Our impact
How Our Funding Helps Disc Golf Grow.
Community Support in Action
The PDGA Foundation mission is centered on transforming community passion into measurable, lasting global change.
Through our core grantmaking pillars—Youth & Education (including partnerships with EDGE, UPlay, and others, as well as the Scholastic Grants program), International Development via the Marco Polo and with the assistance of our partner, the Paul McBeth Foundation, Diversity & Outreach, and Throw Green Environmental Grants—our reach extends from local school gymnasiums and underserved neighborhoods to emerging disc golf communities across the globe.
By funding disc golf programs in schools, efforts to grow diverse communities, direct educator awards, course installations and rehabilitations, and equipment donations, we empower grant recipients to cultivate the next generation of players and establish accessible disc golf infrastructure where it is needed most.
Accountability & Transparency
Measuring What Matters
Every grant tells a story of opportunity, inclusion, and/or stewardship—whether it is a school introducing hundreds of students to their first throws, a community clinic breaking down barriers for underrepresented groups, or sustainable course design projects preserving our natural spaces. To honor the trust of our donors and partners, the Foundation is dedicated to rigorous, transparent outcomes. We strive to continuously track key outcome baselines—such as schools and youth served, equipment distributed, clinics hosted, and demographic growth—and to publish annual impact reports that showcase the tangible, enduring difference every dollar makes in growing the sport.
Youth & Scholastic Foundations
PDGA Youth and Education and Scholastic Grant
This program supports school-affiliated clubs and advocacy groups to introduce younger generations to the sport.
Massive Youth Reach
The PDGA provided a financial grant to our partners at the Educational Disc Golf Experience (EDGE). Backed by this funding, EDGE introduced disc golf to an estimated 54,700 youths through newly partnered schools in 2025 alone. PDGA also provided that same grant to Universal Play Disc Golf (UPlay) that introduced the sport to over 2,500 youth, and also over 60 teachers and administrators, expanding the potential for further reach into the future. Teaching HOW to teach the sport is just as important as is teaching the kids, with regard to sustainability!
Scholastic Club Support
The program also provided direct $500 grants to individual elementary, middle, and high school clubs across the U.S. and Canada to cover essentials like baskets, discs, travel, and junior memberships. A total of $16,550 was distributed to 38 school programs in 2025.
Youth & Scholastic Impact
Over $65k
Financial Support Awarded
3,000+
Discs Donated
10
Campus Courses Installed
100+
New Schools Teaching
57,000+
Players Reached
65
Instructors Certified
Conservation & Land Stewardship
Throw Green Grant
The PDGA Throw Green Environmental Grant program awards funding to help members and clubs implement environmentally sustainable course designs and event management practices.
Course Conservation
In 2025, these grants funded hands-on ecological projects, such as the Riverbend Disc Golf Environmental Stewardship & Habitat Protection Project, which used its grant to fund native vegetation planting, educational signage, and erosion mitigation.
Waste Reduction
The initiative focused heavily on establishing community outreach to promote ‘pack-it-in, pack-it-out’ philosophies to eliminate course litter.
Stewardship Ledger
$4,000
Total distributed across 8 projects ($500 grant each)
Geographic Reach
7 US States + Ontario, Canada
Key Strategic Focus
Zero-erosion fairways, native reforestation, and clean parklands
Global Expansion
Marco Polo Grant
The Marco Polo Program focuses on international growth by providing up to $3,000 in funding per project to support the introduction of disc golf into new countries and strengthen infrastructure in developing regions.
Global Development
By 2025, the program’s ongoing funding cycle extended its historical impact to over 25 countries. It provides the financial framework for local international communities to establish official connections with the PDGA, helping fund initial course footprints and local tournament development.
2025 International Impact
$9,050
Total funds supporting 2025 projects
14 Nations
Sovereign countries directly engaged in 2025
Inclusive Communities
Diversity and Outreach Grant
Administered by the Diversity and Outreach Committee, this program acts as a financial catalyst for expanding the sport among under-represented populations, specifically women, girls, and BIPOC communities.
Seed Funding for Growth
The program awarded individual grants to support innovative workshops, recruitment clinics, and equipment packages.
Sustainable Demographics
In 2025, the committee focused on treating these awards as ‘seed’ grants designed to trigger measurable, self-sustaining demographic shifts rather than one-time events.
2025 Grant Deployments
Just over $4,000
Spread across three communities
Colombia
Targeted instructional clinics for women and girls to build regional participation and female competitive leadership.
Mexico
First Junior school disc golf league funding, securing permanent equipment and league governance kits.
Maine
Direct funding for a disc golf course installation at an active summer camp serving under-resourced youth.
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