The Programs & Services Grant aims to provide an opportunity to support projects or initiatives that address emergent community needs or apply lessons learned.
Donor Name: Peter & Elizabeth Tower Foundation
State: Massachusetts, New York
County: Barnstable County (MA), Dukes County (MA), Erie County (NY), Essex County (MA), Nantucket County (MA), Niagara County (NY)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/27/2026
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Foundation recognizes that organizations and collaborations are under intense pressure to meet increasing service demands in the face of dwindling resources. These can be undertaken by a single organization or collaboratively across organizations.
Funding Information
- A total of $1.5 million is available for 2026 Programs & Services grants, all of which will be awarded in a single grant cycle
- The Tower Foundation is open to multi-year grants with budgets typically ranging from $40,000 to $70,000 per year. The most competitive applications are likely to be for projects funded for two-to four years and falling at or below $250,000 in total (including administrative overhead).
Eligibility Criteria
- They will only make grants to organizations/collaborations currently providing services in one or more of these regions:
- Massachusetts: Barnstable County, Dukes County, Essex County, Nantucket County
- New York: Erie County, Niagara County
- At a minimum, grant applicants must currently provide prevention, treatment, and/or recovery services to people aged 26 years or younger from at least one of these populations:
- It’s easiest for us to accept grant applications from:
- Not-for-profit organizations with a 501(c)(3) designation that are not private foundations;
- Not-for-profit public benefit corporations;
- Public or diocesan school districts; or
- Private or charter schools.
- The ideal grant partners serve one or more of the populations listed above who also have intersecting identities as members of historically marginalized communities (e.g., Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Native American/Indigenous Peoples, disability, housing insecure, immigrant/refugee, LGBTQIA+).
- While organizations/collaborations may have more than one active grant with the Foundation at any given time, they are likely to give preference to organizations that have not received a grant award recently. If they decline a funding request, your organization may reapply as soon as the following cycle.
For more information, visit Peter & Elizabeth Tower Foundation.
