Grant Opportunities
The list below includes charitable foundations that provide grant opportunities for individuals with disabilities. Please click on a link to go to the organization's website to learn more about each.
*Please note: ​​The Bridge is not affiliated with these organizations and has no influence over the grant decisions made by the foundations. This page is for educational purposes only.
Subsidize travel, registration, and other competition needs as a way to encourage adaptive athletes to participate in sports and fitness.
Aims to remove barriers between adaptive athletes and their pursuit of sport and fitness.
Items covered are based on the recipient's needs as well as the charity's budget at the time of selection;can include medical items, mobility items, therapy items, and more.
Funding Categories include adaptive sports equipment, healing network, medical equipment, living expenses, and emergency care/injury expenses.
Grants for individuals with paralysis caused by spinal cord injury to purchase adaptive sports equipment.
Intent of grant is to improve the quality of life of the grantee over an extended period of time.
Provides grants for individuals suffering from paralysis to live a more independent and fulfilling life.
Providing financial assistance for those connected to the contracting and construction trades who are living with life-altering disabilities.
Resources and hope to those with mobility-related disabilities due to life-altering injuries or diagnoses.
Provide support for members to improve the quality of life, assist in the reintegration into the community, and meet specific needs of members.
Scholarships to people living with paralysis and neurological disorders for medical base needs - medical supplies, wheelchairs, small scale home/car mods, participating in activity based therapy.
Providing grants and funding to help individuals purchase wheelchair-accessible vans through National Mobility Equipment Dealers Association dealers.
Grants to aid athletes with physical disabilities in costs related to adaptive sports such as competition fees, transportation and lodging, adaptive sports equipment purchases, coaching and training fees, and other related costs.
Grants can include funding lessons, camps, travel, entry fees, adaptive equipment, items for access to physical activities.
One person a year who is looking to increase their independence, "whatever is necessary to have a sustained impact on the recipient."
Help individuals get adaptive equipment for activites of daily living, make home modifications, enable a return to work, and engage in therapeutic activities.
