2025 NEODGA Grant Application

🚨⛓ 2025 NEODGA Grant Application ⛓🚨

Below are all of the details of the NEODGA grant program. If there are any questions, please let us know.

Grant Application Options

• Existing Course Projects: "Shovel Ready" projects approved by managing club & park director. ($500 or $1,000 increments)
• New Course Funding Grants: Municipality-approved/funded new courses. This is supplemental to city funding and must be an approved project prior to submitting the request. ($500 or $1,000 increments)
• Event Fundraising Grants: For established annual events looking to reach new tiers. Must have State Coordinator approval for A/B tier upgrade.

Grant Program Timeline

• Grant Submission Period: 3/1 - 3/30/2025
• Frozen Fingers Finale: 3/29/2025
• NEODGA Board Grant Vote: 4/7/2025
• Grant Awards Announcement: 4/9/2025

Send completed grant applications to NEOhioDGA@gmail.com.

The NEODGA Board of Directors would like to thank the NEO disc golf community for a record-setting Frozen Fingers series thus far! We are excited to finish strong at the remaining events and look forward to putting the money we raised to work on our local courses, adding cash for our great events, or even a new course near you.

NEODGA Grants Awarded 2018-2024

2018 - $3050 in Total Grants Awarded

• $250 - TCDGA - Birdie Hill: Extra chains to upgrade Mach 2 baskets to Mach 5.
• $500 - Parma DG - Nike Park: Repair old baskets from Veterans Park for Nike Park.
• $550 - Portage County DGA - Sunny Lake: Concrete and collars for 10 pins; start of redesign.
• $1000 - Nathan Williams - Wildwood Park, Louisville: Baskets.
• $750 - Findley Flight Club - Lost Island: Additional baskets.

2019 - $2340 in Total Grants Awarded

• $500 - SCDGA - Arbo/Spiker: New tee signs.
• $240 - Friends of Punderson - Punderson SP: Repair of #3 Gold Tee platform.
• $600 - Norwalk DG - Great Blue Heron: Short tee pads (rubber).
• $1000 - MVDGA - Boardman Park: Concrete tee pads.

2020 - $2500 in Total Grant Awards

• $1000 - Summit DGA - Chestnut Ridge: New beginner course installation.
• $500 - TCDGA - Champion Schools: New course and starter sets for students.
• $1000 - Parma DG - Green Course: Added 9 new holes.

2021 - $2000 in Total Grant Awards

• $1000 - Johnson UMC - Lord's Landing: Concrete tees.
• $1000 - North Ridgeville Park and Rec - South Central Park: Tee pads and signs.

2022 - $3500 in Total Grant Awards

• $500 - Portage Lakes DGA: Drain install for hole #13.
• $1000 - Findley Fight Club: Course expansion to 24 holes.
• $500 - Portage County DGC: Course bridge project at Sunny Lake.
• $1000 - Portage County DGC: Grassman campground course completion.
• $500 - Friends of Punderson: Drainage project and deck tee project.

2023 - $7000 in Total Grant Awards

Event Grants

• $500 – AOG3 (Knepp).
• $500 – Findley’s Lost Island Adventure V (Knepp).

Course Work

• $500 – Young’s Run: Basket, tee signs, stairs (5/9) (Silvers).
• $500 – Findley State Park: Baskets (Vaughn).
• $1000 – Arboretum/Spiker Park: Reflow of course layout and signage (Black Sheep - Craig Riley).
• $1500 – Punderson: Continued course drainage work (Paul Keller).

New Course Grants

• $1000 – The Fields DGC (Broadview Heights) (Joe Cruz).
• $1000 – Hubbard, Ohio: 9-hole course (Luke Shelton).

Miscellaneous

• $500 – Starter sets for #GrowthTheSport (Brad Silvers).

2024 - $7500 in Total Grant Awards

Event Grants

• $500 - Findley's Lost Island Adventure VI (PDGA B Tier).
• $500 - Attack of the Grassman IV (PDGA B Tier).
• $500 – Youngstown Urban Open.

Course Work

• $1000 - Lake County DGC: Painesville baskets (2).
• $1000 - Medina DGC: Tee pad project.
• $1000 - Parma DGC: Brown Course improvements.
• $1000 - Summit DGA: Sunny Lake signage.

New Course Grants

• $1000 - Backyard Discs (Nathan Seissel) - Cowles Creek 9-hole course in Geneva.
• $1000 - Findley Flight Club/Medina DGC - Spencer, Ohio new course.

2025 - TBD