Open now. The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) has opened the 2026 Fall Nonprofit Security Grant Fund Program with $10 million in state funding.
Awards: $5,000 to $150,000 per eligible nonprofit for security enhancements protecting users of a Pennsylvania facility owned or operated by the applicant.
Deadline: The initial SurveyMonkey request deadline was September 10, 2026 at 11:45 PM and has passed. PCCD’s controlling funding announcement did not state a timezone for that clock time. Atlas now preserves this record as archived intelligence rather than presenting the round as actionable. PCCD’s September 9 Q&A confirms that applications are not first-come, first-served and encourages early submission.
Eligibility: PCCD’s base announcement describes eligible applicants as Pennsylvania-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations that principally serve individuals, groups or institutions included within FBI hate-crime bias-motivation categories, including race/ethnicity/ancestry, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender or gender identity. However, PCCD’s September 9 Q&A expressly clarifies that a nonprofit headquartered outside Pennsylvania may apply for a project implemented at its Pennsylvania-based location. Public K-12 school entities are not eligible; qualifying nonprofit educational organizations may still be eligible if they independently satisfy the Act 83 criteria. Healthcare or educational status by itself does not establish eligibility.
Healthcare and school relevance: A qualifying nonprofit hospital, community health organization, behavioral-health provider, FQHC, disability-serving organization or nonprofit educational institution may be relevant when it independently satisfies the 501(c)(3), Pennsylvania-facility and heightened-risk requirements. Public K-12 school entities are not eligible under this nonprofit-only pathway.
Eligible Security Uses
PCCD identifies eligible uses including safety and security planning; security equipment; security-related technology such as surveillance, emergency communications and electronic locks; safety and threat-response training; structural security upgrades; vulnerability and threat assessments; specialty-trained canines; and other projects that enhance nonprofit facility safety or security.
A security assessment is not required simply to be eligible to apply. Applicants still need to define the security need and explain how the proposed project protects users of the facility.
Match Requirement
Requests of $25,000 or less require no match. Requests above $25,000 require non-state financial participation based on the requested amount. PCCD provides a current match calculator; applicants should use that tool rather than rely on an older-cycle percentage.
Atlas Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 88/100. This is a strong cross-sector facility-safety funding lane for eligible healthcare, disability-serving, educational and community nonprofits that satisfy the statutory heightened-risk eligibility test. The $10 million Fall 2026 round closed to new initial requests on September 10, 2026. Atlas retains the award structure, eligibility and security-use intelligence for successor-cycle planning, but no longer presents this round as open.
N9+ Direct Vendor Fit: 0/100. The program funds safety and security, not clinical care technology. Atlas should not position N9+ as a grant-funded component.
Next Action
Confirm the nonprofit’s 501(c)(3) eligibility and Pennsylvania project location and statutory heightened-risk service population, identify the Pennsylvania facility to be protected, define the security need and eligible project, obtain cost estimates, determine whether the request triggers a non-state match, use PCCD’s current match calculator when requesting more than $25,000, review the September 9 Q&A before filing, include every item the organization may want funded because PCCD says later changes to the original SurveyMonkey request are not allowed. The initial-request window is now closed. Organizations interested in this funding lane should preserve their security scope, match planning and risk documentation for a future PCCD cycle and monitor PCCD for the next announcement.
Official sources: PCCD 2026 Fall Nonprofit Security Grant Funding Announcement · PCCD Q&A updated September 9, 2026.