Disability Inclusion Fund
A pooled fund for disability justice work — policy advocacy, community organising, art and narrative change — with collaborative grants, joy grants and capacity-building support alongside project money.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No individual grant size is published. The page reports the fund has moved over $19 million in resources since its 2020 inception.
- Timing
- Periodic callsNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.The RFP process was closed at the time of checking (2026-08-07). The fund is ongoing, not discontinued; the page directs prospective applicants to its newsletter for the next round.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation
- Eligibility
- Prioritises organisations serving disabled communities, especially disabled Black, Indigenous and other people of colour and queer and gender non-conforming disabled people, and intersectional cross-movement work. The page does not state a formal 501(c)(3) requirement.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- disability justice · community organising · narrative change · civic engagement
- Apply at
- https://borealisphilanthropy.org/grantmaking/disability-inclusion-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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