Bring Online Donations
to Claude Desktop
Learn how to connect Donorbox to Claude Desktop and start using 12 AI agent tools in minutes. Fully managed, enterprise secure, and ready to use without writing a single line of code.
What is the Donorbox MCP Server?
Connect your Donorbox account to any AI agent and take full control of your nonprofit fundraising and donor engagement workflows through natural conversation.
What you can do
- Donation Orchestration — List and manage donations programmatically, including filtering by email or campaign and retrieving detailed transaction metadata
- Donor CRM — Create and update donor profiles programmatically to maintain high-fidelity records of your organization's supporters
- Recurring Plan Lifecycle — Monitor, pause, resume, or cancel recurring donation subscriptions directly through your agent to streamline supporter management
- Campaign Intelligence — Access your complete directory of fundraising campaigns to monitor performance and coordinate outreach in real-time
- Operational Monitoring — Check API connectivity and monitor active webhooks directly through your agent for reliable fundraising operations
How it works
1. Subscribe to this server
2. Retrieve your API Key from Donorbox (Integrations > API & Zapier)
3. Start managing your nonprofit growth from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client
No more manual status checking or digging through donation tables in the portal. Your AI acts as your dedicated fundraising strategist and donor coordinator.
Who is this for?
- Nonprofit Managers — instantly retrieve donation summaries and check campaign progress using natural language commands
- Fundraisers — update donor information and manage recurring subscriptions without leaving your communication tools
- Operations Leads — monitor webhook activity and verify API health through simple AI queries
Built-in capabilities (12)
Cancel a recurring donation
Verify Donorbox API connectivity
Requires first name, last name, and email. Add a new donor record
Get authenticated account info
List active webhooks
Can be filtered by email, campaign, or amount. List all donations
Can be filtered by name or email. List all donors
List fundraising campaigns
List recurring donation plans
Pause a recurring donation
Resume a paused recurring donation
Modify a donor record
Why Claude Desktop?
Claude Desktop is the definitive way to connect Donorbox to your AI workflow. Add Vinkius Edge URL to your config, restart the app, and Claude immediately exposes all 12 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
Donorbox in Claude Desktop
Donorbox and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Donorbox 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 Donorbox in Claude Desktop
The Donorbox 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 12 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
Donorbox for Claude Desktop
Every tool call from Claude Desktop to the Donorbox MCP Server is protected by DLP redaction, cryptographic audit chains, V8 sandbox isolation, kill switch, and financial circuit breakers.
Frequently asked questions
How do I find my Donorbox API Key?
Log in to your account, navigate to Integrations & Add-ons > API & Zapier, and enable the API add-on to generate your unique key.
Can I pause a recurring donation via AI?
Yes! Use the pause_recurring_plan tool with the specific plan ID to temporarily suspend a donor's recurring subscription.
How do I filter donations by campaign?
You can provide a campaign ID or name to the list_donations tool to retrieve transactions only for a specific fundraising goal.
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.