Tennessee First Responders Foundation

Nonprofit based in Xenia, Ohio that breeds, raises, trains, and places task-trained service dogs with children and veterans with disabilities. Founded in 1998, it places dogs trained for mobility, hearing, seizure response, and behavior disruption, focusing veteran placements on recent-combat veterans whose primary disability is a mobility or hearing impairment resulting from a combat injury. Veteran recipients receive their service dog at no cost.

Category: Equipment & Grants

Eligibility: Focuses veteran placements on recent-combat veterans whose primary disability is a mobility or hearing impairment from combat injury; also places dogs with children with disabilities and some adults

National nonprofit honoring and serving veterans, active-duty service members, and first responders through 100% mortgage-free custom homebuilding for the severely wounded, home modifications, mobility devices, adapted vehicles, first-responder equipment grants, and mental-wellness retreats — 106 mortgage-free homes and 23,112 pieces of equipment donated since 2011.

Category: Housing & Transportation

Eligibility: Severely wounded heroes, families of fallen military and first responders, first-responder communities, veterans of every conflict, and active-duty service members

Arizona public-safety charity (since 1968) providing immediate financial assistance to the families of officers and firefighters killed or seriously injured, scholarships for their family members' college costs, Safety Enhancement Stipend equipment grants to agencies, and the Peer 100 mental-health wellness and training programs for Arizona's public safety personnel.

Category: Financial Assistance

Eligibility: Arizona police, corrections, probation/parole officers, firefighters and federal agents and their immediate families; assistance requests must be submitted by a supervisor or agency HR — potential beneficiaries are not authorized to submit requests (own site); scholarships require the applicant be the child, spouse or stepchild of an active, retired or deceased sworn officer or firefighter

Iowa 501(c)(3) founded in 2021 that provides confidential mentorship, retreats, outdoor and equine experiences (with GodSpeed Equine at Victory Ranch), and faith-anchored community for current and former first responders and their families. It also hosts a free annual Strength in Faith Conference.

Category: Mental Health

Eligibility: Current and former first responders and their families