Author(s): Rail Hadiyarovich Bekmansurov, Kseniya Evgenievna Kovalenko, Kseniya Mihajlovna Utkina, Yulia Aleksandrovna Novikova, Elena Ivanovna Zatsarinnaya, Anna Igorevna Rozentsvaig
Today in the world, state support for social entrepreneurship and the participation of various state institutions in creating an infrastructure to support social entrepreneurship is becoming common practice. The main form of state support for persons with disabilities in the field of entrepreneurship are grants. Every year, the Presidential Grants Foundation in Russia holds various competitions to support socially unprotected categories of the population, including for non-profit organizations. As shown by a comparative analysis of those measures that are being implemented, Russia is not inferior to many Western countries with the exception of only one. There are still very few of the subjects involved in the implementation of state programs, more precisely, whose competence is to determine measures to support entrepreneurship in the framework of the state program to support small business, it is clear what social entrepreneurship is and why they are engaged in it. The article also discusses the main types of non-state forms of business support for people with disabilities.