The Franklin Square House Foundation is now accepting applications for its Childcare Grant.
Donor Name: Franklin Square House Foundation (FSHF)
State: Massachusetts
County: Barnstable County (MA), Bristol County (MA), Dukes County (MA), Essex County (MA), Middlesex County (MA), Nantucket County (MA), Norfolk County (MA), Plymouth County (MA), Suffolk County (MA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 01/17/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Funding Information
The maximum Childcare Grant is $100,000.
Evaluation and Ranking Criteria
- Creation of new childcare slots
- Administrative capacity of the organization
- Financial condition of the organization
- Track record of the organization
- Past standing of the grantee with the Foundation
- Alignment of the organization and the project with the mission and goals of the Foundation
- Proportions of subsidized slots to the overall population of the center. They generally like to see greater than the required minimum of 50% subsidized slots
- Completeness and coherence of the grant application
- Readiness to proceed with the project. All projects must be ready to start within 90 days of the date on the grant award letter and be completed within six months of the grant award
- The presence of slots reserved for homeless children
- The grantee’s offering of comprehensive services for families it serves (or access to those services through partnerships)
- The responsiveness of the grantee to requests for supplemental information regarding the grant proposal
- Results of the Foundation site visit.
Threshold Criteria for Childcare Application
- Prospective grant applicants must contact the Executive Director of the Foundation prior to submitting a grant application (you have probably done this already if I have sent you these guideline).
- Organizations applying for a grant must be within Barnstable County, Bristol County, Dukes County, Nantucket County, Essex County, Middlesex County, Plymouth County, Norfolk County, Suffolk County and those parts of Worcester County that are east of (or bisected by) routes 395, 290, 190 and including a line extending from the northern limit of the end of route 195 to the New Hampshire border. This includes the communities of Leominster, Fitchburg and Gardner.
- All grant applicants must be 501(C)3 nonprofit organizations.
- All grantees must have audited financial statements and be in sound financial condition
- All grant applicants must be licensed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and be NEAYC accredited
- Applicants must, at a minimum, have 50% subsidized childcare slots
- All applicants for funding must be in good standing with the Foundation. For existing grantees, this entails that all previous grant reporting has been completed in a timely and appropriate manner.
Ineligibility
Things foundation does not fund:
- Operating costs
- Landscaping
- Grant administration
- Project design, management, overhead, or supervision
- Relocation
- Vehicles
- Computers
- Back-up generators
- Work in progress or already completed
- Manipulatives and teaching materials
- Requests to reduce loan debt
- Grants into capital campaigns for larger projects.
For more information, visit FSHF.