Massachusetts Rockland Trust 2026 Community Giving Grant Program
Rockland Trust is accepting 2026 Community Giving Grant requests from eligible nonprofit organizations serving communities in its Massachusetts footprint. The grant pathway provides programmatic and general operating support, with especially strong Atlas relevance for youth health and development, early childhood education, social-emotional and mental health support, and workforce development.
Key facts
- Issuer: Rockland Trust.
- Opportunity: 2026 Community Giving Grant Program, Grant Requests.
- Funding: Average grant $5,000; typical range $2,500 to $10,000+. Grants above $10,000 or multi-year awards require a signed grant agreement.
- Deadline: October 16, 2026 at 11:59 PM EST, as stated in the current official Community Giving Guidelines.
- Review: Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, with decisions generally issued within 6 to 12 weeks.
- Submission: Online application portal only through RocklandTrust.com/Giving. Mail, email, and in-person requests are not accepted.
Massachusetts eligibility
Grant applicants must be 501(c)(3) public charities in good standing with the IRS, or operate under a fiscal-sponsor agreement with an eligible 501(c)(3). For Massachusetts requests, the organization must be headquartered in and serve individuals in one or more of these counties: Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Middlesex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, or Worcester.
Rockland Trust prioritizes organizations and programs serving a majority low-to-moderate-income population. Relevant youth priorities include parenting education, early childhood education, social-emotional and mental health support, after-school enrichment and tutoring, mentoring and literacy, access to summer camps, and career and college preparation. Workforce-development priorities include ESL and adult education and job preparation, training, and placement.
Material restrictions
Requests that ask Rockland Trust to be the sole funder are ineligible. The grant pathway also excludes capital construction or renovation, equipment and vehicle purchases, annual fund drives, nonprofits operating for fewer than 12 months, single-disease research or national support organizations, government agencies and municipal departments, and individual public schools. Rockland Trust directs local education foundations to its Community Donation pathway instead.
The current guidelines do not state a formal matching percentage. However, because sole-funder requests are expressly ineligible, applicants should be prepared to document other support or funding for the work.
Required attachments
Grant applicants must provide a completed and signed W-9 and, when applicable, the IRS determination letter documenting 501(c)(3) public-charity status. Additional grant attachments include a board list with professional affiliations, the prior fiscal-year audit if the organization is required to file one or otherwise prior-year financials, the current organization budget, and a proposed program budget when requesting program support.
Atlas assessment
Atlas Opportunity Score: 87/100. This is a current, verified Massachusetts funding pathway with direct relevance to nonprofit youth mental health, social-emotional support, early childhood education, and workforce-development programs.
N9+ Fit Score: 0/100. QC Healthcare Fit: 5/100. Dr. Miltie direct-applicant fit: 0/100. Equipment purchases and capital projects are expressly ineligible under the Grant Request pathway, and Dr. Miltie, LLC is not itself an eligible 501(c)(3) public-charity applicant.
Outreach control
More than 48 hours remain before the verified deadline, so applicant-specific outreach may proceed only after confirming that the organization meets the geographic, nonprofit, program-focus, and other eligibility requirements; the recipient and business email are authoritatively verified; Email Opt-Out protection and actual sent-history deduplication are satisfied; and the approved Zoho CRM final HTML/signature render passes inspection.