Funding search · disability services and research · Connecticut
Who funds disability services and research work in Connecticut
15 funders have a record of paying for disability services and research work by Connecticut recipients: 54 grants totaling $2.0M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are Easter Seals ($393,909), Move United ($229,243) and Oechsle Family Foundation ($160,000).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Connecticut recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Easter SealsChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $393,909 · through 2024Largest: $118,342 to EASTERSEALS OF OAK HILL — disability services
Move UnitedRockville, MDCharity · may take applications
6 matching grants · $229,243 · through 2024Largest: $88,984 to SUMMIT ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC — adaptive winter and summer sports programming expenses
Largest: $40,000 to CONCEPTS FOR ADAPTIVE LEARNING INC — general & unrestricted
United Way of Greater New HavenNew Haven, CTCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $156,000 · through 2024Largest: $47,000 to CONCEPTS FOR ADAPTIVE LEARNING — workforce development/summer youth program
Largest: $3,000 to Winchester Housing Partners — batcheller school adaptive reuse - affordable housing project
John Templeton FoundationWest Conshohocken, PA
3 matching grants · $559,748 · through 2024Largest: $239,892 to YALE UNIVERSITY — de mystifying the tangled bank: unified adaptive landscape theo for emergence &maintenance of life
Largest: $10,000 to HORIZONS — developmental disabilities assistance
The Community Foundation for Greater NewNew Haven, CTCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $84,500 · through 2024Largest: $30,000 to CONCEPTS FOR ADAPTIVE LEARNING — to provide general operating support
Largest: $10,000 to CONCEPTS FOR ADAPTIVE LEARNING — to provide support for adults computer-related job skill development and foster youths education.
Largest: $5,000 to Healing Hearts Adaptive Recreation — to help support social and recreational programs for children, teens, and young adults with special needs to foster friendships, promote fitness, and support independence.
Largest: $7,500 to MARC INC OF MANCHESTER — support for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities
Wheeler ClinicPlainville, CTCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $772,886 · through 2024Largest: $157,474 to AFRICAN CARIBBEAN AMERICAN PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES INC — the purpose of the grant is to organize and deliver services for the reunification and therapeutic family time program. the service will engage families who have been referred from…
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