CFMC Awards 54 Grants through the Fall 2025-2026 Competitive Cycle

Thanks to Your continued support, 54 Nonprofit Organizations were awarded grants in our Fall 2025-2026 Competitive Application Cycle

Thank you for supporting CFMC grants! Your generosity is making great things possible in Middlesex County – from mobile learning labs to stocking food pantries to creating toy lending libraries to supporting creative arts programming for youth … and so much more!

Through the generosity of contributions to CFMC unrestricted Middlesex Enhancement Fund and other named Funds to the Janvrin Fund and many Field of Interest Funds, including the ARF Fund, Deep River Cares Fund, Killingworth Community Fund, St. Luke’s Home Fund, Sari A. Rosenbaum Fund for Women & Girls, and the Wesleyan University Community Fund, CFMC awarded $284,850.00 in the Fall 2025/2026 Competitive Grant Cycle.

CFMC extends sincere thanks to the individuals, groups, and businesses who put their hearts and dollars to work to help the region through the Community Foundation. Grant awards reflected a spirit of accessibility and inclusivity, with funding made available to provide opportunities for people of all ages and abilities. We look forward to seeing the continued difference they will make with their awards. Congratulations!

2025/2026 Fall Competitive Grant Cycle Recipients:

A Place Called Hope, Inc.

American Red Cross-CT Chapter

Arts for Learning Connecticut, Inc.

Best Buddies in Connecticut

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut, Inc.

Bridge Family Center, Inc.

Buttonwood Tree Performing Arts Center Inc

Camp Bethel Association, Inc.

Cappella Cantorum

Chester Land Trust

Chester Parks & Recreation

Children In Placement Connecticut Inc

Children’s Law Center, Inc.

Church of the Holy Trinity

Clean Water Fund

Columbus House, Inc

Community Music School Inc.

Connecticut Democracy Center, Inc.

Connecticut Humane Society

Connecticut Oral Health Initiative

Connecticut River Conservancy

Connecticut Storytelling Center Inc

Connecticut Youth Excellence Project

Deep River Elementary School

Ekklesia Contemporary Ballet

Epoch Arts

Essex Historical Society

Everyone Outside

FISH for C.D.& E., Inc.

Generation Power CT

Greater Middletown Chorale Inc

Greene’s Goats & Gardens, Inc.

Junior Achievement of SW New England

Literacy Volunteers Of Central Connecticut Inc

Lumibility, Inc.

Middlesex Health

Middlesex Health Cancer Center

Middletown Adult Education

Middletown Public Schools

Oddfellows Playhouse

Q Plus- Queer Youth Program of Connecticut Inc

Reach Out and Read, Inc.

Read to Grow, Inc.

Salt Marsh Opera

Shiloh Baptist Community Development Corporation

Shine Your Light Ct Inc

Shoreline Arts Alliance Inc

Shoreline Chorale

Shoreline Soup Kitchens & Pantries, Inc.

St. Vincent dePaul Place

Traveling Toys, Inc.

Valley Shore YMCA

Visiting Nurses of the Lower Valley, Inc. (VNLV)

Wesleyan University Center for the Arts