The Disability Inclusion Fund (DIF) at Borealis Philanthropy is currently accepting applications from organizations working to advance disability inclusion, rights, and justice.
Donor Name: Borealis Philanthropy
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 06/25/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Disability Inclusion Fund (DIF) supports U.S.-based groups led by people with disabilities, disabled people of color, disabled queer and trans folks, building a more liberatory world free from ableism. DIF grants will support organizations whose work is rooted in intersectional cross-movements, is collaborative, and works to build a more vibrant, just and joyful world for people with disabilities—from arts and culture, to policy and advocacy.
Guiding Values
All Funding will be Aligned with the Disability Inclusion Fund’s Guiding Values:
- Cross-movement solidarity: Intentional focus on collaboration and bridge-building amongst disability justice activists and across movements.
- Intersectionality: Acknowledging that disabled people have multiple and intersecting social and political identities that can influence their access and inclusion including race, gender identity, class, and sexual orientation.
- Leadership of those most impacted: Emphasis is given to organizations led by disabled people of color, queer, gender nonconforming and women with disabilities.
- Participation: Movement funding is accountable to the disability justice movement. Those most impacted by injustice/exclusion should be involved in strategies to advance justice/inclusion.
- Radical inclusion: Deeply committed to removing barriers and ensuring access so that those most affected by intersecting identities can participate, valuing lived experience.
- Sustainability: Resources and tools that support the growth of grassroots disabled-led organizations, and expand operational capacities for ongoing movement building.
Funding Information
- This funding opportunity will provide one to two-year grants. Grant sizes will range between $25,000 to $100,000.
- Grant sizes will not typically exceed more than 25% of your total committed budget.
Eligibility Criteria
- Your organization’s annual budget with committed revenue is less than $1 million.
- Your organization must be U.S-based or U.S. territory-based 501(c)3, fiscally sponsored, or an LLC restricted to projects with a charitable purpose.
- Your organization programming is in the U.S. or U.S. territories.
- Your organization is in full compliance with federal antidiscrimination law.
- They will prioritize funding organizations that meet the following criteria:
- Organizations that are disability-led and whose leadership and work reflect the lived experiences of those most impacted by ableism. This includes, but is not limited to, organizations led by Black, Indigenous, People of Color, queer, gender non-conforming, and women with disabilities. They define ‘disability-led’ as the leadership in your organization are people with disabilities, including more than 50% of the organization’s management staff/advisory committees/governing boards.
- Work that engages other social movements and injustices for examples: The movement for Black lives, climate change, immigration rights, labor rights, racial justice, queer and trans liberation, etc.
- Work that brings other organizations, leaders, movements, and communities together to build power through relationships, coalitions and opportunities for collaboration.
- Work that drives narrative change in ways that dismantle ableism and attitudinal barriers in policy, society, and culture.
- Strategies that celebrate, create, and elevate uplifting the authentic representation of disabled people in the arts, media, literature, and other creative works.
- Work that moves practices of disability inclusion and disability justice forward. Examples of this work include community organizing, mutual aid, advocacy, and/or policy work.
For more information, visit Borealis Philanthropy.
