Healthy Aging in New Hampshire and Maine

The Foundation for Seacoast Health is announcing its Fall 2025 grant opportunity to support the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities in the Seacoast region of New Hampshire and Southern Maine. The program offers single-year, general operating support to nonprofit organizations serving this defined catchment area. The cycle is designed in direct response to themes surfaced in the foundation’s recent grantee feedback survey, which emphasized urgent needs for flexible operating dollars to stabilize core functions amid a rapidly changing environment. The purpose of this opportunity is to help eligible nonprofits sustain operations during a period marked by inflationary pressures, rising costs, and significantly increased demand for services. It also aims to help organizations address challenges stemming from federal or state budget cuts, policy changes, or loss of critical funding streams. The foundation explicitly recognizes the extraordinary challenges Seacoast-area nonprofits face and intends these funds to provide adaptable support rather than project-restricted awards. Funding in this cycle will consist solely of single-year, general operating support grants. Requests up to 20,000 will be considered. The foundation highlights three broad areas of fit: addressing budget or policy-driven funding losses, managing operational pressures tied to inflation or surges in service demand, and strengthening resilience through targeted investments in staffing, infrastructure, or core systems essential for sustaining operations. These examples clarify the flexible, operations-focused nature of the grant rather than prescribing programmatic activities. Eligibility is limited to nonprofit organizations that serve the Seacoast region of New Hampshire and Southern Maine and that also meet the foundation’s standing General Eligibility Guidelines, which apply to every cycle. Organizations already receiving a 2025 Foundation for Seacoast Health grant are not eligible to apply for this Fall Responsive Grant. Applicants should review the general guidelines to confirm compliance with any additional baseline requirements before beginning the application. All applications must be submitted electronically through the foundation’s new grant application software, Foundant. Both new and returning applicants must create a profile in Foundant. The initial step is a brief inquiry functioning as a letter of intent submitted through the system; these inquiries are reviewed daily, and organizations will receive a link to the full application following that review. The foundation also provides access to the full set of application questions in advance to support applicant preparation. The timeline for the Fall 2025 cycle is as follows: the application opens on 2025-09-02; completed applications are due by 2025-10-10; and award announcements are planned for 2025-11-01. Because the inquiry is reviewed on a rolling daily basis prior to release of the full application link, organizations are encouraged to account for that step in their internal planning so that a complete application can be submitted by the deadline. For questions about the application process, the point of contact is Jenny MacMurdo at jmacmurdo@ffsh.org. No phone number is provided. Applicants should direct procedural inquiries to this contact and use the Foundant platform for submission steps, ensuring both the brief inquiry and the full application are completed within the stated timeline.