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Grants

Focus Areas

  • Affordable Housing, Shelters, and Transitional Housing
  • Food Insecurity

If a grant request is approved, we may fund up to $5,000 per nonprofit, per calendar year.

We’ve Gone Paperless!

Cambridge Savings Bank and the Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation have implemented web-based applications for non-profit organizations to request charitable donations, which include grants, sponsorships, or in-kind donations. The online applications streamline the review process by replacing paper, phone and email requests. All requests must be submitted via the Grant Application below for consideration. If you have any questions about the application process, please contact us at communityrelations@cambridgesavings.com.

Eligibility Requirements

  • Must be a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
  • Must serve low-to-moderate income residents in the following counties: Middlesex, Suffolk, Essex, or Norfolk
  • The request must be program/project specific
  • If a donation request is approved, we typically make up to a maximum of one donation or sponsorship per non-profit organization per calendar year

Funding Requests That Will Not Be Considered

  • Grants for operating funds or annual appeals
  • Requests from entities or initiatives operating for less than one year
  • Requests from political, advocacy, governmental, fraternal, labor groups
  • Requests from religious organizations, unless the program supports, and is open to, the community
  • Requests for funding of trips and tours by groups or individuals, or traveling teams, including transportation costs
  • Requests by organizations with the primary purpose of raising funds to distribute to other organizations or as secondary education scholarship funding
  • Requests by organizations that discriminate on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, age, gender identification, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, veteran status, disability, or other characteristic protected by law

*The Foundation reserves the right to reject any application for any reason and to make exceptions.

Submission Deadlines

The Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Board meets on a quarterly basis and submission deadlines are April 15th, July 15th, September 30th, and December 31st (dates subject to change).

Required Information Needed to Complete Application

  • Cover letter addressed to Jeri Foutter, First Vice President, Community Partnerships and Foundation Officer signed by your organization’s Executive Director or President of Board of Directors
  • Organization’s mission
  • Annual organization budget
  • Percentage of your beneficiaries who are low-to-moderate income individuals or small businesses
  • The amount of low-to-moderate income individuals—and/or small businesses-- who would benefit from the requested amount
  • Most recent Form 990
  • Nonprofit W9, signed within the last 12 months
  • Latest financial statement: Audited or Non-audited
  • List of organization's Board of Directors
  • A copy of your proposal including:
    • Organization’s history, major programs, organizational structure and staffing
    • Target population, community needs, goals to be achieved and timetable to accomplish the goals
    • How success of this project will be evaluated
    • Program and Operating budget (including salaries)

To apply for a grant, please complete the application below:

Make sure you have all the required information listed above before filling out the application.

Required Indicates required field
Is this an IRS 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization? (see eligibility requirements)
Are you using a fiscal sponsor?
Have you previously applied for a grant, sponsorship or other funding from CSB?
Have you previously collaborated with CSB on Financial Education sessions?
Is your organization a CSB customer? (This is not a requirement to be considered for funding.)

Grant Request 

Tax-Deductible Portion

Type of Request

Please note: Per the requirements listed at the top of this page, requests for operating funds are not eligible for consideration.

Select all that apply. Percentage total(s) should equal 100%.
Do your beneficiaries participate in any state or federal assistance programs (SNAP, WIC, TANF, CHIP, etc.)?
Is this request for the support of small businesses? (A small business is a privately owned corporation, partnership, or sole proprietorship that has gross annual revenue of $1M or less.)
Select the counties listed below in which your low-to-moderate income beneficiaries reside that are within Cambridge Savings Bank's Community Reinvestment (CRA) communities:
Please note: Per the requirements listed at the top of this page, funding must serve low-to-moderate beneficiaries—and/or small businesses—within these counties to be eligible for consideration.
Select the Gateway Cities listed below in which your low-to-moderate income beneficiaries reside that are within Cambridge Savings Bank's Community Reinvestment (CRA) communities: (This is not a requirement to be considered for funding.)
Select your CSB branch towns in which your low-to-moderate income beneficiaries reside: (This is not a requirement to be considered for funding.)

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  • Your organization’s history, major programs, organizational structure and staffing
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  • How the success of this project will be evaluated
  • Program and Operating budget (including salaries)
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