Responsive Program Support Grants

Overview

_Note: Applicants are expected to update or complete their giveGreater.org profile by March 19, 2025, 5:00 p.m, week after the Responsive Grant application deadline._

Program Grants

Support for Greater New Haven Programming for Multi-regional and Statewide organizations

Available only to multi-regional or statewide nonprofits with less than 75% of the population it serves residing in the 20-town region served by The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the Valley Community Foundation.

Programming support is defined as a grant made for a new or existing specific segment of an organization’s work that services one or more towns in the Community Foundations’ region.

One-year and multi-year grants

* Grants are available for terms one, two, or three years.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

* Applicants must be serving people within The Community Foundation's twenty-town region and meet The Foundation's minimum eligibility requirements.
* Applicants must have had active programming for at least 3 years.
* Applicants must have a published giveGreater.org profile.
* Applicants must have an operating budget of at least $100,000.
* Applicants with a fiscal sponsor must have an independent local Advisory Board or Board of Directors.
* An organization cannot apply if it has a current Responsive grant that ends later than Dec. 31, 2025.
* Applicants who received a grant from The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven or the Valley Community Foundation in the previous three years must be up to date with all reporting requirements.
* You must be a tax-exempt organization
* All applicants must be defined as tax-exempt organizations under Section 501(c)(3) or any applicable statute of the Internal Revenue Code.
* While grants are occasionally made to governmental agencies, local nonprofits receive priority.
* Requests will be considered from nonprofit groups and community organizations that do not have tax-exemption status, provided that they have a fiscal agent with the appropriate tax status.
* Projects that involve partnerships among multiple agencies require one agency with the appropriate tax status and financial management capacity to assume the role of lead organization.
* You must provide services within our 20-town area:
* Ansonia
* Bethany
* Branford
* Cheshire
* Derby
* East Haven
* North Branford
* North Haven
* West Haven
* Oxford
* New Haven
* Guilford
* Hamden
* Madison
* Milford
* Seymour
* Shelton
* Wallingford
* Orange
* Woodbridge
* You must comply with all applicable local, state, and federal anti-discrimination laws on the basis of:
* age
* sex
* religion
* national origin
* sexual preference
* This pertains to all aspects of organizational operations including hiring, leadership, and service provision.

Ineligibility

* Individuals are not eligible for grants
* Unless otherwise noted by a specific grant program, these projects do not receive consideration:
* activities that include the practice or promulgation of any faith or ideology
* endowment campaigns
* previously incurred expenses
* funding deficits
* sports groups/leagues that do not provide academic and/or other social supports
* organizations that have a fiscal sponsor that is outside the TCF region and do not have a local Advisory Board or Board of Directors
* LLCs with a nonprofit fiscal sponsor
* Nonprofits closely affiliated with a for-profit business that offers similar programs and/or shares leadership
* PTSOs, PTOs, PTAs, Sport/Club booster clubs of PK-12 academic programs