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Mobility equipment, casework, and caregiver support for catastrophically wounded and disabled veterans.

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4 Paws for Ability

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.

VeteranDisabledFamily

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

Veterans receive their service dog at no cost; for other placements clients pay $17,000 while 4 Paws covers all remaining costs (own fact sheet)·Based in Xenia, Ohio; places service dogs across the United States·Reviewed Oct 2026

Access Ability Wisconsin

Statewide nonprofit lending adaptive outdoor equipment such as all-terrain wheelchairs and adaptive kayaks through partner host locations so people with mobility challenges - including veterans - can hunt, fish, hike and access parks, trails and public lands. Its site highlights veteran-focused programming and events such as Veterans @ Wehr.

DisabledVeteranFamily

Statewide nonprofit lending adaptive outdoor equipment such as all-terrain wheelchairs and adaptive kayaks through partner host locations so people with mobility challenges - including veterans - can hunt, fish, hike and access parks, trails and public lands. Its site highlights veteran-focused programming and events such as Veterans @ Wehr.

Category: Equipment & Grants

Not stated on the org's own site·Statewide (Wisconsin), with check-out hosts across multiple counties·Reviewed Oct 2026

Adaptive Sports Iowa

Program of the Iowa Sports Foundation providing adaptive and recreational sports — wheelchair basketball, sled hockey, cycling, air rifle — statewide for people with physical or visual disabilities, including a National Veteran Airgun Program specifically for veterans.

VeteranDisabled

Program of the Iowa Sports Foundation providing adaptive and recreational sports — wheelchair basketball, sled hockey, cycling, air rifle — statewide for people with physical or visual disabilities, including a National Veteran Airgun Program specifically for veterans.

Category: Sports & Fitness

Eligibility: Individuals with physical or visual disabilities, open to all skill levels; the Airgun program serves veterans and non-veterans with disabilities.

Free — no programming or equipment fees·Statewide·Reviewed Aug 2026

Adaptive Sports Program New Mexico

Statewide adaptive recreation nonprofit offering skiing, snowboarding, paddling, rafting, climbing, archery and other activities for people with disabilities; veteran-specific programs run periodically, including a Disabled Veterans' Winter Sports Camp offered free to participating veterans.

VeteranDisabledFamily

Statewide adaptive recreation nonprofit offering skiing, snowboarding, paddling, rafting, climbing, archery and other activities for people with disabilities; veteran-specific programs run periodically, including a Disabled Veterans' Winter Sports Camp offered free to participating veterans.

Category: Sports & Fitness

Eligibility: Veteran-specific events open to veterans with disabilities; some sessions reserved for disabled veterans only.

Free for veterans at designated veteran events (e.g. the Winter Sports Camp); other general programs may carry fees or scholarships depending on the session·Statewide·Reviewed Aug 2026

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