Grants For Disabled Persons
Funding to support your creative pursuits.
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We are back with another playlist, this time tailored for disabled persons.
While our playlists are reserved for paying subscribers ($10 per month or $100 per year), we felt it was important to leave this one open to all those in our community who may benefit.
There are currently (7) grants listed. Please bookmark this page, as we will continue to keep it updated with new funding opportunities.
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1. [NEW] Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) Deaf Arts Grant
Deaf Spotlight inspires and showcases Deaf Culture and Sign Languages through the arts. This grant will make a crucial difference for BIPOC Deaf, DeafBlind, DeafDisabled, and Hard of Hearing artists to thrive in the challenging arts field. $1,000 will be awarded to 4 recipients. At least one recipient will reside in the Pacific Northwest (Washington, Oregon, or Idaho), and at least one recipient will be a National selection outside of the Pacific Northwest region. Eligible Disciplines include literary, media, performing, tactile, and visual arts.
Deadline: August 31, 2025
2. [NEW] The Artist Equity Grant - For Minnesota Residents
This opportunity provides up to $4,000 to individual artists who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color; people with disabilities; people age 65 and older; military veterans; and/or individuals who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, agender, or Two-Spirit (LGBTQIA2+). This funding supports projects that foster artistic growth. This grant is intended to serve the diverse community by amplifying underrepresented voices through the creation of artistic works and/or professional artistic development. Applicants must be (18) years of age or older, and be a resident of Minnesota.
Deadline: September 14, 2025
3. Creator Grants
This grant offers $3,000 grants to neurodivergent and disabled creators funding art, advocacy, or research.
Deadline: Rolling submissions (considering proposals quarterly.)
4. Awesome Disability
This fund provides $1,000 micro-grants to support ideas and projects spreading awesomeness.
Deadline: Rolling submissions (submissions accepted between the 1st and the 15th of every month.
5. [NEW] Disabled Consultant Futures Fund for Writers, Directors, and Actors
This opportunity significantly increases the leverage of disabled creatives who are asked to consult by providing them with a backup offer to confidently negotiate for hire as writers, directors, and actors, if those are their desired roles. If they cannot be hired in those roles on equitable terms, the Fund will buy back their time by paying them 150% of their initial offer to support their creative pursuits. $1,500 will be awarded.
Deadline: Rolling
6. Stimpunks Creator Grants - For Neurodivergent & Disabled Artists, Advocates or Researchers
This opportunity provides Mutual Aid and Human-Centered Learning for Neurodivergent and Disabled People. $3,000 grant funds are awarded for your art, advocacy, or research. By investing in creators and their work, Stimpunks aims to foster artistic expression and contribute to the advancement of various causes, explore new ideas, and generate knowledge. They firmly believe that supporting creators is a powerful way to shape a better future for all.
Deadline: Rolling (Paused re-opening January 2026)
7. [NEW] Dance Workforce Resilience Fund - For NYC-Metro Area Freelance Dancers
This opportunity promotes fair labor practices and addresses wage inequities and precarious working conditions for individual freelance dancers by providing $1,000 awards tied to formal contracts to dancers within the New York City dance ecosystem.
The DWR Fund intends to reduce the wage gap between individual freelance dancers and living wage standards in the NYC metropolitan area; incentivize equitable labor practices by promoting the widespread use of contracts; and address systemic inequities by prioritizing the most underpaid and underprotected groups of dance workers including African, Latina/o/x, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA); disabled; immigrant; older adults; women-identifying; gender nonconforming/nonbinary/genderqueer; and transgender dancers.
Applicants must live in the metropolitan NYC area (including the five boroughs of NYC, as well as Nassau, Rockland, Suffolk, and Westchester counties in New York State, and Bergen and Hudson counties in New Jersey) and be able to provide proof of address.
Deadline: Rolling
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