Bring Online Donations
to Windsurf
Learn how to connect Donorbox to Windsurf 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 Windsurf?
Windsurf's Cascade agent chains multiple Donorbox tool calls autonomously. query data, analyze results, and generate code in a single agentic session. Paste Vinkius Edge URL, reload, and all 12 tools are immediately available. Real-time tool feedback appears inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor.
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Windsurf's Cascade agent autonomously chains multiple tool calls in sequence, solving complex multi-step tasks without manual intervention
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Purpose-built for agentic workflows. Cascade understands context across your entire codebase and integrates MCP tools natively
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JSON-based configuration means zero code changes: paste a URL, reload, and all 12 tools are immediately available
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Real-time tool feedback is displayed inline, so you see API responses directly in your editor without switching contexts
Donorbox in Windsurf
Donorbox and 3,400+ other MCP servers. One platform. One governance layer.
Teams that connect Donorbox to Windsurf 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 Windsurf
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 Windsurf 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 Windsurf
Every tool call from Windsurf 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 Windsurf discover MCP tools?
Windsurf reads the mcp_config.json file on startup and connects to each configured server via Streamable HTTP. Tools are listed in the MCP panel and available to Cascade automatically.
Can Cascade chain multiple MCP tool calls?
Yes. Cascade is an agentic system. it can plan and execute multi-step workflows, calling several tools in sequence to accomplish complex tasks without manual prompting between steps.
Does Windsurf support multiple MCP servers?
Yes. Add as many servers as needed in mcp_config.json. Each server's tools appear in the MCP panel and Cascade can use tools from different servers in a single flow.
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