Playground Grants
Playground Grants & Funding Options
Playground grants are a great way to fund your commercial playground. We offer a variety of playground grants for your community including school playground grants, park playground grants, community playground grants & more! Below are playground grant options from Federal, State, and Private Foundation grants that are available to help you fund your recreation space. View your options below, or contact us to get in touch about available options that would be a good fit for you! Contact us to learn more about our selection or request a playground catalog!
ESSER, ARP, & CARES Funding
ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief), ARP (American Rescue Plan) and CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act playground funding options are a great way to encourage your community to move, engage, and grow together through play!
Using the ARP (American Rescue Plan) and CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) funding for your early childhood playground, musical space or outdoor classroom is a great way to help your children learn and grow together through play while benefiting in a variety of ways from taking it outside. Learn more about early childhood playground funding here!
Using ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief), ARP (American Rescue Plan) and CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) funding for your commercial school playground, outdoor fitness center or outdoor classroom is a great way to help your students learn and grow together through play! Learn more about school funding options here!
Using the ARP (American Rescue Plan) and CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act) funding for your park, commercial playground, outdoor fitness space or recreation area is a great way to help your community move, engage and grow together through play! Active communities do better with lower rates of obesity and heart disease and higher home values and graduation rates. Learn more about community funding options here!
Other Playground Grant Options Available:
- Playground Grant
- Burke Grant Resource Center
- Kaboom Grant
- 2018 NRPA/Disney Play Spaces Grant – Deadline 3/1/2018
- Indiana DNR Grants
- Michigan DNR Grants
- Ohio DNR Grants
- Pennsylvania DCNR Grants
- Annenberg Foundation
- Anthony Robins Foundation Grants
- Baseball Tomorrow Fund Grant
- Fuel UP to Play 60
- Nature Works Ohio Grant
- Michigan Department of Natural Resources Grants
- Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Cleveland Indians Diamond Improvement Grant – Youth Baseball
- Cuyahoga County Development Competitive Municipal Grant
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Grants.gov source for federal grants
- Akron Community Foundation
- Federal Government Grants
- Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation: Quality of Life Grant Program
- PLT GreenWorks! – A Green Project
- Lowe’s Toolbox for Education
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Bay Watershed Education and Training Program (B-WET)
- L.L. Bean Conservation and Recreation Grants
- Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Education Grants
- Captain Planet Foundation Grants
- American Honda Foundation
- DonorsChoose.org
- Kids in Need Teacher Grants
- Fiskars’ Project Orange Thumb to Support Garden Programs
- The Finish Line Youth Foundation
- LPGA-USGA Girls Golf Program
- United States Golf Association Grants
- Women’s Sports Foundation Grants
- CDC(Center for Disease Control) grants for nutrition and physical activity
- Ezra Jack Keats Foundation Grant
- Toshiba Math and Science Grants
- Civil Air Patrol Educators Grant and Scholarship
- Kinder Morgan Foundation Grant
- Dreyfus Foundation Educational Grants
- State Farm Good Neighbor Student Achievement Grant
- Maximus Charitable Foundation Grants
- Battle Creek MI Community Foundation
- Ford Motor Company Fund
- Grand Rapids MI Area Foundation
- Frey Foundation Western MI
- The Hillsdale County Community MI Foundation
- Michael and Susan Dell foundation
- Monell Foundation Grants
- Rollin M Gerstacker Foundation-MI or Cleveland, OH
- Irving S. Gilmore Foundation -Kalamazoo, MI area
- Harrison County Community Foundation– Serving Harrison County IN
- Land & Water Conservation
- CVS Caremark Community
- D.E.W. Foundation
- The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
- Healthy Kids: W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Urban Education Grants – Educational Grants for Public and Private Schools
- JP Morgan Chase Foundation – Educational Grants
- Halliburton Foundation – Educational Grants
- Farver Foundation – Health and Wellness, Educational
- Good Sports – Youth Sports, Recreation & Fitness
- Dr. Scholl Foundation – Educational
- Charter School Growth Fund – Educational
- General Mills Foundation
- The American Academy of Dermatology’s – Shade Structure Grant
- Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation
- Walmart Foundation
- CDC Grants