Opportunity Overview
Marshall Community Foundation accepts quarterly grant applications for community projects benefiting the City of Marshall and surrounding townships in Calhoun County, Michigan. Current priorities include youth development, student performance, teacher training, supplemental programs, youth mental health, access to resources for underserved and low income residents, collaboration, innovation, and community capacity building.
Funding
Mini Grants are available up to $750. Momentum Grants range from $751 to $24,999. Larger Impact Grants use a separate annual process and are not part of the October quarterly Momentum cycle. The Foundation does not publish a total funding pool for the October 2026 cycle.
Deadline and Submission
The next quarterly deadline is October 1, 2026. The official grants page does not publish a closing clock time or time zone, so Atlas does not infer one. Applicants create a Grantee Profile and submit through the Foundation’s online grant system.
Eligibility and Geography
Published applicant classes include nonprofit tax exempt organizations, schools, churches for nonsectarian purposes, and cities or townships. Requests should benefit residents of Marshall and surrounding townships in Calhoun County. Limited exceptions may be considered when a project materially benefits the Foundation’s service area.
Required Materials
The Foundation instructs applicants to create a Grantee Profile and upload organizational documentation including an IRS tax exempt determination letter, board roster, most recent IRS Form 990, and annual operating budget. Project applications may also require supporting documentation such as letters of support and vendor bids.
Match, Cost Share, and Restrictions
No fixed matching percentage is published. However, requests of $5,000 or more may not identify Marshall Community Foundation as the only funding source, and the Foundation gives favorable consideration to challenge or matching resources and projects that leverage other support.
Published restrictions include legislative or political activity, religious or sectarian purposes, repeated support for the same program year after year, most individual requests, fundraising and capital campaigns, ordinary operating and administrative costs, endowment, debt, and requests above $75,000. Educational requests that supplant normal school district operations, including equipment or educational materials such as curriculum supplies and resources, are also restricted. Direct program salaries may be considered case by case.
Vendor and Procurement Notes
The public guidelines reference vendor bids as a possible application upload but do not establish a separate vendor registration system or a universal procurement rule. Any vendor, equipment, technology, or contracted service cost must therefore be confirmed against the specific project and Foundation guidance before Atlas represents it as allowable.
Atlas Analysis
Atlas Opportunity Score: 77/100. This is a legitimate Michigan education and youth development funding route with meaningful local school and youth mental health relevance, but the relatively small Momentum award range and project restrictions limit broader deployment potential.
N9+ Fit Score: 10/100. Youth mental health is a relevant community priority, but the published program does not identify telehealth, remote physical examination technology, clinical devices, or healthcare delivery as a funding pathway. The school restrictions also make equipment based positioning inappropriate unless the Foundation independently confirms a specific non supplanting use case. Atlas should not force the Nonagon N9+ device and platform into this opportunity.
QC Healthcare fit is low and unverified. No general contracted clinical services pathway is published. Dr. Miltie, LLC is not a listed eligible prime applicant class.
Official source: Marshall Community Foundation Grants.