The Mifflin Memorial Fund

Application Guidelines

Applications accepted October 1st through April 15th

The Mifflin Memorial Fund gives grants primarily in the human services and educational areas, focusing on low income and minority populations. Grants are also given to environmental/conservation organizations with occasional grants to cultural organizations for special purposes.

The Mifflin Memorial Fund Trustees accept grant applications between October 1st and April 15th of each year, and the funds are allocated at the May Trustees meeting.

How to Apply:

In order to apply for a grant, we ask you to send us the following items via email as a PDF to mifflinmemorialfund@lwcotrust.com arranged in the order listed:

1. Cover Sheet - signed and dated Please use the coversheet found in this link.
   a. If you include a cover letter, which is not required, please put it behind the cover sheet of your application.
2. A proposal telling us about your organization.
   a. Amount you are requesting.
   b. What you want the funding for.
3. A projected budget.
4. Most recent and prior-year audited financial statements.
   a. If you cannot provide audited statements, please include a statement on letterhead of why not AND include supplemental information for the last two (2) years such as unaudited statements, which are preferred over 990s *do not include both.
5. Income Statement and Balance Sheet for last two (2) years. (if they are not included in your financial statements)
6. Copy of your IRS tax-exempt status/determination letter.
7. **If you received a grant last year, insert here a year-end report giving an accounting of how the Mifflin Fund's grant funds were used and a copy of your annual report**
8. Optional:
   a. Specific and accurate financial data which measure the success of your programs, and/or program evaluations, such as year-end or annual statement.

All application information will be kept strictly confidential.

Please email a PDF version of the application to the email address below. Please make sure to send ONE (1) PDF of the entire application, do not send individual PDF's of each section.

WE NO LONGER REQUIRE HARDCOPIES OF THE APPLICATION.

Deadlines for application and subsequent reporting: April 15th

• All applications must be received by the deadline.
• If the deadline is a weekend or holiday, all applications are due on the next business day, no exceptions.

If you are having trouble accessing the coversheet, please click on the link below to download Adobe Reader.

Contact/Mailing Address:

Mifflin Memorial Fund
Loring, Wolcott & Coolidge Office
230 Congress Street
Boston, MA 02110
(617) 523-6531

mifflinmemorialfund@lwcotrust.com