The City of Newport News is now accepting applications for the 2027 Community Support Agency Grant.
Donor Name: City of Newport News
State: Virginia
City: Newport News
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/12/2025
Size of the Grant: Not Available
Grant Duration: 1 Year
Details:
The City of Newport News recognizes that not-for-profit organizations fill an important role in improving the quality of life for community. To encourage not-for-profit organizations to provide services to residents of Newport News, the City has an established system to award monetary grants to qualified organizations.
These grants are intended to:
- Provide funding to not-for-profit agencies serving the City of Newport News whose services are easily accessible to Newport News residents and whose service costs can be documented.
- Provide incentive funding to develop new services or capital improvements to meet the specific needs of Newport News residents and complement services provided by City departments.
Grant Period
July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027.
Eligibility Criteria
An agency is eligible to apply for a Community Support Grant from the city of Newport News if it meets the following criteria:
- The agency must be a not-for-profit, 501 (c)(3) organization meeting the legal requirements of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the city of Newport News.
- The agency must provide significant, measurable direct services to residents of Newport News.
- The agency cannot receive grants from other city resources for the same program for which Community Support funding is requested.
- Contractual services which a grant agency provides the city must be disclosed in grant applications. Payments for such services do not automatically exclude an agency from grant eligibility. However, grant funds will not be provided to support the same services or costs which are provided under contract to the city.
- The agency must have fulfilled all reporting, auditing, and payment obligations for any previous loans or grants from the city.
- Programs, activities, employment opportunities, etc., of the agency which may be funded totally or partially by the city of Newport News must comply with local, state and national legal requirements related to nondiscrimination.
- Funds which may be provided by the city of Newport News cannot be used to support programming or activities which advocate a particular political or religious viewpoint.
- The agency shall not be controlled in whole or in part by any church or sectarian society.
For more information, visit City of Newport News.
