Need funding for a renovation or improvement? 

Apply for one of Massachusetts’ Early Education and Out-of-School Time Capital Grants.

The deadline for submitting an application is Friday, February 13, 2026, at 11:59 p.m.

The grants range from $200,000 to $499,999 and are administered by the Department of Early Education and Care and by MassDevelopment, the state’s development finance agency and land bank. 

The awards are for licensed, nonprofit child care providers so that they can “expand capacity and improve the quality and accessibility of learning environments for children, ensuring they have safe, inclusive, and developmentally appropriate spaces to learn, play and grow.”

Application materials are posted here. 

To learn more, check out this video of a recent information session: 

 Slides from the information session are here.  And answers to submitted questions about the grant program are here.

As Eleni Varitimos of MassDevelopment says in the video, “We feel very strongly at MassDevelopment that child care is the underpinning of economic and community development in our communities.”