Opportunity Overview
The Navigant Credit Union Charitable Foundation 2026 September Grant Round is currently open for organizations seeking meaningful programmatic or capital support in the Foundation’s three core areas: Education, Social Services, and Public Health, Safety & Well-Being. Navigant Credit Union’s current community-impact guidance describes the Foundation as a vehicle for grant requests of $25,000 or more and emphasizes locally based organizations and Rhode Island community benefit.
Deadline and Request Amount
Applications are due September 30, 2026. The current public Foundation pages do not state an exact submission time or timezone. The prominent current ‘How to Apply’ section states a $25,000 minimum grant request, and Navigant’s current Community Impact page likewise states that the Foundation considers requests of $25,000 or more. A lower section on the NCU Charitable Foundation page still displays ‘$10,000’ as the minimum. Because the same current website is internally inconsistent, Atlas controls conservatively to the more restrictive $25,000 minimum unless the live Kadince application confirms otherwise. No maximum award or total September 2026 funding pool is published on the reviewed current pages.
Focus Areas and Eligible Uses
The Foundation identifies three focus areas: Education, including organizational and capital support for programs, supplies, building products, sports facilities and teams; Social Services, including programs serving children, veterans, hunger and housing; and Public Health, Safety & Well-Being, including public safety, emergency care and disease eradication. Navigant’s Community Impact page states that Foundation grants may support both programmatic and capital requests.
The Foundation explicitly states that it does not support salaries, sponsorships, or scholarships. Applicants may receive a Foundation grant only once in a 12-month period. No mandatory match or cost-share requirement, detailed eligible-cost schedule, or current maximum award is stated on the reviewed public pages.
Applicant Eligibility and Geography
Current Navigant materials and recent Foundation award reporting focus on nonprofit organizations operating across Rhode Island and locally based organizations advancing the Foundation’s charitable priorities. The public-facing Foundation page does not expose a complete current eligibility checklist, legal-entity test, or all application questions outside the linked Kadince portal. Applicants should therefore confirm their legal eligibility and any documentation requirements in the live portal before submission. Atlas will not infer applicant-specific eligibility that is not published by the Foundation.
Application and Contact
Applications are submitted through the Navigant Credit Union Charitable Foundation’s linked Kadince grant portal. Foundation inquiries may be directed to info@ncufoundation.org. The Foundation is located at 1005 Douglas Pike, Smithfield, Rhode Island 02917.
Technology and Dr. Miltie Relevance
N9+ Fit Score: 62/100, conditional. The Foundation’s explicit public-health and emergency-care focus, combined with its willingness to consider capital support, creates a legitimate potential pathway for the Nonagon N9+ remote physical examination platform when an eligible Rhode Island nonprofit has a defined project requiring guided examinations, vitals, remote assessment, or telehealth-enabled clinical encounters. The Foundation does not specifically state that telehealth or connected clinical devices are allowable, so N9+ should not be represented as grant-eligible without project-specific confirmation.
QC Healthcare Fit: 30/100, conditional. Healthcare-service or implementation support may be relevant only where it is part of an eligible program and does not violate the Foundation’s prohibition on salary support. QC Healthcare should not be positioned as a default use of funds.
Atlas Assessment
Atlas Opportunity Score: 83/100. This is a current Rhode Island-focused private-foundation opportunity with substantial request size, explicit education and public-health priorities, and allowance for programmatic or capital support. The principal diligence items are applicant-specific legal eligibility, the current portal’s documentation requirements, project-specific equipment/technology allowability, and the website’s conflicting minimum-request language. Atlas controls to $25,000 because that amount appears in both the prominent current application instruction and the current Community Impact guidance.
Controlling Sources
Primary source: Navigant Credit Union, NCU Charitable Foundation: https://navigantcu.org/ncucf/
Supporting current source: Navigant Credit Union, Community Impact: https://navigantcu.org/community-impact/
Verified September 11, 2026.