Grants

FOCUS AREAS	DESCRIPTIONS
Human Services	For organizations that provide basic human needs for low-to-moderate income individuals and families, including food, shelter, heath care, job training, financial education, small business support and first-time home buyer assistance.
Affordable Housing	For programs that preserve low-to-moderate income housing units and projects that create low-to-moderate income housing units.

The majority of grants are funded up to $5,000.

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 per non-profit per calendar year

Funding Requests That Will Not Be Considered

- Other foundations
- Secondary education scholarship funding
- Operating funds or annual appeals
- Entities or initiatives operating for less than one year
- Requests that benefit/support a single individual or family/families
- Organizations or events which are not open to members of the general public
- Political, advocacy, governmental, fraternal, labor groups
- Religious organizations, unless the program supports, and is open to, the community
- Trips and tours by groups or individuals, or traveling teams, including transportation costs
- Organizations with the primary purpose of raising funds to distribute to other organizations
- 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.

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
Your organization’s mission
Annual Organization Budget
Percentage of your beneficiaries who are low-to-moderate income
The amount of low-to-moderate income individuals will benefit from the requested amount
Most recent Form 990
Nonprofit W9
Latest financial statement: Audited or Non-audited
List of your Board of Directors
A copy of your proposal including:
- Your 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.