Grants
Fast Facts
2007
$17.7M
$4.4M
253,188
2007
$17.7M
$4.4M
253,188
Grants Overview
Swimming is a lifesaving skill and grant funding is essential towards making the sport equitable and accessible for all. In partnership with USA Swimming, the USA Swimming Foundation, the philanthropic arm of USA Swimming and U.S. Masters Swimming, have worked to strengthen and grow our sport by providing grant funding. Through its various grant programs, the USA Swimming Foundation offers funding to its lesson provider network and swim teams as well as growing the sport in traditionally underrepresented populations.
Saving Lives Mission
The USA Swimming Foundation aims to provide the opportunity for every child in the U.S. to learn to swim. Through an annual grant program and by partnering with swim lesson providers and water safety advocates across the country, we help to support swimming lessons, and educate children and their families on the importance of learning how to swim.
THE FACTS
- Drowning is the leading cause of unintentional death in the United States for children aged 1-4 and the second leading cause for children under the age of 14.
- One month of formal swimming lessons, which reduces the risk of drowning in children by 88%, can cost as little as $50 for children, and as little as $60 for adults. You can help provide the life-saving skill of swimming to persons of all ages!
- More than a third of adults in the U.S. can’t swim the length of a pool.
Saving Lives grants include our Youth Learn-to-Swim Grant and Adult Learn-to-Swim Grant.
Impacting Communities
Impacting Communities embodies the USA Swimming Foundation’s efforts to grow a diverse community of champion athletes by creating competitive opportunities within traditionally underserved communities. The Foundation provides grant dollars that are used for things such as learn-to-swim programming, scholarships, technology and equipment, and administrative support.
THE FACTS
- African American children ages 5-19 are nearly six times more likely to drown in a swimming pool than their Caucasian peers.
- 45% of Hispanic/Latino children and 64% of African American children have little to no swimming ability.
- If a parent does not know how to swim, there is only a 19% chance that a child in their household will learn to swim.
Impacting Communities grants include our HBCU Grant and Community Impact Grant.
General Grant FAQs
General FAQs that apply to all grants. For grant specific FAQs, click on the specific grant.The application window for each of our grants runs congruently. Grant applications are expected to open in mid-September each year.
The application window for each of our grants runs congruently. The deadline to submit any of our applications falls on December 15th of every year. All applications must be submitted by 11:59pm MT to be eligible for review.
Once open, applications are available on Survey Monkey. If this is your club’s first time applying for a grant, you will need to create an account on Survey Monkey. If you are returning applicant, you must login to your existing account.
The application review process is lengthy with many applications received and each application individually reviewed. We are grateful for your patience as clubs are usually notified of their selection in March.
Additional team members can be added to your application by the Primary Administrator. This can be accomplished under the ‘Manage Organization’ section in Survey Monkey.
There are three different roles which you may assign to your support staff:
- Non-Administrator: Can access and view the application only. Cannot make any edits or submit the application.
- Organization Administrator: Can access, view, and make edits to the application. Cannot submit the application.
- Primary Administrator: Can access, view, make edits, and submit the application for review. Only one primary administrator can be assigned per organization.
If you can access your team’s application but are unable to make any edits, you likely were assigned a non-editing permission role. This role can be elevated to an editing role by your team’s Primary Administrator.
If the assigned Administrator listed on Survey Monkey for your team is no longer with your club, please reach out the Manager of DEI, Hilary Perez, as we will have to work with the Survey Monkey tech team to reassign access. In your email, please include the full name and email address of the new Administrator.
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