About Disability Fund
As a Nationally Certified CDFI, DOF’s mission is to provide financial products, technical assistance, and financial advisory services that improve the quality of life and build personal wealth for People with Disabilities and their families, and support organizations serving this market.
Focus Areas
housingeducation / schoolsemployment / vocational traininghealth & life sciencestechnology & products for disabilitiescommunity centers / socializationtechnical assistanceCDFI lending
Who They Fund
people with disabilities (general)children with autism / special needsadults with disabilities (including residential populations)veterans with disabilities
About Disability Fund
The Disability Fund Inc. pairs disability-focused lending with competitive grants, and its largest recent awards show that mix clearly: $1,000,000 grants to The Schoolhouse Hotel in White Sulphur Springs, WV, tied to rural economic development and employment of people with disabilities. That same theme appears across other high-dollar awards, including support for housing, community development, and disability-related business activity. The foundation’s grantmaking is built around the disability market rather than a single service line, with funding flowing to organizations, businesses, and lending partners that work on access, employment, education, housing, and social participation. Recent awards also point to a strong interest in projects that connect disability inclusion with economic development. The foundation gave $800,000 to Dif Management I LLC in Rockville Centre, NY for rural economic development, employment, and housing for people with disabilities, and $275,000 to The Schoolhouse Hotel Wv LLC in White Sulphur Springs, WV for community development for people with disabilities. Smaller grants extend the same pattern into autism research, public policy, and service delivery. Through its mix of grants and loan products, the funder supports both direct services and the infrastructure that serves people with disabilities and their families.
What Disability Fund Funds
Housing is a recurring theme in the recent record. The Disability Fund Inc. awarded $800,000 to Dif Management I LLC for rural economic development, employment, and housing for people with disabilities, showing that housing is tied to broader community and workforce goals rather than treated as a stand-alone category. Employment is another core area. The foundation gave $37,500 to Peaceful Fruits LLC to support employment of people with disabilities, and $240,000 to Dof Hotel LLC for rural economic development and employment of people with disabilities. In autism-related work, the funder supported Floreo Inc with $100,000 for autism education research and later provided additional $70,000 awards for the same purpose. It also made a $50,000 grant to Inclusion International for public policy work for people with disabilities, and a $50,000 grant to Opya for services for people with disabilities.
How Disability Fund Gives
Typical grant size is centered at $20,000, with a lower quartile of $10,000 and an upper quartile of $29,070. The recent record includes both very large project awards and smaller operating-style grants, suggesting a layered approach that combines catalytic financing with support for day-to-day mission work. Several recipients appear more than once across the recent grants list, including repeated awards to the same organizations in 2023 through 2025, which points to ongoing relationships rather than isolated one-time gifts. The funder is a regular funder, not a DAF, and it also operates loan products and grant programs that accept unsolicited requests.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$2M
Total Assets
$66M
Total Revenue
$8.7M
Total Expenses
$7.8M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $29K, with a median of $20K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$20K
75th Percentile
$29K
Geographic Reach
National23 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
CHARLES D HAMMERMAN
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Where Disability Fund Funds
Top 2 recipient countries by grant volume for Disability Fund.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 157 | $8.5M | 98.7% |
| 2 | United Kingdom | 2 |
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