list_fundraising_campaigns

List all fundraising campaigns configured in Donately

list_highest_lifetime_donors

Identify donors with the highest lifetime contribution totals (mock logic)

list_latest_contributions

Identify the most recently received donations

search_donations_by_email

Search for donations matching a specific donor email address

Example Prompts for Donately in VS Code Copilot

Ready-to-use prompts you can give your VS Code Copilot agent to start working with Donately immediately.

"List the latest donations received."

"Show me the progress for our 'Summer Relief' campaign."

"Research the donor profile for 'robert.brown@example.com'."

Troubleshooting Donately MCP Server with VS Code Copilot

Common issues when connecting Donately to VS Code Copilot through the Vinkius, and how to resolve them.

MCP tools not available

Ensure you are in Agent mode in Copilot Chat. MCP tools only appear in Agent mode.

Donately + VS Code Copilot FAQ

Common questions about integrating Donately MCP Server with VS Code Copilot.

Which VS Code version supports MCP?

MCP support requires VS Code 1.99 or later with the GitHub Copilot extension. Ensure both are updated to the latest version. Older versions of Copilot may not expose the Agent mode toggle.

How do I switch to Agent mode?

Open the Copilot Chat panel and look for two mode options: "Ask" and "Agent". Click "Agent" to enable autonomous tool calling. In Ask mode, Copilot provides conversational answers but cannot invoke MCP tools.

Can I restrict which MCP tools Copilot can access?

Yes. VS Code shows a tool consent dialog before any MCP tool is invoked for the first time. You can also configure tool access policies at the organization level through GitHub Copilot settings.

Does MCP work in VS Code Remote or Codespaces?

Yes. MCP servers configured via .vscode/mcp.json work in Remote SSH, WSL, and GitHub Codespaces environments. The MCP connection is established from the remote host, so ensure the server URL is accessible from that environment.