The Quality of Life Grants Program strives to help individuals with disabilities and their families by providing grants to nonprofit organizations that improve quality of life through access, independence, opportunities for community engagement, and other life-enhancing endeavors.
Donor Name: Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation
State: New Jersey
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 10/07/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
The Reeve Foundation gives special consideration to organizations that serve returning wounded military and their families, and to those that provide targeted services to cultural communities. This includes (but not limited to): persons at risk of incarceration, current or released prisoners; non-majority groups; homeless; tribal communities; limited English proficiency; rural residents; migrant workers; low-income and/or poverty populations; and newly injured people with paralysis and their caregivers.
The QOL grants program consists of Direct Effect, Priority Impact, and Expanded Impact grants.
- Direct Effect (Tier 1)
- Direct Effect is open-focused and awards grants from $5,000 up to $24,999 to support a wide range of projects and activities. Grants fund programs and projects that will clearly impact individuals living with paralysis and their families.
- Priority Impact (Tiers 2-4)
- Priority Impact offers three increasing levels of grant funding. Each tier is targeted to focus on a Priority issue for the community of individuals living with paralysis and their families, as follows.
- Tier 2 — Grants of up to $30,000 for the following Priority areas:
- Assistive Technology
- Disaster Preparedness
- Respite/Caregiving
- Tier 3 — Grants of up to $40,000
- Rural Unserved and Underserved Populations
- Tier 4 — Grants of up to $50,000
- Employment
- Nursing Home Transition
- Expanded Impact (Tier 5)
- A grant program developed for previously awarded Quality of Life grantees whose programs and/or projects have achieved demonstrable, successful impact. The Expanded Impact Quality of Life grants program will award approximately four (4) grants of up to $100,000 each and will support significant expansion of strategies and programs that are evidence-based, show innovate promising practices, and/or best practices in the field they serve to improve quality of life for people with paralysis, their families, and caregivers.
Grant Period
Funded projects in Tiers 1 & 2 are expected to be completed in 12 months. Tier 3 projects are allowed 18 months for completion, and Tier 4 & 5 are allowed 24 months.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligibility Quality of Life grant applications are accepted from 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, municipal and state governments, school districts, recognized tribal entities, and other institutions such as community or veterans hospitals.
- An organization must have its own 501(c)(3) tax status (or be a part of or chapter of a national organization that is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization).
- Fiscal Sponsors CANNOT apply on behalf of non-501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations.
- 501(c)(4) organizations that do not have 501(c)(3) status are ineligible.
For more information, visit CDRF.
