Essex County Community Response Fund

About this grant

The Essex County Community Response Fund provides flexible grants to nonprofits serving Essex County, Massachusetts, addressing acute community needs and longer-term recovery. The Fall 2026 round focuses on food access (SNAP eligibility changes), healthcare access (MassHealth/Medicaid eligibility changes), and structural change support for organizational sustainability.

Eligibility details

• Notes: Applicants must have 501(c)(3) tax status or have a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor. Stand-alone programs applying through a fiscal agent may be eligible if the fiscal agent provides 501(c)(3) status but not much more, the program has a separate budget and raises its own funds, and there is a letter of agreement between the program and umbrella organization. Applicants must provide services in Essex County, Massachusetts. Grants are not awarded to individuals, for sectarian or religious purposes (programs sponsored by religious organizations are eligible if open to all and no mandatory religious instruction), political purposes, debt or deficit reduction, or large-scale capital campaigns for buildings, land acquisition, or endowment.

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