Foundation for Seacoast Health 2026 Fall Responsive Grant Cycle
The Foundation for Seacoast Health confirms that its 2026 Fall Responsive Grant Cycle is open. Responsive Grants provide up to $20,000 in single-year general operating support to strengthen organizational resilience, build capacity, and address urgent or unanticipated needs.
Eligibility and geography
Eligible applicants include qualifying 501(c)(3) organizations other than private foundations, public entities such as municipalities, schools, and colleges with programs that impact health, and community partnerships or consortiums with an eligible fiscal sponsor. The Foundation’s catchment includes Portsmouth, Rye, Greenland, Newington, New Castle, North Hampton, Hampton, and Seabrook in New Hampshire, plus Kittery, Eliot, and York in Maine. Regional or systems-level efforts may be considered case by case when they clearly benefit Seacoast residents.
Funding priorities include mental and behavioral health, healthy aging, thriving-community conditions such as access to care, housing stability and food security, and health-related education and career pathways. The Foundation does not support for-profit organizations or programs that primarily benefit for-profit entities, political or lobbying activities, sectarian/religious programs, grants to individuals, loans or debt repayment, or capital/endowment campaigns. The Foundation also states that it typically will not fund more than 20% of an organization’s annual operating budget and that an organization may receive funding through only one open grant cycle per calendar year.
Deadline and submission controls
The controlling 2026 Fall Cycle RFP lists the full application deadline as September 28, 2026. It does not publish a submission clock time or time zone. The Foundation’s official 2026 Fall Cycle RFP is controlling. It requires an LOI first through the Foundant portal; LOIs are reviewed on a rolling basis and eligible applicants receive access to the full application. The RFP lists September 21, 2026 as the suggested LOI date and September 28, 2026 as the full application deadline. No submission clock time or time zone is published, so none is inferred.
Atlas assessment
Atlas Opportunity Score: 85/100. This is a credible, currently open regional health-funding opportunity with broad relevance to mental health, healthy aging, community health, and health-career pathways, though the $20,000 ceiling is modest and detailed RFP controls remain to be confirmed.
N9+ Fit Score: 10/100. The cycle can support organizational capacity and current Foundation communications reference investments in systems and technology, but the award is general operating support and does not establish a specific clinical-technology or remote-exam use case. N9+ should not be forced into the opportunity. Dr. Miltie/QC Healthcare is not a direct eligible applicant because for-profit organizations are excluded; any involvement would need to be applicant-led and demonstrably incidental to an eligible nonprofit/public-entity project.
Official sources: Foundation for Seacoast Health grantmaking, eligibility, grant types, and application pages.