2025 TPC Letter of Intent Application

Step 1: Determine Eligibility

Thank you for your interest in grant from The Philanthropy Connection (TPC) by submitting a Letter of Intent (LOI) application. Please go through the following questions to determine eligibility to apply for a TPC grant.

Feel free to review the entire application with our sample application and our 2025 Grant Giving Process. Any questions, please email connect@thephilanthropyconnection.org.

We look forward to reading your application!

1. TPC seeks to support nonprofits that address systemic inequities in the following areas:

Poverty
Income inequality
Employment opportunity and readiness
Educational opportunity and readiness
Health and wellness
Social bias (e.g., gender, ethnic, and/or racial)

Which focus area does your organization’s mission primarily serve? *This question is required.

2. TPC does not fund the following:

Political, international, or 501(c)(4) advocacy organizations
Organizations that provide any religious programming, instruction or proselytizing on behalf of a particular religion
Family foundations
Local organizations or affiliates of a larger parent organization that lack their own independent 501(c)(3) status
“Pass through” or conduit organizations
Funding requests for capital campaigns will also not be accepted
Organizations that are not in compliance with requisite Massachusetts Form NP and IRS 990 filings
Organizations with significant year-over-year operating losses

Do any of these disqualifying criteria apply to your organization?
*This question is required.

3. TPC funds organizations with annual revenues between $200,000 and $2,000,000. Please refer to revenue from your organization’s most recently filed IRS Form 990 or from your fiscal sponsor letter (including only that which would be reported on the Total Revenue line 12 of IRS Form 990).

What is your organization's annual revenue?
*This question is required.

4. TPC supports organizations with their own 501c3 tax status or that are the local affiliate of a larger parent organization within Boston and the area defined largely by the I-495 loop, plus:

Amesbury, Haverhill, Methuen, Lawrence, Lowell
Maynard, Hudson, Marlborough, Milford, Franklin
Massachusetts towns north of the intersection of I-495 and Rt. 2

Please review the map below and confirm that your organization is headquartered and predominantly serves populations within our geographic focus area.

*This question is required.

5. Enter date of the last filing of your organization's MA Public Charity Form (applicable only to 501c3 organizations). This question requires a valid date format of MM/DD/YYYY.

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6. Have you confirmed your eligibility for a TPC grant? *This question is required.

Please note that eligibility will be verified. Confirming eligibility does not guarantee eligibility, nor does it guarantee funding. To learn more about TPC's competitive grant review process, check out our website.