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Overview

Financial Hardship Grants

Status: Active ongoing program

Geographic Scope: National (United States)

Focus Areas: Financial assistance for first responder families enduring significant financial hardship

Key Features:

  • Awarded to families enduring significant financial hardship due to tragic circumstances

  • Assistance with funeral costs for first responders who have made the ultimate sacrifice

  • Case-by-case grants for first responders and their children needing financial or mental health services they cannot otherwise afford
  • Target Population:

  • First responder families facing financial hardship

  • Families of first responders who have died in the line of duty

  • First responders needing mental health services they cannot afford
  • Impact (2020): Foundation helped 232,000 first responder families and distributed $1.5 million in support of mental health

    Background: Foundation established COVID-19 Emergency Response Fund in March 2020 to provide financial hardship grants, PPE, and hotel accommodations to first responders on the front lines of the pandemic. Foundation also pays for funerals of first responders who have made the ultimate sacrifice.

    Contact Information:

  • Website: www.1stRCF.org

  • Email: Joanna@1stRCF.org

  • Phone: +1 (646) 912-2681
  • How to Apply

    Application Process

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    To Apply:

  • Visit www.1stRCF.org for application portal and instructions

  • Contact the organization directly at Joanna@1stRCF.org or (646) 912-2681 to discuss your specific financial hardship situation and application requirements
  • Focus Areas & Funding Uses

    Fields of Work

    first-respondershardship

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