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.