NewAlliance Foundation Grant

The NewAlliance Foundation Grant offers support to not-for-profit organizations in four key areas: arts, community development, health and human services, and youth education. It prioritizes programs that engage diverse and underserved populations, promote economic self-sufficiency, and provide essential services to vulnerable communities. Eligible applicants must be 501(c)3 non-profits located within specific towns. The foundation does not fund start-ups or organizations outside its service area, ensuring targeted support for impactful initiatives.

Program Areas
The NewAlliance Foundation provides support to the not-for-profit
community in four key areas: the arts, community development, health
& human services, and youth & education.
Arts
We support organizations that meet high standards of artistic merit and community involvement.Our two funding priorities in the arts are:
Organizations or programs that demonstrate significant efforts to reach a broad and diverse audience, engage underserved populations, and/or expand participation in arts programming.
Organizations or programs that offer well-designed educational and interpretive activities that develop young audiences.
Community Development
We support organizations that address the vitality, economic health and the well-being of every sector of the community we share.Our two funding priorities in community development are:
Organizations or programs enabling people to become economically self-sufficient through the development of job readiness skills, employment preparedness, and literacy improvement.
Organizations or programs that stabilize neighborhoods by supporting home ownership, fostering environmental stewardship and protection, and creating food security.
Health & Human Services
Often those who are the most vulnerable are at risk because of poor health, lack of shelter or food, or because they are children. We support organizations that provide direct assistance to those with the greatest need and provide early intervention for troubled children.Our two funding priorities in health and human services are:
Organizations providing for the most basic of human needs, such as shelter, food, clothing, and medical care to those in need.Organizations providing preventative and intervention services to children.
Youth & Education
We support organizations that inspire and encourage youth to succeed and that directly impact outcomes in educational success.Our two funding priorities in youth and education are:
Organizations and programs that expand educational opportunities to help students acquire the core math, science, literacy and/or technology skills needed to prepare them to join the workforce of the future and compete successfully.
Organizations providing after school or summer programming which extends learning opportunities and improves academic success.
General Operating Support
We will consider unrestricted general operating requests from organizations that:

• Have missions that address one or more of our funding priorities; Have programs that exclusively serve people within our service area;
• Deliver effective programs in response to community needs;
• Are financially stable;
• Receive and provide strong leadership.
• Program Support
• We will consider requests to support programs that are highly effective and innovative and do not duplicate other programs or services.
• Sponsorships

We will consider, on a limited basis, an event sponsorship request designed to raise funds to support an activity or program directly related to an organization’s mission or purpose. We invite you to contact us in advance of submitting a request for sponsorship support to discuss your event. Please check our Funding Calendar to plan properly for deadlines and Foundation board meetings.
Capital Campaigns
We will consider requests for capital support from organizations that meet all other funding criteria. Capital requests include: brick and mortar activities; equipment expenditures; facility construction; capital improvements.

Eligibility

NewAlliance Foundation supports organizations and programs that:

• advance the funding priorities under our “Funding Priorities” section; and

are located in the 41 towns listed under the “Towns We Serve” section.Applicants must be 501(c)3 non-profits as designated by the Internal Revenue Service. We limit organizations to one
grant application per calendar year, based on the year in which our
March and September board meetings meet.We will consider funding up to 10% of an organization’s annual
operating budget or $25,000 maximum. The percentage is based on an
organization’s total cash income for the last completed fiscal year. It
does not include the assigned value of in-kind contributions.We will consider funding up to 40% of budget expenses for the
program or project for which support is sought; therefore support from
other funding partners is required. The “10% grant guideline” remains in
effect, regardless of program or project size.We will only accept applications from organizations with at least 12
months of 501(c)3 non-profit incorporation as designated by the
Internal Revenue Service and who demonstrate a mature budget, show
additional community support, and have a track record of effective
programming.

Ineligibility

We do not consider applications from fiduciary or fiscal agents acting on behalf of organizations who do not have IRS confirmed non-profit status. Exceptions will be made only in the case the fiduciary is a community foundation.We do not fund the start-up of new programs in our service area by organizations located outside our service area.We do not fund programs located outside our service area that require those in the towns we serve to travel outside our service area to take advantage of programs or services.NewAlliance Foundation does not make grants to the following types of applicants:individualsfor-profit organizationsreligious institutions, except for non-sectarian programs benefiting the community-at-largeservice clubs, fraternal organizations or third parties raising funds for a charityParent Teacher Organizations or associationsstate agencies, departments and commissionsorganizations raising money to re-grant funds to specific causesorganizations raising money for specific diseasesActivities We DO NOT SupportNewAlliance Foundation does not make grants to support the following:

projects taking place in areas not listed under Communities We Serve political activities, including lobbying expenses or other activities influencing the outcome of the legislative or electoral process
interest expenses paid on loans or payment to eliminate or reduce existing deficits
feasibility studies
trips, tours, transportation costs, conference sponsorships or conference attendance expenses
golf tournaments
requests from individual schools for specific in-school programs