Bring Donations
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect Donately to Claude Desktop and start using 11 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the Donately MCP Server?
What you can do
- Retrieve and list incoming donations.
- Manage and list your fundraising campaigns.
- Access donor information and contacts.
- Keep track of recurring subscriptions and peer-to-peer fundraisers.
How it works
1. Subscribe to Donately. 2. Insert your API Token and Account ID. 3. Let the AI Agent fetch and manage your fundraising data.Who is this for?
Ideal for non-profits, NGOs, and fundraising teams who want to seamlessly query their Donately data through AI Agents.Built-in capabilities (11)
Create a new donation
Get details of a specific campaign
Get details of a specific donation
Get details of a specific peer-to-peer fundraiser
Get details of a specific person (donor)
Get details of a specific recurring donation (subscription)
Campaigns are the primary way to organize fundraising efforts. List campaigns for the Donately account
Useful to track incoming contributions and donor activities. Supports pagination and filtering. List donations for the Donately account
List peer-to-peer fundraisers for the Donately account
List people (donors/contacts) for the Donately account
List recurring donations (subscriptions) for the Donately account
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect Donately to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 11 tools in the chat interface. ask a question, Claude calls the right tool, and you see the answer. Zero code, zero context switching.
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Claude Desktop is the reference MCP client. it was designed alongside the protocol itself, ensuring the most complete and stable MCP implementation available
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Zero-code configuration: add a server URL to a JSON file and Claude instantly discovers and exposes all available tools in the chat interface
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Claude's extended thinking capability lets it reason through multi-step tool usage, chaining multiple API calls to answer complex questions
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Enterprise-grade security with local config storage. your tokens never leave your machine, and connections go directly to Vinkius Edge network
Donately in Claude Desktop
Donately and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Donately to Claude Desktop through Vinkius don't need to source, host, or maintain individual MCP servers. Every tool call runs inside a hardened runtime with credential isolation, DLP, and a signed audit chain.
Raw MCP | Vinkius | |
|---|---|---|
| Server catalog | Find and host yourself | 3,400+ managed |
| Infrastructure | Self-hosted | Sandboxed V8 isolates |
| Credential handling | Plaintext in config | Vault + runtime injection |
| Data loss prevention | None | Configurable DLP policies |
| Kill switch | None | Global instant shutdown |
| Financial circuit breakers | None | Per-server limits + alerts |
| Audit trail | None | Ed25519 signed logs |
| SIEM log streaming | None | Splunk, Datadog, Webhook |
| Honeytokens | None | Canary alerts on leak |
| Custom domains | Not applicable | DNS challenge verified |
| GDPR compliance | Manual effort | Automated purge + export |
Why teams choose Vinkius for Donately in Claude Desktop
The Donately MCP Server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS — a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts. All 11 tools execute in hardened sandboxes optimized for native MCP execution.
Your AI agents in Claude Desktop only access the data you authorize, with DLP that blocks sensitive information from ever reaching the model, kill switch for instant shutdown, and up to 60% token savings. Enterprise-grade infrastructure, zero maintenance.
* Every MCP server runs on Vinkius-managed infrastructure inside AWS - a purpose-built runtime with per-request V8 isolates, Ed25519 signed audit chains, and sub-40ms cold starts optimized for native MCP execution. See our infrastructure
How Vinkius secures
Donately for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the Donately MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
Does the AI agent process payments directly?
No, the AI agent retrieves and manages data from your Donately account, it does not act as a payment gateway itself.
Can the AI agent create new fundraising campaigns?
Currently, the agent can list and retrieve information about existing campaigns, but campaign creation should be done in the Donately dashboard.
Is donor data safe with the AI agent?
Yes, the agent only accesses the data necessary to answer your prompts and does not store personal donor information permanently.
How does Claude Desktop discover MCP tools?
When Claude Desktop starts, it reads the claude_desktop_config.json file and connects to each configured MCP server. It calls the tools/list endpoint to fetch the schema for every available tool, then surfaces them as clickable options in the chat interface via the 🔌 icon.
What happens if the MCP server is temporarily unavailable?
Claude Desktop handles disconnections gracefully. if the server is unreachable at startup, the tools simply won't appear. Once the server becomes available again, restarting Claude Desktop will re-establish the connection. There is no timeout penalty or error loop.
Can I connect multiple MCP servers simultaneously?
Yes. You can add as many servers as you need in the mcpServers section of the config file. Each server appears as a separate tool provider, and Claude can use tools from multiple servers in a single conversation turn.
Is there a limit on the number of tools per server?
Claude Desktop can handle hundreds of tools per server. However, for optimal LLM performance, Vinkius servers are designed to expose focused, well-documented tool sets rather than overwhelming the model with too many options.
Does Claude Desktop support Streamable HTTP transport?
Yes. Claude Desktop supports both SSE (Server-Sent Events) and the newer Streamable HTTP transport that Vinkius uses. Simply provide the server URL. Claude auto-negotiates the transport protocol.
Server not appearing after restart
Ensure the JSON is valid (no trailing commas). Check the file path: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\\Claude\\ (Windows).
Authentication error
Verify your Vinkius token is correct. Go to cloud.vinkius.com to regenerate it if needed.
Tools not showing in chat
Click the 🔌 icon at the bottom of the chat input. If it shows 0 tools, the server may still be connecting. wait a few seconds.