Community Development Grants in Massachusetts

Top community development grants in Massachusetts right now

• Rural Health Transformation Program

  Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human ServicesUp to $162Mopen

  The Rural Health Transformation Program is a grant from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services that funds the transformation ...

  public_healthrural_developmenthealth_disparitiescommunity_developmentrural health

• Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Youth Program

  Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce DevelopmentUp to $21Mopen

  Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Youth Program is sponsored by Massachusetts Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development. Provi...

  education_researchcommunity_developmentsocial_scienceyouthemployment

• Transformational Capital Grants

  Yawkey FoundationUp to $5.0Mopen

  Transformational Capital Grants is sponsored by Yawkey Foundation. Provides major funding for nonprofit organizations to permanently and vastly improv...

  community_developmentaffordable_housingurban_planningeconomic_developmentcommunity_facilities

• Frameworks-Imaging-PHD: Empowering data reuse and reproducibility through microscopy-community-defined Persistent Hardware Descriptors

  Up to $4.0MDeadline: Jul 31, 2029open

  This project that helps make scientific research more understandable, shareable, and reusable. Scientists use complex instruments - such as multi-mill...

• Frameworks: The Community Resource for Innovation in Materials and Chemistry (CRIMaC)

  Up to $3.0MDeadline: Sep 30, 2030open

  Building on fundamental innovations in the study of the intersection of chemistry and data science, the Community Resource for Innovation in Polymer T...

• Youth & Amateur Athletics Support

  Yawkey FoundationUp to $2.5Mopen

  Youth & Amateur Athletics Support is sponsored by Yawkey Foundation. This opportunity supports mission-aligned projects and measurable outcomes.

  youth_sportscommunity_developmentyouth athleticsbaseballsoftball

• Sustained Resources: Advancing Water Science Through Integrated Water Data Management and Community Support

  Up to $2.2MDeadline: Dec 31, 2028open

  Understanding and addressing water-related challenges - such as floods, droughts, and water quality - requires navigating increasingly complex data, t...

• CUE-P: Integrating Artificial Intelligence Literacy into Community College Programs

  Up to $2.0MDeadline: Sep 30, 2029open

  In a world increasingly driven by artificial intelligence (AI) across the nation, there is a rising need for an AI-literate workforce that spans indus...

• CIRC: New: MemSysExplorer: Community Tools and Interfaces for Exploring and Evaluating Next-Generation Memory Systems

  Up to $1.8MDeadline: Jun 30, 2027open

  Computer systems store information in memories; the specific physical mechanisms of storing and moving these ones and zeroes are currently under inten...

• POSE: Phase II: CROSSComm: Coordinating a Reference Open-Source System Community for Intelligent Future-G Networks

  Up to $1.5MDeadline: Jun 30, 2027open

  Wireless networks are complex systems that rely on integrating different software components to work correctly. This project brings people and communi...

• Meeting the Moment: Sustaining Families

  The Boston FoundationUp to $1.0Mopen

  Meeting the Moment: Sustaining Families is a grant from The Boston Foundation that funds nonprofit organizations working to address food insecurity an...

  food_securitycommunity_developmenteconomic_developmentfood securityfood pantries

• Early Education and Out-of-School Time Capital Grants

  Massachusetts Department of Early Education and CareUp to $1.0Mopen

  Early Education and Out-of-School Time Capital Grants is sponsored by Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care. Provides capital grants fo...

  early_childhoodk12_educationcommunity_developmentearly educationout-of-school time

• From risk to resilience: Examining the intersection of extreme weather events, community vulnerability, and health impacts

  Up to $793KDeadline: Jun 30, 2030open

  Objectives: Our study will characterize the immediate and cumulative health impacts associated with extreme weather events and will identify the key d...

• Evaluation of Community Health Worker Support to Improve Tobacco Use Disorder Outcomes in Medicaid Beneficiaries with Serious Mental Illness

  Up to $740KDeadline: Feb 28, 2031open

  Tobacco use disorder (TUD) remains highly prevalent in people with serious mental illnesses (SMI), driving a significant mortality disparity in this p...

• Latino Equity Fund

  The Boston FoundationUp to $600Kopen

  Latino Equity Fund is sponsored by The Boston Foundation. The Latino Equity Fund provides annual grant opportunities for Latino-led and Latino-serving...

  community_developmenteconomic_developmentsocial_sciencelatino equityeconomic prosperity

• Green Loans

  MassDevelopmentUp to $500Kopen

  Green Loans is sponsored by MassDevelopment. These loans bridge the gap between energy efficiency and renewable energy project costs and rebates or su...

  clean_energyenergy_efficiencygreen loansenergy efficiency financingrenewable energy projects

• MassTrails Grant Program

  Massachusetts Office of Outdoor Recreation (through MassTrails, Commonwealth Trails and RTP)Up to $500Kopen

  MassTrails Grant Program is a grant from the Massachusetts Office of Outdoor Recreation that funds the planning, design, creation, and maintenance of ...

  transportationcommunity_facilitiesland_conservation

• Category III: Planning Federated AI-Ready Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microscopy and Imaging: A Teach-Explore-Design Framework for Community-Driven Infrastructure

  National Science FoundationUp to $499KDeadline: Jul 31, 2028open

  The project will investigate the feasibility, community acceptance, and design requirements for a federated, cross-domain, AI-ready data cyberinfrastr...

• Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure (RFSI) Grant Program

  Massachusetts Department of Agricultural ResourcesUp to $450Kopen

  Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure (RFSI) Grant Program is sponsored by Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources.

  food_securityrural_developmentcommunity_developmentfood systemsagriculture

• Exploring Serious Illness Communication between Latino Spanish-Speaking Older Adults and Community-Based Palliative Care Clinicians

  Up to $413KDeadline: Aug 31, 2027open

  /Abstract Over 5 million Americans aged 65 and older identify as Hispanic or Latino (hereafter Latino), nearly two-thirds of whom speak Spanish at hom...

What counts as a community development grant in Massachusetts

We surface opportunities matching community development-related keywords whose geography includes Massachusetts (statewide, regional, or county-level grants serving Massachusetts-based organizations). The keyword set:

Internal program language often differs from how funders tag their grants. AI mission-fit search (available after signup) catches the conceptual matches that exact-keyword filtering misses — useful in Massachusetts where program names vary by region.

Where Massachusetts community development grants come from

• Federal sources — Grants.gov, NIH RePORTER, and SAM.gov opportunities open to Massachusetts-based organizations and thematically aligned with community development.
• Massachusetts state portal — state-administered community development programs, including pass-through federal dollars and state-only appropriations.
• Foundations — community foundations and private foundations giving in Massachusetts for community development work, drawn from IRS Form 990 filings and curated directories.
• Corporate giving — corporate philanthropy programs that fund community development work in Massachusetts.