National Grant Listings

The National Grant opportunities listed below include grants that are available to local leagues within the United States.

Please understand that while Little League® falls into the overall mission of the listed grants, it is still very important to read the requirements listed on the site of each grant to make sure what your league is specifically looking for fits into their mission.

Little League® cannot guarantee that a local league will qualify for or receive any grant listed. Please take a few moments to read the brief description provided and explore the grant’s website to see if that grant is right for your league. While browsing their website, pay close attention to details such as application deadlines, payout periods, etc. You may find some application periods are currently closed. We encourage you to make a note and return when the application period is reopened. If you have any questions about a specific grant after exploring their website, please address them to the grant provider. Contact information can be found on their websites.

If you’re interested in adding a grant or would like one removed from our listing, please contact [email protected].

National Grants

  • Players Health micro-grants

    Players Health Micro-Grants

    Players Health has launched a new micro-grant program to pay youth athletes’ registration fees as a thank you for the sacrifices made by parents and guardians. Parents of young athletes can apply for the grant by answering a few simple questions including the child’s sport and how they benefit from organized sports.

    • Category: Youth Athletics
    • Area Specifics: National
    • Application Period: May 5 – June 19, 2022

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  • DICK'S Sporting Goods Fdn. - Sports Matter

    DICK’S Sporting Goods Foundation – Sports Matter

    DICK’S Sporting Goods shares their enthusiasm for and commitment to youth sports in the communities where they live and work by supporting organizations that make youth sports possible.

    • Category: Youth Athletics
    • Area Specifics: National

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  • Good Sports

    Good Sports

    The mission of Good Sports is to give all kids the lifelong benefits of sport and physical activity by providing equipment, apparel and footwear to those most in need.

    • Category: Athletic Equipment
    • Area Specifics: National

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  • Henry T. Nicholas III Fdn.

    Henry T. Nicholas III Foundation

    The Foundation was created with the vision of enabling and assisting communities and individuals to reach their highest potential. The Foundation is dedicated to improving lives through investment in areas such as education and youth sports.

    • Category: Sports & Recreation
    • Area Specifics: National

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  • Hopey's Heart Fdn.

    Hopey’s Heart Foundation

    The Hopey’s Heart Foundation was founded to prevent Sudden Cardiac Arrest from claiming the lives of promising student athletes. It is committed to providing AEDs nationally for the prevention of heart and other injuries in student and amateur athletes through the provision of health education and medical equipment in schools, community and recreational centers.

    • Category: Health
    • Area Specifics: National

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  • Kennedy Wilson Charitable Fdn.

    Kennedy Wilson Charitable Foundation

    The Kennedy Wilson Charitable Foundation makes general support grants in various areas of interest including sports baseball and softball.

    • Category: Sports
    • Area Specifics: National

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  • Looking Out Fdn.

    Looking Out Foundation

    Program interests include, but are not limited to: disadvantaged youth, public health, and women.

    • Category: Health/Women/Community Development
    • Area Specifics: National

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  • MLB-MLBPA Healthy Relationships

    MLB-MLBPA Healthy Relationships Community Grants

    The Healthy Relationships Community Grants initiative is to address positive relationship health, with self and others. The initiative will focus on three distinct areas: supporting programs that build and improve mental health resiliency among vulnerable populations, improving relationship skills of the next generation, as well as programs designed to strengthen and provide critical services to survivors of domestic violence today.

    • Category: Community
    • Area Specifics: National

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  • MLB-MLBPA Youth Dev. Fdn.

    MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation

    The MLB-MLBPA Youth Development Foundation Drives to expand the access of youth participation in baseball and softball across the United States and Internationally. The Foundation accepts requests on a rolling basis for a variety of projects including funding capital projects (e.g. field renovations), baseball/softball programs (e.g. equipment needs), and education initiatives.

    • Category: Youth Athletics
    • Area Specifics: National

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  • Michael and Susan Dell Fdn.

    Michael and Susan Dell Foundation

    The goal of the Foundation is to contribute to improving the health of one million children and families by supporting initiatives proven to increase healthy eating and physical activity.

    • Category: Youth Athletics
    • Area Specifics: National

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  • Michael Napoleone Memorial Fdn.

    The Michael Napoleone Memorial Foundation Community Youth Grant

    The Michael Napoleone Memorial Foundation Community Youth Grant awards funding twice annually. This grant is awarded to charitable organizations whose primary mission is to facilitate youth activities for children up to age 18. It supports one of their three mission priorities established by the foundation–“to assist youth organizations and youth athletics.”

    • Category: Youth Athletics
    • Area Specifics: National

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  • Pitch In For Baseball & Softball

    Pitch In For Baseball & Softball

    A not-for-profit organization that helps give the gift of play and contributes to positive youth development by providing equipment to children around the world.

    • Category: Youth Athletic Equipment
    • Area Specifics: National

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  • Robert Wood Fdn. Sports Award

    Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Sports Award

    The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation accepts applications for their Sports Award, an annual prize designed to honor individuals, organizations, and teams that are making communities healthier through sport. Honorees are dedicated to creating a Culture of Health through impactful philanthropic initiatives.

    • Category: Youth Sports
    • Area Specifics: National

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  • The Home Depot Community Impact Grants

    The Home Depot Community Impact Grants

    The Foundation offers grants to designated organizations and tax-exempt public service agencies in the U.S. that are using the power of volunteers to improve the community.

    • Category: Community
    • Area Specifics: National

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  • W.K. Kellogg Fdn.

    W.K. Kellogg Foundation

    The Foundation is always looking to support new and innovative ideas and efforts that help ensure all children, have opportunities to reach their full potential.

    • Category: Children/Communities
    • Area Specifics: National

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  • Women's Sports Fdn.

    Players Health micro-grants

    Players Health has launched a new micro-grant program to pay youth athletes’ registration fees as a thank you for the sacrifices made by parents and guardians. Parents of young athletes can apply for the grant by answering a few simple questions including the child’s sport and how they benefit from organized sports.

    • Category: Youth Athletics
    • Area Specifics: National

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