Grant Information
Grant Criteria
Child must be diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (PDD, Autism, Aspergers syndrome).
Child must be under the age of 18 at the time of application and grant award.
Child must reside in The ISAAC Foundation service area (Spokane, Pend Oreille, Stevens, Lincoln, Whitman, Kootenai Counties).
Grant applicant must have a zero balance before applying for an additional foundation grant.
Applicant may only receive a therapy grant once per year (from the quarter grant was previously awarded).
Therapy funds must be exhausted before applicant may reapply for future therapy grant.
Therapy funds may be released back to The ISAAC Foundations’ pool of funds at the discretion of the Grant Committee if funds remain unused for 12 consecutive months.
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Grant Determination
Grant applications will be reviewed by the grant committee. Final determinations are based, in part, on the information submitted in the Applicant Questionnaire, the amount of coverage the applicant receives through insurance and other programs versus the amount of out-of-pocket monthly therapy expenses the applicant’s family is expected to pay, and subject to the availability of funds in the specific therapy fund the request is being made. The financial income of the family is not considered for grant determination.
Therapy Funds
Donors are allowed to make donations to specific therapy funds. “Unspecified” donations are placed into the General Therapy Fund which may be used for any approved therapy intervention. Foundation fundraising proceeds are equally distributed to all eligible therapy funds. A 6% administration fee is subtracted from all donations and placed in the Administration Fund for operating expense. The Therapy Funds include:
- Speech Therapy Fund
- Occupational Therapy Fund
- Physical Therapy Fund
- Hippotherapy (Horse PT/OT) Fund
- DIR (Floortime) Fund
- RDI (Relationship Development Intervention) Fund
- ABA (Behavioral) Fund
- Interactive Metronome Fund
- Therapeutic Listening Fund
- Graduate Student Aid Fund
- Neuro/Biofeedback
Payment of Therapy Intervention Services
Once a grant has been awarded and accepted by applicant, payment of the grant will be issued monthly to the provider rendering the therapy service upon receipt of an itemized billing statement. Itemized billing statements received from the therapy provider prior to the 15th day of each month will be paid by the 20th day of each month. Billing statements received after the 15th day of each month will be paid by the 20th day of the next month. Payments will be issued to the therapy provider until the amount of the grant award has been exhausted. At that time, all remaining therapy expenses outstanding become the responsibility of the applicant’s parent or guardian. An itemization of grant disbursements may be requested by the grant recipient’s parent/guardian at any time.
Grant Application and Award Schedule
Grants are awarded on a quarterly basis as follows:
Winter Quarter
Deadline for applications: Postmarked by December 1st
Grant award letters mailed on or about: January 2nd
Grant therapy coverage begins: January 1st
Spring Quarter
Deadline for applications: Postmarked by March 1st
Grant award letters mailed on or about: April 1st
Grant therapy coverage begins: April 1st
Summer Quarter
Deadline for applications: Postmarked by June 1st
Grant award letters mailed on or about: July 1st
Grant therapy coverage begins: July 1st
Fall Quarter
Deadline for applications: Postmarked by September 1st
Grant award letters mailed on or about: October 1st
Grant therapy coverage begins: October 1st
