Foundation / Corporation
National Football League (NFL) Foundation and Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
05/31/22
Grants to USA nonprofit community-based organizations and schools in multiple states to enhance local athletics fields within the funding source’s market areas. Funding may be requested for football field improvement projects in the following states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, DC, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
The NFL Foundation Grassroots Program is a partnership of the National Football League Foundation (NFL Foundation) and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) to provide non-profit, neighborhood-based organizations with financial and technical assistance to improve the quality, safety, and accessibility of local football fields. Only proposals that locate projects in low and moderate-income communities will be considered.
There are two levels of funding available:
Strong preference will be given to those proposals that (1) seek to upgrade existing facilities that are in poor condition or otherwise underutilized; (2) demonstrate active use of the fields; (3) attract matching funding that exceeds the minimum required match of 1:1; (4) involve local partnerships with non-profit community partners (e.g., USA Football, Parks and Recreation Departments, YMCA branches, etc.) to promote youth sports safety and community programming on the fields; (5) provide for continuing maintenance and field safety; and (6) involve youth football programs that are currently registered and compliant with USA Football’s Football Development Model education program.
GrantWatch ID#: 171731
- General Field Support: Applicants may submit requests of up to $50,000
- Field Surface Grants: Matching grants of up to $250,000. Matching grants of up to $100,000 will be available to help finance the resurfacing of a community, middle school or high school football field utilizing natural grass/ sod surfaces.
Before starting your grant application, please review the funding source's website listed below for updates/changes/addendums/conferences/LOIs.
Email proposals and questions to SportsAndRec@lisc.org.
Mike Cuzzone, Director of Consulting Sales: 630-433-6697 or mcuzzone@usafootball.com
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