Responsive Program Support Grants

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.
  • 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