Community Grants Program
The Research Foundation (Kansas City)
A regional health funder distributing roughly $1.7 million a year to organisations with health-centred missions serving Jackson County, Missouri, with a priority on urban Kansas City. The 2026 cycle funds two purpose areas, expanding access to care and promoting health equity. Awards are one-year only and most fall between $25,000 and $50,000, though applicants are told to request what the programme actually needs. This is a practical vehicle for a community agency to fund an intervention with an embedded evaluation designed alongside a social work researcher.
- Indicative award
- $25k–$50k (total award)Approximately $1.7 million is available annually across the programme. Most funded grants range from $25,000 to $50,000, though the Foundation invites applicants to request what their programme needs. One-year awards only; multi-year requests are not considered.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · Jun, JulNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Annual cycle. The 2026 round opened 4 June 2026 and closed 31 July 2026, with awards notified 11 December 2026 and final reports due 31 January 2028. The 2026 deadline has passed as of today, and no 2027 date is published yet.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicants must hold IRS 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status; organisations with pending status cannot apply, and organisations with net assets above $150 million are ineligible, which excludes large university systems and hospital groups. More than 50 percent of the people served must be Jackson County, Missouri residents. A university researcher would join as an evaluation partner to an eligible community grantee rather than as the applicant.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- access to care · health equity · community health · programme evaluation
- Apply at
- https://www.theresearchfoundationkc.org/communitygrants/grants.html
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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