Tony Hawk Foundation: Skatepark Grants

The primary mission of the Tony Hawk Foundation is to promote high quality, public skateparks in low-income areas throughout the United States, and to support international programs that enrich the lives of youth through skateboarding.

While the Tony Hawk Foundation realizes that not every community can afford to build big, expensive skateparks, it feels strongly that public skateparks should be designed and constructed by experienced contractors. It also believes that local officials should treat public skateparks the same way they treat public basketball courts or tennis courts, meaning that anyone may show up and use them anytime, unsupervised. The Foundation primarily considers skatepark projects that:

• are designed and built from concrete by qualified and experienced skatepark contractors
• include local skaters throughout the planning, fundraising, and design process
• are in low-income areas and/or areas with a high population of “at-risk” youth
• can demonstrate a strong grassroots commitment to the project, particularly in the form of fundraising by local skateboarders and other community groups
• have a creative mix of street obstacles (rails, ledges, stairs, etc.) and transition/vert terrain (quarterpipes, bowls, halfpipes, etc.)
• don’t require skaters or their parents to sign waivers
• encourage skaters to look after their own safety and the safety of others without restricting their access to the park or over-regulating their use of it
• are open during daylight hours, 365 days a year
• don’t charge an entrance fee
• are in areas that currently have no skateboarding facilities

Amount: Grants range from $1,000-$25,000.

Eligibility: Nonprofit organizations, and state and city governments. The Median Household Income in the city or town where the skatepark will be located must not be significantly higher than the state’s median household income.

Link: https://tonyhawkfoundation.org/skatepark-grants/grant-application/

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