Verified September 23, 2026. Legacy Foundation lists the Lake County Resilience Grant as open now for qualifying Lake County, Indiana nonprofits that have experienced documented financial loss from federal or state funding reductions, contract terminations, or related policy changes.
Funding and availability
Legacy Foundation is committing up to $600,000 over two years to this resilience initiative. The current 2026 tranche makes up to $300,000 available beginning February 1, 2026 and accepts applications on a rolling basis until funds are fully expended. An organization may request no more than 25% of its documented financial loss, with awards capped at $40,000 per organization during a rolling 12-month period. Organizations may apply more than once during that period, subject to the same cap.
Eligibility
Applicants must be 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations serving Lake County, Indiana residents and must demonstrate a documented financial loss directly resulting from federal or state funding cuts or contract terminations. Government agencies, schools, and educational institutions are not eligible. Legacy Foundation states that priority will be given to organizations that had a healthy balance sheet before the funding disruption and did not have significant surplus or debt.
Allowable uses and restrictions
Funding may support essential services directly affected by the cuts, urgent operational needs that were part of the funding reductions, and organizational-capacity work responding to the disruption, including planning, consulting, legal, and other supporting services. Capital projects are not eligible. The public guidance does not publish a universal match or cost-share requirement.
Required documentation and submission
Applicants must provide evidence of the financial loss, which may include canceled contracts or termination notices, documentation of cuts from government agencies, and financial statements showing pre- and post-loss operating budgets. Applications are submitted through the online grant portal linked by Legacy Foundation. Applications are reviewed monthly, with notification generally within 30 days after the end of the month in which an application is submitted.
Atlas, QC Healthcare, and N9+ assessment
Atlas Opportunity Score: 90/100. QC Healthcare Fit: 35/100 conditional. N9+ Fit: 0/100 for ordinary pursuit. The program can be valuable to qualifying health and human-services nonprofits that lost public funding because it may stabilize affected services and operations. However, the program expressly excludes capital projects and does not establish a defensible pathway for N9+ hardware, telehealth equipment, or a Dr. Miltie/QC Healthcare direct-vendor procurement. Ordinary INITIAL OUTREACH must not introduce or sell N9+.
Outreach gate
This is a genuine rolling opportunity and therefore is not subject to the lane’s 48-hour fixed-deadline restriction. ORIGINAL outreach should advance only when Atlas can verify that a specific nonprofit serves Lake County residents, has a documented qualifying federal or state funding loss, has a legitimate project need under the program, and all Contact, Email Opt-Out, permanent-bounce, CRM, Deal, Atlas_Email_Queue, and authoritative send-history deduplication gates clear. Do not infer loss eligibility from organization type alone.
Authoritative source: Legacy Foundation — Apply for Grants.