Fiscal Sponsorship Program
TSNE (Third Sector New England)
TSNE provides a legal and employment home for mission-aligned charitable projects, including contract and grant management, legal, HR, payroll and benefits, so a project without its own 501(c)(3) can hold research or evaluation awards.
- Indicative award
- Not a cash award (not a cash award)Not a grant. No fee structure or minimum budget is disclosed on the program page; costs are discussed during intake.
- Timing
- Rolling / openNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Rolling inquiry form with no published deadlines. TSNE states the average time frame for a fiscal sponsorship application is 2-3 months, across eight stages: inquiry, eligibility survey, intake call, formal application, committee review, meeting with reviewers, senior committee approval, and CEO and
- Who can apply
- Practitioner, Community organisation, Early-career faculty
- Eligibility
- Limited to mission-aligned charitable projects; TSNE states applications can be declined or deemed ineligible at any point in an eight-stage review that ends with votes by the CEO and board. Detailed eligibility criteria are held in the FAQ and intake process, not on the program page.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- fiscal sponsorship · employer of record · grant and contract management · nonprofit capacity
- Apply at
- https://www.tsne.org/fiscal-sponsorship
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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