FS Foundation Grant: Building for Better Belonging

FS Foundation Grant: Building for Better Belonging

Status: ACTIVE
Funder: The FS Foundation
Amount: US $25,000 - US $100,000
Last Updated: August 18, 2025

Summary

The FS Foundation Grant: Building for Better Belonging supports 501(c)(3) nonprofits with budgets under $5 million, aiming to enhance the lives of individuals with profound functional limitations. This funding opportunity encourages innovative projects that foster community engagement through access to adaptive resources, artistic creations, career training, and health initiatives. Grants of $50,000 to $100,000 are available to cover up to half of total project costs, ensuring collaboration with other funding sources to maximize impact.

Overview

About Us We partner with 501(c)(3) nonprofits, with annual budgets typically under $5 million, that provide ways for people to forward their careers, maintain or improve their health, be creative, and/or actively participate in a community. They might be living with a disability. They might be living in a new land. They might be living on the street. Or they might be your neighbor—of any age, of any culture, of any lifestyle. Founding Precepts To preserve the applied educational values and ideals of its founder by promoting more innovative and nontraditional postsecondary lifelong learning alternatives to help novice and challenged people find and develop skills towards redefining their purpose and passion. To preserve the entrepreneurial values and ideals of its founder by promoting more applied field training and design laboratory and tinkering facilities to help everyone develop their talents in pursuit of rewarding vocations. To preserve legacies of leadership first by collecting stories about past and present successful leaders and then by using them to inspire the next generation to learn from history and apply its lessons for greater innovation, research and discovery of novel ways to improve business, art and health. Building for Better Belonging This is our primary funding opportunity, intended to kick-start fresh initiatives that enrich daily life for people sidelined by profoundly limited functional abilities. Project Criteria We seek new projects that accommodate people sidelined by profound functional limitations due to chronic disability, illness, or injury. Our goal is to increase meaningful community interactions by facilitating access to work, school, and social settings. Specifically, projects should ensure access for this group in one of four focus areas: Adaptive Resources and Technology Physical tools and technology needed to engage fully in society. Fully Integrated Artistic Creations Training or assistance to freely participate in any phase of artistic production. Accessible Careers and Technical Education Pathways that improve academic success, career training, and physical access. Improved Health and Well-Being Activities that increase exposure to nature and outdoor recreation. The ideal project will request $50,000–$100,000 from us (minimum $25,000) to cover no more than half of the total project cost over a term of 1–2 years, in conjunction with at least two (2) other secured or strong prospective funding sources covering the remainder.

Eligibility

You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website. We partner with 501(c)(3) nonprofits, with annual budgets typically under $5 million, that provide ways for people to forward their careers, maintain or improve their health, be creative, and/or actively participate in a community.