Know what your
gift supports.
Your support has a purpose: helping people take part in adaptive sports. Here is how the fund works and what we are building to sustain it.
Support that fits
the situation.
Gifts and sponsorships go to the Hustle & Heart Fund, our athlete deployment fund. Ambassadors like Juan Ortiz show us where it will do the most.
We help cover equipment, training, and travel, through direct payments or reimbursement for approved expenses. Ambassadors never hold the money: we pay programs and vendors directly.
Program support helps cover the court time, the insurance, the tank of gas a coach already paid for.
Every job here answers to an athlete.
A coach at practice. A mechanic fixing a chair. An engineer building the directory. A fundraiser at the event.
Safety is not overhead.
Insurance for a clinic. SafeSport certification. Coach training and background checks. These are program costs, not optional extras.
If a program can’t meet the safety standards its athletes need, it isn’t a program we fund.
Build support that lasts.
Right now Alec covers the overhead himself. We are building revenue so the work can stand on its own.
Adaptive Sports Near Me and our upcoming store, Adapt Body Shop, are part of that plan. Future work will follow the same purpose: serve the community and build lasting support for it. Finding a program in the directory is free.
Chicago, year round.
We help clubs, organizations and coaches build adaptive sports programs, and we fund the athletes who play in them. In Chicago that means wheelchair pickleball: we cover court time for the players we support, and our volunteers help at clubs across the area. Every gift goes to one fund. Right now it funds Chicago Pickleball: Wheelie Big Dills toward one goal of $50,000 for the year ahead: every week on court first, then a season on the road to the US Open. Equipment is raised one athlete at a time. After the road comes the Chicago Classic, a wheelchair pickleball tournament presented by Adapt To Life, with the aim of free registration, transportation and hotels for every athlete. Gifts past the road go toward the Classic, and it gets its own budget once it has a date.
Our first fundraiser sold popcorn and raised $3,004 for the US Open campaign that grew into The Road to the US Open.
Raising nowChicago Pickleball: Wheelie Big Dills
Every week on court. A season on the road.
What it takes to build the best wheelchair pickleball in the Chicago area, maybe the country.
$50,000our goal for the year ahead
A year of court time for 10 to 15 athletes a night, plus memberships for 10.
A season of tournament travel for the crew, through the 2027 US Open. See the road
Four nights on court every month for one athlete.
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Where your gift goes
Every gift goes to the Hustle & Heart Fund, and we say how it’s used before you give: right now, Chicago Pickleball: Wheelie Big Dills, every week first, then the road to the US Open, then the Chicago Classic when we’re ready. Gifts already received keep their original terms. Money raised earlier for the US Open, the popcorn drive included, keeps its terms and stays on the road.
Donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. A purchase is not the same as a charitable gift. Sponsorships that include benefits may be only partly deductible, and we document every partnership.