The Responsive Program Support Grants supports Greater New Haven Programming for Multi-regional and Statewide organizations.
Donor Name: Valley Community Foundation
State: Connecticut
Town: Selected Towns
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/19/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 3 Years
Details:
Available only to nonprofits with 75% or more 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.
Grant Period
Grants are available for terms one, two, or three years.
Eligibility Criteria
- 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 the 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.
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.
For more information, visit VCF.
