Disability Frontlines Fund
Multi-year unrestricted grants to disability justice work, awarded through what the fund describes as a participatory grantmaking process. Funds organizations, fiscally sponsored projects and individuals with projects.
- Indicative award
- $10k–$50k per year (per year)Three published tiers, each for four years: $50,000/year and $25,000/year for organizations and groups, $10,000/year for individuals with projects.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Jul, AugPublished deadline: 2026-08-07 — passedPublished 2026 cycle: opened July 6, deadline August 7, initial screening notice end of September, final decisions October, funds dispersed early December.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicants must center disability justice and prioritize BIPOC, D/disabled, D/deaf, hard of hearing, blind, D/deafblind, chronically sick, neurodivergent and/or mad communities, and youth 35 and under. Geography: US, Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, US Virgin Islands, American Samoa.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- disability justice · multi-year general operating support · youth-led organizing
- Apply at
- https://thirdwavefund.org/disability-frontlines-fund
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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