Grants For Disabled Persons
Funding to support your creative pursuits.
Hi creators,
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 (8) grants listed. Please bookmark this page, as we will continue to keep it updated with new funding opportunities.
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1. [NEW] The 2025 Midwest Award for Artists with Disabilities - For Midwestern Visual Artists
This is a $3,000 award supporting accessibility in the arts, celebrating the work of disabled Midwestern visual artists, celebrating their efforts, and encouraging their future work. Individuals must live in the Arts Midwest region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and the Native Nations that share this geography.
Deadline: July 10, 2025
2. [NEW] The AXS Film Fund - For Documentary Filmmakers with Disabilities
This opportunity supports documentary filmmakers and emerging non-fiction media creators living with disabilities from diverse backgrounds, particularly those from historically underserved communities, in their efforts to tell stories, make films, and create content. The Fund aims to increase the visibility of creators with disabilities from diverse backgrounds, empower them to receive recognition and job opportunities in the media industry, and support a diverse range of creators and stories. Up to five creators will be awarded grants of up to $10,000 each to help them in completing their projects at any stage of production.
Deadline: July 31, 2025
3. [NEW] The Diverse Writers Grant - For Speculative Fiction Writers
This $500 award supports speculative fiction writers from underrepresented and underprivileged groups, including writers of color, women, queer writers, and writers with disabilities, whose marginalized identities may present additional challenges in the writing and publishing process. The submitted project must be a book-length work of speculative fiction.
*Note: The application link will open on July 1st.
Deadline: July 31, 2025
4. Creator Grants
This grant offers $3,000 grants to neurodivergent and disabled creators funding art, advocacy, or research.
Deadline: Rolling submissions (considering proposals quarterly.)
5. 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.
6. [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
7. [NEW] 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
8. [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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