Foundation

When you donate to the Deaf Santa Claus Foundation, what does your money actually do? An honest, plain-language breakdown.

When venues ask the foundation what it actually costs to host a Deaf Santa Claus appearance, we don’t give them a marketing number. We give them this.

The documentary about Charles Graves wasn’t planned as a feature film. It became one as the story revealed itself. Here’s the short version of how it got made.

Charles Graves is the most visible Deaf Santa Claus working today. He’s also a husband, a father, a community member, and someone who pursued this work for years before any cameras showed up.

The foundation didn’t start as a grand plan. It started with a man who looked like Santa, a documentary crew, and a question: what would it take to make this last?

The Santa industry has been around for a century. Sign language has been around longer. So why is it still so rare to find a Santa who can communicate with a Deaf child?