Community Development Grants in Massachusetts

Open community development funding for nonprofits, schools, and municipalities serving Massachusetts.

100 open community development grants in Massachusetts, drawn from federal sources, the state portal, foundation 990 filings, and corporate giving programs. Refreshed daily.

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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:

communityneighborhoodcivicruralurbancommunity developmentinfrastructure

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.

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