Grants & Funding
Explore the grant and funding resources below focused on adaptive sports equipment! The AT Resources Funding Guide also provides many helpful ideas.
AMBUCS
Inspiring Mobility & Independence
AMBUCS works on a grassroots level to fulfill their mission of "Inspiring Mobility & Independence.” The Amtryke Therapeutic Tricycle Program is one of the main ways fulfill their mission. Members of AMBUCS fundraise for and give away about 3,500 Amtrykes each year. Click here to learn more! Click here to request an adaptive bicycle or tricycle!
For more information contact:
Email: ambucs@ambucs.org
Phone: 800-838-1845
Athletes Helping Athletes Adaptive Bicycle Grants
Athletes Helping Athletes offers adaptive bicycle grants for children with disabilities. Eligible athletes receive a custom built adaptive bike from Athletes Helping Athletes. Click here to apply for a grant!
For more information contact:
Email: aha@roadrunnersports.com
Phone: 888-566-5221
Boilermaker Wheelchair Challenge
The Sitrin Wheelchair Challenge program provides a racing wheelchair to the program participant that can complete the Boilermaker 15K in 2 hours and 15 minutes or less. Since 1997, 30 racing wheelchairs have been awarded to the Challengers. Program participants are chosen though an application process. Typically one chair is awarded per year. Applicants not chosen to be the Challenger can still participate in the race, but are not eligible to win the racing chair. Winners of the racing chair are not eligible to win prize money. Click here to learn more!
For more information email racedirector@boilermaker.com
Catapult Grant Program
Annually, CATAPULT provides financial and equipment grants to visually impaired and mobility impaired athletes for costs related to gaining access to and competing in the world of adaptive sports. Granted funds may be used for adaptive sports equipment purchases. Click here to learn more!
For more information contact:
Email: hello@teamcatapult.org
Challenged Athletes Foundation
Our mission is to serve people with physical disabilities through sport and fitness with meaningful grants. Over the last 27 years, we have given over 30,000 grants to individuals with permanent physical disabilities worldwide. Click here to learn more about grants through CAF!
For more information contact:
Eye Got This
Eye Got This, Inc. is dedicated to the awareness, empowerment and safety of blind and visually impaired athletes. We seek to encourage and create accessibility for visually impaired athletes and blind athletes to continue to enjoy the athletics they love. To provide each athlete with the confidence to tell themselves, “Eye got this!” Click here to learn more! Click here to contact Eye Got This
GoHawkeye Grant Program
GoHawkeye provides a Sports Equipment Grant as well as a Sports Experience Grant. The grant programs are open to both individuals and organizations in the United States. GoHawkeye also creates films meant to inspire people of all abilities. Their films showcase people reaching their goals through active lifestyles and outdoor adventures.
For more information contact Hawkeye Johnson, Founder:
Email: hawkeye@gohawkeye.com
Phone: 970-519-1439
IM ABLE Foundation
IM ABLE Grants are awarded to disabled individuals and supporting organizations and adaptive sports and recreational related equipment and instructional training programs for those in need. Our purpose is to unleash the potential in physically challenged children and adults to be more active, enjoy the benefits of physical fitness, and spend more time in the great outdoors. Click here for grant application instructions.
For more information contact:
Email: info@imablefoundation.org
Phone: 1-877-595-3505
J-Rob Foundation
Paying it Forward, One Piece of Adaptive Equipment at a Time
J-Rob Foundation, Inc. is a not for profit committed to providing adaptive sporting equipment to children with physical disabilities or challenges. The Foundation also funds adaptive sports opportunities for athletes. The adaptive sporting equipment may include, but is not limited to racing wheelchairs, hand cycles, monoskis and bi-skis. Click here to learn more!
For more information contact Erin Robinson, President of J-Rob Foundation
Email: jrobfoundation@gmail.com
Phone: 315-335-4385
The Active Fund - Kelly Brush Foundation
Life is Better Active!
The Kelly Brush Foundation is dedicated to making active lifestyles a reality for anyone with a spinal cord injury. Life is better active!
Through the Active Fund, we provide grants for individuals with paralysis caused by spinal cord injury to purchase adaptive sports equipment. We believe in the power of sport and recreation to foster inclusion and overcome the barriers of paralysis. We have helped over 900 people from 48 states purchase handcycles, monoskis, sport chairs, racing chairs, hockey sleds, and much more. Click here to learn more!
For more information please email grants@kellybrushfoundation.org
Outdoor Ability Foundation Equipment Grants
The Outdoor Ability Foundation, a 501 (c) 3) nonprofit, is dedicated to providing grants to purchase adaptive equipment for disabled outdoorsman focusing on young adults and children so that they can enjoy the great outdoors. Click here to learn more! Click here to contact the Outdoor Ability Foundation
Operation Northern Comfort
Committed to Service, Promise of Hope
Operation Northern Comfort fixes bathrooms, enlarges doors, and builds ramps for individuals in the local community.
Anyone can send in a request for help; those requests are forwarded to the jobs committee, which will contact the requester and review the project. Any request received is considered. Click here to learn more!
For more information contact Norm Andrzejewski
Email: info@operationnc.org
Victoria’s Victory Foundation Scholarship Program
Victoria's Victory Foundation provides resources and hope to those with mobility challenges due to life-altering injuries or diagnosis.
Victory Scholarships are committee approved assistance gifts for the following areas of needs: recovery training sessions, in-home nursing services, home & mobility equipment, vehicle/driver assistance. By assisting with the cost of these out-of-pocket expenses, we are helping others to achieve their own personal victory.
For more information contact: