Deadline: Ongoing
Applications for the All Kids Play Youth Sports Grants 2025 are now open. All Kids Play provides funding to families and communities who lack the resources to pay for youth sports. Grants are available to qualifying families with kids in grade K-12 and not-for-profit community-based recreational sports organizations in low income areas on a need and first-come, first served basis as funds are available. Individual grants can be used for registration, equipment and other associated fees for sports classes, recreational leagues, and travel sports.
Grant Categories
- Individual Grants: They provide individual grants to families in need for youth athletes in grades K-12.
- Organisational Grants: They also provide organizational grants for non-profit organizations in low income communities that provide community-based recreational level sports for kids in grades K-12 on a case-by-case basis.
For each of these types of grants, they provide full and partial grants, depending on qualification.
Eligibility
Individual Grants
- They are focused nationally on families that lack sufficient resources to pay for youth sports. The qualification criteria include, but are not limited to, following the most recent U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program Estimated State Median Income by Household Size as guidelines to determine qualification for a grant.
- To qualify for a full grant, you must make less than 60% of the estimated median income by household size for your state. To qualify for a partial grant (50% of the cost), you must make less than the estimated median income by household size for your state.
Organisational Grants
- To qualify for an organizational grant, your organization must be a non-profit organization, school sports program, or government-run program (i.e. community park district) in a low income community that provides community-based recreational level or school sports for kids in grades K-12. They do not fund travel, elite, or AAU sports or training programs at the organizational level.
- You must provide proof of budget constraints, and you must operate in an area in which the local school district has a higher percentage of low income students than the state average or the average household income in the community is lower than 60% of the estimated state median income by household size based on the most recent data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.
Application
For more information, visit Youth Sport Grant.
